skt5

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just another faang engineer lurking around

email = concat(x, y, "@gmail.com")

X — take the first letter of each: 1. Carroll's poem where a vorpal blade goes snicker-snack 2. Shelley's sonnet on a desert ruin 3. The Old Testament wisdom book by Qoheleth 4. Milton's pastoral elegy mourning a drowned Cambridge classmate

Y — concatenate these two strings: 1. symbol of the element named for Scandinavia 2. an operatic solo

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Comment · 2 months ago

+1.

As an alum I've observed both:

* kids who partied hard first semester since grades didn't matter only to struggle second semester

* kids who benefited from this transition because they didn't go to Hotchkiss

I ended up in both buckets and I have mixed feelings about this since it helped and hurt me.

In the long run - it really didn't matter.

Comment · 3 months ago

Wealth could be invested (impacts those borrowing), used on consumables (impacts businesses), or hidden under the mattress or equivalent (reduces the supply of money so acts deflationary).

I would argue that those 3 are the main downstream effects of having wealth -- and they all impact people at large enough values.

Comment · 3 months ago

This approach does work when there's a clear answer but what about tasks where the correct answer is multi-modal? Incentivizing agreement works only for tasks where there's clear answers.

Comment · 3 months ago

This likely means those consuming the outputs of Mechanical Turk don't have a good way to measure the value (aka quality) of the outputs.

If they did - then they shouldn't care whether it's a human or a LLM. And if it's a LLM - then the cost will roughly correlate to the MIN(cost of the LLM, cost of a human) to do the task.

Comment · 4 months ago

Any advice for a senior/staff level FAANG dev working in ML tooling but not in the health space interested in this kinda stuff?

What are good things to read, etc?

Comment · 4 months ago

Fascinating. I feel like smart person + data (context such as health records, labs, insurance docs, etc.) + LLM -> some helpful tips for navigating the process. However, evaluating the tips on whether they are helpful or not would be hard for a smart person without the expertise.

Or put another way - how does a smart lay person evaluate the independent advocates? Do incentives align?

Comment · 4 months ago

> If you're a software engineer who cares about health, and have been sitting on the sidelines till now, I think the next few years are a really interesting time to make a contribution.

do you have thoughts on what that looks like? what does the hiring landscape look like?

Comment · 4 months ago

Comment · 5 months ago

> I participate in some management-focused online communities.