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Yes, this is absolutely right (for some sufficiently complicated prompt). Borges wrote a great short story that explores this idea, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote", where Me…

This is how I read it too. What's more, it looks like they're interested in going senior -> staff; at all Large Tech Companies, senior is a perfectly reasonable "terminal" role for…

I agree, and even moreso, it's easy to see the (low!) cost of throwing away an implementation. I've had the AI coder produce something that works and technically meets the spec, bu…

A very pedantic point, but merge keys are not part of the YAML spec [1]! Merge keys are a custom type [2], which may optionally be applied during the construction phase of loading.…

At one point at Google, there was a huge chunk of code that was hard to understand, probably at the wrong place in the network stack, and stubbornly hard to change. And it kept gro…

How so?

Agreed, Dennett hit all of the high points of the who-am-I philosophy in a really entertaining story. It also reminded me of a great Greg Egan story, Learning To Be Me: https://phi…

This reminds me of the fantastic book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller. He has a similarly pessimistic take.

Here’s an example for chess: I found that I was repeating the same lines and the same ideas over and over during matches. One of the key points in the book is to simply observe wha…

The author mentions “The Inner Game of Tennis” as an example of how to train in images and feelings, not words, and I highly recommend it to basically anyone, not just tennis playe…

I was on board for points 1 and 2, but completely disagree with 3: > The components might look wrong when rendered. Tests are very bad at this. We don't want to go down the esoteri…

FWIW, I turned this option (to not quit on Cmd+Q) a long time before it was the default, and it's saved me time so many times - I absolutely love it. Before, I would constantly try…

She was claiming something more fundamental (and less sophisticated) than that. Nigel Boston and Andrew Granville wrote a review [1] of her book that distills some of the problems …

I wrote a semantics doc to try to help on the documentation front: https://google.github.io/dagger/semantics/ It's not intended as a tutorial, so perhaps it won't quite meet your n…

This reminds me of a time there was some unusual lottery result in my area, like 123456, and a TV station asked my father, a statistics professor, to comment that the odds of that …

(Disclosure: I work on Dagger in my 20% at Google.) What's more, Dagger gives you (compile-time) insights into the graph of dependencies. For example, we've hooked up our internal …

I'm not currently, but I was doing that for the last couple years with no ill consequences. I'm only not doing that now because I don't have a 20% idea that's particularly exciting…

I understand this confusion, but it totally isn't how research is done. It's very much a community and social effort; it can be very lonely working all by yourself on something.

This is an incredibly interesting area of mathematics, and it's disappointing that it's dying out. When I was an undergrad, I wanted to go into this field, but I was dissuaded by m…

I work in the Chicago office and I love it! Our site lead is really passionate about making sure we're relevant, and the team I'm on has a substantial presence in Chicago, so I don…

In that case, you should divide by "expected", so you get a percentage difference for each day. (Normalizing by total for the year doesn't make sense, since imagine that there were…

A few comments on the stats themselves: 1. It looks like the total number of tickets in 2009 and 2010 is about 10% that of 2011. I'm guessing that there weren't actually ten times …