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by ken47 2y ago
Democracy being influenced by wealth has always been a thing.
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by ken47 2y ago
Folks from a given country tend to network with and feel more comfortable with people from said country, affecting their hiring and promotion practices. That’s only natural.
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by ken47 2y ago
It seems like Team Ding's strategy was to survive until tie breaks, where he would have been the favorite. Given Ding's form, they probably didn't believe he could reliably win games in classical versus an in-form Gukesh. As
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by ken47 2y ago
The child and their mentors could surely decide. If a kid doesn’t want to specialize, then they can defer until they’re ready.
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by ken47 2y ago
I don’t disagree. I need to point out that I used the word “let,” not “force.”
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by ken47 2y ago
1) A nation's average score essentially has no relationship with the quality of its research institutions - only the top 1-5% matter - and that top 5% might just happen to contain a lot of immigrants. 2) The quality of research insti
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by ken47 2y ago
I question the emphasis on averages. Moving the average of a country as big as the USA is very hard, with questionable ROI. The top N% in any given subject is going to drive a nation's progress. We aren't going to be putting tens
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by ken47 2y ago
React and similar frameworks have made it easier to manage a given level of complexity. The complexity of app features have adjusted and will continue to adjust to the new frontier enabled by said frameworks.
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by ken47 2y ago
> rumored to happen for months Source?
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by ken47 2y ago
If the principles of languages like Erlang were taught in American school, things like this would be much likely to occur. Silly that Computer Science is regarded more highly by many than Software Engineering for Software Engineering jobs.
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by ken47 2y ago
My work at FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies would suggest that it’s far more probable that a random e.g. finance professional is driven primarily by perceived status than a software engineer. The media and general public still openly poke
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by ken47 2y ago
Can we stick to stats over caricatures? If we’re going to go by “gut feel,” the stereotype is that the status climbers primarily go into finance, consulting, medicine, and law - not engineering.
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by ken47 2y ago
Without context, not very meaningful. Does this simple measure lines of code? Characters written? Is it “oversuggesting” code that it shouldn’t be confident in? Does this code make it into production or is a large percentage of it fixed by
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by ken47 2y ago
You’re absolutely right. The education system was meant to be a factory of production line workers, at the cost of missing out on geniuses who don’t care about other subjects. This system is meant for a worker that no longer exists. If some
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by ken47 2y ago
No one called for reality to be censored - simply a toggle that shows the summary stats with and without outliers included. This is the kind of thing folks learn in Stats 101.
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by ken47 2y ago
You're getting caught up on "soul-draining," but FAANG's and adjacent are generally acknowledged to have the highest TC. It would be useful to know what the statistics are with these outlier companies removed.
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by ken47 2y ago
These AI tools are able to do a small subset of what a professional human is able to do, with greatly reduced flexibility, e.g. tasks like leetcode where there is an abundance of concentrated training data. I would bet that the current para
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by ken47 2y ago
Don’t turn off the money spigot with your “questions.”
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by ken47 2y ago
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by ken47 2y ago
You're going to attribute even a small % of this to politicians rather than the actual innovators? Sure, then let's say they're responsible for some small % of its success. They're smart enough to not nuke their own econ
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by ken47 2y ago
Care to elaborate on the second sentence with any proof?
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by ken47 2y ago
The conflict of interest might have something to do with the fact that OpenAI's CEO/founder was once a major figure in Y Combinator. But I think you wanted to insinuate that the conflict of interest ran in the other direction. Onc
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by ken47 2y ago
We have those TOS's in the software world because it would be prohibitively expensive to make all software reliable as a publicly used bridge. For those who died as a direct result of CrowdStrike, that's where the litigious nature
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by ken47 2y ago
> So this "one weird trick" will disappear without any special measures. > Better training, larger models, and larger datasets But "better training" here is a special measure. It would take a lot of training effort
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by ken47 2y ago
In most companies, businesspeople without any real software dev experience control the purse strings. Such people should never run companies that sell life-or-death software. The reality is there is plenty of space in the software industry
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by ken47 2y ago
You do realize that knowledge of CS fundamentals is extremely unlikely to have prevented this?
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by ken47 2y ago
Blood boil? No. Royalty commanded resources which Euler wanted to access, even if indirectly. In the modern world, geniuses have to do the same to e.g. gain funding. Maybe there is slightly more meritocracy now in determining who gains that
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by ken47 2y ago
Reminds me a lot of the telecom situation in the US. There are lots of people who e.g. hate Comcast but basically have no choice in their area if they want broadband. Granted, a malware attack, is another level of terrible, but isn't i
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by ken47 2y ago
> many of the top programmers in South Korea Odd statement. How did you know that the people you met are "top programmers?"
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by ken47 2y ago
> I guarantee you that not one SK Telecom executive will spend time behind bars for this blatantly illegal conduct. I mean, you're assuming that an SK Telecom executive did something illegal. I don't think anyone here is a supp

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