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fair take, but my view these days is the following. there is way too much information-garbage floating around. hence I try to stick to time-tested classics particularly when it com…

End of the day, there are many belief systems that we human hold onto, but we need a method to settle opinion. And science happens to be a certain kind of a method for settling opi…

guilty as charged ! But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in …

These kind of studies are dubious. The PhD report could have been generated by an LLM in about a day, and no one would know any better. It works like this: Take any hypothesis. And…

InstaFail. Nobody wants this. We are already saturated with bull-shit through social media. Now, there is yet another devices that manufactures BS before it hits our eyes. Steer cl…

the wet-dream of management is to get rid of high-paid knowledge workers. Now, chatGPT is the answer to their prayers, or, so they think.

ex-ibm here. Some context from an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554#41561970 Basically, management rot sets in with MBAs in charge who have no clue how …

very nice app. just the front-end browser component alone is super-slick. but expecting users to bring their data to your platform is a barrier to adoption.

why is this news ? they do it twice a year. they have way too many employees, and it will take them a decade of such cuts to "rightsize"

the two types are nice ! the author likens your first type to building "mental" roads, which form new pathways of cognition, and takes time, and has emotional resistance, and requi…

you touch on a raw nerve that could be the subject of a long post. in summary, the attitude of management in many large companies is that code is just work that needs to get done, …

this memo is one for the ages. filled with management speak.

Being ex-IBM, i can relate. Basically, the management class despises SDE worker class, and thinks of them as overhead. Recent statements by the aws head about chatGPT replacing SDE…