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Demis isn't leaving, he's taking on a larger role.

Jeff and Sanjay's contributions far predate LLMs and influence far outside of Google. Jeff was a ACM Fellow in 2009 and published the massively influential MapReduce paper in 2004.…

This is absolutely horrible advice. If you do this you will over time experience worse health care. Documentation errors have always been an issue. They were when there were paper …

Why would you want to have anything on prem? Have you seen what that looks like in a hospital system?

In aviation there's a saying, "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate" which describes the hierarchy of things to pay attention to while piloting an aircraft. Autopilot can be thought of be…

If you think this is an easy problem to solve, here's an old article that discusses some of the challenges in doing so: https://medium.com/google-design/google-maps-cb0326d165f5

You are being down-voted not because of some imaginary "purity cycle", but because you discard without reasoning a vast amount of evidence to the contrary of your hypothesis. You'v…

Not to be contrarian, but if you cared, you could easily rule out your suspicions. It's not even worth it to say why or how, since not even doing rudimentary research means that yo…

I thought the same thing. Scott is basically CEO of devrel at Microsoft. Maybe we're of a different age to remember when Scott was super influential as a blogger / conference speak…

Is it considered a warmer color on the surface? Mid-day sun in a clear sky is very white, in the 5k-6k color temperature range. It's hard to get a sense of how white it is because …

"Trigger happy" means an affinity to shoot with little or no provocation. Effectiveness with a weapon is unrelated. This is absolutely the definition of trigger happy. The officer …

> Airlines operate to a much stricter standard than one in a million. If one in a million flights ended in a fatal crash, the US alone would see about 3 airline passenger deaths pe…

Doctors, lawyers, business executives are closer to "regular people" than those people are to billionaires.

Given that text is selectable elsewhere on the site, I suspect that the author is trying to make a point by that.

" xxx"? That's the same in ASCII and UTF-8. OP is asking what are the line-drawing characters encoded as e.g: "┌" and "┐". Since the charset returned by the app is UTF-8, these wil…

It's a very pejorative term that is used with malicious intent. You don't understand why folk find it off-putting? What about something like mdocx?

Did the product result in physical harm? No. A better analogy would be ordering a med-rare steak, but it coming out overdone. If that happens once and the restaurant makes good on …

I think this is a good question that shouldn't be down-voted. If you look at various definitions of what facism means, you may see something like: "characterized by severe economic…

If you sell a physical thing, some percentage of them will have defects. That's just a fact of manufacturing. It seems unfair to move to "not recommended" due to a single instance …

I agree, it's the primary way I consume front-page content. There is some contact information on the site: "If you have any questions or requests, please mail me at wayne@larsen.st…

Can you recommend another comprehensive design system? As an engineer, that's the most valuable thing about MD3: the figma design kit and per component design guidelines. It lets m…

Assertion: "50M miles shows that Waymo is safer than humans". Counter-point: "That's false because Cruise had an accident for which they were at fault". OP: "The existence of a cas…

> The burden of proof lies with the manufacturer to present sound, robust, transparent, third-party audited evidence. Waymo releases its safety data: https://waymo.com/safety/impac…

There are tons of AI/ML use-cases where 7% is acceptable. Historically speaking, if you had a 15% word error rate in speech recognition, it would generally be considered useful. 7%…

> The problem is that it talks about a fraction of what we want to convey. That's ok! Hint at it and let people discover it instead of trying to force them from the get-go. Utilize…