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Tetmon | Data Scientist | Remote | Full-time

Flexible hours, minimal meetings, fully remote, publishing opportunities

Tech: TensorFlow, LoRA, GPT-4, EdgeSet, Trino, Python, Rust

We have several projects to explore and publish about, including but not limited to:

- matching entities (people/addresses/etc.) across many languages and postal systems

- flagging data columns that contain personally identifiable information

- generating test cases to expose bugs in code

We're also open to you exploring questions/problems you're interested in, if you're prepared to clearly explain your process/results.

We're looking for someone who can keep clean notebooks and communicate their workflows and results well. We work in South East Asia with low-resource languages like Bahasa and Burmese (as well as English and Chinese). Our work ranges from designing LLM prompts to training models. We do not generally build models ourselves, but we will if the project requires it. Our team is strong in Data(Dev)Ops and Data Engineering and you'll have the support necessary for sourcing data and running/training models (high VRAM GPU clusters, etc.).

Your work would go towards:

- adding features to our virtual data warehouse product (EdgeSet)

- publishing interesting analysis or results on open questions in research

- assisting clients in solving natural language problems (customer support, QA, etc.)

You should be comfortable working in small teams with minimal guidance.

careers@tetmon.com (attach or link to examples of your work)
I suspect that the hardware margins might be there, and the sticking point is the additional overhead to cover support. When they sell ten million units and have six-sigma'd any manufacturing and support wrinkles to near-irrelevance, I wouldn't be surprised if they move down-market.

For the time being, there's apparently a customer base willing to pay those prices. They're not spec-competitive, but once you assign value to the brand, and the moral stance of supporting the idea, and the secondary value of intentionally-not-obsolete components, they have a lot going for them.

And notably, the customers who consider those factors to be important, are generally aiming mid-high in the market anyway.
Maybe you haven't used it enough. ChatGPT is wrong all the time for me, sometimes insultingly wrong. The confidence in it's incorrect answers just makes it that much worse.

I can't buy any of this hype for a "word-putting-together" algorithm. It's not real intelligence.
So its in the interest of every company to squeese wages. To a large degree they've suceeded.

But if they all succeed in paying their employees little, noone can afford their products.

Tragedy of the Commons, corporate edition.

The solution to tragedy of the commons is usually to privatise the commons. Once it's private properly, people take care of it.

Clearly that means companies need to privatise workers.
I don't have such a problem with browser makers putting their own ideas into their software. If Google wants to put a Flutter runtime into Chrome, great, go ahead. Where things fall apart is when they prioritize these projects ahead of supporting standards upon which they agreed. Microsoft was free to build and support VML back in IE days. The issue I had was that they refused to support SVG which WAS A ratified standard. So Google creating experiments is just that. They're free to build these, evangelize them and bring these to WHATWG, CSSWG or TC39, or whatever other governing body they'd like. They aren't "creating standards" if these governing bodies do not adopt their experiments.
I've already stolen 4 jobs for myself. I was getting ready to hire a team for my project, but now I don't have to. However... I didn't have money to hire that team in the first place, so the project was actually stalled to the point of collapse, and those 4 jobs never would have existed.

Now with AI I have enough capacity myself to push it further, and so perhaps I'll get to the point where I can actually hire people to work on the project. In that sense, AI will be responsible for those jobs being created.
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Except that smart people need less y to learn almost any x, which is part of what it means to be smart.
> why not cut the employee's working hours in half while retaining the same salary

Because every C-suite wants to see YoY and MoM growth, every single year. An easy way to get that in your scenario his have the employees suddenly become 2x as productive with no extra hiring and minimal additional cost.
In this context, I think it might be useful for fixing your distro problems.

Otherwise I agree with the problems you have found. Its bad at logic/rules. Good at repeating what it found on reddit.
> so they're abiding by direct spectral mask limits

Yes, obtained by channelization and OFDM, not by limiting modulation.

Reverse engineering of the 10 to 12.7GHz band has shown a mixture of 16-QAM and 64-QAM frames. There's a bit of periodic 4-QAM too, which seems to be for acquisition and synchronization.

