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I did cover it and had a toggle for it in the visualisations but decided to cut it out because the article was long enough already. There's maybe still a reference to the "vrio sys…

Extremely well-written and honest post. The struggle with being self-taught is that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is probably even worse in areas like Unity, where the c…

I have a rough list of companies here https://tmjohnson.co.uk/posts/every-tech-it-company-sheffiel... but missed Amodo so need to add. Super interesting company and I like the ambi…

I’ve heard this a few times. Could you elaborate why? Surely at that point, less you are hired to a very senior role, you are going to get a very small equity % and a lot of the ca…

Perrin the guy on YouTube? What’s wrong with him?

I kinda feel sorry for Gary Marcus. He’s carved this niche as an LLM critic and must have been delighted to have this bug to post about. I stopped reading his Substack because he w…

That’s interesting, thank you. Does it not leave inaccessible vast swathes of philosophy where, almost by definition, science cannot contribute answers? Such as the nature of numbe…

I’ve read the book under review and would recommend it. Philosophy has always appealed to me but disappointed because it never seems to settle on answers. There’s a bit in the book…

I have been doing the Math for ML course and would recommend. I have UK A level math but not Further Math, so up to basic calculus. But I forgot most of it and so Math Academy has …

Peak HN. Where do you find this shared view of what is considered the least valuable part of the curriculum?

Aren’t dress shoes without socks very sweaty and painful to wear?

“Defund the police” is a terrible slogan. “Oh what we mean by that is actually the opposite where we want to redistribute funding in different ways blah blah blah”. And all a criti…

If you are concerned by the ethics of Amazon I don’t see how Argos is a step up: https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/argos-buzz-bingo-a... https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/ne…

To account for people who die before reproducing.

That’s $5m/y. Nick Clegg makes not much more for being Facebook’s global punching bag. Not doubting your sources but why are they so generous?

I do French conversation practice with ChatGPT and just tell it to correct my messages. What does this offer over that?

Why are you amazed? There are many complex front ends out there.

Why should I pay to maintain a road I’m not using now, or a fire service I haven’t used yet?

When I studied Russian we were taught (by native speakers) that щ was pronounced “shch”. But then when we went to Russia literally everyone pronounced it like a longer and softer ш…

To sort of add to this, I’ve found that meditation has had far more profound effects than psychedelics ever did. Maybe they help to kick start things or show how much of yourself y…

My favourite is that giving in and clicking the “open in app” banners on Reddit etc just take me to the App Store page for Reddit, even though I have the actual app installed alrea…

The best thing you can do as a British tech worker is not work for a British tech company.

Is this the same CEO who decided to double the engineering team in a single year? https://techcouver.com/2021/01/06/shopify-to-double-engineer... Aren’t CEOs paid ludicrously well …