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And in developing countries too. People may not realize that when there's no industrialization, people still need fuel. So they cut down tree that they could walk to. Just look at …

> How much of the job is a structured set of tasks vs. taking accountability? More accurately, how many jobs are probabilistically mechanical. That is, how many jobs are really the…

> Lattner found nothing innovative in the code generated by AI I don't think the replacement is binary. Instead, it’s a spectrum. The real concern for many software engineers is wh…

I like the Chinese alternative better: 古法编程. It feels like playful self-deprecation, suggesting old-school, handcrafted coding with a wink. Ape coding sounds harsher and more insul…

Honest question: why are we so afraid of population decline? For people on the left, it means less consumption, less environment impact, less carbon footprint, and in general fewer…

https://stanfordreview.org/jo-boaler-and-the-woke-math-death... , and wikipedia on Math Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_wars Personally, I find Boaler's advocacy extreme. …

> so we have been unwilling to invest in our own children. The school districts like SFUSD are actually sabotaging the growth of our kids in the name of equity. They're committed t…

I'm curious why Lisp didn't gain mass popularity despite its advantages. In fact, I was wondering if it's popularity has event decreased in the past decade or so. I remember in the…

I think both can true. I learned a lot in my university, and my learning has been carrying me ever since. Case in point, it was never a problem for me to pick up functional program…

My own experience: https://www.quora.com/Could-online-coding-programs-and-codin... And my wife's experience: https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-learn-computer-scie... In shor…

I guess I have a different philosophy: whoever owns the problem should learn everything necessary to solve the problem. In my case, the engineers showed no interests in learning th…

I can attest how useful Bayesian analysis is. My team recently needed to sample from many millions of items to test their qualities. The question is that given a certain budget and…

And the competition from Airbus may not make Boeing better either. On the contrary, Boeing may well get into a death spiral and a slow but painful death. What competition really me…

The example in the article does not look like LLM Inflation, but that LLM can't reduce the waste in a bureaucratic process.

I used to try services like Blinkist. Did anyone have similar experience as I had: I simply couldn't remember what I read, let alone what I listened to. The summaries, despite bein…

That’s why Patrick said it helps to have a strong reputation going in. Still, you can absolutely negotiate—just make sure you have real leverage. That usually means a competing off…

Thanks! I used to use the same pattern library hosted in either CMU or PSU, IIRC. Glad that it has a new home.

Specifying a system correctly can be hard with the previous generation of tools. For instance, using LTL to describe system properties is not necessarily easy. I remember there use…

> Do "AI Startups" even make sense? I'm doubtful. Remember when Google said their strategy was AI First? Baidu too? I'm old enough to remember that the criticism then was along the…

> how Duolingo started using streaks and other gamification techniques to optimize their numbers These two tactics per se are alright, right? If anything, I'd appreciate that Duoli…

I often read that EU is incredibly bureaucratic and risk averse. On the other hand, I also read stories how startups can successfully bootstrap themselves via generous support of t…

I'm more curious about how much cost of customer service can Klarna cut by using AI , and how much marginal improvement to their customer service can Klarna achieve. Customer servi…

I actually think the intention of the tariff here is to bring jobs back to the American filming industry - not that I agree with this approach. Just an assessment of mine. But spea…

> It will be incredibly lucrative to be one of the "ones who knows" in the relatively near future. I'm not so optimistic on this if AI prevails. Think about the chip industry. It's…