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Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by persolb »

jacurtis wrote: post #127
ronald_raygun wrote: post #106

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Really? Is it a walled garden when like 90%+ of recruiters are on there? Would you say “a good resume is a red flag, nobody producing value has time to tend that”. The big irony is making things look nice, be readable, be sellable is creating value. In the case of making a LinkedIn or a resume, the value your creating is in terms of your very own capability to get a job and have a high take home pay!

I have a highly optimized LinkedIn, yet I don't really spend a ton of time on there. I log in once or twice a month, answer messages, and do a few things. Maybe make a post once every 2 months or so. Nothing crazy, yet my profile is very well optimized. And this is why: Everyone looks at it. Far more people then you would expect. I can't tell you how many meetings I have gone into where I walk in and see that everyon…

I just want to second this. I search “name” LinkedIn whenever I don’t know who people in a meeting are. It is extremely rare that the LinkedIn doesn’t provide some useful info.

Much easier to answer questions at the right level of detail when you know the audience.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by austin-cheney »

nottorp wrote: post #98
Madmallard wrote: post #54

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"strong personality tends to correlate inversely with competence" citation needed

"if you feel a need to be aggressive, it means you've done no deeds that will speak for you" How about that?

Where did this talk about aggression come from?

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by nottorp »

austin-cheney wrote: post #132
nottorp wrote: post #98

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"if you feel a need to be aggressive, it means you've done no deeds that will speak for you" How about that?

Where did this talk about aggression come from?

"Strong personalities", which are mostly fake.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by john-radio »

vik0 wrote: post #81
ildjarn wrote: post #80

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It’s the shift of perception from technology being “geek stuff” to a lucrative field on par with finance, medicine and law. Before, someone who knew a bit of programming was likely to be passionate and with high potential. Now they may still be, but also they may just a way to get rich quick.

But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all. Same with most people in the world who practice medicine or law Or did you mean to convey that people who go to boot camps think it's a way to get rich quick? Your wording is a bit confusing toward the end there

> But the vast majority of people who go to programming bootcamps don't get rich quickly, or rich at all.

Of course not, but that's the sales pitch, isn't it?

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by QuantumGood »

iamwil wrote: post #40
QuantumGood wrote: post #16

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The longer I think about something, the dumber AI gets. I have given our internal knowledgebase documents to ChatGPT and asked for summaries, and it adds in things from the general internet that are wrong to very wrong contradicting our KB (we are very far off the beaten path of conventional audio studio design testing).

It's like the Gell-Mann Amnesia for AI.

I have questioned AI on topics I know little about, and it is terrible at handling queries. Frankly, I think this could be something taught: Can you use critical thinking well enough to break the AI?

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by from-nibly »

Jensson wrote: post #20
from-nibly wrote: post #18

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No the advantage is that you have context. That context is HUGE. That's why you can't and won't be able to have chat gpt actually do your job for you. You still need to ask it questions. And to even know what questions you need to ask you need to have context.

You don't just need a context, you need to finetune a model around that context since working memory isn't enough. That is what human workers do, they spend the first months finetuning their model around the company context before they can start to provide valuable code. Once you can pay to get your own fine tuned version of the big LLMs maybe we can start to do real work with these.

Agreed on the first part.

However my point is that having the context and the ability to use it is sooooooo far out of reach for a computer it's unfathomable. In much the same way how life is unfathomable at some level. It's this self referencing infinity that is somehow collapsing into results while being uncollapseable.

Computers can't do that not without something fundamentally different

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by akhil-c »

Interesting discussion. I agree with the author's premise.

IMO finding these undiscovered gems will stand out more; a lot of content has the veil of originality but lacking.

A lot of content online feels unoriginal or uninspired. Perhaps we'll see the pendulum swing back toward original long form journalism to tell these stories.

Re: How to write stuff no one else can

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Post by jstarfish »

pc86 wrote: post #130
dataflow wrote: post #128

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What about that example do people find to be high-potential? I'm a bit confused because to me 3-month "CMO" of 1-month-old company as a college sophomore sounds at best like a slightly positive signal, and at worst a strongly negative signal, since it could mean anything from "they had enough ambition to work and study at the same time for 3 months and learn stuff on the job" to "they couldn't focus on classes and/or…

Honestly any "big-sounding title" within 3-5 years after undergrad is a big red flag and takes a lot to overcome that resume going in the trash. I think best case scenario it means they have connections and got a legitimate job somewhere using those connections, in which case it's extremely unlikely I'm reviewing their resume since I barely graduated with a social science degree from a college nobody's ever heard of.…

C-level positions from anything less than a Fortune 500 are a joke and an immediate disqualifier. Anyone exaggerating that much upfront makes me not trust anything that will follow.

So much of life these days feels like Freddy Got Fingered. Fondling someone else's horse on their farm does not make you a Farmer.

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