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I agree that a lot of the AI risk pundits are either people with no real AI experience (or very outdated, resting-on-their-laurels experience) or if they do know AI, they probably …

Exactly. What's interesting as well is how much this initial point in time will perpetuate forward as future language models are built on the output of the current ones, dampening …

Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it.

Check out the ACM Tech Packs. They are curated lists of papers organized by topic. https://techpack.acm.org/

I followed this link to a SlateStarCodex article on Google Correlate. At the top of the Google Correlate page was: "Google Correlate will shut down on December 15th 2019 as a resul…

That was my question as well.

I think SOLID is appropriate for the public interface parts of your code but the internals should strive for YAGNI/KISS. So the vast majority of your codebase should aim to minimiz…

Vancouver has changed a lot in the past 5 years. There are now two tiers of tech pay: the smaller companies that pay from low to ok and then a handful of SV companies that have mov…

I don't think you're in the minority. Whenever possible the happy path should be inside the if. The article seems to imply otherwise but on re-read I think he is just building the …

Why did they change the name from the Trans Canada Trail? I liked it better.

Hah, interesting! Mine is writing a simple web server (sockets, IO, string handling) and an ultra-simple command line browser (args handling, 3rd party libs for URLs, HTML parsing,…

It's probably a core part of their scalability that they never have to produce a complete list of posts. Every fetch is on best effort basis within a small time constraint.

When you're working in a large company with many developers spaces make more sense. Large companies generally pay more. In a perfect world you'd use tabs for semantic indentation a…

Good point, the code locality is very important for maintainability down the road. When a single logical unit of functionality is unnecessarily split up across a file or even worse…

The SEI work has been around a long time and it has had very limited success outside of academic or very controlled settings. It had its heyday in the late 90s but never really cau…

This article needs to be shown to all upcoming architects, senior developers, and design minded engineers. Too often the balance between abstraction and specialization isn't though…

I'd be interested to hear if he has also looked into any parallels with the pre- and post-telephone generation. I'd imagine that was a similar in many ways, particularly since publ…

I find TIOBE to be so far from reality I question why it exists and anyone continues to pay any attention to it. It still ranks Delphi higher than Objective-C. Assembly language ab…

Is he though? Questions on the most performant way to iterate over something rarely result in flame wars. I believe you are thinking of people arguing over JS frameworks or whether…

I'm surprised the outsourcing companies aren't listed on this. They are often huge contributors to the overruns.

Yes, definitely not double. In fact, they aren't actually better than other top end competitors, they are just a bit different, which gives enough wiggle room for fanboys to claim …

I quite like Sublime Text 3 as well, but only because it has a vi mode.

Up to iOS 7 at least, there was no way to run in the background without the app being launched at least once. I haven't worked with the latest two versions though.

Evernote is a great product that fits an valuable niche for many people. The only problem is that it got trapped within a venture capital ecosystem that wants it to be more than it…

The article is dubious at best. You hear about the big failures or notice when rewrite releases take forever, but you never hear about the companies that slowly lose opportunities …