mateo411

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by mateo411 1mo ago
I suppose that Anthropic or any of the other companies that develop foundational AI models do this. This would be a vertical integration strategy. However, they would spend less time developing the best foundational models, so they might no
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by mateo411 2mo ago
> But there was another aspect too and that was Linda Hamilton. This was one of the first mainstream big-budget movies that changed the way women were portrayed in film. Lots of people had posters of her wearing the sunglasses, carrying
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by mateo411 9mo ago
This is very common behavior. This is where a good manager can really help. They can recognize this is happening and then provide context. One approach to deal with ambiguity is to write a short design doc, which writes down what you are tr
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by mateo411 9mo ago
This is called contextual advertising. It's becoming more popular as cookies are becoming less effective.
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by mateo411 11mo ago
There were some interesting algorithms that came out of the contest. There was a matrix factorization algorithm that worked pretty well. Another "guy in a garage" tried to incorporate the anchoring effect into their models. I don&
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by mateo411 11mo ago
Interesting. Thanks for telling me that.
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by mateo411 11mo ago
Well, AI is changing so fast nobody can really tell you what it is.
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by mateo411 11mo ago
I think the AI winter was over by 2007. There was a lot of hype about machine learning and big data. The Netflix Prize for building a Recommender model launched in 2006. There was research on neural networks and deep belief networks, but th
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by mateo411 11mo ago
Yes, the Singularity came from Kurzweil.
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by mateo411 11mo ago
I bet somebody could make a movie about this.
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by mateo411 11mo ago
>For example, Sales teams are often compensated on revenue generated (outcome), but what if you did a good job (process) but didn’t hit your numbers because the market was just really bad in your vertical? A good leader will recognize th
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by mateo411 1y ago
I agree. When you have a large PR like this, here's how I like to get it reviewed. 1. Give reviewers sometime to become familiar with the PR. They might not understand all parts of it, but they should have at least a cursory understand
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by mateo411 1y ago
I think Denver home prices have decreased by 4% since the peak in 2022. I don't think anybody is going to be permanently underwater. Home prices changing should be a second order effect of building more apartments.
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by mateo411 1y ago
I bet your friend is good at Scrabble.
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by mateo411 1y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Jalopy is a term for a car that isn't in very good shape. I suspect that's why they chose the name Jalopnik.
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by mateo411 1y ago
Sure, I think it is an odd line. In this case car ownership is a proxy for geography. You could probably find some other interesting proxy variables for geography, that could be used to write 500 word articles. A proxy variable that is in i
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by mateo411 1y ago
The Emancipation Proclamation freed very few slaves. The order did not apply to areas of the Union which still had slaves, nor did it apply to areas of the Confederacy occupied by the Union. Although, it did apply to unoccupied areas of the
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by mateo411 1y ago
It's true that there is tax money that is spent on infrastructure to support cars, but taxes are also collected from the use of cars through gas taxes and annual registration fees. If you include those taxes and fees it's not obvi
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by mateo411 1y ago
One of the functions Product Management is to be an intermediary between the business/sales and Engineering. Sometimes you might have issues working with Product Management, but you don't want to interact and build features for a
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by mateo411 1y ago
I agree. Unless you are programming Java. "Java is a blue collar language." - James Gosling
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by mateo411 2y ago
The app gives pretty good discounts. It's pretty easy to save about 20% using the app for an order. I think the rewards is also about 10-15%. If you are going to go to a Quick Stop Restaurant, it's generally a good idea to use the
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by mateo411 2y ago
Thanks for the additional context. This is very interesting.
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by mateo411 2y ago
The paper came out in 1972 which is the same year that C was invented. I don't think the paper mentioned what programming language was used, but since it has function calls with parameters, it's a higher level language than assemb
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by mateo411 2y ago
> Maybe a PhD gets a boost in pay starting out My sense is you might get paid when you start what an undergraduate makes after one year and a pay raise. Your career will probably develop faster than the person who started working after u
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by mateo411 2y ago
I suppose it could be like Cicero. I was thinking more like the Les Grossman character from Tropic Thunder. The character was played by Tom Cruise.
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by mateo411 2y ago
This is true too. However, many times Engineering teams are asked to build something that is speculative. Leadership and the Product team thinks they are building something that could make money in the future and justify the investment. Oth
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by mateo411 2y ago
I guess that means the fastest way to become better than a 1x engineer is to declare that you are 1x engineer. Makes sense to me!
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by mateo411 2y ago
I think ARR/LOC would be a better metric.
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by mateo411 2y ago
It would be life changing, but it would still be hard to retire on 300K in the US.
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by mateo411 2y ago
> I am quite... what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution? I think degen is the common term that used here. It's short for degenerate.

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