GreedClarifies

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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Some truth to what you are saying. AWS is amazing at operations, it came from the top down and was a marvel to observe. It could be company culture based, as Amazon retail is simply an operations company (and perhaps the best one in the wor
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
I've been both an IC and a manager at FANG. In some cases the work is terrible, an example is CloudFront at Amazon. It is a weirdly badly run organization which causes heavy operational stress on the teams that support the service and
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Yes, innovation from the private sector. Just like the innovation we've had in solar panels over the past 50 years. https://www.rocketsolar.com/learn/energy-efficiency/how-cost...
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
I don't think that's why Google sat on it. My guess is that it was hubris of the key researchers. They all had these castles in the sky of how it was "supposed to work" and then all that is required for quite powerful sy
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Of course they have those barriers. The incentive for managers is to promote. Perhaps if managers had budgets of dollars instead of budgets of headcount then the imbalance wouldn't be as large, but AFAIK companies do not do that except
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Under leveling compared to what?
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Seriously?
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
6 months of vesting? That's a real benefit. I wish big tech had done something like that. Very generous. Of course it would have been far more expensive for big tech to do it.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Directors have been getting a weekly report based upon this data from within a couple of months of the start of the pandemic.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Who did Google forget to pay off?
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
A lot of Amazon in that list, that's not a bad thing, one of Amazon's greatest strengths is its principles. Did the author spend time at Amazon?
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Of course the unintended side effects will dominate. That won't stop those in power from trying things that increase their ego. The best part about this kind of meddling is that it feels good now. It gets votes now, but the pain is onl
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
That's not a business strategy. Likely this is driven by ego. Yann wants to cement his position as a leader in AI and while he clearly does not appreciate LLMS at all, he realizes that he needs to make waves in this area. Mark needs
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Commenting the code in this manner sounds like a job for an LLM, maybe with human assistance in the short run.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
And the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) uses magnets that generate magnetic fields of up to 8.3 teslas.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
We used to hear about this all of the time circa 2010s but lately nothing. However, a number of the very rich are living quite a long time, and while they are visibly aging they are not aging as much as one would expect. This leads me to su
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
"It’s not rocket science or some evil magic" It sure is. If you had told people in 2019 that a computer program could summarize large topics and write cogent output you would have been placed in the asylum.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
That was a good interview as it exposed SBF. His answers were painfully stupid for a billionaire. I lost a lot of respect for the VC community after listening to that interview, I don't know how they got this so wrong. Perhaps it was j
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Hard disagree. Google has made it plainly clear that they don't have anything useable in this space. Bard scores below all other commercial model. Google is getting the asses handed to them, badly. I figured that the code red would whi
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
The benchmarks look amazing compared to other open source LLMs. Bravo Meta. Also allowing commercial use? Can be downloaded today? Available on Azure AI model catalog today? This is a very impressive release. However, if I were starting a c
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
“ The blame there lies solely in upper level leadership ” Not what I saw. Leadership was shockingly hard working. I have never seen a person who works harder than Calder at GOOG. Urs never stopped as well. Lower level VPs were always “on” a
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Smash the looms! Smash the looms!
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Yes. These tools are clearly very powerful and likely will get more powerful. What they do would have been considered science fiction 3 years ago. Getting into the habit of asking your "assistant" to perform tasks seems like an in
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
I guess we need clarity on whether using copyrighted material is covered under fair use. GenAI clearly meets the "transformative" standard. OTOH it seems likely that it will have difficulty with the "Amount and substantiality
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
He is completely correct. Weird that he would say it out loud. Of course we have all heard of a coworker who was placed on a PIP and then survived the PIP and went on to do well. It happens, but the people who struggle and then fail, or who
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
It really is amazing. From Oracle's Service Agreement: 4.2 You may not, or cause or permit others to: perform or disclose any benchmark or performance tests of the Services, including the Oracle Programs, without Oracle’s prior written
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
"There is no way web ads are worth what companies are paying for them now." Sadly, it seems that they are worth slightly more than what people are paying for them. I don't know who of the 5 billion online are motivated by the
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
Indeed. What the UAE did with Falcon was inspiring, well done! This is something that more governments could do.
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
I think that this has been somewhat nullified by the changes over the last few years where managers are supposed to be people managers exclusively, while high level ICs supposed to create direction and evaluate technical merit. It is a diff
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by GreedClarifies 3y ago
You nailed it. The requirements spelled out in the career ladder for IC vs. manager at FANG is ludicrous. During calibration the ladder generally isn't consulted but it could be weaponized at any time. It is quite intimidating.

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