Get checked for celiac.
I’m pretty sure the average daily gluten intake of this person is much higher than that from 3 beers..
Readit Newsmarshmallowmad commented on When did people stop being drunk all the time? lefineder.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/prismatic
marshmallowmad commented on From deep to long learning? hazyresearch.stanford.edu... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
I don’t quite understand why context length needs to keep growing. It seems to me like many tasks (e.g. customizing your LLM on your own data) would benefit from the model doing some sort of sped up fine-tuning on any prompt that gets added. That way we don’t have to find all these hacks to find the most relevant context and repeat the same info in prompts. Curious if anyone has insight here as this has caused me some confusion lately!
marshmallowmad commented on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling chess.com/blog/CHESScom/c... · Posted by u/dsr12
Chess.com has the somewhat unique property of being a chess server run by people who aren't good at chess and aren't good at technology. I think they used to hire devs off Fiverr.
However they are somewhat good at business as they've convinced thousands of people to pay $17.00 per month for something that can be found for free at Lichess.org.
They do pay a ton of money to streamers to use their site exclusively, which is good for chess since it allows more chess players to make a living.
I prefer their analysis over lichess’s and I think they are a lot more feature rich. Also, I think the company in general is pretty good at chess? I’m an 1800 elo player for reference.
marshmallowmad commented on Turn your best programmers into managers levelup-edu.com/turn-your... · Posted by u/shscs911
The single best manager I've ever had was completely non-technical. Some of the worst I've had were very technical.
The difference between them is who treats me with trust and who doesn't, the technical/non-technical divide doesn't matter.
How does a non technical manager know who is doing bad or good work? I wouldn’t want to work on a team where the person in charge of my compensation can’t understand if I’m doing decent vs. great work. Leads to the best folks getting frustrated and leaving over time. Mediocrity is all that will remain if manager’s can’t understand the work their team is doing and the obstacles they face.
marshmallowmad commented on “Laws” of software estimation for complex work (2021) mdalmijn.com/p/11-laws-of... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
I don’t agree that trying to estimate things is bad as the author suggests. If you are perceptive and want to get better at it, then there’s a decent chance you will. Estimates also help us timebox work. They can help us give an objective view of when we should start exploring functionality tradeoffs. This article sounds like a lot of whining about not wanting to do something because it’s difficult.
I will say I think that holding people to estimates is not fair because it doesn’t necessarily correlate with productivity/value added. When asked for estimates my general rule is: take a conservative estimate and double it.
marshmallowmad commented on Show HN: This Hacker News Does Not Exist coxomb.github.io/This-Hac... · Posted by u/gravitate
> Your Smartphone May Be Making You Lazy
This, and many more, are more than believable. This one is actually quite sad.
Yeah this one is right - the only issue is it’s an understatement
marshmallowmad commented on Advent of Code 2022 is nigh adventofcode.com/2022... · Posted by u/dpeck
First day was a pretty fun start. Just heard about this for the first time this year and going to give it a go.
Tangential question - why does the HN crowd hate these types of questions in interviews but apparently likes to do them on their own time? Different folks answering to different posts? Honestly curious.
marshmallowmad commented on The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment spectatorworld.com/topic/... · Posted by u/gmays
I think that based on his enthusiasm to invest in Elon's takeover of Twitter he thought he was a big dog. He thinks he's a celebrity billionaire. He's still calling people to invest in his companies, which is like lighting money on fire because it's all going to be withdrawn immediately.
He is clueless.
I would pay to hear some of these conversations of him asking for more money right now. I wonder if people just start laughing or try to tell him the truth.
marshmallowmad commented on The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment spectatorworld.com/topic/... · Posted by u/gmays
I’d probably just up my dosage if I were in his position. This looks like a terrible moment to sober up.
It appears that he may have upped his dosage. And him acting like he can recover is from the drugs. To act like this after clearly committing crimes visible by tens of millions of people, and just getting torn apart for it online. I wish I was this confident!
marshmallowmad commented on The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is crypto’s Enron moment spectatorworld.com/topic/... · Posted by u/gmays
He's still posting on Twitter as though this is going to blow over. I don't get it. Is there a chance nothing is going to happen? What kind of advice is he getting?
"I’m meeting in-person with regulators and working with the teams to do what we can for customers." https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1592604699693580289
"So what can I try to do? Raise liquidity, make customers whole, and restart." https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1592710177152995328
He seems to be deep into denial. I can’t imagine what’s going on in his mind right now.