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I had an interview with Google about 10 years ago. Everyone said "Google doesn't ask brainteasers or leetcode-challenges any more". The interview was literally nothing but back-to-…

> yes because doing so means ignoring your manager Oh luckily I've been blessed with managers who don't code or do code reviews, so I lucked out there, haha. But I'll admit that co…

Your reply reads very similar to what Hart wrote: > True, some readers become indignant at their own inability to follow prose of any complexity or to recognize words any more obsc…

> To understand actegories, let’s start with the definition of a monoidal category Definitely not written for someone with my starting knowledge, haha.

It depends on so many factors. Reading a long article on your laptop is likely less efficient than letting an LLM summarize it for you and then only reading the summary, while read…

I consider myself an optimist, but given that the US has been in 229 wars over it's 249 years since founding, it seems highly unlikely that there wouldn't be a "next war".

Why not just only allow a single try, but accept any "real" word?

I assume this was at a highschool and not at university? My IT teacher in highschool was the chemistry teacher, because.. he knew how to use Word, I guess? He knew we were computer…

> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy…

I've tried it, and I find it quite terrible. I can read much faster than it can speak, it's very awkward when I take a moment mid-sentence to pause and collect my thoughts, and it …

Can you explain what the benefits are of actually "talking" with the bot instead of typing and reading? As someone who would rather send a slack message to a coworker rather than a…

That seems pretty harsh. How do new frontend frameworks, GPU shaders or another article about how great Rust is (which it is) help fight climate change or child starvation?

I never turned Bixby on either, but on my phone is comes pre-installed and pre-turned-on, and you can't uninstall it, only "deactivate" it.

> I use a lot of AI professionally, but I haven't even turned on Bixby or whatever the Samsung AI is called. I know this was just a small aside, but man do I hate Bixby and other p…

I wonder how many great engineers with stage fright you would lose this way, though.

> These theories are flawed in the sense that they cannot account for subjective experience and agency So, I work in AI research (as a research engineer though, not a scientist). I…

I don't know much about the movie industry, but I think the biggest commercial successes for early CGI was possibly Jurassic Park? I don't think it would have been nearly as good i…

Twenty years ago my teachers were telling me not to use Wikipedia because you can't trust anything on the internet. You should never date someone you met through an app or website …

This is a pretty wild take. What percentage of human engineers are creating novel solutions for hard problems, you think? I work in R&D and even my work is 90% doing things that ot…

The book was never written for children, it was a satirist writing for adults under the guise of a children's book, just as it wrote under the guise of "travel guides". Even at the…

Sorry, I was not specific enough. I did not mean that open source itself is not enough, I meant that an open source model that can actually run locally on my machine is not enough.…

If open weight models are sufficient for your engineering problems, then you should absolutely use them. But I haven't seen a single open weight model that can get even close to th…