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by axg11 5y ago
Do you think being recognized made you stay in that role any longer? Or did it solely contribute to making it a more positive place to work?
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Sounds like a healthy culture. Am I right in understand that it is mostly your boss that does the recognition? And it is their responsibility to ensure everyone feels recognized?
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Great point that I did not consider the importance of. Company cultures that are low on recognition are probably also low on constructive criticism.
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Why do you think there is nobody recognizing your work? Out of interesting - do you make an attempt to recognize others?
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Do you keep track of who is being recognised? Presumably the “props” aren’t evenly distributed, which is natural. I wonder whether certain people are under recognised.
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New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – Chinchilla Scaling Law(lesswrong.com)
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To counter that, there were likely other people with smaller contributions not listed as authors. Some of the leadership are likely earning 2-3x my estimate salary.
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There are 67 authors on the PaLM paper. Assuming average salary of $150k (probably a large underestimate for Google employees) that's $10M+/year in salary alone. Compute is a big cost factor for this project but it's not clea
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Ask HN: Do you feel recognized at work?
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Could you expand on both of those? They sound really interesting but I'm not sure I understand the issues or use cases.
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Why do you think Facebook are so evil? I understand that their main product has negative effects on society, but so does every social media platform (including LinkedIn and Twitter). More than the other platforms, Facebook has tried to mode
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Any sources on Stripe not being profitable?
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BS marketing aside, there is a real market for Cohere, GPT-3 and other large language model APIs. Tonnes of companies want to generate embeddings from text or perform other NLP tasks, without having to hire machine learning experts. Why han
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Sharing aspects of your personal life should come naturally and never be forced. I think the role that leadership/management has to play here is to lead by example. A healthy work environment acknowledges that everyone has lives outsid
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Generative machine learning is still super early. In the short term a lot of the interesting work in machine learning will continue to be focused on large models run on compute clusters (GPT-3, Dall-E, PaLM, RETRO). In the long term I'
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Amongst a sea of negatives, that they continued to share these numbers with employees is a positive mark for the culture at Fast. Sure, it's easy to say with hindsight that Fast employees should have seen the demise coming. On the othe
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A populist policy that amounts to pissing into the wind. Canada's rising real estate prices has a simple cause: demand far outstrips supply. The demand isn't driven by foreign investors. It's driven by a 1.1% annual populatio
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This thread is ridiculous. At FAANG, and everywhere really, promos are decided based on impact and influence. FAANG are just more likely to be working on open source projects than employees at other companies. All impact is difficult to qua
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I really don't agree. When I work with a creative I'm not working with them because of their content generation skills. I'm working with them because of their taste and curation ability that results in the end product. The na
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This is incredible work. From the paper: > Limitations > Although conditioning image generation on CLIP embeddings improves diversity, this choice does come with certain limitations. In particular, unCLIP [Dall-E 2] is worse at bindin
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by axg11 5y ago
Thanks for the advice.
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Do you work in software development? I have, on multiple occasions, introduced bugs that are orders of magnitude wackier than this.
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I agree with you, "proof of personhood" is not the greatest barrier to UBI. It is one barrier though. If you look at recent COVID benefits in Canada (CERB), there was widespread fraud in how this was claimed. That was within a cou
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Many people already have.
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I had a few interactions with employees at Worldcoin. At a high level they're trying to solve a worthy problem: proof of personhood for crypto. HN is very anti-crypto so I expect any conversation on this topic is an uphill battle. If y
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This is most likely a bug rather than malicious intent or predatory pricing. This type of pricing makes zero sense from a conversions point of view. Don't get me wrong, every telco in North America is an oligopolistic, stagnant, rent-s
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Edit, as a Twitter feature, has been weaponized. It's now a symbol of how Twitter has stagnated and failed to evolve into a more relevant (and potentially profitable) product. Even though it has been in the works for more than a year,
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Reusable rockets.
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I'm sure the quality varies wildly between big-co's, my experience is admittedly very narrow. Perhaps I should have written "used to working with internal tooling" - the majority of companies will never develop any inter
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Context: currently at a FAANG, worked for startups in the past The only way to answer the question is to generalize. There will always be individual exceptions. The pros and cons below mainly apply to engineers who only have experience in o

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