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by telltruth 2y ago
While most of the interview is boring and nothing new has been said by Toner, to me, it feels like huge political fight where sama tried to overthrow her first and then Toner went in attack mode trying to overthrow him. It's clear she
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by telltruth 2y ago
They aquihired 3 people who didn’t do any technical work. Nadella miscalculated big time here.
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by telltruth 2y ago
My guess is that Mustafa wanted to sell to MSFT at 10X but MSFT didn’t wanted pay that kind of money. Mustafa was ok with fire sale but VCs were greedy. Mustafa then quite in rage.
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by telltruth 2y ago
They had raised massive amount and not from good patient investors. No traction means Mustafa got fired. This is not surprising though but what is surprising is MSFT picked him up. The guy is not technical, is not even visionary and had jus
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by telltruth 3y ago
It is especially horrible for new Amazon employee because of their tiered stock vests. You might have left your great job because Amazon offered you half million signing bonus but you won't last long enough to get even 30% of that.
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by telltruth 3y ago
I have tried using LLamaIndex and APIs are just aweful. It's a nightmare of class hierarchies and abstractions that only author can wrap their heads around. Comments are basically useless classic style of rewriting the function name. J
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by telltruth 3y ago
Most people don’t know some history. During 1990s, a group of people made a fortune out of consulting gigs where they will be called in by their CTO friends in traditional enterprises to save the late and over budget projects. One of these
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by telltruth 3y ago
Could someone explain why is this world changing?
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by telltruth 3y ago
Below summarizes the epidemic at many labs, especially in AI. If you want funding, GPUs and head count then you must prove yourself to be in top 5. The result is relentless pressure for the results that can create headlines. It identified
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by telltruth 3y ago
Most people don’t know this but OpenAI is actually very dysfunctional company and only accidentally successfully because of just handful of right people having a rather lucky hunch (Schulman, Redcliff et al). However, execution wise they ar
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by telltruth 3y ago
Everyone not cynical about marriage only realize their mistake after they get put in 50% bucket of divorces couples. No one who is getting married think they will the one who end up in divorce. It's always that other couple :).
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by telltruth 3y ago
Another case in point: Musk's wife went to court for Tesla's ownership during their divorce but Tesla board had made some provision to avoid this. If Musk had written public letters like above during good days of their relationshi
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by telltruth 3y ago
From everything I can read, I think Jessica contributed as much as pg but I have no direct knowledge in their world and it's not my business to speculate there. On the other hand, it would be hard to argue that Lucas, Bezos or Gates wi
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by telltruth 3y ago
I wish pg the best but I think everyone should know how much legal liability these kind of public writings creates. A person I know closely had 25 year marriage in CA and he always believed in love and lifelong relationship. But as their ki
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by telltruth 3y ago
The data created by people should be owned by people. They should have right to decide if it can be distributed free or with charge through APIs, archrivals etc. I absolutely don't understand how Reddit, Twitter, Yelp etc think that t
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by telltruth 3y ago
No. The court has kindly ordered to pay half billion to her billionaire investors. Apparently they are going in prison ONLY because they screwed investors. I truly don't understand this part. These investors agreed to give money based
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by telltruth 3y ago
Balwani's story is quite amazing. The dude won startup lottery and made enough money that he wouldn't have to worry rest of the life. He had a mansions, sports cars and lived his life happily. One day this young women walks in his
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by telltruth 3y ago
Google I/O was a massive ad trip. Bard is still pretty bad compared to GPT-4. If you tweak their own examples a bit, Bard basically craps out. This is pretty amazing given they have all the talent, compute and data in the world.
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by telltruth 3y ago
Wow... this is huge departure from their algo driven culture and stepping in to Microsoft/IBM style sales rep driven culture. If GPT+Bing takes away 10% of their traffic, would their stock crash?
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by telltruth 3y ago
Here's the power of startups: Posterous.com and loopt.com, both unknown to vast majority of people, had a short life, made no material impact and no one you know uses them now. However, the founders of even these startups went on to be
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by telltruth 4y ago
I am not sure how legal argument can work unless you show that it breaks equal employment laws. DE&I actually is beneficial in many roles such as design, customer advocacy, sales, support, UX and so on. It helps achieve a better represe
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by telltruth 4y ago
At our school, 100% of teachers are women. One Hundred Percent. 97% of administrative staff is also women. In all of hair saloons in my area, 100% of staff is women. All of the nurses in our nearby hospital are women. They don't care a
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by telltruth 4y ago
It's not left or right ideologies but CEO and their desire to be in good standing in social media. During early 2010s, there was whole barrage of books and editorial on income gap, gender gap and biases. News channels regularly picked
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by telltruth 4y ago
Big tech profitability does not get hurt by hiring mediocre people. They are post-talent businesses. They do not depend on tech talent to drive and keep profit margins but rather depend on established monopoly and maintaining barrier-to-ent
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by telltruth 4y ago
Puzzling thing for me is why people are split by genders. In developed countries like USA, women is as free as men. There are zero cultural aspects like in Saudi Arabia or other countries that prevents women from getting education or apply
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by telltruth 4y ago
This is not how it works dude. Right now, in big tech, teams have target of 30% diversity, i.e., 1/3rd of the team. There is literally not that many "diverse" people available to hire. You would be lucky to even fill these po
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by telltruth 4y ago
Managers are NOT free to choose who to hire. When you get headcount, they tell you to make sure not to sacrifice quality and, also in same breath, they tell you that you have no career paths if you don't make your DEI numbers. If there
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by telltruth 4y ago
There is a silver lining. This DEI thing is now causing massive influx of sub-par employees in big tech. This is not because minority is sub-par but because hiring practices incentivize sacrificing quality over diversity to make your number
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by telltruth 4y ago
The problem with all these self help gurus is that they end up advising exactly opposite of what they preach. This dude’s schedule looks sheer torture. He basically never turns off and lives fairly robotic life with military discipline but
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by telltruth 4y ago
What are you talking about? Saudi were not exploited by western companies. After independence from British, they contracted out to western companies but took the healthy profits for basically doing nothing. Later, they bought out everything

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