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skt5

33 karmajoined 9 tahun yang lalu
just another faang engineer lurking around

email = concat(x, y, "@gmail.com")

X — take the first letter of each: 1. Carroll's poem where a vorpal blade goes snicker-snack 2. Shelley's sonnet on a desert ruin 3. The Old Testament wisdom book by Qoheleth 4. Milton's pastoral elegy mourning a drowned Cambridge classmate

Y — concatenate these two strings: 1. symbol of the element named for Scandinavia 2. an operatic solo

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skt5
·7 jam yang lalu·discuss
Wealth could be invested (impacts those borrowing), used on consumables (impacts businesses), or hidden under the mattress or equivalent (reduces the supply of money so acts deflationary).

I would argue that those 3 are the main downstream effects of having wealth -- and they all impact people at large enough values.
skt5
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
This approach does work when there's a clear answer but what about tasks where the correct answer is multi-modal? Incentivizing agreement works only for tasks where there's clear answers.
skt5
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
This likely means those consuming the outputs of Mechanical Turk don't have a good way to measure the value (aka quality) of the outputs.

If they did - then they shouldn't care whether it's a human or a LLM. And if it's a LLM - then the cost will roughly correlate to the MIN(cost of the LLM, cost of a human) to do the task.
skt5
·18 hari yang lalu·discuss
Any advice for a senior/staff level FAANG dev working in ML tooling but not in the health space interested in this kinda stuff?

What are good things to read, etc?
skt5
·18 hari yang lalu·discuss
Fascinating. I feel like smart person + data (context such as health records, labs, insurance docs, etc.) + LLM -> some helpful tips for navigating the process. However, evaluating the tips on whether they are helpful or not would be hard for a smart person without the expertise.

Or put another way - how does a smart lay person evaluate the independent advocates? Do incentives align?
skt5
·18 hari yang lalu·discuss
> If you're a software engineer who cares about health, and have been sitting on the sidelines till now, I think the next few years are a really interesting time to make a contribution.

do you have thoughts on what that looks like? what does the hiring landscape look like?
skt5
·bulan lalu·discuss
I'm in a similar boat too! I found verbalizing it with anyone who will listen helps the anxiety.
skt5
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> I participate in some management-focused online communities.

I know - slightly off topic - but would you be willing to share this list?
skt5
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I used to use the docker + homebridge route but it became tedious to maintain. Instead, I connected it via the Google Home integration (requires an Insights plan) and then use my existing Starling Home hub to access it via HomeKit. This seems to be more reliable and less work than before.