Catherine Olsson

@catherineols

Senior Program Associate // past: - GANs & adversarial examples, , PhD dropout , Opinions are not my employer's. She/her

Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2010.

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  1. I never learned how to think about performance up front, because I was always told *not to do that*, not even as a learning exercise

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  2. I would usually find myself staring down the barrel of ~no obvious hotspots like, I would go into the part of my code that took the most time, and find that it was doing something reasonable without low-hanging fruit, and doing it very often for intrinsically reasonable reasons

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  3. Most specifically, attempting to improve performance after-the-fact always felt utterly backwards and stupid. I ~never found "accidentally quadratic" sorts of issues, where simply replacing something silly from a Big-Oh standpoint would fix everything

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  4. This article feels like someone finally telling the truth - truths that I could "feel" all along, as a junior developer experimenting with improving the performance of my code - after a long time of being more-or-less gaslit by nonsense ambient "general wisdom"

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  5. IME attribute rubrics(*) have a role in internal debiasing, but aren't the whole picture of a candidate it's easier to notice "Hmm, I scored A and B roughly the same, but I didn't recommend B to interview. Do I endorse that?" *when used internally, not sent externally like this

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    Performance artist generates virtual traffic jams in Google Maps by pulling a wagon full of smartphones

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    How many people contracted the 2009 H1N1 flu? (don't look it up)

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  8. 14. sij

    (part of just a larger disgruntlement about not EVER being taught the version of "economics" that's something like - hey, those nice things you have? there are *causal, mechanistic processes* behind the reliable delivery of those nice things to you)

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  9. 14. sij

    I view this as the hugest gap in my computer science education. *Not* failure to teach version control, or other craftsperson's tools (I learned those fine) but rather, that which transcends both science and craft of computing: the economic niche it fills; WHY it pays well!

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  10. 14. sij

    A big reason I haven't been tempted to go back to writing software for a living, is that I realized that I didn't understand what my *job* actually *was* - yes, yes, I knew what my *tasks* had been: to write and test software but not what *role* software plays *in society*

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  11. 11. sij
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  12. 11. sij

    Huh. I hadn't considered the "data poisoning" use case of *intentional self-poisoning* to launder the source of your model's answers/outputs.

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  13. 11. sij

    Does anyone understand this?: Too-thick socks in tight ski boots "cut off circulation" and "restrict blood flow" leading to colder feet => but literal *compression* socks are good for circulation, everyone swears by them for skiing What's going on here?

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  14. 8. sij

    I've been thinking about this article () about user-in-the-loop and worker-in-the-loop systems

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  15. 8. sij

    this is also the model behind autocorrect, autocomplete, and smart reply propose some stuff. the human can accept/reject it within milliseconds

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  16. 8. sij

    yep, IMO is just plain better at being dril than it's still human curated, but I think that's actually key: prolific generation is the real power engine of creativity, and gpt-2 is better at spewing out lots of output later filtering is comparatively cheap

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  17. 4. sij

    The passport office heard my story and instructed me to file my passport as *stolen*. By a different branch of the government. “Is it yours? Is someone else holding it against your will? Yes? Mark it as stolen.”

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  18. 4. sij

    2) When I first complained to the DHS to please send my passport back, they told me I should NOT have sent the originals, and SHOULD have sent a copy, even though nowhere in the instructions did it say a copy would be valid

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  19. 4. sij

    Two notes from my own experience: 1) When I didn’t have my passport because I mistakenly sent it in as an “original” for a naturalization certificate, the passport office was *eager* to get me a passport so I could travel. Their motivation/incentives seemed completely different.

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  20. 3. sij

    Right now I am *almost moved to tears* about this diagram: I am SUPER excited by how energy flows work, how industrial processes work; the ground truth underpinnings of our supply chains and manufacturing. I have NO background / expertise in any of this!

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