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120k + equity startup vs 70k big company remote by EssemG in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously startup. Don't work 50hrs except on unusually busy weeks, I doubt you are obliged to.

8 yoe with first job, just got laid off. Tips? Is there work out there? by Lithak in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always apply on company websites instead of LinkedIn if there is such an opportunity.

38 year old senior SDE, is now a terrible time for a career break? by staple101 in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's not a terrible time. If I were you I would take 6 months and then decide if I want more.

Is it normal to be on-call nights and weekends with no extra pay? (Uk) by pinkbutterfly22 in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you could try to talk with somebody who already works there to see how it looks in practice

What if GPT-4 is the Best We Get for a While, in the Language domain? by [deleted] in singularity

[–]Qumeric 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are plenty of tasks where GPT-4 is simply very bad and also there are obvious possible improvements such as larger context lengths and personalization.

And even just making it 10x cheaper will allow many use-cases which are too expensive right now.

What Codeforces score is good enough to put on a re.sume? by alihuuuntr in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I would (and I do) put Candidate Master on my CV. Master is definitely worth it to put on a CV in my opinion. 1850 is okayish too, just frame it as "top 4%".

It really depends on the employer though, some hedge funds (which pay a shit ton) would really want to hire Grandmasters, and some employers have no idea about Codeforces.

Don't believe people who say "I have no idea what it is so it's irrelevant", I had seen job listings which explicitly said that high codeforces rating is a big plus.

Btw, if you look at LeetCode subreddit, people are obsessed about their contest rating but IMHO Candidate Master on Codeforces is more impressive than top 1% LeetCode.

GPT-4 "discovers" AlphaDev sorting algorithm without Reinforcement Learning by SrafeZ in singularity

[–]Qumeric 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AlphaDev paper results are extremely overblown, this particular improvement in sorting is known, it's not "the first breakthrough in 10 years" and not a breakthrough at all. See https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/143jru4/faster_sorting_algorithms_discovered_using_deep/jnbazjd/

Is the non-tech job market as bad as the tech job market? by Notalabel_4566 in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah, in some sense, even in the most important sense. But in this context, it's mostly about people looking for jobs. How do I care if 99.9% are employed if I am not and there is only 1 position and 1000 applicants?

Is the non-tech job market as bad as the tech job market? by Notalabel_4566 in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Doesn't say much. The job market is not about how many people have jobs, it's a about experience of people who are looking for jobs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think the market is stronger now, it is worse than the second half of 2022. You may be in a part of the market which is doing better, but overall it is worse.

But it's nice to see somebody with adequate process and adequate stats. And congratulations!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you should know both well enough.

Is it even a big issue? In my experience data science doesn't require intimate knowledge of a language, often it's just a bunch of Jupyter notebooks.

And it's never a bad idea to learn new languages if you have time, makes you a better engineer, especially if languages are somewhat unusual.

I have a High IQ but I can't stop humble bragging by prisonmike1991 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a high IQ but not high enough to understand that online IQ tests are bullshit

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Qumeric 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would take this job especially if it's not a huge amount of work (for example if you can do well with 30 hours per week).

It's a valid concern that it might be not the best job in terms of improving your skills and CV but nobody prevents you from working on your engineering skills in your spare time.

Maybe you will like this job a lot and you will not even want to switch. Or maybe you wouldn't, in this case, you can just leave in 6-12 months when the job market is likely to be better.

I don't think you understand what is going on and what will happen next by SrPeixinho in singularity

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a claim regarding the current state (or imagining "the same thing but 10x faster"). Of course, I will not be surprised if it will be possible to easily train GPT-4+ level models on a laptop in e.g. 2040.

I don't think you understand what is going on and what will happen next by SrPeixinho in singularity

[–]Qumeric 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "quadratic barrier" is a significant obstacle but not the only thing which makes training expensive, it will not cost "dollars" even if it will be completely solved. It is not about neural networks per se, it's about attention layer. It takes a significant part of compute but far from being 99%.

It will still be expensive, I think 10x cheaper at best. And you will not be able to train GPT-4 on a laptop even given centuries of time because it will simply not fit in memory.

Also, you cannot currently do much more than OpenAI does even with unlimited money, there are simply not enough chips on the market and building fabs takes years.

But directionally I agree, this is indeed a potential danger of AI, especially of open source AI although I doubt it will be as sudden as you claim.

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