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People are not simple machines or animals. Unless AI becomes strictly better than humans and humans + AI, from the perspective of other humans, at all activities, there will still …

It may not be obvious if you are in the US but the reaction of Canadians to Trump’s 51st state garbage is extremely strong in Canada. The tariffs are one thing, and pissed people o…

That product name sucks for Veo the AI sports video camera company who literally makes a product called the Veo 2. ( https://www.veo.co )

I tried it and it was laughably bad. The auto park was worse than it was years ago, leaving me a foot out from the curb in an easy spot. Trying to use the self driving on city stre…

Even on a law and implementation effort like this with such large impact there are maybe 10,000 people in the world involved who actually understand it in any significant sense, an…

> I found it quite frustrating how teams would be legitimately actively pursuing ideas that would be good for the world, without prioritizing short-term Google interests, only to b…

Automation and/or higher pay tends to make that not a problem.

This is actually a great argument for a strong social democracy/welfare state.

Though based on dasickis comment, it seems there may not have been bad behaviour in the first place.

I don't think that analogy applies. Both parties in this story did things in a 'work' context. If I go on a work forum and describe my bad behaviour, behaviour that is harmful to o…

What an excellent demonstration of what values/norms a group really cares about. Biggar violated the all time favourite in-group rule: Don't talk out of school. Don't talk about fi…

Other issues aside, "A is just a complicated B, so apply the same rules to A as B" is not a formula for good decision making. It's a common way to make bad mistakes though.

I finished university around 15 years ago. At the time the iPhone hadn’t been invented yet, multi-touch was a cutting edge innovation, Support Vector Machines were state of the art…

Trying to design for many unknown futures is expensive. Changing in the future costs something. Designing for future changes up front makes sense if cost(future change) > cost(futu…

It must be uncomfortable being a google engineer on these products. Having your work cancelled and thrown away is one of the most disheartening things as a developer. It has to be …

I'm in the Yaletown office, as are the positions I posted. There are definitely open positions in the off Burrard office as well. The yaletown office has maybe 60 or 70 engineers? …

I don't know what 'cortical representations' are exactly, but it seems generally true that experts in a domain build up gradually higher level pattern recognition in their area of …

The Shanghai subway system is a good example. Construction started in 1986, first 28 stations opened in 1993. It now has 413 stations and is the largest subways system by length (6…

I'm still not sure I made the right decision turning them down. On the one hand spending $5000 per month on rent feels crazy in Vancouver. On the other hand it is an incredible dea…

As far as I can tell most mansions are being rented out to high income locals, not to groups of college kids. I toured a few of these in the last couple months and the nice ones ha…

Talk about shipping the org chart.

Apple | Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer | Vancouver, BC | Onsite Come help protect Apple and its customers from fraud at our Yaletown office in Vancouver. Scala/Java. Sp…

I'm not clear on why you would use redis to get transactions. Wouldn't sending a single message to kafka that represents the whole transaction with acks=all have the same effect? T…