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Oh ok. So I'll just have to apply 4-5 times to every job to be sure I'm considered. Sounds like a good equilibrium!

I think that the problem is, at the end of the day, the engineer must specify exactly what they want the program to do. You can do this in Python, or you can do this in English. Bu…

Also Christianity was a Levantine religion, growing fast in Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Levant. The Eastern Roman Empire at the time was far richer, more urbanized, c…

I think there are more possible answers? Jason's mother differs depending on the author... For example, Jason's mother was Philonis, daughter of Mestra, daughter of Daedalion, son …

I agree that it felt hard to read. It also doesn't make sense that they're fishing in a storm. But from a prose perspective I don't think it's cringe, which is an improvement from …

If R1 one-shotted this then I revise my opinion somewhat. This doesn't give me a gut "this is awful" emotional reaction (although I don't think it's good - it's pretty cliche, and …

Am I the only one who thinks that R1 is awful at creative writing? I've seen a lot of very credulous posts on twitter that are super excited about excerpts written by DeepSeek that…

Any citation on the additive random noise?

An example: I'm looking for a new job, so I've been grinding leetcode (oof). I'm an experienced engineer and have worked at multiple FAANGs, so I'm pretty good at leetcode. Today I…

Agree. Also, Kubrick's other works strongly emphasize lighting, composition, music, and effects over plot. Just look at Barry Lyndon's candlelit scenes (which look like paintings b…

Amazing quote. Can you share a link to the article, if it exists?

> It's not about efficiency. I think the current system is more efficient (hence economies of scale). It's just that the rent extraction/profits are concentrated among the platform…

> You've ignored the fact that discovery is now a new service component that really didn't exist before. We can tag music and artists and we can automatically discover related musi…

> My dim view is that it's just a rapacious monopolistic society. Why are there only three (four-ish) cell phone carriers in the US? Why are there only two app stores? Three (four-…

My hypothesis: Lack of geographically local experts. We've merged more and more into a megasociety. In a geographically distributed society, the power law for quality is more forgi…

Also, this sort of thing couldn't be done in the 80s or 90s, because it was much harder to compile that much data.

On the one hand, yeah, this guy is to some degree complaining on the internet because he was rejected. It’s annoying: No one likes listening to complaining. On the other hand, a) t…

Yeah, this sequence is a meme commonly cited to show "choppy modern editing"

I have chronic insomnia and weed definitely keeps me up

Yeah, also, you tend to need to know the answer before you prompt it. It's kind of like a Ouija board, in that you get out what you expect.

My experience as well. Heavy GPT-4 use (for a variety of things). Great for boilerplate, great for retrieving well-known examples from documentation, saves a fair amount of time ty…