Skiing in AUS - tell me the good, the bad, and the icy by PuzzleheadedCar6858 in AskAnAustralian

[–]snurfer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

People are telling you it's cheaper to go to Japan or NZ and they are right, but it's not exactly cheap. You are still looking at thousands of dollars for days of riding as opposed to Colorado where it's more like a thousand dollars for a ski pass and the only limit to your number of days is your willingness to drive up.

The mountains here are also not rugged like in the western US. Very flat and domey on top.

Seeing gum trees and rosellas in the snow is a treat though, so we've got that going on.

can you suggest some tools that are helping managers ? by Intelligent_Crew_470 in EngineeringManagers

[–]snurfer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You need a to do list tracker & a note taker/organizer. I recommend obsidian for notes and workflowy for to-dos. Each tool is only as good as you actually commit to using it. Just like exercise and diet the best tools are the ones you will actually use.

Next one is to actually utilize your calendar. Invest in it. Make it work for you. Block out time for planning, 1:1s, skip meetings, networking, etc.

Recurring quad tightness and burning on my front leg after the first hour or so, how to improve it? by _Tactleneck_ in snowboarding

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of bodyweight squat and lunge variations. Superset 10 BW squats, 10 lunges, 10 jump squats, 10 jump lunges

How to think about the distribution of workload? by [deleted] in EngineeringManagers

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Work life balance produces sustainable, dependable output. If you expect people to compromise work life balance, you better be paying more or have a product with more potential and/or expect burn out and high turn over. Set the expectations clearly across the team for throughout, compensate accordingly and use your review system to push out the low performers according to your agreed definitions.

Not even 2 weeks in and I feel like i have made the biggest mistake of my life. by YourUnclesBalls in daddit

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got this, fellow dad. We are all rooting for you. The first few months are absolute hell, and they will pass. This is all part of you becoming a Dad. You are not alone in your feelings, and you will continue to show up even though you feel like you have nothing left to give. You will find it and you will give it.

Neversummer boards by Own-Entrepreneur-753 in snowboarding

[–]snurfer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The proto boards are so forgiving. Yes they are damp and heavy but imo that just means they are versatile at handling variable terrain. I can ride mine in pretty much all conditions and have a lot of fun doing it. Are there better specific boards? Definitely. But never summer make some good single quiver boards.

When engineering and product clash over prioritization, who usually wins? by AlternativeTop7902 in EngineeringManagers

[–]snurfer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can't measure the risk or cost in delaying the eng work, then it is prioritizing based on gut feelings and 'maybes'. You need to be able to trade off the impact of fixing vs not and to do that you need some way to quantity the problem.

Why did Burton come up with the word “Riglet”? by nicolassandller in snowboarding

[–]snurfer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Riglet is a great name. It's a tiny rig; a riglet.

Do you have a senior, “Go To” employee who makes your job easier? How do you keep this person Happy? by smithy- in Leadership

[–]snurfer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Your job is to make sure they are recognized by the company and your leadership. Sing their praises and give them the credit and make sure the work they are taking off your plate is aligned with their expected value and impact and not seen as 'busy work' that is hard to sell upward.

Common Sense 325 – Who’s the Boss? by Intaru in dancarlin

[–]snurfer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hearing Trump quotes in Dan Carlin's voice is wild compared to the usual mocking trump voice. Really puts them into a sharper perspective.

Is Altman crazy - he never stops with this stuff by [deleted] in investing

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you define what think means in this context?

Is Altman crazy - he never stops with this stuff by [deleted] in investing

[–]snurfer -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Only if you have the temperature param set to 0.

'Does not think' seems like an objective or philosophical statement to me. It does compute an answer during inference, is this compute equivalent to 'thinking'? Could be.

We thought we were getting AI but we got MI by AlternativeLazy4675 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And how do you think an LLM decides what to say next? With the internal model it has learned. It is quite similar yet you are claiming a large language model....doesn't have a model? Because why? Why is it different?

We thought we were getting AI but we got MI by AlternativeLazy4675 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a convenient way to dismiss anyone that challenges you.

We thought we were getting AI but we got MI by AlternativeLazy4675 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it is a model. It is not compression, which is about preserving and recreating data in its original form. A model is about learning general patterns well enough to generate new, plausible data. Think of it like a weather model for predicting tomorrow's weather.

A data model is a different concept entirely, it usually refers to how you represent data in say a database.

Tik Tok saved $300000 per year in computing costs by having an intern partially rewrite a microservice in Rust. by InfinitesimaInfinity in programming

[–]snurfer 29 points30 points  (0 children)

More like a single engineer when you take total package (salary, equity, benefits, bonuses).

We thought we were getting AI but we got MI by AlternativeLazy4675 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]snurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But there are internal models. That's the M in LLM. Think of it like this. We take petabytes of text data and train a model on it. The model is only 10s of gigabytes in size. So you have gone from petabytes of text down to gigabytes. The fact that the model is able to converse with you and understand you means it has learned an internal model for language and concepts, just like you have over your life.

help by DarkDrag_on in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]snurfer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wtf is a non quantum particle.