ericmcer

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by ericmcer 4y ago
I still feel miles away from trusting AI with my most ad-friendly queries. Things like: where should I eat? Who is a good plumber, etc. Maybe someone can explain to me how an AI would revolutionize that, it either requires I trust it’s opin
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Even in death Ringo will be in Paul McCartney's shadow haha. A huge one for me is Mel Brooks, it is pretty rare for a celebrity death to have an impact on me but that one will.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I agree for questions that are impossible if you didn’t memorize the specific algorithm that solves them. This question and the others I tried to ask usually have a ton of possible solutions and someone who knows how to code or can at least
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I reflexively closed the tab when it came out haha.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
These demos all give me the same vibe as "we prevented aging in mice". It's really impressive and interesting but I don't think we should be worried about our jobs disappearing any more than what living to 200 will be li
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I ran interviews at my last job. Most candidates struggled with basic algos like: write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. I can't imagine a candidate being: A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't wit
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I agree, I think in the US we are blaming social media, Covid, global warming, etc. but what is really bugging me is what lies under all those things, a general feeling that just working hard and being a good person will no longer guarantee
908.
by ericmcer 4y ago
Why not cut out the middleman and just give each child an AI slave to answer questions and do their work for them.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Here’s an optimistic take: AI gets so good at manipulating digital information that it makes going on the computer irrelevant. AI interfaces are so intuitive that the whole concept of learning to be “computer literate” goes out the window.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Shitty people ruin society at every level. Sure online scams are part of it but we have banks, locked doors, guns, an entire law enforcement and justice system etc. all to account for the small minority of humans who will hurt others given
911.
by ericmcer 4y ago
The law doesn't seem to have much of a bite. I always assume something like illegally hiring minors or exploiting workers will be the end your business. Then it turns out to be a pretty manageable fine. Same thing with selling alcohol
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Maybe try a complete change? Work in retail or landscaping or go back to school or something. Software can suck because we tie our self worth to being productive on a little screen. Sometimes I feel envious of people who don’t use computers
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Makes sense that more specialized roles took less of a hit. I have to imagine the layoffs involved lots of generalists but they probably were not slashing their SREs.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah I think it’s important to remember that we aren’t terrible failures, but the market has shifted completely. I’m entering my second month of looking really hard (30+ applications a month) and have only had a few interviews so far. For m
915.
by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeh this was an ad riddled nightmare. I would call it more an example of how to subvert modern ad blockers than an example of great web design. The bullet point lists are literally broken up with targeted ads that look like relevant info to
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah it would have been hard but man looking at the night sky with no light pollution and no clue what you were looking at would be a pretty deep spiritual experience
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Well it is an article implying we should get our dietary advice from 400 year old proverbs and historical texts about Rome so it might not be airtight.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah that is why he said it is a bit of a lottery. 2 of 9 seems like a pretty solid success rate but that means even you (someone who has a knack for it) would need 4 solid efforts to have good odds at getting a winner. 4 failed attempts is
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by ericmcer 4y ago
You don't need to go back to 1623. Talk to fishermen who have been working the same waters for 30 years, the decline is very apparent.
920.
by ericmcer 4y ago
We learn and adapt to inputs on the fly. The current training process for an AI is separate from the process of interacting with one. An AI won't retrain itself in real time mid-conversation.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Yeah I think this is a good idea but ignores that every piece of positive feedback is potentially negative feedback for someone else. We have all probably experienced working really hard on something that isn't very visible and receivi
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The carousel in general was pretty frustrating to use, couldn't move back and forth between images, couldn't enlarge images or video. Page history and back button not implemented correctly. Looks pretty slick but some basic usabil
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by ericmcer 4y ago
The market for junior dev is even worse, imagine being fresh out of college in a market with 100,000 freshly laid off mid-staff level engineers
924.
by ericmcer 4y ago
Maybe you can ask their teachers to give them more homework? Then they will be too busy with homework to be depressed about being isolated from their peers.
925.
by ericmcer 4y ago
I don't think he was saying it is good that "unfit" children die in mines, that would be a pretty horrific assertion. I think he is just wondering why we don't consider the impact of immigration on genetic diversity. If
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by ericmcer 4y ago
That reminds me of a story of western businessmen offering 50% more to local workers to get them to work more. This totally works in the US, where overtime pay can easily get workers to show up for extra shifts. The result here was they wor
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by ericmcer 4y ago
I am really struggling with this currently, I have agiled myself into a spiral of never being done. I am wishing I took a more waterfall approach so there was a fixed endpoint. For personal projects in the future I will adopt a more rigid d
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by ericmcer 4y ago
Your bodies requirements will constantly be changing based on your age and lifestyle. Fine tuning your diet is a personal experiment that never ends so any absolute is dumb.
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by ericmcer 4y ago
What is the alternative to businesses. A centralized authority that dictates what is made and who gets to make it? All the reasons you say businesses suck are also the reasons why they work well. They need to react instantly to market press
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by ericmcer 4y ago
This page isn't something the AI built, the AI built specifically defined pieces of it and the author assembled those into the page using Webflow. I feel like their claim of "no-code" is a bit suspect. Embedding an AI generat

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