Even 16-QAM can climb basically to 5 bits/Hz.
Then you'll have no problem explaining this:

https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2023/03/26/poland-nuclear-arm...

while also this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/poland-us-nucl...
It's possible if you're way of making lots of money doesn't involve scamming or exploiting people.
Hi, I'm the founder of actuated.

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We also think that managing runners is boring and time-consuming.

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OK, so Linux ISOs allegedly did suck (way) over than a decade ago; Windows ISO sucks to this day.
> I've yet to see such a page

Developers are eating the problems for you because safari support is almost always a requirement.

This is a developer side problem, not a user side one.

> for no reason other than the sheer incompetence of people building them

Safari never breaks, but when it does it's because the developers are incompetent?

The fact it takes a bunch of extra work to support safari (in more advanced cases like graphs and dashboards) is the whole problem. I have every intent to kick safari out of any home game stuff I do.
I've seen updates just for Safari, but those are irregular.
And that sales tax (maybe other taxes too) aren't shown in US product displays, but they are basically everywhere else.
> every fiat currency is imaginary.

Well, the USD is backed by the "full faith and credit of the United States government" which, however you may feel about it, isn't imaginary. Each dollar is a claim to a piece of output of the world's largest economy with the strongest military.
If some countries were selling Apple products at a cheaper USD conversion than what it costs in the US, you know there would be massive reselling from those countries if you could undercut Apple's own prices on brand new products.
Something vaguely similar happened in Berlin: They banned parking rental 50cc scooters on the pavement, they have to be parked on the street, competing for parking with cars.
To me this is a terrible rule, completely out of touch. Scooters improve the city as they are electric, small, and less dangerous to others. I have a car and in the summer I often pay a few euros to rent those electric 50cc scooters because they are really nice. However, one of the major benefits is that you can park anywhere.

There is a designated strip on the pedestrian walkway where it used to be allowed to park them, currently its only allowed for bicycles. There is more than enough room there and as its on the side it bothers no one. So banning them from there is not necessary.

The real problem we have is not even about these specific 50cc scooters but about the smaller ones that are mentioned here. Which have not been affected by this ban. The real problem is that some bad people, maybe its the tourists, literally park them in the very middle of the walkway, blocking people and being terribly annoying. And for this, the solution would be harsh punishments. Eg. when someone parks their scooter this way they have to pay a massive fine or get banned or whatever. Maybe users could report them and get a bounty.

So, while there is a real problem, the politicians, where I live, made this terrible decision. And when I came home, exhausted from work, there was actually parking right in front of my doorstep, but it was blocked by two rental scooters.
This is the backwards 80s and 90s corporate culture of a secrecy instead of community or customer oriented. Heck, even Microsoft is getting this right nowadays. Apple is one of the most developer hostile companies still standing.

But I guess they will stand until there is external pressure to force them to change e.g. in the form of regulation allowing to bundle alternative web browser engines and not giving preferential private APIs.
It's probably modelled after someone who really wants the job, but didn't prepare for the interview.
Oh sure the Russians are lying their asses off, just like the Ukrainians and the US.
I can pay my non-imaginary taxes with dollars. All my other bills also helpfully accept dollars. This gives dollars a useful non-imaginary quality crypto does not have.
I find this sentiment almost offensive. Like it goes against everything I believe to say that less data is better. But the root of it is pretty clear "even basic blood tests can lead to unnecessary interventions or treatments". It's the belief that a test leads to interventions. But it doesn't have to of course. An intervention is a decision, and if an intervention is likely to be unnecessary, then they shouldn't intervene. "But the yadda-yadda-value is elevated", yeah well you said it yourself it's most likely nothing, so do nothing, just note it down for future reference.
The rectangular array is the basic data type for APL. Until fairly recently, the BEAM had no reasonable implementation of this. However, it seems like Nx's tensors might serve...
I think you are ignoring the elephent in the room:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

I think the concern is more that someone will show up and murder everyone in your office for allowing drawings of the prophet Mohammed than concern it is "offensive" per se.

I'm not blaming a company for making the decision to not put their employees lives in jeopardy, but let's not pretend this is some benign judgement call over whether to offend someone.
They have been increasing automation, but over the lifetime of the company it’s a reasonable description for how the majority of all packages where handled.

