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Most hardware tinkerers are not EE's. But will rely on EE's to certify that their electronics are safe.

You don't need to be an "Electrical Engineer" to do simple design work like this. Professional Engineers are qualified to take on more liability than just creating a design. So you…

If you can call yourself an Engineer if you feel like it, then it's not a protected title. "Doctor", is for instance a protected title. You can not advertise yourself or your servi…

I don't think Software Engineers in the US would sign any documents that expose them to legal liability as a professional engineer either. It's still not clear to me from this disc…

In which countries are Software Engineers not allowed to call themselves engineers unless they are professionally qualified engineers?

I think most people who write code are the latter and not the former. The industry has diluted the term "engineer" so much that they maybe don't even realise that traditional engin…

I think whether "taste" was ever important comes down to whether software is a commodity to be bought and sold, or something more strategic. The company that needs a webapp because…

Interesting. Do you have any more specific insights into where you feel AI was a big value-add to these problems? I don't want to be overly dismissive of AI, but I also feel that t…

I have no idea how many PhD's have spent how much time of their careers tackling these very specific problems, and I doubt you do either. I'm trying to understand if these specific…

I assume you're talking about No. 5, the arithmetic circuit complexity bound? The existence of a lower bound than state-of-the-art is certainly a significant result and worth publi…

I'm not arguing that this isn't innovative or worthy of publication. Basically any result that moves the needle meets those criteria. I'm interested in how the results that OpenAI …

Not being an expert in any of the fields OpenAI has "advanced" I don't want to prematurely downplay the significance of this contribution. However, I am worried that the language t…

I don't think the problem is that memory footprint can't be reduced. The problem is that the token generation rate is simply far too low. OP suggests that the token rate of of thei…

How will open-source and open-weight models continue to thrive after financial incentives die off? Surely open models will suffer from outdated knowledge cutoffs if noone will pay …

Well said! The lines from this movie are written in a way that make it easy for people to relate to this vague notion that 'experience' is different from 'learning'. But quantitati…

Everyone knows there is bias. The problem this article highlights is that by delegating screening and human judgment to a few AI vendors those vendors will bias all employers in th…

It's a side effect of rewarding 20-somethings with lots of money to do 'smart' things with stuff they learn in an undergraduate degree. It's easy to conflate recognition with achie…

If both systems have a good clock. Then the synchronization messages only need to contain the time delta to correct the time (phase?) drift to achieve full synchronization.

The highest profile recent case that I can find is Rambler vs Igor Sysoev on the development of Nginx. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771144 Although in this particular cas…

Absolutely! The backlog is enormous though, and much of mathematics requires a great deal of work to understand it to the depth required before a novel application becomes apparent…

The problem with exams is that everyone has a bad experience with a poorly written one. Well-written exams will have questions that test students at different levels of understandi…

I feel like there is a lot of nuance around this topic that is getting lost in the noise. The direct and indirect financial impact of technical decisions are indeed hard to measure…

I don't think there is a bias in the field towards a youth narrative. I think there is a bias in the media. Nobody I've ever met would expect a breakthrough from a 20 something yea…

Isn't this the fundamental problem of all AI chatbots? If the problem is costing thousands of dollars (a week?), why not hire a person? If it's not costing thousands of dollars, wh…

I can imagine a future where writing that is considered sloppy today is considered good because of LLMs.