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by aerhardt 2y ago
What is the source on this? All I can find is this Twitter thread, and reposts of this from Reddit. I cannot find any official sources. https://twitter.com/ideafaktory/status/1732095406891282603
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by aerhardt 2y ago
Why would you compare the advantaged US groups versus the entirety of other populations?
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by aerhardt 2y ago
I've formally studied stats up to calculus-based probability and I'm now brushing up on math ahead of starting Georgia Tech's OMSCS. I feel more fluent than I've ever been but the following quoted passage from the book r
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by aerhardt 2y ago
There's great value in quality technical mentorship, but they're trading it off for an opportunity to learn leadership, autonomy, and cross-functional skills at a very fast pace... That's not a route for everyone but it could
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by aerhardt 2y ago
Aren't you brave, presumptuously insulting random people on the internet like that behind a fake name?
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by aerhardt 2y ago
But why would OP or I switch away from React when we believe it's mature, stable, fast enough, and has a huge community, resources, and ecosystem? And perhaps most important of all: it's the tool we know.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
The moment the insta-glasses expand beyond a few dorks is the moment I start wearing a balaclava everywhere I go.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
o1-preview is the best model I've tried thus far, but I wouldn't say it's even capable of putting a basic CRUD app together, without constant coaxing major adjustments and on my part.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
The thing I like the most about AI coding is how it lowers the threshold of energy and motivation needed to start a task. Being able to write a detailed spec of what I want, or even discussing an attack plan (for high-level architecture or
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by aerhardt 2y ago
I didn't know about any of these incidents, but I could never listen to the podcast because they all sounded like a bunch of douchebags to me. Maybe sometimes there's an evolutionary advantage in prejudice?
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by aerhardt 2y ago
Regarding the last point: maybe you're based in the US and you know some rich employees there, but I don't know a single one where I live. Consulting is very hard - for the reasons you mention, and others - but in some places it h
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by aerhardt 2y ago
My point was it's not AGI, I don't even know what you're talking about or who you're replying to anymore.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
As generally intelligent beings, we can adapt to reading and producing 5M LOC, or to live in arctic climates, or to build a building in colonial or classical style as dictated by cost, taste, and other factors. That is generality in intel
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by aerhardt 2y ago
> There is nothing magical or special about human brain. There is a lot about the human brain that even the world's top neuroscientists don't know. There's plenty of magic about it if we define magic as undiscovered knowle
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by aerhardt 2y ago
Well in terms of processing speed the AI could iterate on different designs until it finds an extensible one, with some kind of reinforcement learning loop. Produce a certain design, get stuck, throw it away, try a new one. Just like humans
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by aerhardt 2y ago
> software errors often cascade Whereas software defects in design and architecture subtly accumulate , until they leave the codebase in a state in which it becomes utterly unworkable. It is one of the chief reasons why good devs get pa
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by aerhardt 2y ago
Winston Churchill got a Nobel in literature, too.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
I am in your camp. LLMs have made everything better for me, both learning and producing.
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by aerhardt 2y ago
It's doing the code of 30 devs equal to your level? What kinds of things do you program?
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by aerhardt 2y ago
I code, I use GenAI every day, all day and it is not even close to 10x my productivity. Maybe 1,3x?
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by aerhardt 2y ago
I rarely get server errors on Reddit despite its massive scale… It’s the client which is a tire-fire. People blame React but that doesn’t have anything to do with it either. It’s just utter shit.
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by aerhardt 3y ago
This was in Spain, but I have no problem believing it's roughly the same everywhere in the world, with few exceptions.
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by aerhardt 3y ago
Multivariate calculus is also useful in probability, which in my degree was rigorous too, and is broadly useful in business, so perhaps I’m being unfair about all that math not being useful in business management. I’m grateful because later
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by aerhardt 3y ago
I was taught linear algebra and multivariate calculus as a business major. They could hardly justify why they were teaching it in that context - they were weeder courses - but I always wished they had at least tried to give us a hint of app
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by aerhardt 3y ago
I’m glad more and more people are realizing. Preferring it over Barcelona is very personal; I completely get people who prefer a coastal city as beautiful as the Ciudad Condal. But Madrid was underrated for ages. It’s sunny, beautiful, safe
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by aerhardt 3y ago
It still takes discipline, I don't wake up every morning dying to program - sometimes the task at hand is boring, sometimes the motivation is not there, sometimes a little bit of a and a little bit of b. And I still code to a good st
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by aerhardt 3y ago
I had a goal of programming every morning for an hour, and it wouldn’t stick… Once I dropped any pretense of making money, or getting anything out of it other than enjoying the craft, it has finally stuck.
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by aerhardt 3y ago
It means instead of the philosophy prevalent in the JS world of bringing everything in as a dependency by yourself, the library attempts to provide sensible default solutions for you. I don’t know what that might cover, but it might be thin
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by aerhardt 3y ago
Anything involving classification, extraction, or synthesis.
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by aerhardt 3y ago
It really isn’t… Chinese products are beating everyone else because their labor costs are cheaper, period. In the case of newer industries like electric cars, because they are heavily subsidized by the state. I won’t get into the debate of

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