sharadov

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by sharadov 17d ago
Yes start with a monolith but split it sooner than later ( was at a company where they realized it too late, after being in business for 8+ years) . It was a nightmare at that point. We pretty much gave up.
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by sharadov 20d ago
Very clever - they bought the distribution platform for AI!
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by sharadov 27d ago
I was in Vegas a few years back with friends. While walking the strip, notice this massive throng of kids all around us. I learned they were in town for the BTS concert. I noticed this young girl, no older than 20, wearing a Pink Floyd &qu
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by sharadov 2mo ago
I am not defending the US LLM industry or the government, all I am saying is it's similar to an arms race. I did not suggest anywhere that what China is doing is illegitimate. China has state supported capitalism, and they will do what
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by sharadov 2mo ago
What makes the Chinese models this good? I don't believe it's distillation alone. This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures "Some observations on Kimi: It's a very good model! I don't think its performance
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by sharadov 2mo ago
The pushing problems around under the guise of solving them for political gain is what corporate and government malfeasance is all about. The better you are at the game the higher you climb!
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by sharadov 2mo ago
More noise than actual speed.
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by sharadov 2mo ago
Why are you assuming that the machines or their masters will be benevolent? All actions so far have been contrarian.
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by sharadov 2mo ago
This is a rather optimistic take in my opinion. My take is more Orwelian, given how the folks in charge of shepherding AI have behaved so far
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by sharadov 2mo ago
Most people are not good at articulating their thoughts into words, let alone writing well. Now, AI has given all these Linkedin psychopaths who did not have a voice because of their affliction a rare kind of superpower to endlessly spew th
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by sharadov 2mo ago
Microsoft, Amazon are all building forward deployment engineering teams - to increase AI adoption. It will take time, but it will happen.
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by sharadov 3mo ago
Very few people have their finger on the pulse of a paradigm shift as it's happening - and he was there to capture it at the right place and the right time. Excellent read!
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by sharadov 3mo ago
I was really hoping that they Ipoed this year, so we can see their stock shoot up and down in flames, and we're really done with them and Sam Altman, once and for all.
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by sharadov 3mo ago
It's all about enjoying the journey.
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by sharadov 3mo ago
I listened to a couple episodes and concur, the overt-criticality and smugness was off putting.
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by sharadov 3mo ago
I think there are more nuggets of wisdom in great fiction than these self help books. Maybe if someone put together a list of fiction books that correlate strongly with self-help categories, it would be immensely useful. A great fiction boo
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by sharadov 3mo ago
All the writers that I love to hate - hariri, gladwell! Will give it a listen
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by sharadov 3mo ago
More often true than not!
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by sharadov 3mo ago
Unfortunately this can work both ways - if it's a low politics environment yes, it will work to the engineer's advantage but in environments rife with politicking, people will be quick to swoop in and take credit and at the same t
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by sharadov 3mo ago
What is stopping the US government from stepping in and nationalizing these companies? They've already talked about taking a stake - https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-officials-eye... Trump took
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by sharadov 4mo ago
As someone who worked remote for 8 years I can see a few reasons - Really hard to get juniors up to speed when they are remote, when I started out as a junior I sat around a bunch of senior folks, and inhaled in all the knowledge via the in
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by sharadov 4mo ago
Big red flag - definitely identity theft there!
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by sharadov 4mo ago
Sorry OP you had to go through this - not knowing your circumstances, but golden rule, once the interview starts getting invasive, please cut it short and move on. Recently I had an interview for a contract position. First off, it was a zoo
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by sharadov 4mo ago
Plenty of competent engineers - who are clearly builders have also been let go. Enough with your trite analysis.
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by sharadov 4mo ago
Coursera used to have good quality courseware, now I get better stuff via a simple search on youtube. Youtube killed these two companies, well Udemy was garbage from the get go.
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by sharadov 4mo ago
That's how characters are named in "Steal a Brainrot" , a Roblox game.
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by sharadov 4mo ago
I think AI is the final nail in the coffin of meaningless slop that started pervading our lives after covid. I see people tiring of this brain rot, especially Gen Z, there are more offline events - music festivals, day time raves, running
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by sharadov 4mo ago
Next couple weeks - financial and insurance services announce layoffs!
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by sharadov 5mo ago
Agents are conniving yes men, and who usually loves yes men? Leadership! Most developers are rational and skeptical, hence the backlash from most in the community.
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by sharadov 5mo ago
Why not just take a quick stroll, if you are close to anything green - park, nature even better. Nature soothes like nothing else.

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