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by mathattack 1y ago
2 options, neither of which is easy. 1 - Self-teach your way to excellence. 2 - Go abroad for grad school.
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by mathattack 1y ago
The power of referrals is going through the roof. It solves both the "1800 resumes and AI generated cover letters" problem, as well as "LLMs during the interview." It helps the HR screener who can justify the interview
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by mathattack 1y ago
I thought it stood for a shorter word. https://www.reddit.com/r/theinternetofshit/
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by mathattack 1y ago
Yes. And it's the same when the kids come from the same parents too. We have one kid that's willing to go very deep on math. The only does what can be figured out in 3 seconds or less. Same genetic parents, same school system.
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by mathattack 1y ago
This! I was going to write the same thing. Life, Death, Alive, Dead - these are all terms created by humans to make sense out of the world. In reality it's about more life-like and less life-like.
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by mathattack 1y ago
IBM is long past innovation, and is in the license audit and share buyback business. Age bias lawsuit: https://www.cohenmilstein.com/fired-ibm-workers-wrap-up-age-... IBM audit: https://itaa.com/insights&#
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by mathattack 1y ago
Yes - this is one way in which GDP is a bad measure for happiness. Security, prison guards and glass replacements are all positive for GDP.
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As San Francisco car break-ins plunge, these businesses are suffering(sfchronicle.com)
16 points by mathattack 1y ago|12 comments
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by mathattack 1y ago
My 2 cents... Microsoft is struggling with too much legacy code base, and the software is embedded in too many places for them to make too much change. It's more cost effective to appease the existing enterprise base and minimize chan
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by mathattack 1y ago
Are any jobs really secure? You still need to show output if you’re in a profit center, and sometimes things happen outside your control. More commentary below: https://open.substack.com/pub/therosen/p/knowin
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The Tumblr revival is real–and Gen Z is leading the charge(fastcompany.com)
8 points by mathattack 1y ago|0 comments
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The Philosophical Roots of Programming(medium.com)
1 points by mathattack 1y ago|0 comments
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How AI is steering the media toward a 'close enough' standard(fastcompany.com)
2 points by mathattack 1y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 1y ago
There are products people are either embarrassed to admit they need (many health care examples) or just don’t want to share for competitive reasons (a better parts supplier, or perhaps even a good SAT tutoring service).
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by mathattack 1y ago
I like open questions like this. It forces us to think from first principles, and potentially tackle consequences. One problem that would come up… It would be very hard to get word out of new (better) products. If you have a great product
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by mathattack 1y ago
How much of the issue is long replacement cycles? No wonder companies introduce planned obsolescence.
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by mathattack 1y ago
Seems like currently consumer robotics companies are being valued like consumer electronics. Having AI doesn’t help the valuation.
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iRobot made Roomba into an icon. Now, it's in a mess(fastcompany.com)
24 points by mathattack 1y ago|59 comments
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by mathattack 1y ago
I’ve seen many companies have this problem. They base hiring against planned revenue instead of current revenue. In a sense you have to - if you’re planning on growing 100% for several years on the back of new products and a big sales tea
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by mathattack 2y ago
I’ve been through several waves of corporate layoffs across many industries. Some observations: 1 - It’s rarely one round. 2 - Companies tend to be the most thoughtful on the first round. Then it looks easy and the precision (and severance
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by mathattack 2y ago
Springsteen memorialized this with 57 channels (and nothing on.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_Channels_(And_Nothin%27_O...
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by mathattack 2y ago
You don’t say!
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by mathattack 2y ago
GM is a finance company, not an engineering company. Even buying the engineering doesn’t work. Their last great innovation was Saturn, and they killed that too.
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by mathattack 2y ago
The code may be gone but not the impact. A gas station sells gas that is gone within weeks. But someone fills their car, and drives to Mountain View and gets a job that changes your life. Helping a business grow by 10% more each year becau
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by mathattack 2y ago
Doesn’t 7 have massive InfoSec issues? Or is that scare tactics to push through an upgrade?
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by mathattack 2y ago
What a tarnished legacy. They used to be the model for Silicon Valley.
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Import AI 375: GPT-2 five years later(importai.substack.com)
1 points by mathattack 2y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 2y ago
They have no internal realization of what happens when they turn off large enterprises. They accidentally turned off a $10bln retailer that I’m aware of too. Whoops!
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by mathattack 2y ago
https://archive.is/LpDuJ
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by mathattack 2y ago
This version is much better, and captures the juvinality of it all.

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