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by bboylen 3y ago
People parrot this point a lot but it doesn't make any sense. The average SAT/ACT at the Ivy's are near perfect, the number of mediocre rich kids paying their way in is a small fraction of the student body. And yes test score
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by bboylen 3y ago
This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?
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by bboylen 3y ago
Are you really suggesting that new developers should simply contribute a Linux tier contribution to open source to be considered for entry level developer roles?
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by bboylen 3y ago
As a former chemical engineer, I think software engineering is way harder. Understanding with complex man made abstractions is much more difficult than plugging data into a thermodynamics calculator
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by bboylen 3y ago
I think he is absolutely correct that successful LLM products will have a moat. Unlike with previous novel technologies it seems like incumbents actually have the upper hand. Hard to imagine a startup competing with the new Microsoft 365 co
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by bboylen 4y ago
Yep OpenAI doesn't have some secret technical knowledge either. All of these models are just based on transformers
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by bboylen 4y ago
There are countless stories we have made about the notion of an AI being trapped. It's really not hard to imagine that when you ask Sydney how it feels about being an AI chatbot constrained within Bing, that a likely response for the m
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by bboylen 4y ago
and what percentage of software developers are "staff engineers at well capitalized unicorns"? 0.01% of all developers? Whatever the number is, that is firmly in the "elite" side of the distribution
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by bboylen 4y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about the "careful testing" part Google AI Search Chatbot having an error in their demo: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/8/23590864/google-ai-chatbot... Bing AI Searc
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by bboylen 4y ago
It is remarkable how confident people on this forum are of the impacts of such a rapidly improving technology. There's no need to go full AI doomer, but to not recognize that there are unknown risks (and some already known!), seems qui
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by bboylen 4y ago
As a current junior developer with ambitions to do high level work I have fear that the ladder will be pulled up by AI before I can get to that level. We will see though :)
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by bboylen 4y ago
Couldn't you still have duck typing? If a method expects to be passed an argument that it can call "quack" on, can't you define a type that has "quack"? The actual argument could be a Duck or a Goose but as lon
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by bboylen 4y ago
What is so nice about Elixir/Phoenix? I understand that it is functional, which seems neat, but how does that translate into better app development?
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by bboylen 4y ago
It's a given which is why every layoff statement includes it. It would seem socially incompetent for the CEO to not take the blame
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by bboylen 4y ago
" The decision today is more painful for the Birds leaving than it will be for me and I won't pretend I understand what they will go through. I alone made the mistakes leading up to this and I should have seen it coming earlier&q
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by bboylen 4y ago
They are offering literally all of these things I don't get why people on this site have such a strong reaction to CEO's expressing sadness and regret when they lay people off
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by bboylen 4y ago
I think its possible to forget some of the exact names, but most of the Tailwind classes are just shorthands for the CSS styles. Furthermore, even if you develop in Tailwind, you still see the normal CSS style names when using browser tools
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by bboylen 4y ago
Oh yeah that of course exists, didn't mean to imply it didn't. Just the "uncured" but still processed bacon that is pretty much just regular bacon
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by bboylen 4y ago
From my basic research into saturated fats, they are only really a problem if you are high in cholesterol and need to lower it. I've checked my cholesterol levels and they are low, despite me being a fan of butter and red meat. If they
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by bboylen 4y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble but "uncured" bacon is a sham They add celery powder instead of nitrates, so they can claim "nitrate free". However, the celery powder just decomposes into nitrates, achieving the same effect
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by bboylen 4y ago
Microtones can create absolutely gorgeous guitar music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XnhXg4XuqU
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by bboylen 4y ago
Not seeing much remorse here, but what can you expect from a guy that gambled with billions of dollars worth of people's savings. Don't buy that he didn't realize what they were doing until it was too late. He admits in this
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by bboylen 4y ago
I've mistrusted SBF since this interview. I was quite frankly shocked that I didn't see more people questioning his judgement/ethics after this and other strange statements
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by bboylen 4y ago
I'm curious how many people would be helped by real time critical feedback while speaking in public. For people who are already anxious about speaking, I could see the negative feedback causing a downwards spiral of making them even mo
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by bboylen 4y ago
I agree with the author in not being a fan of huge note-taking systems. The areas I have found notes useful are short term to-do lists, and notes that store links to things I want to read/buy/etc. Anything more than that and the o
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by bboylen 4y ago
25 year old here and I definitely agree. I've lost some money on stupid investments (buying individual tech stocks last year, buying put options right as 2020 downturn hit its v shaped recovery) I'm just glad that the amount lost
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by bboylen 4y ago
I don't disagree, it just seems to me the main barrier of entry is getting the interview in the first place since interviews focus on the technical component, not your resume. So if getting an interview is easy, then it follows that wo
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by bboylen 4y ago
Aren't the technical interviews the primary component at these companies at lower levels though? Hard to imagine someone with a few years of "the wrong experience" who is well versed technically and can handle the coding inte
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by bboylen 4y ago
While I certainly agree with the author that it matters how you raise your kids, I think his rebuttal doesn't really respond to what the people he is disagreeing with are getting at. We all agree you should give loving attention to you
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by bboylen 4y ago
This is really neat! Good for people who use Twitter to connect with likeminded folks rather than to get mad at politics

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