zeptian

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by zeptian 2y ago
fair take, but my view these days is the following. there is way too much information-garbage floating around. hence I try to stick to time-tested classics particularly when it comes to certain topics. now, your time-tested classic may be d
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by zeptian 2y ago
End of the day, there are many belief systems that we human hold onto, but we need a method to settle opinion. And science happens to be a certain kind of a method for settling opinion. CS Peirce wrote about it so beautifully in his 1877 es
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by zeptian 2y ago
guilty as charged ! But Bohm's "On Creativity", to me presents a much deeper "philosophical" take on a) what is creativity and b) how to foster it. And I dont see it referenced in this text at all. Again, since this
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by zeptian 2y ago
These kind of studies are dubious. The PhD report could have been generated by an LLM in about a day, and no one would know any better. It works like this: Take any hypothesis. And have a lot of verbiage around it with dubious experiments t
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by zeptian 2y ago
InstaFail. Nobody wants this. We are already saturated with bull-shit through social media. Now, there is yet another devices that manufactures BS before it hits our eyes. Steer clear.
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by zeptian 2y ago
the wet-dream of management is to get rid of high-paid knowledge workers. Now, chatGPT is the answer to their prayers, or, so they think.
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by zeptian 2y ago
ex-ibm here. Some context from an earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558554#41561970 Basically, management rot sets in with MBAs in charge who have no clue how software products get built. They see code
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by zeptian 2y ago
very nice app. just the front-end browser component alone is super-slick. but expecting users to bring their data to your platform is a barrier to adoption.
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by zeptian 2y ago
why is this news ? they do it twice a year. they have way too many employees, and it will take them a decade of such cuts to "rightsize"
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by zeptian 2y ago
the two types are nice ! the author likens your first type to building "mental" roads, which form new pathways of cognition, and takes time, and has emotional resistance, and requires conscious effort and practice to carve out. al
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by zeptian 2y ago
you touch on a raw nerve that could be the subject of a long post. in summary, the attitude of management in many large companies is that code is just work that needs to get done, and any engineer who can type on a keyboard can do it equall
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by zeptian 2y ago
this memo is one for the ages. filled with management speak.
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by zeptian 2y ago
Being ex-IBM, i can relate. Basically, the management class despises SDE worker class, and thinks of them as overhead. Recent statements by the aws head about chatGPT replacing SDEs is along the same lines. SDEs are tools that just do what