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New comment by lcrmorin in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

lcrmorin — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 06:19:43 +0000

No. Thanks for pointing this out. It took quite some time to understand and express this to my management. Also I use a very small set of libraries, with function names / parameters that are quite explicit. And I don't need to specify some style to bypass hidden prompts, and bad coding practices.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Reproducing the deep double descent paper"

lcrmorin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:11:56 +0000

Do you change regularisation ?

New comment by lcrmorin in "AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem"

lcrmorin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:49:40 +0000

Company use AI to find critical bugs in code ?

New comment by lcrmorin in "Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?"

lcrmorin — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:27:10 +0000

Perfect exemple of what op is asking. This is just a demo. What problems does it solve for you or your clients so that you make money ?

New comment by lcrmorin in "Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data"

lcrmorin — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:15:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. Of course I will closely watch it because claiming to beat gbdts might be a bit early.

- It is not entirely clear how the datasets split is done. Do you make sure that the model is evaluated on unseen data ? More generally how does one knows whether a dataset was part of the training or not ?

- You mention some serious limitations (10k rows, 500 cols.). It seems a bit weird to have fixed numbers. Can these numbers be roughly balanced ? (eg. 1M rows, 5 columns ... ). Does these numbers scale with memory ? (what memory was used for the 10k rows / 500 cols figure ?)

New comment by lcrmorin in "Ask HN: How do you look for jobs in 2023?"

lcrmorin — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 12:05:27 +0000

Some things that worked for me this year:

- Update your resume / cover letter to make it more appetizing. Don't hesitate to use ChatGPT. Change the title to match the job. You usually have to cater for HR first, not technical people. Also remove the stuff that you don't want to work with. This will remove the tech you don't want to work with anymore.

- Emphasize anything that could stand out (side projects, anything to do with hot topics / techs). Again you have to catter to HR first.

- Don't get afraid of the numbers (out of the 500 applications you mention a good 450 will be thrown into the garbage immediatly). But try to get early.

- Often the first steps of the process require some customs texts (mails, achievements, why I want to works with you). LLMs can save you time and make your answers more appealing.

- Specialized Recruiting firms can be you friend. Sometimes you need to be blunt with them. Discuss expectation early. ("I am currently making X with Y days remote. Would you be able to find something that match my skill and offer X+20% and at least Y+1 days remote ?")

New comment by lcrmorin in "Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code"

lcrmorin — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:14:50 +0000

I've found that the people that build AI tools and the people that use AI tools seems to be quite disconnected. Phind seems to be a notable exception, bringing some value over google. I am not entirely sure why it works better than goole tho. Is that because the model behind is better ? or just you figured that removing the usual trash (adds / over engineered seo) ? But i'll take it.

Now I am just concerned about the privacy of what I share (can it be worse than google ?) and the optimality of the code ? (code usually works, but could it work faster ? what happen when new libraries get out ?)

New comment by lcrmorin in "Iterative Prediction Markets"

lcrmorin — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:07:13 +0000

Yeah usually market provide different time horizons. I fail to see what is the substance of this article ...

New comment by lcrmorin in "Textbooks are all you need"

lcrmorin — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:23:59 +0000

Can't believe I had to scroll that much to see this comment. Upvoted and Thanks.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Ask HN: What's your favorite GPT powered tool?"

lcrmorin — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:50:55 +0000

I don't like those lists... too much things. No idea what is actually usable / usefull in there.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Guidance for Using AI Generated Text on Kaggle"

lcrmorin — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:08:14 +0000

As Kaggle is a leading place for discussing / building and competing in ML, I found it interesting what stance they are taking on using AI generated text. I don't know if this will be enough. This post has been generated by a human.

Guidance for Using AI Generated Text on Kaggle

lcrmorin — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:08:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/questions-and-answers/398586

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35384428

Points: 2

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New comment by lcrmorin in "Show HN: Zapier's first API"

lcrmorin — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:47:16 +0000

Maybe they could have used a LLM to expend their message a bit

New comment by lcrmorin in "Wasting time in tech interviews"

lcrmorin — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:04:38 +0000

It is what is weird to me. Those leetcode problems seems weirdly designed, some even seems counterproductive. I've juste been offered an interview about easy-medium level leetcode questions. I went to the site and ... the easy questions seems to be fundamental questions that no one deal with in real life. Medium are some common practical problems that were implemented and optimised in standard libraries a long time ago. Hard problems are actually fun to deal with and probably more revealing about myself. What am I supposed to do ? ask for difficult problems only ?

New comment by lcrmorin in "Wasting time in tech interviews"

lcrmorin — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:52:10 +0000

Yup similar experience here. Field and experience should be taken into account when offering leetcode interview. Maybe langage should be added too. In python for exemple there are lot of standard library that implement and optimise the leet code stuff.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it"

lcrmorin — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:31:27 +0000

> (though salary isn't posted in the ad)

Might be the problem ...

> the work being a higher percentage non-code is what's causing us trouble

Might be another problem... are you recruiting a PM or a Software Eng ?

> - Take-home technical assignment (~4h) or similar at candidate's choosing

I've personnaly stopped doing those. Either they are very far off the job either too revealing. And generally taking way too much time.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Hopular: Modern Hopfield Networks for Tabular Data"

lcrmorin — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:49:53 +0000

The tweets / medium article are a bit incomplete. But they mean at least: - Authors didn't make decent efforts to build a robust baseline. Worse it seems that they have purposefully built a bad baseline to make their solution look better. - Authors didn't really disclose full performance. Statistical performance is one thing but time complexity is another. Hopular needs 10 mins on a 500 rows datasets. That's a NO NO for any serious application. - Authors didn't provide an easy to use interface. You can't really claim SoTA on small tabular data with something that isn't testable by everyone.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook"

lcrmorin — Fri, 27 May 2022 13:00:45 +0000

Hey a bit late to the party (HN newsletter crowd). This really seems like something my BigCorp could use. I am on holiday RN, so I won't fire my computer to try it. But I was wondering, does it allows easy copy pasting the table into standard MS documents (work ? outlook mails ?).

New comment by lcrmorin in "Changing jobs during the Great Resignation"

lcrmorin — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:30:28 +0000

The whole thing read like a humble brag... "As a powerlifter, I workout 4-6 days per week", " I would have the third-highest new offer on Levels out of over 200 offers on their site" .. .etc.

New comment by lcrmorin in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"

lcrmorin — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:49:34 +0000

Depends if the offer is made in good faith. If not, this would really look like market manipulation.