Sanguinaire

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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Not in the field, so genuine question: what is the evidence/theory to support the notion that deep learning is at all a reasonable route towards AGI? As I understand, this is nothing like how actual neurons work - and since they are th
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
In short, more suitable staffing and scoping. Hopefully I don't need to explain the arbitrary nature of the 40-hour week. A lot of people like the idea of flexibility along with these reduced hours, but I'd actually prefer if we w
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I would extend this by saying that most of the people in the US earning mid 6 figures as developers are doing even less good for society than those managers. The market set those salaries high because the negligible marginal cost of reprodu
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
(I know, I was being sarcastic. Wondered if the ... would be semantically similar enough to /s to convey that, but clearly not.)
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I agree that LibreOffice is basically a non-starter in this competition, but I also think you are over-selling the MS support experience - most of the information online to help with Word/Excel is rudimentary garbage cluttering up the
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
From the cloud provider perspective, number 7 is by far the most important but the article really under-sells it. Cloud providers don't hunt around for SaaS products to rip off; they are approached by customers who are unhappy with the
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Again, depends heavily on the industry. Also, I'm not entirely sure this is a good thing; I see a lot of "Twitter famous" people fawning over each other at the moment in something resembling a white-collar version of the US t
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
All fine for Big Tech workers, but let's not forget about the large array of others who work in more "pedestrian" parts of the IT industry, ie those working for enterprise shops who are still working through the early stages
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Comparing the original statement to the subsequent analogy is a bit like comparing an apple and an NFT of an apple...
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I think over a longer timescale (~a decade) I would tend to agree. In the short term, there are too many people addicted to face-to-face work environments; often I feel that this is more down to office politics than productivity, but it&#x2
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Whether working in the office is preferable or even necessary is going to come down to individual teams, not whole companies. The employers who figure that out quickly will do well out of the current labour shortage. Any business insisting
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
A billion dollars today and a billion 10 years ago are not the same thing. It's not just a question of inflation either; there is more money sloshing around in VC (or similar non-retail funding sources) than ever.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I think the whole idea is idiotic, but this particular point doesn't seem like it would be the blocker. We already have employment contracts which state hours to be worked and similar mundane details, this wouldn't be any differen
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
To see how this can go tragically badly, try using MS Teams with one login address across multiple client accounts.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Alternatively, stop pretending this industry is a precious snowflake and conduct reasonable-duration, non-exploitative interviews like everyone else in the history of modern employment.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Showing up for the interview, participating in good faith, likely other employer-favouring bullshit.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
HPL is a stress test with a notionally useful output measurement - just about the most effective way of pushing CPU load to the limit, and it tells you what fraction of the theoretical maximum FLOPS you can actually achieve given the other
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Employees outside the games division already had much slacker rules about game development; I expect this change aligns things for all AWS employees at the lower bar.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Having worked for both, I would dispute the hiring bar point - but I'm sure it is team dependent.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Is it better to aspire for balance by chasing both, or neither? After all, what is status if you have no-one to brag to - and what good is having a lot of free time when you are just going to end up dead either way, and with work being the
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
Highly debatable. While Amazon is more likely to be on the shit-list of Joe Public, in technical circles it comes down to AWS vs MS. Frankly if MS hadn't bought GitHub to distract magpie developers, there would be no contest.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
The part I find baffling is how companies like Spotify justify paying high salaries for engineers just to deliver trivial improvements over what Windows Media Player was offering 20 years ago. If they were piling this effort into reducing c
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
The rebate you mention sort of already exists, just restricted to public sector research customers. Think the cap is that egress is waived as long as it is less than 15% of the bill.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
You are correct, nothing Intel provides in their Python distro cannot be obtained elsewhere - this is just a nice wrapper.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
We could start with something similar to the concept of Pareto optimality; Intel could have delivered their maximum performance without preventing optimizations from being applied equally on AMD hardware, but instead they choose to disadvan
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
This is trivially easy to defeat, just so you know. If anyone reading is ever in need of optimized math library performance on AMD, just speak to your hardware/cloud vendor; they all know the tricks.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I need a catalyst - motivation is fine once I'm going, but my activation energy for most tasks is enormous.
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
"Should be" is the operative part of your statement - I totally agree there, and that the salesmanship requirement indicates a systemic failure. I'd say it goes much further than just the educational institution being at faul
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
I was described as "too scholarly" by my PhD advisor when writing up my first couple of papers. I'm in industry now. People doing a PhD/post-doc need to understand that there is no escape from "sales". Lots of
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by Sanguinaire 5y ago
It's no surprise, that was classic MS strategy. Sell the thing everyone actually needs (Office, because they smothered the competition), but bundle it with something sticky which will also hoover up data about your workers - no need fo

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