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I’ve been in so many meetings where the outcome is to plan another meeting, and include even more folks. Whichever team brings the most folks steers the decision in their favor, an…

Seems equally valid to come out of this with the takeaway that code quality _does_ matter, because poor coding practices are what led to the leak. Sure, the weights are where the r…

I agree AI could probably do a decent job on Kaggle problems. Of course, almost no DS job is building models with well-defined objectives and perfect data. The DS and MLE folks I w…

Classic 2024 company. Started out with a few genuinely cool products and a quirky, fun attitude. Got popular, decided to exploit that good will and now everything they do seems gre…

That sounds right to me. I don't work in physics, but have many colleagues who have left it for that reason. ~The said, I think Dune still does seem useful. Hard to say whether the…

I don't know all the details, but I think they are starting to do novel work with the accelerator to produce neutrinos in an experiment called Dune. So there actually is important …

The larger scale models aren't necessarily built on the smaller models, they are independent and generally less specific. They are probably even inputs to the more specific models.…

Huh. I actually can understand devs not wanting to need permission to install libraries/versions, but with a pull-through cache there's no restrictions save for security vulnerabil…

Because of containers, my company now can roll out deployments using well defined CI/CD scripts, where we can control installations to force usage of pass-through caches (GCP artif…

Agreed that the argument "overprotection leads to lack of free speech in academia" is tenuous. That said, I do wonder if we all _are_ being protected from opposing views these days…

The article mentions Clarence Thomas has been courted (even bribed?) by the very people paying the lawyers trying to overturn Chevron. I think it's naive to believe the judges don'…

If you had an efficient market, wouldn't a competitor charge just a little less than others who are using surge pricing? Isn't the whole efficient market thing about how eventually…

Honest question, what different decisions could you make with a 48-52 interval than a completely uninformed interval of 0-100?

True, I suppose my disagreement is that I believe it doesn't go far enough to explain how big of a deal it is, and how there _aren't_ ways to deal with it without substantial, subj…

This is great statistics, but it avoids the problem that moving to online polling has made it very difficult to get representative populations, so the data itself is biased in ways…

I've worked as a data scientist for political campaigns (but no longer). The elephant in the room is that there are so many forces that make this election different from historical…

Unless I'm missing something, I don't think this blog really defines "reason". So, like, this is a completely pointless question.

Mostly agree, although I think "good" engineering culture is so incredibly rare that it feels strange to call it "good" and everything else "bad". It's more like "regular" engineer…

This resonates with me, although I would go a step further to say the makeup/experience of the developers is a product of the competency of leadership. Most leaders wind up in thei…

I for one would love to have a boss that cares about those things.

So true. Communication is insanely difficult. Hiring competent, motivated engineers is insanely difficult. Working around short-term thinking executives is insanely difficult. Iter…

Totally agree. And I honestly don't think Starbucks removing seating has much if any impact on reducing "third spaces" since almost everyone buying Starbucks was getting it to go a…

I'm an American and I don't get it either. There are tons of local coffee shops _everywhere_ in America, most with better coffee, happier baristas and unique atmosphere. Have so ma…

The author's library is being renovated, not disappearing. One large corporation (Starbucks) is enshittifying its experience by removing seating. I don't think the premise "third s…