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azhenley

25,354 karma · joined December 4, 2014

Applied science at Microsoft. AI and developer tools. Ex startup, ex professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

http://austinhenley.com

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azhenley··on Effective AI code suggestions: less is more
I ran a study at Microsoft years ago that’s relevant to this. Can I inject static analysis warnings into code reviews? How many? Which ones? What about nearby unchanged code?

https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2018CHI_CFar.pdf

azhenley··on Machine Learning in Production (CMU Course)
I believe in you! (I'm one of the instructors of the course :) )
azhenley··on More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
Oh yes. But given that I am in a software engineering department, they really value industry experience. I actually published way more in industry than I did in academia!
azhenley··on More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals
How many come back?

I stayed in my tenure-track position for 3.5 years, left for industry for 2.5 years, and am now back in academia :)

azhenley··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
Microsoft published a paper on their FLAME model (60M parameters) for Excel formula repair/completion which outperformed much larger models (>100B parameters).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13779

azhenley··on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD
Your blog really helped me during the early years of my PhD. Thank you!!!
azhenley··on Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?
They built radios.
azhenley··on The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby
That’s beautiful. Why didn’t I think of that?!
azhenley··on Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die
Similar premise to my blog post: Take my app ideas (https://austinhenley.com/blog/takemyappideas.html)
azhenley··on Advent of Code 2024
I’m attempting to make my own language for solving the puzzles as I go along.
azhenley··on Structured Editing and Incremental Parsing
Dupe from 3 days ago with 130 points and 47 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42259547

azhenley··on Ask HN: Combine or separate acquired companies on CV?
I put separate entries on my CV. It was easy to justify given how much the role and day to day changed.

The downside is it looks like I job hopped a bunch. 4 jobs in less than a year because I left Big Tech to run a startup, we got acquired soon after, I didn’t stay at the new company, so I went back to teaching.

azhenley··on IMG_0416
I wish I would _just_ create and share, instead of getting stuck in analysis paralysis trying to perfect it.
azhenley··on Ask HN: Top podcast episodes of all time?
Every episode of Acquired seems to raise the bar higher for me. Their most recent episode on Meta is phenomenal.
azhenley··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
I'm trying to start an educational YouTube channel in the vein of CGP Grey or 3b1b with a focus on CS. The first video is taking me a long time. It seemed like a natural leap from blogging, but the effort is exponentially higher.
azhenley··on I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT
I just went back to teaching! I’m hopeful that AI makes the classroom experience better for both students and instructors.
azhenley··on Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas
Beware, canvas-based code editors (like Code Bubbles) have problems. A 1d carousel/ribbon performed better in some initial user studies:

https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2014CHI_Patchworks.pdf

azhenley··on Writing an OS in Rust
Another good resource is Making a RISC-V OS using Rust

https://osblog.stephenmarz.com/

azhenley··on Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
I’ve owned a Tesla since 2018 and never paid a subscription nor needed one.
azhenley··on The Fennel Programming Language
"you can use Fennel right here without installing anything"

It sits at 99% forever.

azhenley··on alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
You don’t need emails in archival PDFs for human-to-human communication.
azhenley··on alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
If an author wants to be read then they will keep the preprint PDFs on their website (along with their current email address). An added benefit is that Google Scholar indexes and links directly to the PDFs instead of the publisher website.
azhenley··on alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
For sure. That is why I keep the preprint PDFs on my website (along with my current email address).
azhenley··on alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv
I’ve never understood why we need emails in papers.

Who sends emails to paper authors? How often do they respond? How fast do the email addresses go out of date? I lost access to my email address included in most my papers within 2 years of publication.

I see little to no value to have it included in the paper.

azhenley··on Llms.txt
LLMs.txt should let me specify the $$$ price that companies must send me to train models on my content.
azhenley··on Show HN: Shehzadi in Peril – My first ever game
Fun! Upgrades and persistence would keep me replaying.
azhenley··on Writing a book in the age of open source
Manning allows asciidoc.
azhenley··on Ask HN: Good resources for conducting effective developer internship programs?
As the company or as a mentor? How big is the company? How many interns are you expecting? Are you asking about the recruiting funnel or just the day to day?

There are a lot of resources from companies about the internship project, less so on everything else.

You might want to look into hiring someone who has organized these programs before.

azhenley··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
An autograder for a web apps course at CMU. It is a fun challenge to predict everything that can go wrong while still providing useful feedback!
azhenley··on Ask HN: Struggle with project ideas? Heres some novel ideas you can build now
Also see Challenging Projects Every Programmer Should Try

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768678

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