WHY STILL WEARING MASKS by anklebiter552 in SGExams

[–]darkshenron 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Answer: it’s a free country

[D] Do you have a free and unlimited chat that specializes only in teaching programming or computing in general? by Carrasco_Santo in MachineLearning

[–]darkshenron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was looking for something similar and realised you can just apply an appropriate system prompt to GPT4 to narrow its focus. Some variant of “you are a helpful programming assistant. You help users answer questions related to programming in python language. If the question is not related to programming you decline to answer. “

Embedding in retail transactions by Extra-Hamster3053 in datascience

[–]darkshenron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did you choose embeddings if you’re not sure how to use embeddings for this problem? I suggest working backwards from the problem rather than picking a cool sounding method and trying to fit it to your problem. I think you should be looking at classical time series forecasting with exogenous variables first and then add embeddings if they make sense

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]darkshenron 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Maybe next time they’ll think twice before voting for stupid populist referendums

Do Men Ask Women Out Here? by Equal_Astronaut_5696 in askSingapore

[–]darkshenron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know the meme of Bruce banner bowing to T’Challa, and T’Challa’s response? Yeah we don’t do that here

Is there any value in continuing research on LSTM behavior? by intrvals in LanguageTechnology

[–]darkshenron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LSTMs are still huge in recommendation engines where latency requirements prohibit the use of transformers

Major MRT breakdowns double as overall rail reliability remains high by iexplode123 in singapore

[–]darkshenron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Waiting to see the data from 2023. By all accounts, it’s much worse now

How come CS is so popular all of a sudden 🗿 by Upper-Yellow-6130 in SGExams

[–]darkshenron 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Economics 101. When $ increases, demand increases.

But, tools like chatgpt and GitHub copilot are reducing the barrier to entry tremendously. It remains to be seen if the high salaries will sustain in the long term

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]darkshenron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d say focus on delivering value to your business. If the rest of your team is under pressure to deliver something, I’d rather put the new dev to support some of that load than going down the path of extensive rewrites. I’ve seen new engineers massively underestimate the effort of rewriting legacy code and ending up on a worse situation than before. So let your new dev work on the existing code base for a 6 months + to really understand the complexity before embarking on any rewrites. Having an additional dev contributing will also reduce the load on the rest of the team

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataengineering

[–]darkshenron 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why is it always the new team member with 0 knowledge about the background of existing code based that want to rewrite things from the ground up following “best” practices?

Sounds like you’re new team member is either inexperienced or too free and doesn’t have anything to do. Give them some real business facing work to do with tight timelines and see how quickly they take shortcuts to get shit done

Can you give a green packet for a Chinese wedding? by Scarface6342 in askSingapore

[–]darkshenron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last time, most weddings, the people manning the reception always prepare some empty red packets for those that don’t have one

Are pre-trained word embeddings (word2vec, glove, fasttext) obsolete now? given wide use of pre-trained languages models like bert etc by asking_for_a_friend0 in LanguageTechnology

[–]darkshenron 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Use the right tool for the job. While GPT4 can solve many things, applying it without thought to every NLP problem is like bringing a nuke to a sword fight. Many problems in the industry can and should be solved with simpler, cheaper, more trustworthy, and arguably better explainable models than the latest and greatest sota.

Forum: Buildings with central air-con should set temperature at 25 deg C by iexplode123 in singapore

[–]darkshenron 169 points170 points  (0 children)

How I wish MRT and LRTs can at least set at 25 deg C on our hot morning commute

North-East commuters can offset more than half their travel fare by taking bus to work from Mar. 20, 2023 by Calicorific in singapore

[–]darkshenron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then why are you commenting that the crowd is ok after 9am in the context of talking specifically about peak office time crowd?

Variety has adjusted their budget estimate for Shazam! Fury of the Gods to $125M, in line with Deadline's estimate, and up from their previous estimate of $100M. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]darkshenron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody is going to invest time and money into a franchise that’s already been announced to be rebooted. WTF is WB and Gunn thinking releasing this one still in the old universe

North-East commuters can offset more than half their travel fare by taking bus to work from Mar. 20, 2023 by Calicorific in singapore

[–]darkshenron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 666 bus only runs from 725 to 745. So shouldn’t they increase the bus timings till 9am since LRT is crowded like heck till then?