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By this time next year it's not unreasonable to think Google DeepMind will know "all the math".

I kind of feel like the next logical step for this is someone will invent a way to do a crowd-sourced SETI-style solution for building these large AI models in a collaborative way.…

I have a perfect example of this but with Bard, not with ChatGPT. The first day I used Bard I was blown away. It, maybe only by coincidence, was doing things that ChatGPT was not c…

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty much locked into a contract through mid-2024 in a work-from-home capacity so this recent media blitz and companies "changing their minds" about work …

I also think, in a secondary capacity, there is a reluctance often to come to consensus about things that should be brought to consensus among teams. The reason, though, that I don…

I think part of the reason is that most of the economy does things that aren't interesting to the brightest people in the world. I'm relatively certain that most of the largest com…

Like most of you I have been working from home since early 2020. I left SO MANY companies during that time too, in order to find a company who had some semblance they knew what the…

Imagine a GPT-X model that can understand concepts like algorithms and how to compile lists of steps based on a strict set of available instructions. This would ultimately fill the…

I am still not 100% certain about what's going on, but this is the second pay period in a row where my Routing# and Account# have been updated on ADP's website without my consent. …

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I've been working in technology my entire career. At times I've been extremely productive. Specifically when I "run the show" and can decide how our team makes progress and what we…

I'm not affiliated with this company, but was excited when I found it. Haven't used it yet, but given the issues I've encountered with other companies I wanted to post this.

I am utterly dumbfounded at the experience I have had the last few years. Even the stock exchanges are fully incapable of reliably delivering historical trading data, in bulk, on a…

I think it's rare in a truly organized environment where code reviews are common, but I have seen early in my career crazy stuff where people just either didn't like what they were…

I agree, there are way too many people in those languages that aren't disciplined about documenting what they're doing. I think my argument certainly falls apart when considering t…

I've been programming for a long time. Over the years I've become way too familiar with the back and forth arguments between different programming language philosophies. I've gener…

Found some reading which seems to help explain the role of government in commodity prices. https://www.nios.ac.in/media/documents/SecEcoCour/English/Ch...

It seems maybe I don't have a refined enough vocabulary to express what I'm thinking. Would you consider taxes, or laws in general, price manipulation? It seems to be pretty loosel…

I think it's less about underestimating and more about finding the right abstractions and trade-offs. As far as I understand all the real debate is surrounded by "more taxes" vs "l…

I'm old-school with HN. I use the original web interface. However, it just dawned on me that some people are using mobile apps these days. I'm not familiar with how these apps work…

OH, also... Sorry, I missed it originally. Not 100% sure if this is what you mean, but I'm not necessarily talking about "price manipulation". A company is free to charge whatever …