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by mathattack 1y ago
My experience is every layer between the communicator and the recipient adds noise. It's like the game of telephone we played as kids. Some PMs are terrible and are 100% noise. Even the best are only 50% signal. Give an engineer a c
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by mathattack 1y ago
Yes - it's an enterprise versus SMB distinction that doesn't require asking questions like "What's your revenue?" in the qualification. Enterprises need it. SMBs don't.
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by mathattack 1y ago
On a recent Mindscape podcast Sean Carroll mentioned that rationalists are rational about everything except accusations that they're not being rational.
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by mathattack 1y ago
This! In many large companies, there are non-aggression pacts. “I don’t air your dirty laundry so you don’t air mine.” The best consultants comment on the Emperor’s wardrobe, or lack thereof. And they do it in a way that makes everyone pl
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Philosophy of Information(plato.stanford.edu)
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Is AI 'The Ultimate Version of Google,' as Larry Page Wanted?(thenewstack.io)
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Apple executives have held internal talks about buying AI startup Perplexity(businesstimes.com.sg)
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Elon Musk outlines AI-led Grok future for advertising on X(digiday.com)
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LLMs fall for the decoy effect too(substack.com)
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by mathattack 1y ago
References another behavioral economics article on anchoring. https://therosen.substack.com/p/llms-anchor-too?r=2cmy
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LLMs have loss aversion too(substack.com)
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LLMs Anchor Too(substack.com)
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John Henry(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Why of Substack(om.co)
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Decoding Zuck's Superintelligence Memo(om.co)
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A proof is that which is convincing(substack.com)
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by mathattack 1y ago
It's a problem everywhere in California. In Palo Alto they're getting rid of honors classes in STEM subjects like Biology.
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by mathattack 1y ago
Although this story was debunked, many Universities own Timberland in their portfolios. They’re a good inflation hedge for schools with long time horizon. (Real estate and paper investments were historically very correlated to university
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by mathattack 1y ago
The last paragraph should temper our enthusiasm. Allowing people to build more when there is a shortage is the best way to have markets solve problems. —- “ Meanwhile, the pipeline of new apartment buildings is drying up. The number of pro
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by mathattack 1y ago
I have no idea if this story is true, but it should be.
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TechnologyRanked: The Most Popular Programming Languages (2014-2024)(visualcapitalist.com)
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by mathattack 1y ago
Some added commentary on the concentration of programming languages: https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/analyzing-the-stack...
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by mathattack 1y ago
https://archive.is/Eg85j#selection-4323.0-4323.39
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The Bull Market for Economists Is Over(nytimes.com)
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by mathattack 1y ago
Good question. A couple caveats on the data: 1 - These #s are just domestic. 2 - They don't contain near-CS degrees like math and .electrical engineering (which may not have grown as much) 3 - They leave out bootcamps and similar trai
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by mathattack 1y ago
https://archive.is/8q1Z8
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A criminal enterprise run by monkeys(wsj.com)
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by mathattack 1y ago
It's supply and demand. It could also be a 4X increase in grads for Computer and Information Sciences degrees since the 90s. Source: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Search?query=computer%20science&qu...
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by mathattack 1y ago
I've met several of these students. It's like an MBA, but less social networking and more math. (And can be done co-term or in a year) So does it add some value to someone who is already getting a bachelors in EE, CS or similar?
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by mathattack 1y ago
I've found LLMs to be great in summarizing non-controversial non-technical bodies of knowledge. For example - the facts in the long swings of regional histories. You have to ask for nuance and countervailing viewpoints, though you&#x

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