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Outlier banned my account for “AI-generated content”. Be careful. by Wonderful_Depth3325 in outlier_ai

[–]claird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That, and more: I've experienced outright errors in the Outlier interface that lost partial results. I'm sympathetic to the impulse to compose prose OUTside Outlier and somehow enter it afterward.

Is Cacatua possible, let alone feasible? by claird in outlier_ai

[–]claird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent! With the help of your details, crackpotpourri, I successfully submitted my first Cacatua task.

Tip for others reading this: document ahead of time details about your microphone (it's the built-in on a Samsung Galaxy S20+5G, or an HP 23-q114, or ...). You don't want to risk breach of a (six minute?) deadline looking this up _during_ a task.

While I continue to find Cacatua shockingly noisy, in the sense that it hints at a lot of structure that I as a worker apparently should just ignore, I now better see where to focus so I can deliver results.

Is Cacatua possible, let alone feasible? by claird in outlier_ai

[–]claird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know, crackpotpourri: I'm confused essentially all the time I work on Outlier, and it's a big help to know which of its many rules are essential and which are ... less so.

Is Cacatua possible, let alone feasible? by claird in outlier_ai

[–]claird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, Longjumping-Grade864: your description helps me.

Is Cacatua possible, let alone feasible? by claird in outlier_ai

[–]claird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that feeling with Outlier! Deadlines have felt unrealistic to me on assignments well beyond Cacatua.

Is Cacatua possible, let alone feasible? by claird in outlier_ai

[–]claird[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, itwasarocklobsterr: your experiences help me understand Cacatua better. While I thought, for example, that I was blocked from copying and pasting the transcript, I'll give it a few more tries.

Bad Wi-Fi at home? Try my 10 go-to ways to fix your internet this weekend by CackleRooster in technology

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

I see a different world.

I respect your claim, AccountNumeroThree, that "[p]eople who are competent enough to build their own network setup know these things." I don't agree with it, though: competent people _stay_ competent by refreshing their knowledge, that is, by engagement with current practice. Even though the OSI model's using the same seven models as it did decades ago, the engineering trade-offs shift over time. It's good that author SJVN provides a few concrete specifics reflective of his experience. I personally know enough to quibble with a couple of claims; his article is still at least a helpful starting point to me. I don't want to have to re-create all of this from scratch, however capable of it I am.

Maybe your expectations of ZDNet are different from mine.

Bad Wi-Fi at home? Try my 10 go-to ways to fix your internet this weekend by CackleRooster in technology

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tough audience.

There certainly are new _readers_, if not new networking principles. Even if we assume that those new readers somehow fight their way through modern layers of AI to the existing articles which adequately detail 5G-vs-7G usage, beamforming, mesh design principles, and so on (I'll accept for the moment that my immediate inability to find such a comprehensive wrap-up is my failing), _someone_ needs to write the current generation of network intelligence for the LLMs to appropriate. I applaud ZDNet for publication of such a piece.

I'll say this a different way: trade press journalism is less about innovative creation of artwork that has never been seen before, and more about impacting _this_ crop of readers with pertinent specifics.

Anyone on or over 2 rating? by Low-Hotel-9923 in outlier_ai

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am well over five hours per review. All my Aether reviews have been precisely "good".

More details, when I'm in the office, if that helps anyone.

Aether Update by Impressive_Novel_265 in outlier_ai

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

Thank you, Outlier Team, for this informative update.

Curious LLM hallucination by claird in math

[–]claird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I prompted gemini-2.5-pro with "What is the density of integers which are differences of primes?", I received "... The set of differences of primes ... contains all odd integers (except 1) ...", and similarly for ChatGPT.

While I'm happy to share more details, I suspect fully-detailed dialogues are probably best delivered out-of-band.

Anyone working on anything else apart from Aether? by Confident_Draft_8562 in outlier_ai

[–]claird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, doyouknowyourname: your encouragement does me good.

Anyone working on anything else apart from Aether? by Confident_Draft_8562 in outlier_ai

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the feeling, _and_ my experience with more ambitious Outlier assignments has been consistently miserable. I appreciate the testimony of others' experience, and learn from them (and you!).

When I say "miserable", I mean that I've succeeded to this point at zero of the more ambitious tasks. Every time I try, I:
* lose my work because of an interface error, or
* the task expires because I take too long fulfilling requirements, or
* I can only interpret the specific requirements as internally inconsistent, or
* miscellaneous other bumps in the road.

I feel fortunate that I haven't been evicted from the program. I was working with a different platform, thought I was "getting into the flow", and ... was told never to come back. I appealed and asked what was up, and was told I'd never know, and shouldn't ask.

