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I had always been curious as to what his thoughts were on generative AI, but he stopped posting a while back. Now, you can find his thoughts in the Dynamicland FAQ. tl;dr - he's no…

You can try AWS Bedrock or Openrouter if that happens. They both have the Claude API.

From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on several public NLP datasets d…

It's the "alignment tax". From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on sev…

Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

You don't have to care about your job. Most people have about four good hours of work in them. Just do your four hours, and take the rest of the day off. No job is worth burnout.

You should find a 100% remote job. If other people are there full time, but you're only there 0-2 days a week, you're never going to be that close with them. You said you're happy …

David Heinemeier Hansson gave a great talk on air quality and touched upon various HVAC systems. One thing that really stuck out, was his claim that you need 80 CFM per person per …

Have you thought about installing a screen door in your bedroom? You could also look into reinforcing it with chicken wire or hail cloth to keep the cat out.

Ordinary Yemenis don't attend cocktail parties at Davos. http://www.nrttv.com/EN/News.aspx?id=5863&MapID=3

This lists L1-4 salaries at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Twitter. https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

This is a thing with a lot of couples when they retire. They're not used to being around each other 24/7 and drive each other crazy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/divorc…

If you're entry-level and don't have a network, certs help you get through the HR filter. Once you're mid-level, you can use your network and experience.

The article never explicitly mentioned him finding a new place to live. I found this reference in a people.com article: Eventually, Dladla was able to pay rent again and even earne…

Each moment of silence makes the interviewee feel more tense. Instead of staring at them, why not leave the room while they read through the code and collect their thoughts? You co…

Check out some of the companies here. They hire based on trial projects (mostly unpaid). https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

>The Baltic is heavily polluted by all sorts of heavy metals Not like China's waters are any better. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25822200

CERT and the Zero Day Initiative handle disclosure for you, in some cases. https://vulcoord.cert.org/VulReport/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/about/

A better analogy would be if hospitals had doctors do o-chem problems during interviews. Who would do better? The student who just took the class, or the doctor who's been practici…

>"trying to FIRE" is FIRE an acronym?

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom * No more free soda or coffee. * Toilet paper quality suddenly drops. * Someone comes by to measure your desk and cubicle, but re…