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The former. Basically: build, train, test, deploy, monitor, repeat for ML algos.

I’ve heard multiple recruiters (from different agencies in different geos) refer to them as “amholes” and said they’re hard to place and difficult to break their bad habits.

Yup! Both epson and canon have some great printers for high quality printing at home. First Man Photography on YouTube has videos on the topic that I enjoyed.

The surprise for me was that paper quality makes much of the difference.

I’m sure you know this but it took me entirely too long to really understand and feel the satisfaction of taking and printing my own photos.

It’s very accessible these days to have a finished piece of art that’s all yours - even with little artistic ability.

There is some information added, depending on the vector db and context (some systems will add permissions related metadata so that the LLM won’t pull chunks that the user didn’t have access to).

The vector itself is pretty large (512 dimensions).

The chunks have an overlap (iirc 30% but someone feel free to correct me).

I don’t _think_ the data is typically compressed (not sure why but I assume performance).

I’ve used Windows at work for years, my personal/gaming machine is Linux (mint), my personal/development machine is MacOS.

They’re all perfectly viable options with strengths and weaknesses. None of them are especially great. I’m partial to MacOS, personally.

It’s willful ignorance to think that the many millions of people that like MacOS are just parroting what they’ve been told.

Take whatever you're indexing and make it 16-20x and that’s a good approximation of what the vector db’s total size is going to be.

> Unfortunately it is possible to live without a romantic partner, but in non-socialized nations it is not possible to live without an income.

That’s where self-employment becomes an option.

You couldn’t be because I have it on good authority that I am.

> In practice, I find that if I don't format something as a bulleted/numbered list, nobody is going to look at it.

I’m one of those people, if I’m honest. If I’m reading for work, I want the minimum words necessary to get the point across. I’m looking for information, not a story.

If I’m reading for enjoyment though, it’s another thing entirely.

With index funds effectively propping up the S&P etc. people are already questioning it.

Consider that millions of people are parking billions of dollars in index funds that just track the ~500 biggest companies with the expectation they’ll all just get bigger.

The question isn’t whether there exists a function that can translate one language to another. If they’re Turing complete, it’s certainly the case that the same software CAN be written in different languages. The question is whether or not it would produce idiomatic code in the target language and whether or not you/the developer would recognize it as (not) idiomatic when it did.

You can’t tell me that precisely the same paradigms, mechanics, patterns and practices will be used to develop software in both Java/Spring and Ruby/Rails, for example. The way you need to (be able to) think about how you write the software using those two languages will be non-trivially different.

> Imagine how much it will cost or how much it will be enshittified when the investors come looking for their returns.

Indeed but one potential saving grace is the open sourcing of good models (eg. Meta’s Llama). If they continue to open source competitive models, we might be able to stave that off.

This is difficult to express because I too have enjoyed using an LLM lately and have felt a productivity increase, but I think there is a false sense of security being expressed in your writing and it underlies one of the primary risks I see with LLMs for programming.

With minor exceptions, moving from one language to another isn’t a matter of simple syntax, trivia, or swapping standard libraries. Certainly, expert beginners do espouse that all the time, but languages often have fundamental concepts that they’re built that and need to be understood in order to be effective with them. For example: have you ever seen a team move from Java to Scala, js to Java, or C# to Python - all of which I’ve seen - where the developers didn’t try to understand language they were moving to? Non-fail, they tried to force the concepts that were important to their prior language, onto the new one, to abysmal results.

If you’re writing trivial scripts, or one-off utils, it probably doesn’t build up enough to matter, and feels great, but you don’t know what you don’t know, and you don’t know what to look for. Offloading the understanding of the concepts that are important for a language to an LLM is a recipe for a bad time.

Like Geoffrey Hinton, who predicts 5-20 years (though with low confidence)?

My personal conspiracy theory is that Nokia was an orchestrated takedown by MS. Get a leader in there to tank its stock for an acquisition.

MS just shit the bed on the other side of it and failed to deliver a competitive-enough mobile platform.

That’s the exact opposite of the way it is right now (at least for me). I don’t like having multiple ride hailing apps but easily have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini on my phone (and local LLM at home). There is zero effort cost to go from one to the other.

Ostensibly the PRs are getting reviewed so it’s, maybe, not that bad but I had a similar reaction: I can slap together something with some wood, hammer, nails and call it a chair. Should I be manufacturing furniture?

Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.

A false dichotomy if I ever saw one.

Some of the most valued things in my life are the photos I’ve taken and printed as they remind me of where I was, what I was doing, and who I was with.

It’s one thing to miss a moment, like the author of this article did, because you’re fiddling with a camera but it’s also a thing to capture a moment and have it forever. How many times have you shown someone a photo and they say with amazement and excitement “No way! I’d almost forgotten got about that!” - many for me.

A big part of my job is building proofs of concept for some technologies and that usually means some webpage to visualize that the underlying tech is working as expected. It’s not hard, doesn’t have to look good at all, and will never be maintained. I throw it away a few weeks later.

It used take me an hr or two to get it all done up properly. Now it’s literal seconds. It’s a handy tool.

> I’m tired of adversarially wrestling usefulness out of a trillion dollar company.

Very well put.

That’s a pretty obscure/dated reference to the Master Control Program that ran on Burroughs mainframes.

I suspect the downvotes are for “… stupid AI crap.”

The Colonel’s Bequest (also by Roberta Williams) still holds a special place in my heart.

I can’t play a game like Luigi’s Mansion without feeling like that was one of the inspirations.

How does Flash compare to Nova Lite? The latter looks less expensive. I haven’t really used either (used Nova Pro and it was good)

You’re getting downvoted, it seems, but you raise a very real point: you need to have a high turnover, or rough span of control ratios, in order for this to be a common interrupt.

Especially given it’s well known that people don’t leave companies, they leave bad managers… it’s a bit telling.

Anecdotally: I spent 6-7 years managing at various levels (manger/sr mgr/director) before going back to an IC role, and I had a single regrettable attrition (+2 non-regrettable) in that time.

It be weird to see MS make an IronTypescript given that they created typescript.

> they've culled those that they deemed weren't a good fit…

I think it’s worthwhile challenging this assumption. In a layoff, with that many people, I don’t think you can say much beyond that the company doesn’t want to pay them anymore.

Oh, so “it’s more costly immediately” actually meant “it’s more costly once you’re storing over some threshold of data.” Ok. I can get behind that.

I don’t think it’s so easily observed at scale though, because at that point it’s hardly just the hdd cost anymore. It’s the hdd, server/compute, cabling, cooling, power, facilities, security, cabling, maintenance.

The TCO of data storage isn't just the drive - it just so happens that it’s still less than the cost of a drive up to some threshold. I don’t know if anyone having done a full cost model comparison. Everything I’ve ever seen assumes the data center is free.