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Apart from the actual exploit, it is intriguing to see how a security researcher can leverage an AI tool to give them an asymmetric advantage to the actual developers of the code. …

I fear SK is a harbinger of what's to come in other developed western countries. Companies seem to follow each other in getting more out of workers. When jobs and career become the…

I recently got a 5090 with 64 GB of RAM (intel cpu). Was just looking for a strong model I can host locally. If I had performance of GPT4-o, I'd be content. Are there any suggestio…

I am a manager. It is pretty bad in terms of tracking. Wandb looks great but really expensive (small team in a super large corp, pricing we were quoted plus the challenges of no-sa…

100% agreed. This can be solved with technology .. let users set a soft and hard threshold for example. Runaway costs is the problem here.

Amazon is the same I think? I live in constant fear we will have a runaway job one day. I get daily emails to myself (as a manager) and to my finance person. We had one instance wh…

Did you buy a home > 10 years ago? Given inflation, isn't your mortgage not easy to pay off at this point (even if you did pay the minimum?). I can imagine one of two scenarios: (a…

CS PhD here. I've been involved in deep learning for many years now, and generative AI for the last couple of years. I saw some other major revolutions in my life starting with the…

Hi .. wondering what the situation is for a senior Canadian scientist wanting to raise funds/do a start up in the US? Had H1B many years ago (and possibly have a year of time left …

posted on reddit too about 6 hours back: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1jbc5gu/...

That's pretty weird. Usually, less companies mean less demand for labor. If supply is the same, that means price-for-labor (salaries) would go down. Unless, this was accompanied by…

Curious about the military job (and other services including Police Departments). Are you eligible for pension/benefits as a presumably civilian subject matter expert? How does one…

Asian companies in North America behave the same. Don't seem to give a crap about employees or lives. My jaw continues to drop at what I come across. It goes both ways. I am a non-…

Does any Cloud provider have a 8xAMD MI300 host that one can rent? I use AWS for a lot of my professional work, and was hoping to try out an AMD GPU.

Spot on. Things are actually MUCH more relaxed in the office, which is why some people don't want it (e.g. people with caregiving responsibility). Everyone I know with children 0-1…

For VC funded startups, I would imagine sec 174 is less bad. For bootstrapping, I just can't imagine how to make it work. A Canadian company can hire globally without the craziness…

Was thinking about US vs. Canada as a place to do a tech startup. Historically, it has been a no-contest. While Canada offers free healthcare and some better social services (quali…

I'm reading about the founding story of many startups .. at the early stage when they had few users, there was no moat. Success seems is a big moat. If this guy had taken venture f…

I think a wider issue I'd like to see a discussion on is the current workplace. I think employers are pushing individuals and teams beyond their limit - what are you going to do? Q…

Back when I was in undergrad, I recall how I was taught C. Just read one of the bible books on a weekend, and was ready to go. I was recently taking a look at Kotlin books and lite…

There was a recent rumour in the news about Google making an offer to buy Wiz for 23 billion dollars, and an incredible (perhaps BS) story of Wiz turning it down. Now, for some acq…

Scientist here and have book marked this article for close reading (so apologies for this question if it is discussed in the article). I had a few brushes in RL (with collaborators…

Ac actual academic career is the WORST in terms of burn-out. I was writing paper reviews at 4am. People I know who are professors board planes with a pile of papers to read or revi…

To add .. the final paragraphs miss the reality on the ground. I've run into a few PhD researchers at Google and Meta at top conferences in the last 12 months. My conversations are…

Interesting write up. I spent a lot of time at various industrial labs, and it is an interesting point the article made me realize .. the traditional industrial lab concept is dead…