almoehi

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What I found in practise is that AI generated code is typically 30% longer than it should be compared to how an experienced senior would write it.

It’s not that it is wrong or anything - it’s just unnecessary verbose.

Which you could argue is not a problem if it won’t be read by humans anyways anymore in the near future.

Comment · 1 year ago

I agree - and I think having interdisciplinary approach here is going to increase the odds here. There is a ton of useful knowledge in related disciplines - often just named differently - but turns out investigating the same problem from a different angle.

Comment · 1 year ago

Grant reviews are blind reviews - so you don’t know. Also - and even worse - there is no rebuttal process. It gets rejected without you having a chance to clarify / convince reviewers.

Instead you’d need to resubmit and start the entire process from scratch. What a waste of resources …

It’s the final nail what made me quit pursuing a scientific career path despite having good pubs & PhD /w honours.

Unfortunately it’s what I enjoy the most.

Comment · 1 year ago

I’ve had written up a proposal for a research grant to basically work exactly on this idea.

It got reviewed by 2 ML scientists and one neuroscientist.

Got totally slammed (and thus rejected) by the ML scientists due to „lack of practical application“ and highly endorsed by the neuroscientist.

There’s so much unused potential in interdisciplinary research but nobody wants to fund it because it doesn’t „fit“ into one of the boxes.

Comment · 2 years ago

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Comment · 2 years ago

Sounds like LLMs having their SQL injection equivalent moment.

I’d also say this described phenomenon isn’t new - except for it’s applied context: it’s essentially disinformation - a well known technique used by military since decades. Except now we hack LLM agents instead of real people’s minds.

Nonetheless interesting to watch.

Comment · 4 years ago

Nice and slim - does your cubic spline support clamping and monotonicity as well by any chance ?

Comment · 5 years ago

The general assumption you make is wrong - it’s not like in North americas. There are eng jobs in the top bracket, but the big majority isn’t.

Comment · 6 years ago

Your website has no content as of now, so would you mind sharing one sentence what you’re doing/building - at least roughly? SaaS, product, ML ... ?

Comment · 6 years ago

Well, I’m not complaining, I’m suggesting an automated reply to notify people that their stuff was submitted. Which is how things usually work when you submit through a recruiting portal.

I’m not complaining about the processing “speed”.

Comment · 6 years ago

Sending out responses to applications would actually be nice ... just saying.