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Happy New Year Everyone! I’m honored and super excited to be recognized as one of the top 50 women speakers of 2019! I deeply respect App Growth…
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Neil Bhargava
Do you think you need to hire developers as w2 employees to build a highly-skilled, devoted and culturally aligned team? Let Blueprint show you otherwise. Here's how we're changing the game: 1️⃣ Unmatched Quality: Quality is our creed. Our vetting process includes interviewing with former CTOs and senior software engineers, ensuring only top-tier talent makes it to your team. 2️⃣ Long-Term Commitment: Forget the turnover and churn worries! Our developers stay longer than industry norms for W2 developers (average tenure of 2.2 years), providing stability and continued expertise to your projects. 3️⃣ Cultural Integration: Culture isn't just an add-on for us. We dive deep to understand your core values and ensure every developer we match with your team enhances and embraces your company culture. 4️⃣ Equity is Optional: Save your cap table for your growing startup! We ensure that our developers are passionate believers in your product right from the start - without incentivizing them with equity. We rigorously test for craftsmanship, ensuring they value not just a quality end result but also the journey of creation. 🌟 Shoot us a DM to connect and see how we can improve your staffing strategy. #StaffAugmentation #InnovationInStaffing #TechTalent #CultureFit #LongTermGrowth
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Steve Ash
Anthropic released another paper on their ongoing work towards interpretability of large foundational models like their Claude 3 family, built on previous work by many. Their work continues to be enlightening and inspiring. The findings in this work are generally similar to previous findings on smaller models but scaled up to Claude 3 Sonnet: 💡 they find large numbers of "features" corresponding to combinations of neuron activations and these features map to concepts that we recognize/understand: for example, features for transit infrastructure, particular people, concepts (like bias and "objects lacking sentience"). This might sound familiar from classical machine learning, but the interesting thing is that there is no single thing/neuron encoding each of these concepts, it's a particular combination of neuron activations that embeds these concepts in "superposition" in the network. 💡they observe a sort of "distance" of these feature activations that arrange themselves "near" semantically similar features. When they use their sparse autoencoder approach to learn more and more features they observe that the level of abstraction in the detected features becomes more granular, in ways that are interpretable and meaningful. 💡when they artificially fire these activation patterns during inference, it affects the output in ways that relate to the "feature". For example, asking Claude "what's the most interesting science" normally it responds Physics, but if you clamp the feature activations for the feature "Brain Science" to 10x their max values then Claude responds: Neuroscience. Ways to interpret _and_ influence the model. Great readable work [1] along with an interactive explorer of some of the "features" themselves [2] 🎂 There's an easter egg too: if you scroll in the feature explorer tool and try and select one of the "Randomly selected features from 1M" you get a message "if you want to see the rest of the features, we're hiring!" with a link to their recruiting page :) [1] https://lnkd.in/gZbparwp [2] https://lnkd.in/gC9eus53
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Felipe Bernardes
I put on my interviewer's hat 🧢 today to join Brian Norton on a technical interview at Chameleon. It wasn't my first time interviewing - I had quite a few experiences before, the first time ~8 years ago when I was just a jr. 🐣 developer; although every interview is a new experience. My knowledge as an interviewer is primarily empirical (both as an interviewer but also being on the other side way more times), but one thing I learned in a DEVNAESTRADA podcast episode a few years back stuck with me to this day: "As an interviewer, I want to make the person I'm talking to as comfortable as possible to show their strengths. After all, we have the same shared goal (of this being a successful hire): hopefully, that will be the candidate to make it". -- I quote Antonio Marin Neto 👾 (loosely, as far as my memory is capable of 🙈, but you get the idea). 💡 This was an enormously useful insight I have tried to exercise since then when interviewing. (thanks, Neto + Eduardo Matos!) Way easier said than done, I recognize. Hopefully, I was able to get it done today though! 🐥
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Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes
