talsperre's comments

On: U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades

[talsperre]

The order in JIRA boards during the daily standups comes to mind. I am sure there are similar examples in other domains that are not software related.

On: Mistral AI Launches New 8x22B MOE Model

[talsperre]

Right on time as LLama 3 is released.

[jimmySixDOF → talsperre]

And the same day Google Gemini Pro gets almost complete open long context multimodal access and OpenAI upgrade to GPT4-Turbo it was a big day in general for news drops that's for sure!

On: How ML Model Data Poisoning Works in 5 Minutes

[talsperre]

Exactly. It is very difficult to implement these data poisoning attacks in the wild due to the size of internet data in general.

On: -2000 Lines of Code (2007)

[talsperre]

In my opinion, there is still some relation between LoC and engineering output over a long period of time. Some of the greatest computer scientists and engineers have insane code outputs and I believe it does directly translate into impact in some ways. The issue is when Loc becomes a metric to measure performance. At that point, we have an instance of Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”.

On: Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU

[talsperre]

Hopefully, this leads to a future where ios is a similar platform to Mac OS or Windows. Both are general computing operating systems where you have access to an app store as well as the ability to download arbitrary software from the web.