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by caprock 4y ago
I can recommend 1-3 hour walks combined with podcasts, especially longform podcasts
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If you're interested in the topic of consciousness, and particularly viewing it through a more computational lens, I recommend seeking out some of the interviews with Joscha Bach from the last few years. He's been on several podca
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1. Build a functional test system, and write a big suite of tests which ensure preservation of behavior. Make it easy to run and see the results. 2. Slowly start extracting code and making small functions. Document like crazy in the code as
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A lot of these are interesting: https://webring.xxiivv.com
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Is this also true for Grammarly?
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For a nice collection of shorter stories, there's also: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days Book by Jessica Livingston
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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder This is a fantastic book about the individuals and team building a machine at Data General around 1979.
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That sounds like a reasonable point, from a purist business perspective. I have a tendency to assume the big players like meta have many pockets of inefficiency with respect to engineering headcount, and that many projects aren't very
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This sentiment is one I understand, and I'm not fond of deference to power either. That section of the article though, illustrates an example which I would say is useful when challenging any idea, not just one from a person with more &
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It's a little difficult with this article, to clearly understand the chain of responsibility. Does meta employ the vendor that employs the service staff? If so, who really decided to make staff cuts? And how does the union intersect wi
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One idea: Try starting with an alt on twitter, which gives you some freedom to experiment and make mistakes. You might also enjoy this article: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/being-your-selves-iden...
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It's ok to be happy.
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Yes, it's worth it, for multiple reasons. There's already lots of good advice here. Here's a variant idea: Take a two week vacation from employment very soon. Spend the first week doing nearly nothing aside from your version
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Sep 15 Updates to Twilio's Legal Terms and Conditions(twilio.com)
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Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party(youtube.com)
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> Distributing requests to GPUs with the best available price on the global market dramatically reduces cost Can you provide more insight into how this is accomplished? I remember seeing a similar sounding gpu rental service, but the na
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Oh, great point. That's a fantastic book.
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I was throwing it in as a bit of humor, but your comment illustrates how it really can provide fuel for an interesting set of conversations around ladders/roles where an engineering team can thrive. Does the peter principle assume a pe
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Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat(en.wikipedia.org)
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I'm curious. Were there many newspaper and magazine articles about life at IBM, GE, and other large corporations in the the 1950-1980 time frame? Did this trend of corporate culture commentary arise with periodicals like Byte, Dr. Do
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The Boron Letters(thegaryhalbertletter.com)
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Unfortunately, what I see the most is: An increase in seniority comes with (A) a decrease in hands-on time with technical problems and (B) an increase in time spent on project management, team organization, and people problems. None the les
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Fine-Tune GPT-3 Using Python to Create a Virtual Mental Health Assistant(betterprogramming.pub)
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> We show that NN loss landscapes contain effectively only a single basin(!) provided sufficient width. Even better, we develop practical algos to navigate these basins... Supporting twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Sa
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Git Re-Basin: Merging Models Modulo Permutation Symmetries(github.com)
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Diablo, a Direct-Drive Wheeled-Leg Robot(youtube.com)
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Making $4.5k/MRR with side projects while working full-time(indiehackers.com)
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Thanks for all the answers and insight!
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The Stable Diffusion Photoshop Plugin(christiancantrell.com)
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Opportunity to build a full pair programming agent at Replit(twitter.com)
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