There’s not much need for turnover, plenty of companies publish quite a bit on how their systems work. You can look for recsys papers from your favorite company if you want. The Netflix recommendation systems workshop is also good and has many industry talks.
The reality is that there’s a lot of (what is essentially) matrix factorization, and not much of anything nefarious or very interesting to most people who are not recommendation system engineers.
Another thing is that these systems are intentionally hard to game even if you know the weights. The systems optimize for things like P(comment|personalized features), so even if you know there’s a high weight in the scoring function for comments, just commenting a lot on your content isn’t sufficient. You need the system to predict that other people will also comment.
It's pretty easy to do almost no coding at larger companies as a more senior engineer and become quite rusty. It sounds like he was interviewing for a position which he's actually expected to ship things and code, so it's pretty reasonable to ask him to code in the interview.
Where have you worked where senior engineers do hardly any coding? What else would they do all day?! Are you sure you aren't thinking of project managers?
Everywhere I've worked (mostly large companies) the seniors write much more code than the juniors.
Some senior engineers will be “coding machines” whereas others will be much closer to “architects” or “tech leads” where shipping a lot of code is not the most important aspect.
To be fair, most senior engineers should be involved in code reviews regularly, so it’s very unlikely they are incompetent coders.
400 GB/s is insane memory bandwidth. I think a m5.24xlarge for instance has something around 250 GB/s (hard to find exact number). Curious if anyone knows more details about how this compares.
I think Anandtech showed a M1 P-core could max out 50+GB/s on it's own, so 8 P-cores alone likely can use 400GB/s. With both the CPU+GPU, they'd be sharing the BW. A 3060/6700XT have ~360-384 GB/s, so game benchmarks should be interesting to see at high res.
Additionally, do the 24-core GPU and 32/64 GB RAM variants of the M1 Max all have 4 128-bit memory controllers enabled? The slide seems to just say 400GB/s (Not "up to"), so probably all Max variants will have this BW available.
The value is in the power efficiency here (N5P?+), and if you can afford a $3k+ laptop.
SF is actually getting really fast internet now. All the new developments we looked at had gigabit internet at ~$80/month with multiple competing providers. It's getting to older apartments now as well.
At these speeds, the WiFi adapters are more of a bottleneck than the ISP. I can only get close to full speed on ethernet.
Just in SF, though, right? Immediately south in Daly City the options were either paying through the nose for Comcast's mediocre cable or being stuck with DSL, and that was in 2019.
Your thinking rate might be fixed (or more likely, decreasing with time), but one thing you can do, which is not mentioned here, is become more efficient.
This means looking for ways to improve the things you do and finding shortcuts so you have to think less. Most commonly, I do this by looking back at how I did a task and writing down things to help me complete it faster next time. Examples:
- write down the common mistakes I've made in the past and use it as a checklist to check before I push code
- create run-books for debugging issues. This is both for specific areas and general process things such as "Make sure you check all the relevant grafana dashes."
- add questions and answers on StackExchange/Quora when I run into problems/questions that take me awhile to resolve.
Obviously high supply of animators is the main reason, but I wonder if part of it is that pirating/illegal streaming sites are extremely common for anime. All of the people I know that watch anime do so without paying for it. It's trivially easy to find anime for free online, so much so that it's easier to find it for free than pay for it.
I think this has something to do with it. Piracy is a big problem for Hollywood too, but they make most/a great deal of their money at the Box Office anyway, something the this industry does not. At least in the western market.
It's not free, but I think the functionality is a bit better than this. It handles fast passages and can change temperament, show how off you were, etc.
The reality is that there’s a lot of (what is essentially) matrix factorization, and not much of anything nefarious or very interesting to most people who are not recommendation system engineers.
Another thing is that these systems are intentionally hard to game even if you know the weights. The systems optimize for things like P(comment|personalized features), so even if you know there’s a high weight in the scoring function for comments, just commenting a lot on your content isn’t sufficient. You need the system to predict that other people will also comment.