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Honest question: does the opinion of Gary Marcus still count? His criticism seems more philosophical than scientific. It's hard for me see what he builds or reasons to get to his conclusions.
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The real threat to a senior IC, in my own experience, is losing their edge, especially in a large company. As they grow more senior, they will spend more time in meetings, writing more docs, aligning more teams, drawing more boxes, tossing
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> Can you run out of new and unique problems without running out of economic innovation? Probably not, but the numbers may vary. Case in point, we have a booming chip industry now, but the demand for EE graduates is still far less than t
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> Because my word carries weight and I tend to be less obsequious with little to lose in these interactions This may well be the value of a senior IC. You will be neutral in most of the situations, so VPs will be more willing to trust yo
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I think the key question is what new or unique problems we need to solve. Unique problems demand unique designs and implementations, which can't be threatened by vibe coding, which requires software craftsmanship. That said, AI-assiste
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> I still don't understand the benefit of relying on someone/something else to write your code and then reading it Maybe the key is this: our brains are great at spotting patterns, but not so great at remembering every little d
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Thanks. Capitalized expense means the expense can be amortized over years? If so, the short-term profit can be higher than expensed cost? That sounds bad in this context as more profit means more tax. However, the OP seems to argue that cap
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Does Section 175 apply to other professions? For example, if I hire a full-time handyman for my office, does their salary count as a deductible cost? Sorry if this sounds naive—I'm genuinely struggling to understand why the labor of so
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I have a hard time imagining how the current large model could possibly replace all the jobs, given that the models simply retrieve and re-organize human-generated knowledge, and perform limited interpolation when it comes to code generat
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Thanks. Somehow when I was learning English, the instruction was to use she/her to refer to an unknown third person, so did I when writing essays in a college here. That's why it felt strange when I saw they/their for 3rd per
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Thanks. I rarely saw this usage before, hence the question
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No wonder bay-area companies love to set up offices in East Europe. Their engineers are really really good, as this event demonstrated.
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> Their application was a duplicate with the same email address, Why do people use "they" and "their" for a single person? Is this the requirement for not misgendering someone?
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> So I exercised my GDPR rights, and asked to be communicated everything pertaining to my interviews. This is amazing. Does the US have a similar law for us to get interview feedbacks like this? I can become a single-issue voter for this
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LeetCode-style interviews used to be an aptitude test, kinda like the weeder courses in college. Now that most people cram for them, they've lost their original purpose.
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That's diplomacy? That does not mean that high officials and the richest people in the world bought Russia's propaganda machine, if any, or worse, get bought by Russia, right?
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I really don't get the sentiment of everything Russia. Russia has the GDP of a province of China. Russia does not have a thriving manufacturing sector. Russia has increasingly less influence or power over the world. Why would powerful
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Maybe xAI has some interesting way to make money in other places, like Google paying Mozilla for making Google search the default choice.
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So that means Telegram users will use XAI for free, which means it will cost xAI potentially multiple times of $300M a year to serve the Telegram users?
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> The NoCode/LowCode Revolution I think this time there is a key difference: AI coding is fully embedded into a software dev's workflow, and it indeed cuts loads of work for at least some of the projects and engineers. In contr
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> Once you reach B1, you're pretty much past the point where the vocab and grammar basics from Duolingo is useful It drives me nuts that Duolingo's Japanese course does not explain grammar nor does it introduce new grammars fas
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> In 2023, Duolingo's marketcap was 5x of Coursera Maybe this is because Coursera requires a lot more effort? My pessimistic view is that most people do not like learning, let alone learning in their leisure time with their own buck
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Most people are not motivated to continuously learn or dive deep or explore the boundary of knowledge. As a result, it's very likely AI will amplify or deepen the current skip gaps and create more. People who are good at learning and c
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For instance, in an AIOps project we still perform a number of time series algorithms and then feed the results along with the original time series data to LLM. LLM will produce much more relevant and in-depth analysis than using the raw da
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Yes, and the other way around: use the deterministic methods to generate the best possible input to LLM.
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> EU is maliciously anti-wealth, even if you fund it yourself, they will actively cripple you with nonsensical regulations and taxes to make sure your company does not take off. I'm a little cynical about this. Apparently EU has lo
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I feel that the optimal solution is hybrid, not polarized. That is, we use deterministic approach as much as we can, but leverage LLMs to handle the remaining complex part that is hard to spec out or describe deterministically
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Does anyone know if any non-EU citizen can get such funding to start up a company in Europe? Say, an American?
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Yeah, even with channels and goroutines, I’d imagine we can encapsulate them as primitives in containers like concurrency literatures often advocate. Case in point, it was fun to go through Pike’s talk Go Concurrency Patterns, yet I’m not s
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> A computer can never be held accountable I think the issue is not about humans being entirely replaced. Instead, the issue is that if AI replaces enough number of knowledge workers while there's no new or expanded market to absor

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