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by csa 2y ago
> I don't know the parent poster either but if your LLM product is generating $10k/month, your moat is really weak and you'll probably shut the f* up because your only moat is obscurity. Why risk that? It sounds like they
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by csa 2y ago
It sounds like they are doing productized consulting, in which case the software doesn’t have to be particularly complex. The relationship also builds a natural moat.
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by csa 2y ago
> It must be bizarre to be so celebrated when you have so little autonomy and your consciousness is barely online. I think you’re right that it’s “weird” for most folks that age. That said, folks with good parents/mentors/coach
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by csa 2y ago
> One does not need to be a sock puppet to believe that the justification for this ban is shaky at best. Totally agree. But dismissing TikTok as merely a “dance video app”, even as a semi-joke, is disingenuous. To mock American patriotis
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by csa 2y ago
> I'm curious roughly how old you are. 50s. Note that I grew up around guns, and most areas I have lived in while in the US are gun friendly. In my family and peer group, gun safety was taught at a very young age, and it was taught
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by csa 2y ago
Are you on the outside looking in, and this is what the US looks like to you? My commentary as someone on the inside who has also been on the outside looking in: > Incredibly expensive, low wages Pick one. Wages trend higher where it’s e
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by csa 2y ago
> They will kick you in the head one second and ask for a sandwich the next. As long as this example is taken figuratively, I think it makes a better case for “yes” for many/most people. I pretty regularly see people shit on others
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by csa 2y ago
From the article, 35 from AP, so presumably 60 from just “fire”. The article also seems to conflate FSD and AP — very different functions. As a side note, I don’t know what Tesla did with the October/November FSD update (12.5). I used
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by csa 2y ago
> but I have no clue what this looks like An earlier version of the CA academic framework (2022?) wanted all students to take algebra in 9th grade, rather than letting some folks start in 8th grade. Why this matters: - algebra in 8th g
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by csa 2y ago
> that's exactly what these school policies in CA and elsewhere are attempting to do Hmm… either I wasn’t clear, or we are talking about different things. Maybe I should have added “lessen the imbalance of access to opportunities” t
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by csa 2y ago
> What U.S. state has the best resources for kids at the gifted end of the spectrum? Pretty much no state at this point. That said, specific school districts can be responsive. Usually this is in expensive neighborhoods with relatively w
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by csa 2y ago
It’s not just California, but California may be one of the more egregious state neglecters. The push at the state level for policies that focus on equality of outcomes over equality of opportunities will not end well for the gifted and tale
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by csa 2y ago
> but you have to have something truly extraordinary to make up for it Flip that, and you’re closer to correct for everyone. You have to do something truly extraordinary to get in, with the things you listed as being some of the least co
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by csa 2y ago
> I personally know there is asian-american bias (not just asian-american…) in admissions at least one elite school via one of my best friends who works in admissions office. Oh, interesting. What is the specific bias they claim exists?
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by csa 2y ago
> "good story" probably doesn't include being too uninterested to write your own answers despite parents so committed to you going to Stanford they're prepared to litigate to get you a B... So true. This kid is a pers
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by csa 2y ago
> I wanna see how many Asian men get in with B's Please stop perpetuating this myth. Asians are not held to a different standard. Anecdotally (with truck load of anecdotes), Asian-Americans (to be specific) frequently seem to be hel
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by csa 2y ago
> Also, he's not getting into Stanford with the B grade that the parents are suing for anyway. You can't even get into Stanford with all A's these days. None of this is true. Grades are just one part of the picture. The fo
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by csa 2y ago
> I’ve seen many teams in different companies led by Americans where simply pointing out that a plan will fail in a public forum is tantamount to spitting in their face. I’ve been put into the “practitioner of the dark arts” bucket twice
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by csa 2y ago
The parents seem absolutely unhinged. Poor kid.
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by csa 2y ago
Unless he has someone who is very sympathetic to his cause, the teacher/counselor recommendation will wreck him. This guy needs to go to a JuCo that feeds into a decent state school — he’s screwed for competitive schools.
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by csa 2y ago
> The title mentions "lies" but the main article doesn't use the word once. The entire second paragraph (after a short intro paragraph) is about the lies, and it doesn’t really seem ambiguous. That said, I agree that it co
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by csa 2y ago
…”and despair”.
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by csa 2y ago
> But looking at the list, some countries are quite interesting in the "High proficiency" group. The labels are somewhat arbitrary cutoffs (every 50 points), but which country in the “high” category would you say is worse than
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by csa 2y ago
> I think the SAT is a ludicrous setup given that most people never see anything like it in their lives again Yeah, I guess. I think the issue is that the folks best suited to get the most out of college don’t really need to prep much to
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by csa 2y ago
I agree in general with what your idea, but this sort of assumes a few things that aren’t always true: 1. Examinee is aware of test prep and its potential benefits. Definitely not always true in low socioeconomic status (SES) families, espe
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by csa 2y ago
> What, specifically, is an example of an exam not measuring proficiency Not op, but a few examples: 1. Test structures that reward good time management. The paper SAT is a good example of this. The early items in a section are (were?) e
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by csa 2y ago
Highly recommend just shaving it all off. If that doesn’t work for whatever reason, then cutting it very short (a few mm) is the second best alternative. Trying to hide it is the worst. Stressing about it is a waste. I started shaving my he
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by csa 2y ago
Nice anecdotes you have there, but history suggests that you might have a bit of myopia. 1. Abraham Lincoln said "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed our
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by csa 2y ago
> If you have an organization with forced bucketing where X% of your team need to be given a subpar rating, how do you decide which one? If you don't have an obvious low performer you'd better have metrics. If you’re a manager
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by csa 2y ago
> how would we stop them in the slightest when we can't stop the seizure of Ukraine? We (US) could have and can stop the seizure of Ukraine fairly easily, imho. We have chosen not to do so directly in an effort to prevent WW3 and&

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