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   by __loam 2y ago

   We shouldn't have to explain that it's plainly obvious that society massively benefits from an educated populace, especially one that claims to be a democracy. There are incredibly broad benefits from a reduction in crime to the e
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   by __loam 2y ago

   I got an excellent education from the public school system and had passionate, committed teachers throughout, and was well prepared to pursue an engineering degree at a top university. The solution to education is not to try and scale up so
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   by __loam 2y ago

   Put much more politely than I would. I'm glad people are starting to question the narrative on this technology.
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   by __loam 2y ago

   I'm glad I got my degrees before people starting trying to integrate bullshit generators into my education. I've been really frustrated with the conversation about the potential applications for this technology. These chatbots hav
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   by __loam 2y ago

   Thank you for game programming patterns as well.
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   by __loam 2y ago

   Remote work during Covid was so nice because you could sleep at natural times and not get judged for it.
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   by __loam 2y ago

   This was true like 8 months ago but investors are getting wise to it.
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   by __loam 2y ago

   Ensemble models are a real technique but boy do I feel stupid having not gotten into the making api calls to ai models grift.
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   by __loam 2y ago

   This is brilliant and psychotic.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Nintendo has a massive war chest. They'd definitely be fine for a while. But I agree that that got there by protecting their most valuable asset: their IP.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    It's already like this for creative communities in things like illustration and writing. You will (rightly) get ostracized and blocked by your peers for using AI. It's a signal for poor quality for most people in those spaces. Def
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    by __loam 2y ago

    A lot of that "commons" was the work of people who gave absolutely no permission for their data to be used like this, that is, creating a machine intended to compete with them. My hope is we collectively tell these freeloading ass
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    by __loam 2y ago

    He's making a good point. 100m was invested in stability. They are out of money with no clear path to product market fit after giving their model away for free. I'm personally ecstatic that they failed but it is worth asking about
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Does Figma understand their users are designers? E: Reminded of an anecdote from when I studied biomedical engineering. The professor told us about an endoscope system that worked better than the industry standard. The company was so excite
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    by __loam 2y ago

    > everything we create is some remixed version of acquired knowledge created by someone else Patently wrong. If this were true, technology wouldn't exist. Humans create new knowledge. Patents exist to incentivize this. > Tough qu
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Some lawyer at Microsoft is probably pretty pissed at that guy
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    by __loam 2y ago

    I’ll start caring when you tell me I’m getting an offer.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Maybe there would be fewer crusty cynics if the kind of loyalty and interest companies seem to expect from their employees was at all reciprocated.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    I'll do research if you guys actually decide to interview me. Huge waste of my time for me to give a shit about your company if our relationship ends with you throwing my resume in the trash and sending me a polite email telling me to
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    by __loam 2y ago

    The harder truth is that it's rare to find the perfect job, and rare to find the perfect candidate. There's an assumption with many of the views in this thread that the employment market is more efficient than it is at matching pe
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    by __loam 2y ago

    The expectation that most candidates should care about the "mission" strikes me as incredibly naive. I recently did a job search and spoke with a company I really wanted to work at, and that seemed like an awesome fit. I had a gre
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Are you hiring me to write code or are you hiring me for my knowledge of trivia?
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    by __loam 2y ago

    I don't know, spending a trillion dollars on housing development would probably solve a lot of problems.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    GPT-4 offered a marginal improvement over the capability of GPT-3. Depending on how you measure it, it would be hard to call it an exponential improvement. Let's say 30% just to put a number on things. A significant improvement. GPT-3
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    by __loam 2y ago

    The creative destruction of the business cycle grinds ever onward.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    I think about this less by using kubuntu.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    So agencies will not have any power to actually regulate.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    What I mean is that, when trying to find software for Linux, nearly everyone has an option available for Ubuntu and apt. The same isn't true for Tumbleweed unfortunately. You can fuck around with Fedora rpms when SUSE doesn't have
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    by __loam 2y ago

    I've also used Tumbleweed after I had some problems with Arch. It's a very good distro but I ultimately switched to kubuntu she xubuntu because it was easier to install software.
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    by __loam 2y ago

    Google is completely fucking critical to our society. People would unironically die if it went down tomorrow.