borroka

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by borroka 4mo ago
The confounding factor here is the size of the company. You are saying, more than "I like managers who contribute technically (whatever that means)", that you like working for small companies. It's as if people are saying the
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by borroka 4mo ago
Despite the proclamations of torment, suffering, and unwillingness to do it, but, they say, "such is life and this is what needs to be done", I often found in CEOs announcing big layoffs a quite visible undercurrent of joyful powe
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by borroka 5mo ago
I am repeating what many have said. Nevertheless, it is becoming clear that LLMs can increase productivity (in certain areas and at certain times) for people who are already knowledgeable (in a specific niche or field) due to a combination
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by borroka 5mo ago
Yesterday, I used Gemini to evaluate some pictures I took. It said things like, "This is great! Beautiful eye and sense of proportions." Then, when I added "no sycophancy" to the prompt, the evaluation changed to "p
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by borroka 7mo ago
This weekend, I received confirmation that, for data analysis and modeling, coding agents represent a qualitative leap forward comparable to the widespread adoption of personal computers. I stopped doing scientific research years ago, but b
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by borroka 7mo ago
It may appear so, in the sense that I would think the same if I were the one reading my comments, but, even if I am sure that my resume could be improved (I worked on it multiple times, asked colleagues to have a look, as well as getting so
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by borroka 7mo ago
At first, I was a bit selective about my applications (meaning I was applying to maybe 5 positions per week, not one per month), but in the last six months, I have sent dozens of applications for positions (real or fake, I don't know)
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by borroka 7mo ago
This could be a problem, but only if I had interviews or even just a phone call from a recruiter. But I'm not even getting to that stage. I just get rejection after rejection via email for every type of company and position I apply for
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by borroka 7mo ago
Being rejected every day, thus subjecting myself to the humiliating ritual of modern times, by companies that I believe could make the most of my talent (my last title was Director of AI, before I was a Staff ML Scientist at a FAANG and an
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by borroka 7mo ago
Without getting into a she-said/he-said debate, I don't believe traffic is shrinking because of the viability of fewer engineers. If that were the case, it would also be easy to hire hundreds more. With the confusing mix of X.ai,
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by borroka 7mo ago
As a casual user, I don’t think it works any worse than Facebook or Instagram or TikTok. I remember that for years people complained about DMs in Twitter being “broken” and without any search function.
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by borroka 7mo ago
I don’t think it is true at all. The recommendation algorithm they implement is a choice they make, it is not that if they had more engineers they would deploy a “better” one. Every recommendation algorithm is, in the end, “bad” in some way
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by borroka 7mo ago
I have no professional, personal, or parasocial ties to Musk, so you can safely continue without this having any effect on me beyond a normal conversation, even if contentious. I would limit the conversation to X, as it is the company that
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by borroka 7mo ago
One needs to tease apart the effects of Musk and Musk's "policies" on advertising investments, number of users, the boom and slow decline of social media platforms (see Facebook, Instagram coming down from their peak, TikTok
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by borroka 7mo ago
Anyone who has worked in the big tech industry knows that probably more than half of the workforce performs tasks that, in essence, are superfluous. But these things happened: 1) Musk has shown that Twitter can operate with 5% (approximatel
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by borroka 7mo ago
Autogenic training is a practice that works wonders for your ability to control yourself under pressure, whether in specific situations, in the spotlight, or under more mundane pressures. Only after consistent training (but not gruelling! I
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by borroka 7mo ago
Being intentional in what we do and learn, and practicing it consistently, inevitably changes our lives. We mostly live on autopilot, without thinking about what we love to do or what we might love to do. Every day, we read about people who
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by borroka 7mo ago
You don't believe the current version of Claude Code will be able to write complex software on its own. On the one hand, there is a lot of hype, an incredible amount, actually, but on the other, we have been observing in real time a te
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by borroka 7mo ago
After two weeks of viral posts, articles, and Mac Mini buying sprees, as it's been happening up to now for every AI product that was not an LLM, it kinda disappeared from the consciousness-- as well as from the tooling, probably--of pe
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by borroka 7mo ago
While I find the aspiration noble, it seems to me that we don't even know ourselves what we want, or, alternatively, we re-discover every day how our revealed preferences differ from our stated ones. We don't even trick other peop
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by borroka 7mo ago
Architects went from drawing everything on paper to using CAD, not over a generation, but over a few years, after CAD and computers got good enough. It therefore depends on where we place the discovery/availability of the product. If w
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by borroka 7mo ago
Sunny coastal California
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by borroka 7mo ago
I do not doubt that AI and AI-powered and -native applications will become part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives. What I don't understand is why, outside of "because I can", people need to automate parts o
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by borroka 8mo ago
It all depends on the use one makes of it. It can become an indispensable asset over time, or a tool that can be used at certain times to solve, for example, mundane problems that we have always found annoying and that we can now outsource,
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by borroka 8mo ago
"Firstly, when you ask a friend or colleague you're asking a favour that you know will take them some time and effort. So you save it for the important stuff, and the rest of the time you keep putting in the effort yourself. With
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by borroka 8mo ago
Sure, I don't think anybody is forcing you or anybody else to watch Netflix or play GTA instead of reading a mystery novel. I find those types of articles and the comments following them to be starting points for broader conversations.
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by borroka 8mo ago
My knee-jerk reaction is that outsourcing thinking and writing to an LLM is a defeat of massive proportions, a loss of authenticity in an increasingly less authentic world. On the other hand, before LLMs came along, didn't we ask a fri
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by borroka 8mo ago
The comment I am responding to is referring to their own experience, which, at the population level, does not appear to be largely shared, as, at the population level (i.e., people in general, not intellectuls, not academics, all of them),
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by borroka 8mo ago
The problem is that you are talking about your experience, and not about the distribution of experience of people, which is why I wrote "at the population level". For the more intellectually sophisticated person (does not mean &qu
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by borroka 8mo ago
At the population level, it is fungible, though. Giving a certain number of hours dedicated to passive entertainment, many more people prefer to watch a terrible tv show on Netflix than to read a masterpiece of literature. It could be becau

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