I identify myself with this representation of a staff engineer. We are generally there to prevent and support not just our team but the business as a whole of lengthy and costly technical debt by analysing and preventing it from the early stages to the long-standing ones when we join any project. Guiding stakeholders through opportunity-cost using effective KPI metrics and enabling our team to get the most out of each task performed. #staffengineer #softwaredevelopment
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Brandon Mathis
AI is innovating a variety of industries across the US and Agriculture is no exception. 🐄 My new friend, Catie McVey, has created a new "Agtech" startup that uses patented 3D Modeling and Machine Learning algorithms to evaluate the health of cows by looking at specific characteristics such as hoof morphology and facial characteristics. Working with her to architect how to get source data from "The Stockyards" to "The Cloud" has been a lot of fun. I am constantly discovering new ways AI can make an impact in industries from legal, to healthcare and now agriculture! Read more about Catie's journey on RIoT - Internet of Things' blog #AI #software #agtech
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Dan Ratner
I've been experimenting with a variety of fine-tuned large language models for writing fiction interactively. LoRA seems to be a very successful technique for capturing tone and turn of phrase, but I keep running into context limits even with models with fairly large windows like Mistral. I made a library for ChatGPT that deals with this by automatically asking the model to summarize the chat history into a dense recap that preserves key information about the chat history while discarding the verbatim chat history to reduce context size. It seems to work pretty well. I'm going to try to adapt this for open source models as well. Has anyone else tried a technique like this? It seems to map to human experience - we don't remember every word of a long conversation, but we do remember key points and unique turns of phrase. For anyone who is interested, here's the demo code: https://lnkd.in/gBtZUbzM
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Arvind Suryakumar
I was recently asked what’s the single most important trait that sets apart good leaders? My answer - providing air cover. In other words, delegating thoughtfully. Too many times I see leaders simply adding stuff to the plates of their directs without helping take something off. Passing down asks from the top with no filtration or sense of priority whatsoever. As a leader you have a broader view of the landscape than your team. Use it. Resist the instinct to simply push things down as opaque directives. For instance, something like “Hey this just cropped up. Looks urgent. Can you take care of it?” simply suggests ‘something’ has to be done. But the recipient has no idea why it’s urgent, what the impact is and what is needed of them. Instead “Hey this just cropped up and seems to be affecting customers. I’d like an update on the number of customers impacted so we can better prioritize.” gives them the context they need and makes it clear what you need from them. Not all situations present itself with context, especially in fast paced environments. But it’s key to be transparent, by acknowledging lack of context and actually following up when more info becomes available. “This is a developing situation and there isn’t a lot of context. Until we have more, treat this as top priority. I’ll follow up when we have more.” - goes a long way in fostering a vested interest and a sense of partnership. Without air cover, your team may self organize to a point. But sooner than later they will stop seeing things as a challenge and start feeling jaded. Instead, go that little extra mile, and you will greatly increase the chances of better outcomes, and preserve your teams’ sanity.
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Ken Schumacher
Today we're launching our newest candidate quality-of-life feature on Ropes - IDE themes. There's a universal dislike for the rigid IDEs that assessment co's force on candidates. These code editors are slow, clunky, and missing the styes/shortcuts that developers enjoy. Developers are unique, and we work in unique ways. Ropes offers two new options to let candidates keep their style: (1) First, many employers on Ropes allow candidates to work in their own IDEs entirely. We've developed a way to gather insights like you were in the room, while allowing developers to use their daily environments. (2) For cases that need a browser-based IDE - we're giving the ability for candidates to choose their style/editor setup before the assessment starts - so they're comfortable when it begins. --- My bet is that if we build a great experience for candidates, we'll be building a great platform for evaluators, too. I hope you'll follow along as we pursue that mission - and we need help! We're hiring founding engineers in NYC - if you're interested, I'd love to talk to you.
