Why would you learn Gaussian Processes today? Is there any application where they are still leading and have not been superseeded by Deep NNets?
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heinrichhartman commented on LLMs should not replace therapists arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412... · Posted by u/layer8
I think the argument isn't if LLM can do as good a job as a therapist, (maybe one day, but I don't expect soon).
The real question is can they do a better job than no therapist. That's the option people face.
The answer to that question might still be no, but at least it's the right question.
Until we answer the question "Why can't people get good mental health support?" Anyway.
> The real question is can they do a better job than no therapist. That's the option people face.
> The answer to that question might still be no, but at least it's the right question.
The answer is: YES.
Doing better than nothing is a really low hanging fruit. As long as you don't do damage - you do good. If the LLM just listens and creates a space and a sounding board for reflection is already an upside.
> Until we answer the question "Why can't people get good mental health support?" Anyway.
The answer is: Pricing.
Qualified Experts are EXPENSIVE. Look at the market pricies for good Coaching.
Everyone benefits from having a coach/counseler/therapist. Very few people can afford them privately. The health care system can't afford them either, so they are reserved for the "worst cases" and managed as a parse resource.
heinrichhartman commented on It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine) honeycomb.io/blog/its-the... · Posted by u/gpi
> New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry.
I find this reading of history of OTel highly biased. OpenTelemetry was born as the Merge of OpenCensus (initiated by Google) and OpenTracing (initiated by LightStep):
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merg...
> The seed governance committee is composed of representatives from Google, Lightstep, Microsoft, and Uber, and more organizations are getting involved every day.
Honeycomb has for sure had valuable code & community contributions and championed the technology adoption, but they are very far from "leading the way".
heinrichhartman commented on Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite github.com/wey-gu/py-pgli... · Posted by u/wey-gu
wow, thanks! it should be feasible! and as I recall there are such thing from some databases(chromadb, milvus-lite) in the py-first communities.
we could think big to someday do that within py-pglite project actually.
let me put it as the roadmap of v2(much more work to do!)
Can you explain this? What is the compilation target? What is the compiler? How does being a "python extension" help?
Feels like yet another example of "essential complexity driven by too much churn in infrastructural code".
I wonder why no one needs to write this article about dtrace probes? Is it because they are less used? Less capable? More stable? Better engineered?
Probably all of the above, alas.
From my experience most DTrace users rely on DTrace "providers" [1] and Static Trace Points [2] rather than directly probing kernel structs. Also these days the Solaris kernel is not moving all that much.
[1] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-syscall.html#chp-sy... [2] https://www.illumos.org/books/dtrace/chp-sdt.html#chp-sdt
heinrichhartman commented on Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024 techtalksweekly.io/p/100-... · Posted by u/cempaka
Are speakers being paid these days ?
Regular speaker here (who is also on the list).
I was never payed for a talk, and I have very rarely heared of people being payed by the conference itself -- appart from some "rock-star" keynotes.
Generally talks are sponsored by the person you currently work for - i.e. they pay for travel, and sponsor your time. If you work for a vendor in the space, this runs under marketing expense. If you work for a "regular" company this runs under personal development, employer branding & industry exchange.
Case in point: uv itself is not written in Python. It's a Rust tool.
It always amazes me when people work on an ecosystem for a language but then don't buy enough into that to actually use it to do the work.
Avoidance of dogfooding is a big red flag to me.