LouisSayers

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by LouisSayers 2y ago
One thing that wasn't really covered was: why did you sell? Especially at a 2.4 multiple... It seems like you could have just let it keep running mostly on autopilot (assuming the team could keep working on improvements)?
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> They learn that life is completely unpredictable As someone with pretty much the upbringing you described, I don't think this was the takeaway. For me personally, I learnt adaptability, how to adjust to new situations and people q
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I agree, to me it's always looked like baby speak. Reading about "FUBAR" makes it even worse.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You'd be surprised how much crime goes on in plain sight. There are literally people on Instagram making stories of themselves showing off their drugs and stacks of money. Given that a lot of law enforcement doesn't even bother wi
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You need to prep for job interviews anyway. I'd rather spend the majority of my time being productive.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Don't do it, help us keep our high salaries :D Joking aside, even with AI generating code, someone has to know how to talk to it, how to understand the output, and know what to do with it. AI is also not great for novel concepts and ma
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I use Claude and there's a couple things I'd suggest. 1) You need to be the boss with the AI being your assistant. You are now a project manager coming up with strict requirements of what you'd like done. Your developer (AI)
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You may as well say "Researchers discover: not having money sucks". Personally, I've voluntarily gone without employment for many short stretches, as well as a 2 year stretch, and each time I've thoroughly enjoyed it. Tr
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You pay because they started glueing them in... Back in 2012 you could upgrade the RAM yourself. Now there's no real alternative.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Yes, it's a number of things. Small country, fairly neutral stance, little involvement in international conflict, and huge distance. Follow that up with alliances and there's not much reason to come to NZ, other than for a holiday
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's really not though. Although NZ has agreements with Aus and the US, you'll find on the ground that kiwis are actually not super fond of the US. We won't let US nuclear ships into our waters, and we actually have quite a g
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's not something that happens very often, so I'm OK with pushing myself a bit before interviews. The way that I see it is that it's a financial investment. Not only can you increase your chances of multiple offers (which ca
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I have a decent CV (comp sci degree, awards etc) and over a decade of experience. My strategy is quite simple - when I need a job I search for and apply for jobs I like the look of. I might apply to a handful of companies. I tailor my CV fo
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> At the same time, these are tools that solve problems I don't have. If you're applying for jobs in companies, and those companies want you to have skills in tools x, y, z, then they have a need and they have problem scenari
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's your perspective. The real question is, given all the materials on the internet that can literally tell you why these tools are useful (I mean, surely if you just read the docs you'd find out?!), why have you not done the wor
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> Also, learning multiplication with numbers higher than 10 still relies on knowing the multiplication table You've actually just proved my point - you used a method of breaking down the problem into a different problem and then sol
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> I can't "deduce" what 7*8 is by any rule But you can break this into a different problem knowing that 2^3 = 8, and doing 7*2*2*2. This isn't as fast but is in a way more useful because while 7*8 is fairly easy to r
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> You can't know this for certain Except AI is already being used by people (like myself) every day as part of their usual work flow - and it's a huge boost in productivity. It's not IF it will make an impact - it IS cur
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I really hate how a lot of people treat a manager as a "mini-boss". A manager should really just be another role on the team, with the possibility of firing a team member being a decision for the team, not a single managerial role
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
For me, I can imagine the feeling of being on a windy path, spatially aware of the paths the forest, the mountains - even a stream, but in terms of "seeing" it's more like walking into your bedroom in the dark and knowing whe
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's kinda scary to think that researchers would be using ChatGPT other than a rubber duck to bounce ideas off of. There are a couple issues I can see in that people may be unaware of how much the AI's hallucinate, but also there&
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Not just scientists, but everyone! My partner recently went a bit nuts writing an article with the help of GPT4. She was very proud of how productive she'd been until I asked if she'd actually searched for the papers GPT4 had refe
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You're right in that if you go through the docs you can find all the info you might need. It's really catered for beginners, people that have next to no knowledge of graph databases or Neo4j and want to get up to speed in just a f
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Well if my course and teaching was crap I wouldn't get good reviews and therefore many sales. I've spent $0 on marketing. https://www.udemy.com/neo4j-foundations/ There are many people who do teach and explai
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> Properly motivating most design patterns requires context of a sufficiently complex codebase As someone that's made a best selling technical course, I strongly disagree. It's 100% laziness and/or disregard for the reader
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Can someone also write an article on how not to write code like is in this article? `DeadlineSetter` should not be a class, and besides that the implementation makes zero sense. The whole thing should probably just be a single if statement.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
You can get around this by creating memory palaces and breaking up the task into chunks and then inserting the chunks into places within your palace. Then you have direct access to the start of each chunk, so like a hash table of linked lis
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I have this feeling too and recently started making a calculator which I intend to add a comparison for (housecalculator.co.nz) Of course reality is nuanced - a friend of mine for example is building out essentially his own apartment in his
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Same with charging an apple mouse - like they can't stand the idea of having a cable sticking out of it while being used.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> (in a few years) Products can be created simply by telling a computer what you wish for Most people don't know what they want though, and we take it for granted because we are good at making things that others are too. We'll

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