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by aix1 4y ago
What is this thing? Never seen it but you two got me curious.
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I think the current reality is that Sundar is more of a figurehead, with Ruth calling the shots.
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Isn't this what abstracts are for?
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I understand Taylor expansion and that we're not talking rigorous maths here. However, what I don't get in your example is the implied connection between the timescale and the order of the Taylor polynomial. Could you elaborate?
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by aix1 4y ago
When choosing how to lay out footprints during packing, does KiCad take into account electrical connections between them? (This does sound like an extremely useful feature either way, but I'm curious.)
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M. C. Escher geese: https://tilemaker.app/?id=vvn2zsrhhfa2ddy2op5k2zjkbu
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Unfortunately, we have no idea what series of prompts led to the screenshot. (For example, can Bing, like some other LLMs, be asked to write stuff on an arbitrary topic?)
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I've not come across his work before and am rather enjoying the deck. Would anyone recommend other analysts who also look at macro-economic trends through a technological lens?
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> Just to air a side gripe, I don't know why journalists and/or editors think statements like this are helpful in the least. Did you ask them 1 hour before your deadline? Was it a week ago? I think this is an absolutely fair qu
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"Inaccurate Calculation" Affecting Laid Off Google Employees' Severance(businessinsider.com)
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by aix1 4y ago
There are some recommendations on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34729483
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I feel like Parlement deserves a mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series) I rather enjoyed it.
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What we don't know is whether that "No" is actually a "No".
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And also, with regards to "they [Google] invented transformers", from what I can tell only two of the paper's eight authors are still at Google. (I work at Google, but this is based on public sources.)
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There was also an AI event today: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/alphabet-shares-slip-followi... The official video no longer available, but there's a copy at https://www.youtube.com/wat
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> I actually think Microsoft is betting on the wrong dog. But let's see :) In your opinion, which dog should they be betting on?
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I get "The number of legs of three horses and a duck is 28. Horses have four legs each, so three horses would have 12 legs. Ducks have two legs, so the duck would have two legs. Therefore, the total number of legs is 28."
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by aix1 4y ago
> Google currently handles 100,000 queries per second. There's a lot of duplication in those queries. If the answers can be cached, a more useful metric would be unique queries per some unit of time (longer than a second). That s
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by aix1 4y ago
Anecdotally, this rings true. However, I also wanted to point out that "Distinguished SWE" != "IC". There are plenty of L8/L9 Google employees who are on technical ladders but whose jobs are mainly -- or solely --
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by aix1 4y ago
Not really sure what you're trying to say, but Vint Cerf is a VP (i.e. L10).
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I don't know what ladder (SWE or EM) Chris DiBona was on, but he was L9 and was let go. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34558576 More broadly, there have been a bunch of cuts at the VP and director levels. I have
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by aix1 4y ago
> he cornered me and coerced me to sign over rights to an open source project that predated my employment to a third party I'm really curious as to the motivation and background to this. How much can you tell us without revealing y
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by aix1 4y ago
Could you expand on the education system and how it helps assimilate second-generation migrants? Thanks.
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Here is some literature in case anyone is interested: 1. A 2006 review in The Lancet Oncology: http://drugfree.org.au/images/pdf-files/library/alcohol/Canc... 2. A recent study in The Lancet Oncology: h
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by aix1 4y ago
Exactly this, thank you for articulating it so well.
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Tech or finance
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What a great list, thank you for sharing.
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> Is this "the best there is" in this price category That was my conclusion when I looked into this about a month ago, especially if USB-C is the main focus. I remember a reviewer pointing out some deficiencies on the USB-A fr
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That's definitely a risk. The firmware on the unit is upgradable. While there's no guarantee that the manufacturer will (or can) add support for any given future standard, looking at the firmware changelog suggests they have at l
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Is it this protocol we're talking about? https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/WS2812.pdf (Your comment piqued my curiosity and I looked it up.) I think the desire to only use a single wire for signalling is u

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