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They are though. It's that people tend to forget over time. I barely remember details of the last administration. A NYTimes article recently observed the same.

I agree as someone who was previously excited about the idea. Although to be honest, I think people overstate the changes. They did not last. Lots of salesmen in this industry like…

Best of luck to JPLers. I know someone who was laid off. These are some inordinately talented people.

I get the strong sense of the latter. It’s not actually the SEC that decides what’s illegal or not - these charges they speak of are for the judicial branch to decide on. I don’t f…

Sleep well. Sleep is critical for structural learning (insight, generalization, etc.). Your hippocampus is theorized to randomly walk through memories to build these structural con…

It wouldn’t be hard to stop. Chip fabrication is a concentrated industry with a high barrier to entry (indeed there are only a few companies in the world producing high performance…

Yeah this is bizarre. Imagine if a cop came up to you and told you to stop committing a crime. Being difficult and dismissing the assertion is going to land you in court. It’s your…

Wonder why this took so long. This was done by an influencer so no way it was under their radar for long?

Yep. I find it funny - though I feel bad for the small businesses that may have been oblivious - that a VC CEO is complaining when he effortlessly could have hired a financial cons…

> Are you suggesting tens of thousands of small business customers need to do due dilligence on the investment practices of their banks? Honestly yes. All it takes is one financial…

I understand your observation but I respectfully don't think the conclusion is the case - at a large company I have seen an internal report that shows a substantial issue with prod…

I am confused by how this would avert some of the issues described in the article. It describes dustbowl conditions as evaporating water out of the ground. Does no-till drilling so…

This was exactly confirmed by an internal study at the company I work for. Engineers that depend on collaboration suffered a significant drop in output artifacts. Those being large…

40:00 is the chandelier.

Salesforce? I read Benioff’s comments differently. He gave an example of lower productivity in sales, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t apply to engineering. It was just an eye-catch…

They are. My former employer briefly had WFH due to COVID. It ended with a small number of people getting fired and the rest coming back 5 days a week. People just weren’t working,…

Since this downward trend started around 2010, when I was in middle school and it seemed people where first getting on the internet en masse, I wonder if this trend is due to highe…

Thanks for the insight! Encouraging.

Somewhat unrelated but a remark of yours was interesting to me. You mentioned PhDs sometimes have previous engineering experience; did you find it common for ML PhDs to have waited…

I figure most companies are too small for that to be budgeted. Though, it’s possibly a good selling point for cloud if it’s capable of it.

I’m not sure what these rooms control, but it’s possible the control room is simply part of a greater facility that has a mandate for this. Which makes sense, since there’s somethi…

It was a great experience (I was on the satellite side of development).

Hey, I worked on this. Glad to see it getting a lot of press :).