What’s eye opening is the kiva robots only increase the items picked per worker per hour from ~100 to ~300 even though they drastically reduce the amount of walking.
Cholesterol numbers are but guides/risk factors on your health risk. They do not necessarily mean that you will suffer from atherosclerosis the precursor to heart disease.
QuestDB | Backend Engineer (Python) & Front-end UI & Growth Engineer| Remote, full time

QuestDB is an open-source time-series database focused on performance and simplicity. 11k GitHub stars, 2k slack community, large users and customers such as Yahoo, Airbus and Central Group. Top 10 db-engines for time-series databases.

Job description & application:

- https://questdb.io/careers/senior-backend-engineer-python/

- https://questdb.io/careers/growth-engineer-open-source/

- Front-end UI: contact us at careers@questdb.io
Aircraft could change how we fly
The mouse interface on the Amiga was remarkably and elegantly simple too, which would have made it easy to interpret the mouse inputs on a joystick port even if there wasn't built-in support for it.

Basically, the mouse buttons were wired directly to pins - the same pins that joystick buttons would be wired to. Then also, the left/right and up/down steps would be indicated by a rising pulse on one pin with a direction indicated on another pin. The same pins that would be used for the left/right and up/down microswitches on a joystick. The way this was implemented by most early mice was to have two sensors on a sense wheel slightly out of phase, so as the sense wheel rotated it would produce a square wave on both wires. When one pin had a rising pulse, the other wire would be high if the wheel was going in one direction, and low if it was going in the other direction.
It's important to notice that ZPNG beats virtually all QOI variants, as discovered in: https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir
I'm guessing it doesn't understand the difference between what it knows, and what it doesn't know.
Their stock is up 13% over the past year. Maybe it's just trendy to lay people off right now?
I get the logic, but … isn’t this failure mode the fault of the doctor, for overreacting to a minor issue/non-issue, rather than the patient for getting yearly checkups?
I've been playing through Metal Gear Solid with my son, seemed on cue to me. (Joy Division is Kojima's favorite band.)
Ah but you see, they can be excused because they are a corporation making a profit! Who needs public spaces anyway
Peter Zeihans insistance on birth rate is a bit silly. Most developed countries, including the USA are in the 1.5-1.7 range. There are outliers like France that are higher. There isn't this huge demographic difference between Europe and the US. He is selling his message to American conservatives, so I guess the one who pays the piper calls the tune. I don't think he cares about immigration much.
There's no contradiction. Ignoring symptoms is foolish. Yearly checkups may do more harm than good. Both of these things can be true.
You're not exactly communicating in good faith here, given that I addressed exactly this:

> The fine tune process represents additional training, and to reliably and consistent reproduce a consistent style generally requires overfitting ...

It's clear you have a perspective that is set in stone, and insist on not understanding the technology. Hopefully you'll re-evaluate when the plaintiffs in these suits inevitably lose.
Short sighted artists claiming that Getty and Adobe models are fine when in 5 years all tools will be piped through these models anyway, in 10 years GPUs will have them built in running real time and the only difference they made with this hissy for is if they pay Getty and Adobe $100+ a month for the privilege instead of it being free.

You can’t escape it, we may as well all benefit instead of this silly crusade making only 4 companies max benefiting, forever.
Poor people in America are often just as time-poor as they are money-poor. Rice & beans takes time that you don't have when you're working multiple jobs.

You can claim that poor people shouldn't be eating McDonald's, but they fact is that they do. McDonald's is counter-cyclical.
> It's a shame that browsers don't have to undergo strict compliance tests

There are compliance tests, and it's a thankless job to create and maintain them that some people do. But browsers are bigger than some OSes now. It's almost impossible to create comprehensive compliance tests that cover everything.
They already had their "Virtual Files" feature on Windows, which uses Microsoft's native implementation for OneDrive, and now, they are testing it for macOS using Apple's File Provider API.

What is the situation on Linux for this? Are there any other cloud storage providers that have this feature?
If I rob a bank then you can tell. If I make an AI model on my own computer and train it, how would you ever know? It won’t have a “signature” that can be detected by any kind of AI detection system because I’m the only person who knows it exists.

