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And even as an employee, if you tell them over and over again that customers keep asking for that feature, they disagree with you over and over again.

Time is the only nonrenewable resource. And you just lost some reading this response. Act accordingly.

I know of a team at an AI-oriented company that uses Reinforcement Learning to find cheats and exploits in 2600 games as their happy hour activity. No need to work late (though one…

Not remotely true. TPUs and GPUs are neck in neck with each other right now w/r to overall efficiency, check out https://mlperf.org/press#mlperf-training-v0.6-results for more deta…

Also agreed, when hedge funds don't silo their quants, instead of seeing 50 different strategies from 50 quants, they get 50 variants of the same strategy, source: https://www.amaz…

You might want to look into the story of Harris Fogel. He was a tenured professor who was unceremoniously terminated for seemingly correctable or even unintentional behavior. He's …

I think your understanding of the tech industry is rather unlike mine. I have been a manager previously and there is quite a bit of documentation and process involved in terminatin…

That business card is wildly inappropriate I agree and I love the bit about the plants. Is there a story I'm missing here where complaints were filed and nothing was done? That wou…

That's one of the purposes of HR. Watch any corporate harassment training video if you don't believe me. TLDR: the accusation of harassment is 100% determined by the accuser. The d…

You assemble the evidence before as impartial a committee as you can, and you let them make the decision. I think in this case Stallman is an offensive personality who says offensi…

Without "due process" Trial by Twitter(tm) is going to end like the Reign of Terror at the end of the French Revolution. Stallman had said more than enough to merit his termination…

The California Assembly recently passed AB-1482 which will lead to statewide rent control if signed by the governor. I personally believe more in increasing the supply than attempt…

That discussion was reasonably settled a very long time ago and court cases established reasonable laws around it. Then one side demanded a do-over, in much the same way they are s…

I quite enjoyed the cognitive dissonance of the PETA director being a Type 1 Diabetic. https://www.humanewatch.org/person/mary_beth_sweetland/

That's what robot lovers are for silly goose!

Yes, you got it. I made up the "Dark Tower" remark because they sat the Google+ team on the top floor of the only semi-highrise on the main Mountain View campus. This separated the…

I was an IC6 at Google when Google+ launched... From my perspective, I think partitioning the Google+ team into their own Dark Tower with their own super-healthy cafeteria that was…

Imagine a world where low information sorts interpret a sampling of possible hi-res reconstructions from low-res security videos as ground truth. That to me is far scarier than the…

I relocated out of the bay area in 2016-2017 and it was the happiest year of my adult life. I think Silicon Valley has a zero sum culture and having returned here for personal reas…

On the contrary, I think this is one of the biggest emerging blockades to progress in ML/AI research, especially in academia. It has always been more cost-effective to run ML algor…

In my experience so far, "Amazon's Choice" is rarely what I'd choose. So I'd guess by now that its value (probably calculated using some sort of ML model trained on sales data) has…

Who's going to connect this to CleverBot and let the hilarity ensue?

How do sponsored products now topping organic search results, comingled fulfillment centers mixing real with counterfeit items, and dropping keywords to add inaccurate results to s…

Sure, that's a nice approximation, and it will reduce performance somewhat IMO, it'd be nice to quantify how much, no?

The failure rate of GeForce is higher than Tesla (though it's not that much worse in my experience these days). OEMs worked around this by burning the GPUs in for a couple days run…