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Java has so many excellent concurrency containers, plus robust 3rd-party containers like JCTools. It puzzles me why Go communities do not offer such containers.

They do, and they help their users all the time

And that should be the engineers' job instead of outsourcing it to PMs who do not even use any of the infra services -- I'm not insulting the PMs, of course, but to state a fact. I…

> Navigating customer requirements and building something that satisfies both market's needs and company strategy can be an incredibly difficult and frustrating problem to solve Tr…

> Is The Art of Computer Programming a light summer read? Is SICP a coffee-table book? I still read TAOCP occasionally as a hobby. The combinatorial algorithms and data structures …

> If deciding what to build is the hard part, why do so many product managers seem clueless? I'm not sure I follow the logic here. Wouldn't this mean that product design is hard? T…

"74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights" Eh...…

This funny post reads surreal, but it may carry some truth: https://x.com/signulll/status/2067446889956430273?lang=en

> Because my friend didn’t have the vocabulary to ask the AI to write code Is it possible that the effectiveness of an LLM user with respect to the expertise of the user is like a …

I recall several mathematicians (possibly including Terence Tao) mentioning that fields in mathematics have become so specialized and isolated that a conference like the ICM feels …

The examples in the posts suggest that the past does not contain all the patterns, or information in general, about the future. If so, isn't it natural that point forecast will fai…

> So, so, so much politics and public reputation management. Zhang should have never had to suffer like that. Very true. Unfortunately, when there are people, there will be politic…

> The Jacobian Conjecture Interestingly, Yitang Zhang of the twin-prime-conjecture fame spent 7 years working on the Jacobian conjecture under the advisor Tzuong-Tsieng Moh at Purd…

> - PC office productivity software destroyed expensive professional products. I agree with the lesson too. Just to be precise, wouldn't the current model war be more akin to open-…

I wonder how Chinese companies can make their models so much cheaper than the US companies. I'm not sure government subsidies are the answer. Subsidizing a single company with a fe…

> open models is what will kill Anthropic and OpenAI. Maybe killing Anthropic is a good thing? Anthropic believe that they are the moral god and they get to determine what we can d…

If we look at how AI solves those Erdos problems or IMO problems, we can see a clear pattern: AI is like a perfect cramming human being: it has seen and memorized pretty much all t…

There is a difference between reading a short article and reading an actual book. Reading short articles gives you quick facts and situational awareness, but it doesn't build wisdo…

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> But, at token rates, 10x or 100x the cost of open models or what I was spending on the frontier models a month ago And we can't ignore the power of "good enough". GLM5.2 may not …

Looks very useful. Thanks!

Yeah, large volume of comprehensible input is the key. It's just that the frequency of words is of Zipfian distribution, so I thought maybe flash cards could give me more frequent …

For language learning, I wish there was an audio-first flashcard app that changes up the example sentences every time. Right now, I'm using Anki to learn Japanese vocabulary from N…

You're right, there are nuances in different policies. I was referring to the general power and consent that Europeans grant to the EU council. In my naive view their power is unch…

Honest question: when Europeans give so much power to EU and usually favor regulations by the government, isn't it natural that the government will try to implement more control? A…