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> there is no way to make the distinction in an interview

Just ask?

Some online degrees state that they're equivalent, but interviewers may still have their own opinions. I would discourage anyone from failing to mention the online nature of a degree in their CV. You're really not doing yourself a favor. A rigorous online degree is something to be proud of. I see people with PhD's proudly announcing their online course certificates on LinkedIn. However, 'discovering' that an education was of a different nature than one had assumed based on the presented materials may raise questions.


This just reeks of you being insecure and thinking online education is of lower quality than in person education. Are you also pining for everyone to go back to the office? The degree GT gives you is literally the same thing as the in person degree. If GT does not make the distinction, why would I???

Here is a tip: maybe don't assume so much!


> interviewers may still have their own opinions

That says nothing other than that the interviewers have a narrow mind and/or are ignorant. OMSCS is a very well known program, and it's their problem if they don't know it.


> The ‘give up after ten attempts’ threshold aims to prevent Claude from wasting tokens when further progress is unlikely. It was only partially successful, as Claude would still sometimes make dozens of attempts.

Not what I would have expected from a 'one-shot'. Maybe self-supervised would be a more suitable term?


"one-shot" usually just means, one example and its correct answer was provided in the prompt.

See also, "zero-shot" / "few-shot" etc.


I've seen one-shot used to mean two different things in LLMs:

1. Getting an LLM to do something based on a single example

2. Getting an LLM to achieve a goal from a single prompt with no follow-ups

I think both are equally valid.


One-shot as in ‘given one example’ is the ML term. One-shot as in ‘in a single prompt’ is the colloquial meaning. Both are useful, but it can be confusing when discussing LLMs in ML topics.


The article says that having decompiled some functions helps with decompiling others, so it seems like more than one example could be provided in the context. I think the OP was referring to the fact that only a single prompt created by a human was used. But then it goes off into what appears to be an agentic loop with no hard stopping conditions outside of what the agent decides.

We're essentially trying to map 'traditional' ML terminology to LLMs, it's natural that it'll take some time to get settled. I just thought that one-shot isn't an ideal name for something that might go off into an arbitrarily long loop.


I definitely didn't expect one-shot to mean "let it run itself in an indefinite loop"


One shot just means one prompt. What Claude decides to do during that prompt is up to it.


Meh, the main idea of one-shot is that you prompted it once and got a good impl when it decided it was done. As opposed to having to workshop yourself with additional prompts to fix things.

It doesn't do it in one-shot on the GPU either. It feeds outputs back into inputs over and over. By the time you see tokens as an end-user, the clanker has already made a bunch of iterations.


Sounds like saying that nothing about the Industrial Revolution was steam-machine-specific. Cost changes can still represent fundamental shifts in terms of what's possible, "cost" here is just an economists' way of saying technology.


Would renting it out be an option?


It would be difficult. Mortgage interest is deductible from your taxes (up to a point), but only if it is your primary home. If we moved, we would have to pay a lot more in taxes.

The mortgage tax deduction is another thing that drives up home prices.


Rentals don't have deductible interest but have depreciation, which can be even better.


Great initiative and beautiful site! Tiny nitpick, the wrapping of the controls above the table on my phone could probably be improved. What did you use for the table?


Thanks, and thanks for the heads up! Feel free to shoot me a screenshot/more browser details if you don't mind: blog@finfam.app

The data table is based on https://svelte-headless-table.bryanmylee.com/


There's a school of thought of using mostly base R, for all its flaws it already had before Hadley, and selectively using some tidyverse packages. Base R has been the de-facto coding standard for academic statisticians for decades, with all the wealth of open source packages that that entails, and some of the tidyverse packages are just a godsend. ggplot2 is probably the most powerful plotting library I've seen, while being fairly accessible. You don't have to subscribe to an entire philosophy for data wrangling or plotting (and may even frown at the syntax overloading) to get a huge amount of utility out of it.


What about Headscale?

> Headscale is an open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.

https://headscale.net/


What I don't get, all this data is reported by your machine - why isn't there a tool/browser fork that allows spoofing a (fairly) complete realistic profile, with some sane presets like Edge/W11/Thinkpad or Safari/macOS/M4? Is it too complex, would it break too much, or am I just unaware?


There are browsers that people use for multi accounting that switch fingerprints for you. See octobrowser and other similar ones. They're generally paid products and need to work in conjunction with proxies


Most privacy-thumping browsers do this, to some degree, but it’s not a panacea. The article gets into it.


The article mentions some complications and browsers like LibreWolf that address some of them. But that's not really what I have in mind - I'm thinking more of a dashboard with editable fields for everything that might get queried, populated with what currently gets sent, and a drop-down that lets you select among preset/saved custom profiles.


Fully agree that text-based CAD is the obvious path forward. But OpenSCAD won't cut it, it just lacks too many features, starting from basic fillets to more fundamental things like relative object positioning. Check out CadQuery, it's much more ergonomic and future-proof.


I've found that most of my additional feature needs are covered by the BOSL2 library, tbh. It's also a pretty compact core, so being rather limited to me is a good thing. I think I looked at CadQuery a year ago or so, but quickly went back to OpenSCAD.


Maybe Firefox would have a higher market share if they worked on features their users actually want instead of things that get widely criticized. I personally would use it a lot more if it had an --app flag like Chromium, which would probably also be a lot less work than AI integration.


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