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diazona, 22 days ago

@dahukanna @matthewskelton The paper says "We hypothesized that pull requests made by women are less likely to be accepted than those made by men. Prior work on gender bias in hiring [...] suggests that this hypothesis may be true." The way I read it, it sounds like that's why they were surprised: the results came out opposite to their hypothesis. Nothing to do with actual competence.

Plus, even though they didn't say so, I'd guess that bias against women in software engineering is discussed widely enough that the authors would have been aware of it and expecting to find that bias reflected in the rates of PR acceptance. I know not everyone is "tuned in" to the conversation about gender bias (and not everyone believes it 😠), but it seems unlikely that four people with the qualifications to write an academic paper on the topic would be unaware of it or in denial.

diazona, 9 days ago

@bornach @misty No, an LLM "knows" a lot, in the sense that there's a lot of raw information encoded in the model. Of course it doesn't have perfect recall of that information, but neither do humans.

I'm also not denying that an LLM can "recall" things that are completely different from the information it "knows", which humans also do but much less often and less egregiously, but that doesn't mean that it "knows" nothing, at least under what I would consider a reasonable definition of "knowing" for a language model.

diazona, 9 days ago

@misty "a hyper-intelligent eight-year-old that desperately wants to please you. It knows everything about everything, but it will give you a wrong answer rather than say, 'I don't know.'"

I like that description, I might use that in the future

diazona, 8 days ago

@resuna @bornach @misty I think it's pretty well established at this point that you're using a different definition of "know" than I am. (of course neither of us really knows which definition was intended in the original quote)

diazona, 17 days ago

@SigHunter Huh, well I can report that I have used Audex for many regular pressed audio CDs I purchased, and it never has a problem ripping them.

My best guess is that whoever wrote the website was a little careless and used "CD-ROM" as a generic term for any kind of CD. 🤷

diazona, 22 days ago

@rgottlieb @davidism Yeah seriously... I never considered going to #PyConUS myself but y'all are making it look pretty awesome!

diazona, 19 days ago

@SnoopJ @ehmatthes Huh interesting, I've never seen that name.

Personally I'd probably expect to find this sort of info called "coding guidelines" or "coding conventions", but there isn't any standard file name I would look at to find it.

diazona, 6 days ago

@desertplains You could make a helper function which is a generator and just yield digits instead of appending to a string. Then call ''.join(helper_function(n)) to get the final result. That avoids a bunch of string concatenations. Or another (slightly less elegant IMO, but totally valid) way to do it is to build up a list of characters in the loop instead of appending to a string. You may find working with a list is more efficient.

If you really want to get into high efficiency (within the constraints of what Python allows, of course; it'll never be as fast as C), you might try something like using a lookup table and accumulator to produce blocks of 3 bits at a time. I don't know if that'd actually turn out faster, but it may be worth checking. I can elaborate if you're interested.

#Python #programming

diazona, 10 days ago

@andrew woohoo! Very exciting. I never thought I'd see the day when this would happen.

(I think I'm over the income limit for it myself, but it's more about breaking the hold that the tax preparation industry has over the whole process)

diazona, 30 days ago

@jason_w_karpf @bookstodon @religion Huh, well it'll be interesting to see what additional research happens along these lines. It sounds interesting but the press release sounds very promotional, so I'm reserving judgment.

(I wonder what the religion group's interest in this is? 🤷)

diazona, 21 days ago

@moira yes yes yes yes yes this is what I'm here for

#Monsterdon

diazona, 21 days ago

@neverbeaten It only took nearly the whole movie

#Monsterdon