bayareapsycho

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by bayareapsycho 5mo ago
I'm doing OK, I can get phone screens / interviews at big tech. Can't manage to get any from AI labs. My current company is highly abusive and is doing a bunch of saber rattling over layoffs and I'm honestly fed up at th
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by bayareapsycho 5mo ago
> Being spoon-fed information isn't the same as learning, to me It's like it distills it for you. I feel like you're thinking of an example like trying to learning operating systems by reading wikipedia articles (i.e. it g
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by bayareapsycho 5mo ago
But how do they learn to do their respective task? How is the information disseminated? The capability is there for robotics to handle these kinds of repetitive tasks from a long term view. They're just statistical processes on a funda
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by bayareapsycho 6mo ago
I don't really feel this kind of friction. In deep coding sessions it usually follows this loop of 1. cook up design 2. coding 3. compiling+running it 4. view the logs, figure out what broke 5. back to 2 AI just makes 2 and 4 happen fa
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by bayareapsycho 9mo ago
I don't think the "bubble will burst" in the sense that all of this tooling will go away. Maybe companies shift the focus on running them more efficiently. I don't think companies will suddenly turn over a new leaf and s
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by bayareapsycho 9mo ago
There will be a cliff in the number of people in this industry. There will be a bunch of senior people floating around the job market and no more junior talent. There will be fewer new grads and the pipelines will dry up. If they go down th
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by bayareapsycho 9mo ago
This program was so good, I was most of the way through it before it managed to help me land a better job. But now I have no idea if I'll ever finish it because it's pretty time consuming The best two classes are AOS and HPC imo.
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by bayareapsycho 11mo ago
> Seeing it as a book about psychology that revolves around theological themes, when it is a book about theology that revolves around psychological themes. I don't think Dostoevsky's Christianity is genuine. It feels about as g
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by bayareapsycho 11mo ago
The funniest thing about events like this is that they're targeted pretty much exclusively to men, but there are plenty of women who'd be more than happy to fish in a pod full of rich guys So the poly chicks who are running this t
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment of this but I don't think the root issue is state involvement The root issue is that the state is involved in the wrong way. It refuses to fund childcare, so marriage is economically incentivized. But then it
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
What's the source on this? I know it's a thing in Canada, Australia, and Washington state (if you cohabitate for some number of years, they can claim that it's a "de-facto relationship" and get property division). A
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
It used to be more spread out with a strong valley presence, but over the past couple years they've been force reloing people to Arkansas. It really started to ramp up at about the time I left
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
In my old org of 80ish, like half of them were from Telegana. All of management was from there. In total, at least 80% of the org was south asian. I guess it's just a coincidence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And I can promise you, at least half of
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
> and keeps doing crazy layoffs so they can buy more GPUs They're doing layoffs and giving a wall street friendly reason for it The media eats the shit up because it's run by a bunch of people who hate the tech industry I guess
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
My last company (F50, ass engineering culture, pretends to be a tech company) went and fired all of the juniors at a certain level because "AI" The funny part is, most of those juniors were hired in 2022-2024, and they were better
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
Their PE ratio is 256. What really matters is convincing wall street to keep funneling money into their company stock So what he's doing makes a lot of sense. Have to keep the stock high and sell off before reality kicks in. All of thi
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
> There is a lack of integrity, a kind of bad faith, at work here. It's possible for people to believe two conflicting things at the same time. Especially in this context. Like someone could be psychologically dependent on believing
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
> But rationalism and materialism do not have answers to the existential questions and crises that humans face. idrk what rationalism means here, like the hegelian type of rationalism has an answer here, the end goal is self-consciousnes
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by bayareapsycho 1y ago
idk I just spammed my resume everywhere and did a bunch of leetcode and that was enough, apply to 5 different roles every day and you'll eventually get something