padbrogram @padbrogram

mle | swe | chief tech debt officer | VP of overfitting | consuming too many PizzaBytes/s Cache Joined April 2024

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padbrogram @padbrogram

8 months ago

?? my goal is to code more. I'm directly prioritising jobs that will allow me to spend more time coding

Jing @pagedeux

8 months ago

?? my goal is to code more. I'm directly prioritising jobs that will allow me to spend more time coding

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For about as long as I've been in AI, it has always been overhyped in some way -- shrouded in a cloud of bullshit. No matter the year, many commentators have assumed that it had incredible capabilities that it clearly didn't, and that it would soon pose risks that were clearly…

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padbrogram @padbrogram

8 months ago

so you're telling me that we use a 30 year old technology designed for sending and displaying documents to build full interactive applications that we then run on a little operating system that only allows us to use a PoC scripting language created in 10 days?

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padbrogram @padbrogram

9 months ago

I thought I was the one asking questions?

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9 months ago

anyone else dealing with retroactive interference have any ways to mediate it?

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Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob

9 months ago

come on man

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padbrogram @padbrogram

9 months ago

TIL deque is pronounced "deck". English is not a serious language

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padbrogram @padbrogram

9 months ago

ifs and loops

Bruce Lee @brucelee

5 years ago

ifs and loops

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kalomaze @kalomaze

9 months ago

would you characterize your mental model of you and your body more as 1. a consciousness that uses your body as a "vehicle", your movements are deliberate choices even if not fully conscious 2. the body is a fundamental part of your consciousness, you're NOT just "piloting" it

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padbrogram @padbrogram

9 months ago

it's kind of amazing how polar opinions seem to be on tech hiring: "I would never hire leetcoders" vs "I only hire leetcoders". Surely there is a universally better way

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padbrogram @padbrogram

9 months ago

huge urge to write ocaml gpu support

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François Chollet @fchollet

10 months ago

Anyway, glad to see that the whole "let's just pretrain a bigger LLM" paradigm is dead. Model size is stagnating or even decreasing, while researchers are now looking at the right problems -- either test-time training or neurosymbolic approaches like test-time search, program…

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

@haro_ca_ the only thing that matters is that you make the users happy, and imo the "users" include other devs if their job is to maintain your code

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

this is just what happens when one has to write Java in an enterprise setting

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

the nicest thing about writing in ocaml so far is how many times the code just works first try without tests / print debugging

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

this is hilarious

MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL

10 months ago

this is hilarious

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

okay ocaml is actually quite impressive, main problem at the moment is vim motions are a pain without all the symbol characters

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

people here seem to spend more time arguing about languages than actually using them

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padbrogram @padbrogram

10 months ago

for a long time I've been a fan of procedural programming (pp). spending a lot of time honing my pp made me quite good with it and I learnt to appreciate others' pps too. but as of late I feel like my pp does not work as well and that it might be time to try fp

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terminally onλine εngineer (unemployed arc) @tekbog

11 months ago

after working in enterprise and expanding the team with more shitty lazy people i understand why there's TDD, Jira and scrum masters in this industry, most developers are lazy and clueless that can't even code with AI maybe 5 rounds of interviews are necessary