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by jdm2212 3y ago
If I use your copied credit card to buy software, all that happens is (a) some bits get written to my computer's hard disk and (b) some bits get written to a Visa or Mastercard server's hard disk. Why would you get upset about tha
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by jdm2212 3y ago
It's really about whether you can incrementally assess P&L. Facebook has epic amounts of user-generated imagery and text, and incremental improvements in NLP and computer vision generate incremental revenue (and profit) because you
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Metaverse is exactly my point -- they've incinerated vast amounts of investor money with nothing to show for it. They could've and should've just plowed that money into hundreds of startups. LLAMA is also exactly my point --
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you have a billion dollars and want to do something creative, invest it in 100 startups. But if you want to spend a billion dollars through a big corporation, you should use that corporation's comparative advantage -- which is gener
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by jdm2212 3y ago
The parents are the ones with money to spend, which means they're the ones advertisers want.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Creativity is for startups. If you run the 8th or so most valuable company on the planet, your competitive advantage is mostly your scale. You should mostly be using that to maximize return on proven stuff (either by buying or copying prove
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Claims like this are so dumb. Call center work has a very low ceiling on skill, so obviously people who are maxed out can't benefit. But in any knowledge economy type job, there is no ceiling on skill. Creative, curious, intelligent pe
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by jdm2212 3y ago
just FYI, it's MANPADS -- the S isn't for plural, it's for "System" (as in "MAN Portable Air Defense System)
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you say so, dude.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
You're confusing the concepts of "immoral" and "illegal".
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by jdm2212 3y ago
There's a difference between "the executives are bad people doing a bad thing that is _maybe_ tortious" and "the executives are committing a crime". OP was claiming the latter is rare. You're saying the former
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Paying someone a lot doesn't magically make them a good engineer. You have to actually hire the best people, and there's only so many of them to go around.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Georgetown has the School of Foreign Service, which has tougher admissions standards than the other 3 Georgetown undergraduate schools, and is the #2 ranked undergraduate program in blah blah blah but seriously the number of people who turn
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by jdm2212 3y ago
CMU has 7000 undergrads, of whom 600 are in the School of Computer Science. So, if you take a random CMU student who decided to start a company and looked for VC funding, you've got a <10% chance of an SCS alum and a 90% chance of a
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by jdm2212 3y ago
I'm a Georgetown alum. Georgetown alumni do the same thing with international relations that CMU alumni do with CS where we like to pretend that because there's a really good IR graduate program that we undergrads were somehow s
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Berkeley is not that hard to get into for in-state students (much easier than CMU or Georgetown). But, yes to Stanford/MIT/Caltech.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
The standard top 4 is HYPS (plus MIT and Caltech)
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by jdm2212 3y ago
In other news, Stanford is one of the four best undergraduate programs and Carnegie Mellon is... not. Don't get me wrong, CMU has a great computer science faculty , but looking at random CMU alumni doesn't tell you much because a
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by jdm2212 3y ago
"this looks about right and has no obvious bugs" is my standard when reviewing human code, and it's my standard for machine-generated code too. no reason to formally verify GPT-4 outputs if I'm not formally verifying my
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Some discussion of trying to get it to run, if you're curious what folks have been trying: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/13wutj4/getting...
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Falcon 40B is allegedly the closest thing out there. It sure beats the hell out of all the other open source models I've tried, but good luck finding hardware that can run it.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
> in public administration, in military, as well as in private sector, in areas like compliance, due diligence etc. agree 100%. The commonality there is that these are things where the profit motive can't discipline wasteful managem
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by jdm2212 3y ago
There are lots of jobs that make the world less livable but are clearly not bullshit jobs. Like if you work in marketing at a cigarette company you are probably a bad person, and you are advancing bad goals, but you are doing real, non-bu
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you're doing something useful for Bob, and he's doing something useful for upper management, and upper management is doing something useful for shareholders... then transitively you're probably doing something useful for s
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Every US auto company (and many/most manufacturing companies) has had net reductions for decades now. That's not short term net reductions. Plenty of white collar employers have had net reductions too. Most of the dotcom era compa
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by jdm2212 3y ago
In the US this is completely untrue. Research universities basically never have layoffs. In contrast, Google alone has in the last year laid off more people than the combined faculties Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford. Private sector l
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you're able to identify these situations at all reliably, you can make a lot of money as a consultant. Like, way more than whatever you're earning right now.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Lots of companies see no net employment growth, and plenty more see net employment decrease. So, empirically you are wrong.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Trying to assess productivity without a clear stakeholder and value metric is what's pointlessly abstract. "Did this generate additional profits for shareholders" is a concrete way to measure productivity. "Did this ma
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Sure, managerial feudalism is totally a thing but also CEOs are aware of that and shareholders are aware of that which is why layoffs and reorgs and such happen periodically at any company in a competitive business. But the rank-and-file em

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