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by JCM9 2y ago
So there’s AI that’s really good at doing the skills we’re hiring for. We want you to not use AI so we can hire you for a job that we’re saying we’re going to replace with AI. Sounds like a great plan.
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by JCM9 2y ago
The AI items are concerning. The DEI stuff though is gone and isn’t coming back. The concept was well intentioned but, quite ironically, these programs turned into a hub of biased discriminatory behavior and it was becoming increasingly har
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by JCM9 2y ago
So their AI sales agent is absolutely amazing but they gotta hire more humans to sell it. Got it.
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by JCM9 2y ago
+400% engineering time and effort because of the bloated mess Salesforce has become, then -30% because of “AI productivity”. Got it. Most SFDC projects I’ve seen recently are over budget and behind schedule on delivery.
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by JCM9 2y ago
Not necessarily. The playbook of what tends to happen is first a bunch of players go bust in the race to the bottom, then the survivors are free to raise prices a bit when others realize there’s not much point in entering a race to the bott
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by JCM9 2y ago
Nice overview. The challenge ahead for “AI” companies is that it appears there’s really no technical moat here. Someone comes out with something amazing and new and within months (if not weeks or days) it’s quickly copied. That environment
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by JCM9 2y ago
Will probably get undone in the first 10 minutes of the next administration.
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by JCM9 2y ago
What’s so special about Palantir? They seem to trade on this mystique of doing “secret government work” (spoiler alert most secret government work isn’t all that exiting). From what I’ve seen it’s fairly routing analytics and ML with a lot
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by JCM9 2y ago
These types of articles always read like “yeah you could buy a Land Rover, but this Kia hatchback over here still gets you from A to B and is only a fraction of the cost.” It seems lost on the authors that yes that might work for some folks
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by JCM9 2y ago
Palantir seems more Mechanical Turk-like than amazing tech. In my observations they could do some interesting things with data but there was no real secret sauce to dealing with the usual messyness of real world data beyond just deploying m
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by JCM9 2y ago
Yes. You may only legally hire an H1B visa holder for a role if you can demonstrate that you made a good faith effort to hire an American (technically someone with full right to work in the US) and couldn’t. It’s no secret many companies do
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by JCM9 2y ago
OpenAI is shifting from “we did some really cool stuff” phase into the reality of needing to run a company, getting revenue, etc phase. Not common for folks to want to move on and go find the next cool thing. AGI is not around the corner. B
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by JCM9 2y ago
They set out to do some cool stuff. They did. Company is now in the reality of they need to run a business and make revenue/profit which is, honestly, a lot less fun than when you were in “let’s change the world and do cool stuff” phas
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by JCM9 2y ago
Not surprised. Uber doesn’t exactly have a reputation of being the most ethical company out there.
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by JCM9 2y ago
The UK was, and to some senses still is, a culture that strongly values who your parents are vs what you’ve personally accomplished. The head of state is the child of the previous head of state. The House of Lords is still a thing. Prestige
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by JCM9 2y ago
When you see how badly most academics and academic administrators are at actually running things from a business standpoint it no surprise the academic sector is in such a mess at the moment. Sadly this whole mess is funded by debt handed o
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by JCM9 2y ago
They seem to be sold out of an extremely popular product and seem to be making good money doing so (per AWS’s results). How’s that “anti-customer?” Also, in case you didn’t get the memo GPUs are hard to come by most places these days.
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by JCM9 2y ago
For folks wondering why these sort of videos (there are lots on YouTube) always focus on AM towers: 1. On AM the radio energy literally pulses (the amplitude modulation) and thus the arcs of plasma will pulse too thus creating the audio noi
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by JCM9 2y ago
I would hope that our warships have sophisticated enough counter signals intelligence systems to detect the presence of rogue transmitters regardless of if they are broadcasting an SSID or not. Even a run of the mill corporate security setu
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by JCM9 2y ago
Getting things into orbit is table stakes. Boeing needed to prove that they could build a reliable crew vehicle on a reasonable budget, and by that measure they have failed.
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by JCM9 2y ago
Billions of dollars has been reduced to a piece of space junk stuck on the ISS making annoying strange noises.
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by JCM9 2y ago
This sort of thing is brilliant. Folks put things inside walls a lot. When doing a bathroom repair I needed a few additional tiles that would be impossible to find (was an old house). Guess what I found when we busted open the wall… the lef
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by JCM9 2y ago
The challenge here is the broader challenge with AI (eg self driving cars). Folks want the benefits but while also absolving themselves of the responsibility, liability and accountability for the quality of the output. That’s a fundamental
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by JCM9 2y ago
The tech is super interesting and useful, but it’s also becoming very commoditized. Those selling compute win but most of these AI startups don’t have a viable business plan. I wouldn’t call the tech “a bubble” but the hype around AI startu
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by JCM9 2y ago
The business model for GenAI companies is still very unclear. The tech is super interesting and can be quite useful, but this space has turned into an arms race that’s led to mass commoditization of said arms. The tech world benefits from t
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by JCM9 2y ago
It’s looking like many impacted end-user machines are hard bricked unless you can get into the hard drive to delete the file causing this. Even if you can do that it’s not something that is easily (or potentially even possible) to automate
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by JCM9 2y ago
The auto market comes in waves. Not that long ago supply was thin and dealers were adding big markups to the cars that were available. Now many dealers are backed into a position to practically beg you to take cars off the lot. Show up with
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by JCM9 2y ago
This is highlighting what has happened with all forms of ML. Give a baseline set of folks the same dataset and they will end up with a model that performs about the same. Companies are one-upping each other but it’s very back and forth and
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by JCM9 2y ago
The killer app would something with the general ease of use of spreadsheets but with the audit-ability and change management rigor of code development.
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by JCM9 2y ago
Spreadsheets have this strange productivity curve where for quick and dirty stuff it’s very fast but go deeper and the spreadsheet turns into this unmanageable mess that greatly reduces productivity long term (vs say using code to do the an

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