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Nick Carroll
Something I've been musing about recently (and semi work related): I think we're probably in the tail-end period of usability and value of the public internet. With the proliferation of content generated by LLM's which are trained on the internet data, but also trained to generate content which "sounds believable" our of the aggregate data (without any actual knowledge or ability to check validity), the reliability and usefulness of the public internet data will decline over time. As the bot-garbage propagates, it will likely overwhelm "real" information, even without people leveraging LLM's for disinformation (as is already happening, with successful effect, because people are relatively easy to influence). I wonder if, at some point, we will be telling stories to our grand children about the period of time when the information which was free on the internet was also reasonably good and reliable, and not a wasteland of bot-garbage and propaganda spewed into the world, to be consumed by perpetually ill-informed people, and/or those conditioned to be easily entertained by zero-value content (not unlike what most of cable television has become now).
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Aaron Myatt
Who uses Markdown anyway?? That's right, more than you would imagine! The next write up on my list was Markdown itself. Markdown is the heart of Pipedown: https://core.pipedown.dev. Markdown is: simple, accessible, used widely and has a massive ecosystem built around it. To get to grips with the breadth of tools we can leverage I've put together a little article detailing some of the cool things you can do with Markdown and how I imagine they will intersect with the Pipedown workflow. https://lnkd.in/dtbtG4Rj As a happy side effect, this kind of research helps me hone the use case for Pipedown. There's a vast amount of prior art to build upon and leverage. No need to reinvent. I have spent a lot of time experimenting with how Pipedown itself can serve Markdown files. It works fine. However, Static Site Generation and hosting is a solved problem! I can just piggyback on one of the many tools available and concern myself with how Pipedown can enhance and work with a tool like: https://lume.land/
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Duane Morin
Good morning and Happy Shakespeare Day to all who celebrate! I am thrilled this year to announce something special. People who know me know I'm never short of ideas about how to bring more Shakespeare into people's lives. The path I've taken is littered with half-finished card games, video games, mobile apps, and book projects. Then, one day, my daughter Elizabeth Morin said, "Can I get my own copy of Macbeth?" Thrilled at the question I asked, "Sure. Any special edition you were thinking about?" "No," she said, "I just want a copy of my own, something that I can write in. I have a lot of thoughts." And a new idea was born. One that I am infinitely pleased to tell you today, on Shakespeare's Birthday, that together with my daughter and some dear friends we successfully manifested into the universe. Introducing "My Own Personal Shakespeare: Macbeth Edition". This stripped-down, unannotated version of the text is designed for readers who wish to experience the play directly for themselves, without centuries of other people's opinions getting in the way. No more pages that are more footnote than Shakespeare, with font so small you wish your eyes could zoom like your phone does. Instead, this edition is deliberately loaded with whitespace for you, the reader, to add your own thoughts and insights. Underline the good parts. Jot down your questions. Doodle when you're bored. This is your own personal Shakespeare, designed to reflect your personal relationship with plays. Each copy is designed to become a unique treasure for the owner. Shakespeare isn't supposed to be some brick of a textbook doomed to gather dust on the shelf after a required class is over. Take it with you, read it at the beach, get a conversation started. I've always believed that Shakespeare makes life better. Spread the word. And thank you, Shakespeare. https://amzn.to/44dXjRl
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Ryan CrawCour
I don't usually talk politics on here, but this is an exception I am prepared to make as the proposed Fast Track, in its current form, is that outrageous and has to be stopped. I am not opposed to fast tracking certain projects that this country needs, hell no, do it, by all means, BUT the way this government is proposing to go about things, giving just 3 ministers ultimate control and ultimate power of what gets fast tracked allowing them to bypass literally every single protection this country has in place to protect our country and its environment, is simply overreach, dangerous, undemocratic, and quite frankly blatantly open for corruption as has already been shown by the number of recent conflict of interest stories around donations and mining companies linked directly to ministers that are one of the 3 ministers that will have ultimate control. There are companies already on the provisional fast track list that have had various projects denied before for by concerned groups, ministries, ministers, select comittees, and even the courts, yet these projects are now back on the table and entirely within the control of 3 ministers that hate transparency, oversight and due process. So, if you share my concerns with how much control this bill gives with nearly zero oversight and transparency, then come along to this March for Nature and help STOP THE FAST-TRACK bill. This bill is dangerous and needs to be stopped. This government needs to hear this in the strongest way possible.
