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Maybe we will all be CEOs or Board chairs of our own corporations employing agents. And we work to find the best agents to increase efficiencies, improve effectiveness, etc.

Exactly. The parameters you can configure are there due to a lack of automating those since what you want to optimize for might be different than an automaton would.

A little context may be of help. Maybe a better headline for the article would have been, "How Can You Determine if your PostgreSQL Instance's Workload is Read-Heavy or Write-Heavy…

Chess Master at Any Age talks about this on page 55: https://archive.org/details/Chess_Master_at_Any_Age/page/n65...

I took an IQ exam in grade school. Went fine until I encountered a number sequence, what is the next number kind of thing. I found a pattern, and it's predicted number was not list…

e^(iπ) +1 = 0 e, i, π, 1, 0 Beauty

The equation to rank links is a poor substitute for an editor. Editors used to be the gateway of information that was disbursed via newspaper, radio, and TV. They were not without …

Agreed; after > 20 years of coding successfully, got hit by a storm of subjective feedback; it totally ruined any joy in development

If a developer making $1/hour produces $10 output (of something people buy), then if you add another developer making $1/hour produces $10 of output, you have $20 total product. De…

Title does not approximate well the article. Ad probandum: "Computing is not yet overcome. GPT-4 is impressive, but a layperson can’t wield it the way a programmer can. I still fee…

A little bird told me that it was easier to break up big projects into classes and farm them out than in other languages at the time. The `protected` keyword for example prevented …

When writing to a log file, isn't that sequential write?

Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind has transformed biology by predicting the structure of nearly all proteins known to science in just 18 months, a breakthrough that will speed …

Sorry for the vagueness and your burnout. I'd look for a professional that specializes in burnout, barring that, a good physician would be the first place to start. There could be …

High performance requires high maintenance. If you are burnt out or have symptoms or even suspect, I strongly urge to get a team together to help. It's something you have to active…

I do not know your situation, but my observation is high-performance requires high-maintenance. Also, see this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32056943/ Anything else I mi…

Do you mean AP is the choice of losing consistency given a partition?

"Taken together we therefore have determinism with the occasional, random quantum jump, and no combination of these two types of laws allows for anything resembling this intuitive …

Sampling the set of Mensa members is not the same as sampling "superior IQs". digression: My personal preference is to call IQ a testing quotient and not intelligence quotient--it'…

Saw this last night: http://www.anotesark.com/ Had never heard of Kiribati (pronounced roughly Kiribahs). That country could be the canary in the coal mine for the rest of us. Glad…

Outstanding work. Will the VIM plugin come out soon? But this really improves productivity already. I have setup several hot keys to shortcuts to MS Paint IDE that save me from hav…

There's a legend, Gauss came up with that while an elementary student: http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Teaching-Children-Mathemati...

In general, if one has a serious decision to make, it's probably wise to seek out expert counsel (not that you should blindly follow that counsel either). Same goes with your healt…

That might move the needle forward a bit. But if the lawsuit for the fine can be tied up in court, delaying penalty long enough for the executive bonuses to hit, it would not be ve…