I'm really good at what I do. One of the things about becoming actually, truly, really good is that you can parse out when other people are good. Strangely, I learned that age, experience, education, has nothing to do with being really good

it's just all over the place talent, talent is all over the place. i can spot a guy from a foreign country, from the pattern of his posts, his profile, the way he understands things. it has nothing to do with anything but just talent. its clarity

I'm benefiting greatly from google's open source software yet again, and honestly, I'm not even sure it's a good idea for them to open source this much of the sauce. The value that I can just.. git clone into my server.. it's astounding. It's worth millions of dollars to me I don't mean "millions of dollars" in a hypothetical sense. I mean it literally. Because of open source code that google has put out, I will make millions of dollars. It would have been possible without, but it would have taken me 3 months to get to where i am instead of 1 week

I got fired today. I'm not sure why, I personally don't think there is a reason, or that it's important.

When I joined twitter, I joined because of the engineers I met in SF. They seemed happy. They were having fun. Engineers at play. Engineers that were enabled. It was good! They seemed competent. They spoke clearly. They didn't make things up. They told me why they worked there. One of them said: "this is the only place where I can work with this scale"

The scale. The scale is just absurd. 1m qps shit makes your eyes bleed. Pagers, pagers, pagers!

i actually don't think you could cheat the interview i give with AI. like it's laughably easy; it's something that you would have programmed yourself if you ever needed to write a tool to make a chart of your CC transactions

yet, my interviews screen out *a lot* of people

https://twitter.com/im_roy_lee/status/1895276427005845981

the point of a screen is an "are you alive" test and its actually pretty clear within 5 minutes of me going through it

in fact i'd say the more leetcode you do the more likely you are going to fail my screen. being overpracticed is the same as cheating

I'm going to keep this thread bumped, comparing grok 3 and claude sonnet 37. I pinky promise i won't be biased.

The sample of the questions will not be "do some code work for me", but rather, explain something technical to me.

It will be a simple point scoring system, by eod grok 3 gets a point. score is 1 to grok and 0 to sonnet

It was able to explain lazy monadic computation graphs, comparing two examples

claude 3.7 hallucinated / missed the problem (or i didnt understand its explanation which is also not good)

this is not funny, and more of this will start happening. it doesn't take a genius to be able to see what is coming next, stay strapped

https://twitter.com/Kurrco/status/1891994463720948225

remember what I said about industrial capacity to create actuators

did you think that china was the threat?

crazy that a few 1 million+ follower people tried to get me fired 3 days ago. that's actually so funny i think the miscalculation on my part is how much damage, in aggregate, was done by the ice effect of the control of free speech by tech lefties. i don't really blame them for their strong reaction against my (somewhat tasteless) shitposting

i also, felt cornered over the 2010s

my dad has been a teacher most of his life (50 years minus some). tutoring people older than him in his adolescence to pass IB. university academic, PhD. then taught middle school and highschool math, now university

i told him about homeschooling, he surprised me with a "yes" the reason he said yes isn't what you think. public schools do suck, yeah. the reason he said yes is because he's an avid user of LLMs, and was an avid user of google when it dropped (he taught me all the tricks!)

The AGI "war" has already been won

https://twitter.com/slow_developer/status/1866971330748486048

OpenAI doesn't even register
The war is between who has distribution and open source
Bifurcation of the technically capable and the not is the likely outcome

The problem with Islam is that moderates get pushed out. In a mosque I participated in nearby, recently, a moderate imam that I really liked and really took time to help the community, especially the more westernized Muslim teenagers, was pushed out. Why?

His wife didn't wear the hijab
He was too accepting of teenagers dating

Even though he was immensely popular, the mullah extremists worked together to push him out This of course guarantees the destruction of that mosques ability to lead younger Muslims into things that are net positive like. If they are dating, leading them to acceptance with their parents and marriage, making them not feel bad for what is natural, helping them actually speak out and ask for help

while america's h1b cap by country hurts a lot of people, it's necessary to preserve the american culture. I wish canada had the same I have nothing against Indians but their culture is strong and suboptimal in many ways. When you have Trudeaus illiberal policies adding a tenth of the population, Canada has gotten destroyed. We need to be able to assimilate people

I cannot believe zuck et al just beat gpt 3.5 at humaneval pass@1 and is approaching gpt4 with only 34b params

(47 pages, therefore reaction thread - code llama) >trained on 16k tokens
pretty cool
>7B & 13B
>trained on infilling, instead of just prompt completion.
good for copilot replacement & custom local hacks
because gpt 3.5's init token latency was so bad, I had to retire my custom vscode extension
Having options is good!

you have to realize that in the tech bubble we reside in, people don't actually get that it's magic

like, a web interface is magic to most people

most people genuinely think it's a collection of business logic and not some alien thing we created through experimentation I've been mentoring someone and it actually finally clicked that "oh you actually really do mean a bag of simulated neural tissue when you say a bag of simulated neural tissue"

the prerequisite was that they built enough software for regular software to cease to be magic

I need a thing that listens to speech, and holds some state. this is an old project that I'm resurrecting
I will keep this thread updated TIL about sampling rates, channels, etc
stdin works, saves file
setting up my devloop.
just need to figure out how to get ffmpeg to do the same so I don't have to record myself speaking
ideally the logic triggers on save with the whole "speech"

some work, I can do
some work. I really cannot do. At all.
But those pieces of work come with deadlines.
And as the deadline approaches, that work becomes work I can do see you in 5 hours

I'm trying to figure out if twitter will actually have down time:
- do they manage their own servers, or run on cloud compute?
- what's the likelihood of a latent issue arising and bringing down the system, given that a 90% RIF would effectively constitute a code freeze - how quick is Twitter's growth right now (probably quick) and how much scale can their architecture handle before needing a re-architect?

someone on hackernews

>Many companies think their employees are being productive for 40 hours a week, while it's actually somewhere between 10 and 20, with the rest being a big void. If you are actually doing 40 hours a week you are productive as hell.

if they only knew fwiw this post is saying that most people do in fact work 35h-60h focused, and are productive as hell

and from my observation, the only thing that upper bounds that is the availability of productive work to do

lol costco's tire appointment web app has debug logs in production... btw in case you're wondering I drive a used 2014 corolla that I inherited through my wife

and also I have dev tools open because Im trying to reverse engineer it to make sure I can beat others to booking my tire change appointment, I was too lazy to book until it snowed (now)