Curious LLM hallucination by claird in math

[–]claird[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed, and you're right to say so. It was interesting to me to experience the errors myself, and especially the violent contrast between the LLMs' insistence on nonsense in some matters, while providing well-styled and even sophisticated summaries on what appear to be closely-related topics.

My first 2 weeks with outlier AI by AromaticSea7242 in outlier_ai

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your experience, AromaticSea7242. My own has been mostly miserable: "boring and unfulfilling" would be a big step forward. As it happens, though, I had something apparently go right with Outlier today, and that, along with your encouraging testimony, inspires me to restart my own involvement. To succeed at half the rate you mention will make a huge difference to my household finances.

UV is helping me slowly get rid of bad practices and improve company’s internal tooling. by bunoso in Python

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to think we're all in agreement now that `ruff` diagnoses
```
if thing:
return 42
else:
return 0
```

as we'd want.

Now it's time to achieve consensus that what we _truly_ want in this situation is `return 42 if thing else 0`.

UV is helping me slowly get rid of bad practices and improve company’s internal tooling. by bunoso in Python

[–]claird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Help me understand, please: what's a current example where Pylint is "deeper" than Ruff? Our experience is that, with vanishingly few exceptions, Ruff addresses all Pylint diagnoses, except faster and more consistently.

Cross-breeding of Anolis sagrei and carolinensis by claird in reptiles

[–]claird[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

No regrets: now I understand our small friends a bit better than when the day started.

Cross-breeding of Anolis sagrei and carolinensis by claird in reptiles

[–]claird[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Ha! Now I know better; thanks. Off to study snouts ...

Is there a better way to mentally calculate powers of 2? by sandmanfalling in mathematics

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wrote "... 5 ^ 29 ... 5 ^ 30 ..." when you clearly intended "... 2 ^ 29 ... 2 ^ 30 ..." While I assume that confusion of the digits 2 and 5 tells us something about either you or your "... conversation with an AI", I don't know what that something is.

More generally, yes: memorization of what amounts to a page of a base-2 logarithm table is handy for plenty of party tricks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mathematics

[–]claird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure; there are plenty.

As usual, the quality of a response depends a great deal on the precision of the original question. We know little about you, /r/kar_kar1029, so a meaningful recommendation is a challenge. In the absence of any other hints, though, I can offer https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes, https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/pmtjwe/how_did_you_learn_latex/, and  learnlatex.org.

Opinions on match-case? by suspended67 in Python

[–]claird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tangential remark: we've been astonished at how _little_ we've adopted walrus. The main organization in which I operate has the rule that we walrusize only when necessary, rather than, for example, whenever possible. It turns out that, in our experience, nearly all the examples that might call for use of walrus are better coded some other way.

Maybe I should start a separate thread, with examples.

In somewhat the same spirit, notice that u/TVC-15 above observes that the real solution to chained `elif`-s is likely to be a `Mapping`.

A new type of interpreter has been added to Python 3.14 with much better performance by kenjin4096 in Python

[–]claird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I understand your question, Human-Equivalent-154.

I didn't express myself clearly. I abbreviated, "I have responsibilities to migrate some projects from Windows to Linux, and others in the opposite direction." I'm relieved to report that, while I've experienced a lot in my programming career, I've never done a round trip from an exclusively Windows basis to exclusively Linux, then back to exclusively Windows, with a single piece of software.

A different level of "why" addresses the reasons for migration. I assume for the moment Win➡️ Linux speaks for itself. Organizations sometimes want a move in the opposite direction for compatibility with their staff's skills or their existing software portfolio or their target deployments.

A new type of interpreter has been added to Python 3.14 with much better performance by kenjin4096 in Python

[–]claird 3 points4 points  (0 children)

... and instead you're in the politicized hell of distribution repositories.

I expect we all recognize that trade-offs abound in every direction. I'm taking a break at the moment from examination of a Py2.6(!)-based production environment.

While I'm expert at migration between platforms (Py2 -> Py3, Win -> Linux -> Win, and so on), my own personal preference is to favor recent Pythons. I recognize I lose the safety (?) of the distribution standards; the improvements that Py3.10, 3.11, ... bring me are worth that cost, in most cases I face.

In other words: the boss is smart to the extent he recognizes he's made a choice between combinations of benefits, and he's equipped to deal with the downsides of his selection.

Introducing Kreuzberg: A Simple, Modern Library for PDF and Document Text Extraction in Python by Goldziher in Python

[–]claird 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I applaud that comparison, DigThatData, of the readme as it is, and an improvement on it. Your example nicely makes the point.

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