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>The second biggest use is Apache Spark/Kafka, but with LLMs now, you can pretty much re implement all of that functionality in pure C. Spark is written in Scala, precisely because…

Then why are you not making it?

I think what you're trying to say is that this article isn't at the highest level of epistemic certainty. That's not surprising for a given subject matter. The author explicitly ac…

Very honorable effort, but a lot of these seem to touch heavily regulated industries impeded by unwise or outdated policy no less than by the lack of clever engineering - medicine,…

>Your linked article is not very scientific. That's the whole point. Due to the touchiness of the subject matter, these kinds of topics would be quite difficult to discuss frankly …

>These days, a full-figure on a woman is considered attractive, but in the 1990s, being skinny was in vogue. This is usually based on a selective and wishful interpretation of hist…

That's the male equivalent of women asking why men care about boobs and body count. The answer is "evolved intuition", like it or not.

His musings on Girard and Schmidt are high-grade wordcelism but I would be surprised if a Stanford philosophy graduate did not get extensive exposure to formal logic and philosophy…

His interests are in early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language and formal logic. This niche is what created the foundations for both theoretical computer science and formal…

Location: Netherlands, The Hague, CET Remote: Yes. Hybrid in The Hague/Amsterdam/Randstad also works. Willing to relocate: Open within the EU+EFTA for the right role. US/UK only wi…

>Janestreet PR team is downvoting. Like always, radio silence and just downvotes. You're being downvoted for having a needlessly confrontational underinformed hot take on a quant t…

Engaging in direct open conflict in a sanitized environment like an office is shooting yourself in the foot. Different norms for different rooms.

I thought I was the only one.

Going out of your way to quit a job most people in tech dream of after months of serious calls to action is not mere signalling.

>It's far more often that I hear "we interviewed someone we thought looked good and they couldn't even write a for loop, where are all the good engineers". Absolutely insane claim …

Hacker News is way more innocent in that it's main purpose is to expose a narrow slice of highly technical and entrepreneurial people to YCombinator and companies that it funds. Of…

I was thinking from a timeframe when redesign was introduced.

Reddit redesign strikes me as a convenient excuse to enforce infinite scrolling by a company looking to IPO.

If we take amateur level of understanding as a threshold, a sum of all of these concepts is not even a fraction of complexity required to understand a single non-trivial concept in…

>the moat of cost to enter is already unfathomable At the moment.

>is very balanced and careful in the video A part of me somewhat wishes I was this easily swayed by YouTube smooth talkers.

>What would be his motive A libertarian socialist podcaster tries to discuss an online culture that is adjacent to Silicon Valley tech scene. He then proceeds to take movement’s wo…

This kills their sales funnel.

A median non-technical ChatGPT user is: -Less likely to pay for ChatGPT use -Will not self-host an open-source model -Quite unlikely to use an adblocker