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In today’s episode of Alchemy for beginners!

Reminds me of a time that I found I could speed up by 30% an Algo in a benchmark set if I seed the random number generator with the number 7. Not 8. Not 6. 7.



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I will just enjoy the job security that Seed Science provides me. At any day I could reduce the training costs of all these hyperscalers by 30%. Or maybe not.


> Like it or not, this IS the job now.

Nope. The job is still to come up with working code on the end.

If LLMs make your life harder, and you just don't use them, then you'll just get the job done without them.




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