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fewald_net

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Software engineer in the Bay Area
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fewald_net··on AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead
In Go it’s not uncommon to use code generation to recreate boilerplate code, especially before the introduction of generics. No human looks at this usually. And if they do, they find the code they’re looking for contained in a few files. I personally found this pattern pretty good and easy to reason about.
fewald_net··on LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore
Thank you for sharing the link. I got curious and clicked on one. They want programming skills and pay “up to $30/h”.
fewald_net··on Tesla Auto Wipers: Why They Don't Work and Why There Isn't an Easy Fix
I had a similar experience with a BMW. The rain sensor in every car after that has been much worse.
fewald_net··on Aggregating all cinema showtimes in Germany with Clojure
I know it says no SEO, but you could actually create preview pictures for movies so that when a link gets shared the showtimes show up directly in iMessage or any other messaging platform. Of course only relevant until the showtimes change.
fewald_net··on Ask HN: I have been unable to land a job in two years, does anybody
I found that the maximum number of hours I could do something productive was 6 hours while being in college. After this I was able to keep going but with diminishing returns. Nowadays it’s hard for me to find even a 6 hour block (while employed).

The best advice I heard is to treat interviewing like a full time job with lunch break and a defined end.

fewald_net··on Photos of Silicon Valley
I love the photos. I think they capture those places pretty well.
fewald_net··on Leased solar systems are failing across America
I am thinking about installing solar. Do you have any resources to learn about panels etc?
fewald_net··on OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700k every day
While reading this I had a feeling this article is mixing revenue and profits. Revenue can be up even if there are losses.
fewald_net··on Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
Thank you very much!
fewald_net··on Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
So many animation on this website.
fewald_net··on Bell Labs Holmdel Complex (2019)
This building reminds me of one of the ones from the University of Freiburg, Germany: https://ais.badische-zeitung.de/piece/07/58/57/cf/123230159-...

Google: KG 2 Uni Freiburg

fewald_net··on My father may be gone, but ‘our’ radio is still going
Do you know a good source to get started? I am curious about the technology but never have had the time to actually get started.
fewald_net··on Show HN: My recommendation engine for Hacker News
Yes, I am using it on a not so small dataset (roughly 1 million docs) and the output is a fairly efficient model. I am using gensim with pre-trained word vectors. New docs can be inferred via .infer_vector().

Overall my approach is less automated than what I have seen in your codebase so it’s likely a bigger investment. I am happy to share more.

fewald_net··on Show HN: My recommendation engine for Hacker News
Great project. I learned about the faiss library. Out of curiousity, did you also try it with doc2vec?
fewald_net··on Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
Second Apple Maps. It has gotten quite good over the years and uses also less battery than google maps.