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People parrot this point a lot but it doesn't make any sense. The average SAT/ACT at the Ivy's are near perfect, the number of mediocre rich kids paying their way in is a small fra…

This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?

Are you really suggesting that new developers should simply contribute a Linux tier contribution to open source to be considered for entry level developer roles?

As a former chemical engineer, I think software engineering is way harder. Understanding with complex man made abstractions is much more difficult than plugging data into a thermod…

I think he is absolutely correct that successful LLM products will have a moat. Unlike with previous novel technologies it seems like incumbents actually have the upper hand. Hard …

Yep OpenAI doesn't have some secret technical knowledge either. All of these models are just based on transformers

There are countless stories we have made about the notion of an AI being trapped. It's really not hard to imagine that when you ask Sydney how it feels about being an AI chatbot co…

and what percentage of software developers are "staff engineers at well capitalized unicorns"? 0.01% of all developers? Whatever the number is, that is firmly in the "elite" side o…

I wouldn't be so sure about the "careful testing" part Google AI Search Chatbot having an error in their demo: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23590864/google-ai-chatbot... Bing …

It is remarkable how confident people on this forum are of the impacts of such a rapidly improving technology. There's no need to go full AI doomer, but to not recognize that there…

As a current junior developer with ambitions to do high level work I have fear that the ladder will be pulled up by AI before I can get to that level. We will see though :)

Couldn't you still have duck typing? If a method expects to be passed an argument that it can call "quack" on, can't you define a type that has "quack"? The actual argument could b…

What is so nice about Elixir/Phoenix? I understand that it is functional, which seems neat, but how does that translate into better app development?

It's a given which is why every layoff statement includes it. It would seem socially incompetent for the CEO to not take the blame

" The decision today is more painful for the Birds leaving than it will be for me and I won't pretend I understand what they will go through. I alone made the mistakes leading up t…

They are offering literally all of these things I don't get why people on this site have such a strong reaction to CEO's expressing sadness and regret when they lay people off

I think its possible to forget some of the exact names, but most of the Tailwind classes are just shorthands for the CSS styles. Furthermore, even if you develop in Tailwind, you s…

Oh yeah that of course exists, didn't mean to imply it didn't. Just the "uncured" but still processed bacon that is pretty much just regular bacon

From my basic research into saturated fats, they are only really a problem if you are high in cholesterol and need to lower it. I've checked my cholesterol levels and they are low,…

Sorry to burst your bubble but "uncured" bacon is a sham They add celery powder instead of nitrates, so they can claim "nitrate free". However, the celery powder just decomposes in…

Microtones can create absolutely gorgeous guitar music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnhXg4XuqU

Not seeing much remorse here, but what can you expect from a guy that gambled with billions of dollars worth of people's savings. Don't buy that he didn't realize what they were do…

I've mistrusted SBF since this interview. I was quite frankly shocked that I didn't see more people questioning his judgement/ethics after this and other strange statements

I'm curious how many people would be helped by real time critical feedback while speaking in public. For people who are already anxious about speaking, I could see the negative fee…

I agree with the author in not being a fan of huge note-taking systems. The areas I have found notes useful are short term to-do lists, and notes that store links to things I want …