Readit NewsI wrote this piece in 2023, which argues similarly that LLMs are a boon, not a threat to historians
https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/12/27/what-i-learned-using-pri...
zwischenzug commented on Khalid Sheldrake: The East Dulwich man who would be King nationalarchives.gov.uk/2... · Posted by u/Geekette
oh wow, I live just round the corner from there. I guess I'll go check out if there's still a mosque there
So do I!
zwischenzug commented on Principles for product velocity ssoready.com/blog/from-th... · Posted by u/noleary
I understand the outcry over the heavy processes, but I think there are a lot of confusing statements here.
The point being made is "methodology is bullshit," yet what is proposed is exactly that: a new methodology. "Fix a 60-day timeframe and do whatever fits" is a method. The truth is, everyone needs to be organized somehow, and this is why we invent methodologies, frameworks, processes - call it whatever you want - but we all need some form of organization.
The problem is that some methodologies (Scrum, etc.) are heavily abused and transformed into management frameworks, which is the opposite of why they were created in the first place. But do you know how Agile was invented? It was a group of software developers, tired of heavy management processes, who came together to decide how to make their processes lightweight. Less is more.
Just as one example: > "We don’t do Figma mocks. We don’t write PRDs. We don’t really have a design system. We don’t do agile.". Well, right from the Agile manifesto: > "Working software over pointless documentation."
So it sounds like we've come full circle. That's really a pity. I wonder how we can break the cycle. I also think we should take a look at the original ideas in the old-school methodologies (Agile, etc.) because they’re not bad, just abused. They were created 20 years ago by people who were in the same situation we are in now, so there's a lot of wisdom there that shouldn't be outright rejected.
Parent is close to what I argued here:
https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of...
zwischenzug commented on Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written? · Posted by u/reverseCh
A Docker image in less than 1000 bytes:
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/05/22/a-docker-image-in-less-t...
zwischenzug commented on Money and Happiness: Extended Evidence Against Satiation happiness-science.org/mon... · Posted by u/ano-ther
Wealth != income
zwischenzug commented on At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill? zwischenzugs.com/2024/06/... · Posted by u/ingve
It is certainly possible, but is it as lean and readable?
No.
zwischenzug commented on At 50 Years Old, Is SQL Becoming a Niche Skill? zwischenzugs.com/2024/06/... · Posted by u/ingve
How do you do
SELECT AVG(price) FROM cars
WHERE brand='BMW'
GROUP BY year
ORDER BY year
So far, every alternative syntax I have encountered was less human readable and/or less concise.
I think SQL will never be replaced because it is not really something that was invented but rather the simple consequence of wanting to store and retreive data.
You could replace "SELECT" with "GET" or "FETCH". But in the end you need to define what action you want to perform. You could replace "WHERE" with "FILTER" or "CONDITION". But in the end you need to define what you want to retreive. Etc. So by just stating the neccessary information, you always end up with SQL. And every real alternative has the problem of being less concise, less easy to read and less easy to write.
Author here. Mongodb offers primitives around filtering, group bys and orders, but calls them 'pipelines'. I'm not an expert on that, but it's quite possible. It's just a series of set and list operations after all.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro
Are you discounting all of the self reported scores?
I don't understand why "TIGER-LAb"-sourced scores are 'unknown' in terms of model size?