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> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level [0] Trump has been openly anti-education since the 1990s. My favorite Trump quote: “I love the poorly educated.” [0]: https:…

I was an engineer at both MS and Apple. At Apple, privacy was baked into every new feature from the start. At MS, the privacy component was glued on at the very end, if ever. Like …

Agree. It was interesting/fun for a bit though.

They did. That said, I don’t know how much “defending” they had to do given that I was never even told what, exactly, I was supposed to have stolen. But, like I said, it was both s…

Something similar happened to me when I left Microsoft for Apple (I moved from the Visual Studio team to the Xcode team). MS spent six months trying to prove I'd taken "industry se…

Thank you for your comment. Prior to Apple, I worked on the Visual Studio team for 10 years. Now that is a complex app now matter how experienced you are. ;-)

I spent seven years as a dev on the Xcode team and this is pretty much my exact workflow these days.

I retired a few years ago and now do a slew of things (photography, robotics, 3D printing, etc.) entirely for myself. I'll start a project, have a blast learning/building, then sim…

> Who gets a sense of accoplishment from prompting an LLM? I have a good friend who is a VP at a telecom company who has never written a line of code. He's been using Claude to cre…

I went this route because I had difficulty visualizing the content of the Attention Is All You Need paper. After going through both books, I can now understand every part of that p…

Well, as I suggested, working through the implementation yourself will give you that intuition. That said, I think the simplest way to explain why positional encodings are useful i…

I have a BS in CS (and have been in the field for 25 years). I couldn't understand the transformer architecture until I built a few myself. Here are the books I worked through. I n…

Not OP but I worked through Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" [0] and Raj Abhijit Dandekar's "Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)" [1] books. I do…

I was an engineer at both MS and Apple, and wholeheartedly agree with you. My question is, what happens to the people who use RTX cards for gaming? This new solution isn't meant fo…

First: > "Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows," said Satya Nadella, chairman and head of Microsoft. Then: > However, Ian Fogg, R…

As someone who's been building developer tools (Visual Studio and Xcode) for 25 years, I don't have a perspective problem. We were doing "code completion" back in the 90s and could…

He didn't even know that there was a solution to the performance issues. He simply assumed that processing data took that long. I think it is great that he now has this capability,…

Things mature, and expectations grow appropriately. That is true of more than just LLM performance.

I was fortunate to get to spend time with woz when I worked at Apple. He's the type of person who is practically silent during a meeting. Then, towards the end, he spoke up and wou…

I have a friend who is VP at a major telecom company. He has no technical experience but has been using Claude to create data analysis apps. He was complaining that it took three h…

Deep water can still damage an EV by getting into connectors, sensors, wheel bearings, brakes, and cabin electronics. They can also float just like a regular car.

> Which statement of mine do you think is not settled law? I object to your statement that "copyright doesn’t get involved at all" when that is objectively untrue. If that was true…