Software Developer, 積読, Que sais-je? building @bourd_dev
Adelaide, South Australia
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tail distribution become near meaningless at large enough numbers. Oh you are a 1 in 100,000 talent? bad luck we have a whole room full of those guys already. Globalism killed glory. Imagine being the best basketballer anyone in your town/state has ever seen but you're still nowhere near NBA level. 140 IQ sounds smart until you realise that 140+ IQ people in Aus out number our entire military force 3:2. Oh 6'4" and $200k+ salary is like 99.9th percentile? Well yeah theres like a whole football stadiums worth of those guys around then
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There is no point learning musical notation anymore when i can just specify the sounds i want in native language and get an llm to write it for me
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Doing some training for a new online government system rollout tonight and holy shit this thing is a clusterfuck. It’s like nobody even reviewed this before setting live. I don’t even wanna know how many millions got sent to this dot net slop shop to build this
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This is rooted in the idea that education is about getting correct/incorrect answers to questions. Rather than fix a completely broken education model we just try ban technology.
The great thing about programming as a tool for thought is the whole exploratory/debugging phase. AI presents us a great opportunity to move even further in this direction but it won't fit within the current system
Ben Horowitz says instead of banning AI, educators should set problems students can't solve without it:
"I was talking to Dan Boneh, who is a great professor of computer science and cryptography at Stanford. His take on AI was: You have two choices. You can ban it, and by the way, that won't work. Or you can make the problems so hard that you can't solve them without AI."
"What he's seeing is, 'I've got students solving things that no student in history could have ever solved.' That's what's possible. You want to have that orientation: What can you solve with the tools? What can you do that's a breakthrough? Now everybody has an opportunity to create a breakthrough."
"Then you're a main character, not an NPC. That's what the academy is about. Do you want to be a main character? If you want to be a main character, we help you do that. If you want to be a cog in a machine, this is not going to be the best place for you."
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I don’t trust any government system because the kind of devs that work on these things are so bad. You work at these kinds of places because nobody else will hire you. Real bottom of the barrel stuff
🚨BREAKING: Australian PM reveals OpenAI HACKED into their government healthcare system — confronts Sam Altman for hiding it for 3 months
Australia’s government found out only last week that OpenAI agents hacked into their Medicare systems in June, accessing restricted non-public government files
“Today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident.”
"It took the company way too long to inform the government… This situation is UNACCEPTABLE.”
Australia's cyber-intelligence agency has launched a forensic probe to uncover what else was compromised.
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SI is such a good name because once again it’s just Americans fucking with perfectly good units of measurement.
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Michael Timbs retweeted
Do you reckon Scott Morrison has been to a petrol station lately? Petrol prices are surging on his watch.
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opposite also happens. My son got Bs from his teacher who'd never once reviewed his actual work and scored 99.9th percentile on a standardised math test
How much of this idea that “some kids have trouble with standardized tests” is because people don’t realize a contradiction in results means there’s something wrong with their grades, not the test
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Unit test are still the most valuable because when they fail you know exactly what is broken. When an e2e test fails it could be any number of things. the individual code units are also much more stable than the composition of those units so your test churn is much lower. People who dont like unit test just write bad ones. Im sorry but its true
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99.99% of the time you see this take the definition of unit test is so narrow that it's almost meaningless and obviously a bad idea at face value. So obviously so that you wonder why the person ever though it was a thing that needed saying and if they understand what they are talking about at all
I agree with @thorstenball, I think unit tests are dead in the water.
The ones the models write are terrible, at best just doubling total LOC.
Inverting the testing approach - heavy e2e/black box/golden master, reaching for lower levels only if necessary, works better for me
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