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Alan Buxton
We often talk about how important it is for an organization to do one thing well and to avoid mission creep. So I'll never understand why the BBC has two time calculators for roast dinners: https://lnkd.in/eK5Gsu4W and https://lnkd.in/e6Sg9D89 It took a non-zero amount of effort to create this duplication. I get that, strictly speaking, they are separate organizations but from an end user point of view it's the same brand. I do wonder what the usage stats are for these two pages. This post brought to you by my latest roast dinner which, by the way, uses the https://lnkd.in/eK5Gsu4W version because this one suits my use case/persona much better than the one on bbc.co.uk.
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Arun Prasath Arunachalam
Thought for the day: Good work is overrated, maybe good people should be. Not too far in the past, I had a negative encounter with a sketchy founder who was opaque, coercive, vengeful and borderline harassing. They couldn't take 'no' for an answer and stooped low enough to reach out to my then current employers to let them know I had reneged on their offer. They kept slipping in vile messages around how word will get around to our mutual contacts and investors if I was to break the deal and continue to post public messages around 'FAANG' folks stepping out of their offers, not realizing their behavior is what is driving people away. I have often been tempted to respond with a negative message especially given the direct attempt to damage my well being, but have just always chosen to ignore instead. It is a cold world out there. The incredible lure of laurels, titles, glory, money and fame often attract the wrong sorts - no industry is immune to this 'power attracts the corrupt' phenomenon. While there is a looming promise of 'everyone wins' and 'the talented reap rewards' with more modern and progressive work cultures, one must always beware of the many bad apples. Not to mention, the outright glorification of prominent industry figures with bloated egos as role models despite their basic lack of human empathy, which only serves to regress work cultures. Instead of dwelling on the negative, I wanted to write a positive message as I remembered all the good people I was fortunate to work with. So, here it goes: 1. They say 'People don't leave companies. They leave their managers'. I think the converse must also be true - 'People hold on to good managers'. Good leaders are incredibly rare and hard to come by. If you are lucky to have one, hold on to them like dear life. 2. Toxic leaders make lives miserable. They can shatter your sense of self-worth, confidence and ruin your emotional well being. Run away from them by all means. Your life is not worth managing them. 3. When you are interviewing for a job, you should also be reverse-interviewing leaders. Trust your instincts and watch out for red-flags. Credentials can be highly misleading (because remember, power can also attract the corrupt). A good advice I got from one of my mentors and managers was to pressure test your new manager before a job and see how they respond: some may panic or shift blame on to you or sound vague/sheepish/plainly lying to you or may just ignore what may be a legitimate need for you, whereas some take you seriously, earnestly try and work for you, give you full visibility and you can really tell they are trying their best. If your manager is not the kind who'd want to 'work for you', you may not want to work for them. This advice has been golden for me. A personal thanks to Dinesh Ajmera Dale Vaz Paul Cousineau Chandramouli M Guru Bhat Abhoy Bhaktwatsalam Luu Tran, incredible managers (humans) who always had my back, without whom I wouldn't be where I am today.
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Juan Carlos Aguilar
Such an interesting topic. We definitely have gone too far into being cautious and this kills passion. I believe you need passion in order to create wonderful things. We should be able to have passionated/heated conversations, and at the same time remember that we are talking to another human being. This person is also passionate about this thing that we are working on. More importantly, never ever get into personal attacks and also never take it personally. It’s about the thing that you are creating, it’s not about you. I guess it’s another skill that requires practice: be passionate, be kind. We can do both. Just remembered an interview with The Warning, they were asked if it was difficult to work as sisters. They said that they get along very well and have a special sibling magic, they can read each other so well. The times they fight the most is when they are writing new music. They always remember that their sister-selves are different than their musician-selves, anything related to music is about the music not about them personally. When is not clear which way to go and can’t decide, they vote, 2 of 3 wins. We really need to bring this into software development, we need more creativity and avoid the pitfalls of getting enamored with perfectionism. Others can keep us honest. This advice is for all software engineers, managers, QA, etc. Not just game devs.
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