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Inf0s3c | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is a masters in ML worth it?

I doubt it. Most places hiring want hands on experience with tech stacks; PyTorch, opencv, training, fine tuning models… concrete skills

Make reference implementations from a couple recent papers, publish them on GitHub. Fine tune a demo model to show off during an interview.

Thats shows you lean into the work, not memorization of academias circumlocution

Inf0s3c | 2 years ago | on: Discord to start showing ads in the coming week

Because it just works.

Really not that hard to understand.

IRC sucks, federated systems suck (not that they have to, they just do right now)

Be the change you want to see in the world and make something that works better than Discord and fits with your philosophy.

Why better? Because no one else cares about your philosophy they will only go through the motions to jump ship if it’s a better fit for their routine

Inf0s3c | 2 years ago | on: You won't find a technical co-founder

Time and place play into this as well.

We know a lot more about hardware and software development than we did even 10 years ago let alone 50.

Those of us who came into tech in the last 20 years through today did not have as many unknown unknowns to stumble through. It’s all so much more streamlined. There inherently cannot be another Jobs or Gates in IT land same as there will never be another Christopher Columbus

Idolizing the prior generation is a fools errand. The discovery phase is over. We get the maintenance phase

Inf0s3c | 2 years ago | on: Timeline of the xz open source attack

Also in security and 100% tired of the code slingers who get annoyed by security reviews

Here on HN it’s been derided as “company just checking a box for compliance but adds no functionality. It slows us down when we want to disrupt!” - developer of yet another todo list or photo editor app…

Buffer overflows and the like are one thing. Notions from this blog that certain normal files won’t be well reviewed is a bad smell in software. Innocuous files should be just as rigorously reviewed as it’s all part of the state of the machine

“This is how it’s always worked” is terrible justification

Startup script kiddies git pulling the internet, and single maintainers open source projects aren’t cutting it; if it’s that important to the whole those in charge of the whole need to make sure it’s properly vetted.

I’m an EE first; this really just makes me want to see more software flashed into hardware.