You can make it illegal if you like, but you’ll never be able to enforce it. And other countries are not obligated to follow suit, and will have significant competitive advantages as a result.
He missed the more obvious historical mistake to highlight. The notion of "canals" on Mars was directly attributable to an ambiguous translation of the Italian word "canale" which was intended to just mean "channel" without the connotation of having been fabricated. English speakers who read the mistranslated work of an Italian astronomer got worked up over nothing. It's exactly the kind of subtlety that AI tends to miss, but I'm betting the current generation of GPT tools wouldn't make that kind of mistake.
The video nails it for my reasoning. There are too many other large cars on the road, so a normal sized car can't see well enough and is less safe.
Politicians can’t tell the difference between AI chatbots and human constituents
I think that in that case, the issue is not that patient had checkup, but that standard reaction to high cholesterol is wrong. Having it checked up less often may help the patient, but real fix for healthcare system would be to not prescribe this medication in this situation.
> We need a Firefox with good defaults and it seems like this browser is such a thing.

Allow me to introduce you LibreWolf https://librewolf.net/
A missed opportunity to break it up into 40
What about the murders that police commit? I'm calling at least some police murderers, which isn't a contestable point.

Your question also assumes the point that police are useful for dealing with murderers, which is not a point I'll cede uncontested.

Policing, because it's founded on the initiation of violence, is immoral.

Mature people can solve problems without resorting to violence. We can solve the problem of others being willing to do violence to us, more easily without a police agency, than with a police agency.

If you or I wanted the freedom to do harm to others, the best route for both of us would be to go join a local police force because they have immunity for the crimes that they commit against citizens.
Instead of OmniTron3000 stealing your job, it will be Joe AND OmnioTron3000 stealing your job.
There's civic coding groups like Code for DC. A good number of the projects are regional but there are some federal projects too. Maybe there are some civic good projects that float your boat here.

https://codefordc.org/
This whole capitalism vs. socialism argument is ridiculous. Capitalism can't solve all problems, clearly. neither can socialism. so then you have to talk about what laws, regulations and taxes we should have. Not how many but what kind.

Also, your worried about economic freedom and individual choice. Most billionaires now have unelected bureaucrats running charitable foundations. we've abdicated so much power and decision making to the billionaires that we don't much choice. I guess if count what toppings you want on your pizza there's plenty of choices. as long as you don't mind toxic chemicals in there...I'm looking at you skittles.
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Electronics prices in the EU are simply crazy

This has been true for Europe for a long time.

In the early 90's, I had a particular Sony Walkman that I was very fond of. I paid about US$100 for it.

A couple of months later, I accidentally left it on the plane as I was transferring in Paris. When I got to Vienna, I was delighted to discover that it was also available there, so I bought a replacement. I was not delighted to find out that it cost nearly double what I paid for it in the U.S.

There's something about Europe and electronics that always seems to equal higher prices. It's been going on for at least a half a century.
The Study: "General health checks don’t work" - https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3680
Argh. The hype around GPT is incredible and if I had a nickel for every nonsense claim I'd heard over the past few weeks I'd have $10--which isn't a lot but its enough to be annoying.

GPT-4 is a generative algorithm and large language model. It performs no reasoning, and instead predicts the next token in language. This works okay on average, because most data on the internet has some type of coherency to it, but there is a major gap between "reasoning" and "next token prediction."
It seems like you took the headline to mean something like "You don't need to worry about losing your job because of AI". That would make sense if you only read the first half of it. But the second half completely changes the meaning - it's saying you definitely do need to worry about losing your job because of AI (and maybe you should start taking action to avoid that fate). So I think you not only missed the point but interpreted it backwards.
Ironically, people being confidently incorrect - people copying and pasting yaml files without taking the time to understand the boilerplate - have probably cost companies billions of dollars in resource overallocation and downtime.

The files compile, but boy is it wrong.
I'm in this boat. I was worried about AI for a while then I realized I have to figure out how to use it or get left behind.

The problem is I am still having difficulty understanding how to use the tool effectively. Any advice would be much appreciated.
I think they mean the end of China’s crackdown wrt alibaba
Not to mention the covid money given out that wasn't enough for most people to pay rent but was enough to buy yourself a nice new computer.
That's because property is more important than people of course. Are you new to capitalism?