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throwaway4233

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    Comment #48789569

    Even if juniors most of their ideas are exactly like you said, they would have more energy and almost no trauma from past experiences to experiment more. While experience is import…

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    Comment #48788915

    Wouldn't you be losing out on the fresh ideas and perspectives new entrants into this field brings ? I had read "Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley" a few m…

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    Comment #41733164

    OpenAI seem to be slowly moving towards building an entire OS(or any other form of walled garden) that will be filled with LLM powered applications.

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    Comment #41675046

    > Would love to hear OpenAI's explanation behind this line of thinking. My assumption is that the data centers would mostly be staffed by those who will have to manually audit data…

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    Comment #41623682

    One of the restuarant chains mentioned in the author's post (Social), is an extremely crowded pub during the night and for the rest of the time, a place where freelancers or remote…

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    Comment #40830928

    > How do you know, and for better or worse? Their decisions made the life of those around them miserable because they did not care about the consequences of it. Like for example, h…

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    Comment #40828801

    When I was junior/mid level engineer working in a 5-8 person engineering team, there was this particular senior engineer whom I disdained. It had nothing to do with them as a perso…

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    Comment #40473739

    I do not believe that most of these `perfectionists` are trolls. Some have just very bad experiences either in their career or childhood that make them feel that making mistakes is…

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    Comment #40392626

    The screenshot of the tweet thread at the end seemed to indicate that the alignment team wanted to explore other avenues(or models) to get to AGI, while the company leadership want…

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    Comment #40332877

    From my point of view the underlying problem here seems to be that someone in Quora product team feels that the best way to drive engagement is to predict what the user might want …

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    Comment #40312025

    > Additionally, members of the program receive priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatment…

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    Comment #40196239

    I believe what the parent comment is trying to imply is that the search results are fetched/retrieved from Bing's own internal ranking vector(?) database and then passed to the LLM…

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    Comment #39946704

    Based on the way you have described their API, I can make 2 assumptions 1. The might have had well supported API until the point at which they realized they wanted to have more peo…

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    Comment #39643062

    I agree with your comment, and feel that in a software engineering context, the quote > To find the sweet spot between impostor syndrome and overconfidence, you first need to under…

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    Comment #39389900

    > I think the main factor that will be key to generate a whole movie is being able to pass some reference images of the characters/places/objects so they remain congruent between t…

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    Comment #39388799

    While Sora might be able to generate short 60-90 second videos, how well it would scale with a larger prompt or a longer video remains yet to be seen. And the general logic of havi…

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    Comment #39227863

    Based on my experience the generalist path works out well when startups have enough capital to make a slightly risky hire. In the current job market, specialists in a specific lang…

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    Comment #39123124

    I live in Berlin and buy all of my vegetables from a REWE or a Netto (both are supermarkets and are quite close to me). I have tried the Bio/Organic stores here and would like to b…

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    Comment #38475973

    Based on my personal experience, interviewing for senior roles in technology feels much more difficult than the interviews I did for a junior or mid level roles. Interviewing in ge…

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    Comment #38334525

    > What can I do that would make you look past my lack of educational qualifications? 1. If you are in India, create profiles for yourself on job seeking websites such as AngelList,…

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    Comment #37825381

    I do not think that answer would correctly solve the original riddle. The LLM blindly just gave an answer without raising the question of which pair of objects together would be a …

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    Comment #37727491

    The article misses out on the fact that, as human beings with varying tenure, exposure and interests, all mental maps are not similar. Which makes on often misjudge another enginee…

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    Comment #37305858

    Customer support being a bad experience has always to do with the company policies or a general lack of training. For company policies, an AI would be rigidly trained and limited t…

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    Comment #36830774

    I have talked to customers using the product my company was selling and this was as an engineer who worked on that specific tool. The hardest part in this process was trying to und…

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    Comment #36778589

    with attribute selectors like what you have mentioned it would work. But `$('#Fish & Chips')` most certainly will not, since jQuery would throw a syntax error.