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New comment by E_Bfx in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

E_Bfx — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:05:28 +0000

Yes but it only one face to face meeting is needed in the process to see if someone is using AI to answer interview. The 13 other interviews can then be online.

New comment by E_Bfx in "Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters"

E_Bfx — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:51:39 +0000

That was my first thought : "Oh NFT is still a thing in 2025". But no, it is really awesome.

New comment by E_Bfx in "Architecture Patterns with Python"

E_Bfx — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:07:11 +0000

That's the problem, if you are working in a compagny which have mostly junior (1 or two year of programming), it is better for you to not implement to complicate pattern otherwise your day will be fill of explaining what a Factory is.

New comment by E_Bfx in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"

E_Bfx — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:18:29 +0000

Western country are self suplient of food because we have engine and chemical industry, ones this goes down, shortage of food will be quick to come. In part of the world where labour is still mostly manual, it will be more resilient.

Also without bank, a lot of people will find themself without any properties and will likely get more violent. Again, in part of the world where people own real objects and not number in a computer in a datacenter, this won't happend.

New comment by E_Bfx in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"

E_Bfx — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:51:16 +0000

Switzerland has no oil and depend on its banking sector. If USA crashes then likely all modern supply line will be cut and finance will be something of the past. The current well being of a country does not indicate much how it will survive a global crisis. A farmer in rural Africa would be less affect by the implosion of USA than a trader at Geneve.

New comment by E_Bfx in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

E_Bfx — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:50:07 +0000

Also conda does not have a free licence, every organisation with more than 200 employes should pay for it (https://www.datacamp.com/blog/navigating-anaconda-licensing). uv is at date, Apache 2.0.

New comment by E_Bfx in ""We're building a new static type checker for Python""

E_Bfx — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 14:33:09 +0000

I guess that there is something with the cache that we don't do right. Thanks for your return.

New comment by E_Bfx in ""We're building a new static type checker for Python""

E_Bfx — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:26:06 +0000

In a medium size codebase (~ 100 python modules of 200 lines), mypy take 5 minutes to type check. This can be a problem for a CI.

New comment by E_Bfx in "Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust"

E_Bfx — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:12:14 +0000

In my organisation, some co-workers used to write def func(*args,**kwargs) all the time. That was so tiring to look for what you should put as argument. Type checking is mandatory for well organized large project.*

New comment by E_Bfx in "Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs"

E_Bfx — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:37:12 +0000

- There is also (but on a smaller scale) a gamification of math with bounties (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/66084/open-problems-with-...) but when a result is proved you cannot prove it "better than the first time". So it is more a "winner take it all" situation. - I am not sure but the "2-minute papers" equivalent would be poster sessions, a must-do for every Ph.D. student - For the marketing side, there are some trends in math, and subtly researchers try to brand their results so they become active research fields. But since it cannot be measured with GitHub stars or Hugging Face downloads, it is more discreet

New comment by E_Bfx in "Free music archive"

E_Bfx — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:28:37 +0000

Your website is amazing, great job

New comment by E_Bfx in "Transformer^2: Self-Adaptive LLMs"

E_Bfx — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:17:12 +0000

> Transformer² represents a significant milestone in the evolution of AI systems.

Coming from a math background, it always amazes me to see how people in AI/ML brag about their papers. If someone wrote:

> My paper represents a significant milestone in the evolution of algebraic geometry/ergodic theory/combinatorics

it would be a laughing stock for the math community.

New comment by E_Bfx in "MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown"

E_Bfx — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:07:18 +0000

pymupdf has a commercial licence that couldb be a problem if use in a compagny.

New comment by E_Bfx in "FireDucks: Pandas but Faster"

E_Bfx — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:13:54 +0000

Very impressive, the Python ecosystem is slowly getting very good.

New comment by E_Bfx in "AlphaProof's Greatest Hits"

E_Bfx — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:07:21 +0000

I guess it is tautological from the definition of "provable". A theorem is provable by definition if there is a finite well-formulated formula that has the theorem as consequence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem paragraph theorem in logic)

New comment by E_Bfx in "Launch HN: Patched (YC S24) – AI workflows for post-code tasks"

E_Bfx — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:56:50 +0000

Saying that working with AI is just "LLM prompts and orchestration" is the same as saying that coding is no more than some for loop with sometimes if condition. Technically true but irrelevant.

New comment by E_Bfx in "AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner"

E_Bfx — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:39:48 +0000

Thanks a lot,

Most people think it is easier to use EC2 than FarGate since the first is the most famous one. But actually, it is the other way around!

New comment by E_Bfx in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

E_Bfx — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:33:12 +0000

> drunken socialist sailors

Sorry, English is not my first langage what is this expression ? Why does the sailor as to be socialist ? Google didn't help me with this one.

New comment by E_Bfx in "Making the Python back end for my new webapp"

E_Bfx — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:04:11 +0000

Hello, could you elaborate on the footgun with mixing sync and asyncio ? I am currently devellopin one app with both kind of endpoint + websocket and I prefer not discover too late this problems .

New comment by E_Bfx in "Show HN: Improve LLM Performance by Maximizing Iterative Development"

E_Bfx — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:24:28 +0000

How easy is it to switch from OpenAI to testing a LLM on premise ?