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Business opportunity: I'd pay money for NICE desktop software that can run all these different models (non-subscription, "2-year updates included, then discount pricing" modal perhaps). My wishlist: - Easy plug & play model installation, and trivial to change which model once installed. - Runs a local web server, so I can interact with it via any browser - Ability to feed a model a document or multiple documents and…
Feels like we're like a year away from local LLMs that can debug code reliably (via being hooked into console error output as well) which will be quite the exciting day.
Even the 7B model of code llama seems to be competitive with Codex, the model behind copilot https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-cod...
I'm not sure copilot is using codex anymore[0]. They've also been talking about a shift towards GPT-4 with "Copilot X" a few times now[1][2]. [0] https://github.blog/2023-07-28-smarter-more-efficient-coding... [1] https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x [2] https://github.blog/2023-07-20-github-copilot-chat-beta-now-...
I got a bridge, but it was the wrong size.
Thanks, in advance.
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I'd fail an interview candidate that suggested adding 1 each time for subsequent prime testing
I assume you meant that you should add 2? If yes, that's such a mind boggling basic thing to do that I agree with you, and it makes no sense that you're being crucified.
it makes no sense that you're being crucified.
Or we have worked with junior developers who have really grown and flourished under our care, who would never have gotten that chance with such insane Draconian judgements.
It's such an obvious "GOTCHA!!" setting someone up for failure.
The way it's framed is very cringy because it signals that they don't care in their interviews about determining how objectively effective a software developer is.
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I'd fail an interview candidate that suggested adding 1 each time for subsequent prime testing
> "I'd fail an interview candidate that suggested adding 1 each time for subsequent prime testing" Congratulations! You must be that arrogant guy everybody hates interviewing with, the one with the superiority complex. How about instead of just failing people over literally nothing (wasting everybody's time and money) - just ask the candidate whether they could somehow reduce the search space by utilizing the propert…
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> If you instant-fail a candidate for this, it says a lot more about you and your organization than the candidate. yes, we expect professional software developers to have basic maths skills "what is a prime number" is taught to 7 year olds, it's not vector calculus what else would you consider to be an unreasonable thing for an employer to require? reading and writing skills of a typical 7 year old?
You probably do not have a child of 7 years old because they do not know at that age what is a prime number. Second, basic math still that you never or rarely use or with very large time between usage might get rusty. You may understand the concept but not find the optimal solution. The way you are responding here shows quite a lot about how you are short sighted by instant-failing someone with a single question inst…
A few do. And in 20 years you're reallyreally going to want to hire them.
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i’d walk out from an interview that asked me to write a prime number generator
I've done that (maybe it was fizzbuzz, now that I'm thinking about it) and boy howdy does that get the people you're interviewing with agitated. Saying "I'm interviewing for a architect level container orchestration position. If I'm reinventing the wheel writing algorithms, something is terribly wrong" shuts them up, but doesn't make them any happier.
what does and container orchestration architect do ? Something like this cluster should use envoy and Prometheus. The new clusters rate isn’t usually high enough for the stack to change.
Real question I love these non conventional (swe, sre, pm, manager ) roles in tech
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I'm mad at myself now that it has eaten 15 minutes of my time trying to come up with the right optimization. What's the trick? 2, +1, and then +2 from there on seems obvious but once you get to 9 is it worth building a list of nonprimes to skip?
I think they're suggesting simply doing +2 +1 is not a good idea since ~half of all numbers are effectively non-prime simply by being even numbers. You can double the speed by using +2 without using any fancy tricks, just changing a single character.
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Having "extremely basic understanding" of prime numbers immediately at one's command is important for approximately 0% of software engineering jobs. If you instant-fail a candidate for this, it says a lot more about you and your organization than the candidate.
> If you instant-fail a candidate for this, it says a lot more about you and your organization than the candidate. yes, we expect professional software developers to have basic maths skills "what is a prime number" is taught to 7 year olds, it's not vector calculus what else would you consider to be an unreasonable thing for an employer to require? reading and writing skills of a typical 7 year old?
Look, if you think this sort of thing allows you to identify great candidates, good for you. But in my experience, not only is this kind of practice stupid on its face, but it leads to engineering orgs packed with people who are good at memorizing trivia but terrible at solving real problems.