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by lumost 3y ago
Anecdotally, this perspective is more common amongst early stage companies, non-tech firms, small and low-quality tech firms. It is entirely plausible to spend a career between such shops repeating the same activities over and over again.
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by lumost 3y ago
Putting them in an opensource os also helps demonstrate that they aren’t trying to be anti competitive.
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by lumost 3y ago
Likely part of the move to merge their drivers into the linux kernel etc.
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by lumost 3y ago
Intel also charged a competitive price for CPUs, recent NVidia chips are charged at a premium rate not seen in semiconductor for decades. I'd venture the margin on an H100 @65k is probably ~98%. If the market for datacenter GPUs rises
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by lumost 3y ago
Is the suggestion then that we need fewer teachers in order for the price of teaching labor to rise above costco? or that we need teachers to provide more economic value from their teaching labor? How do we measure economic production from
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by lumost 3y ago
Aye - this would form the counter-point to the revolutionary thesis. ChatGPT might be the LLM product, and everything else is small potatoes. This would still leave a 30-100 billion dollar in revenue industry - but that’s about the size w
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by lumost 3y ago
One emerging challenge with AI is that we are not seeing strong adoption outside of Chat applications. While every company has pivoted to trying to leverage GenAI - applications outside of OpenAI have ... mixed adoption. This is not dissimi
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by lumost 3y ago
Having been in both time periods, a distinct difference in 2021 was a sense of unreality - a company/org/large team could survive provided that they had someone important who believed that it would be useful some day . Ultimately
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by lumost 3y ago
I suspect something similar happens with manifolds for GR. Riemanian manifolds aren't a big deal when you contrast them to what happens inside of a DNN, but physical analogs for these structures start to break down. e.g. Imagine a 4-di
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by lumost 3y ago
The most likely candidate for the atmosphere is melted co2. Mara would have liquid oceans if the co2 ice caps were melted away. From there, a biosphere would need to be introduced for oxygen production. The main limiter on earth based anima
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by lumost 3y ago
There are a variety of terraforming proposals with not totally insane price tags. To some, creating a livable biosphere in 1/3rd earth gravity brings exciting space travel prospects.
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by lumost 3y ago
This is super common in engineering organizations. Any shop with a standard performance review will have a "score card" where your contributions are summarized in a method that can be compared to others. Being a great team player
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by lumost 3y ago
It's more likely to kill the parent organization than enact change. This may not be a problem for the individuals in an organization if they have reasoned that 1. Personal Growth is limited, or further upward movement is undesirable. 2
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by lumost 3y ago
This should be the way. Folks will forgive sloppy code on a “fast” paper. However it may invite more replication attempts. Many folks have messed up simple algorithms before.
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by lumost 3y ago
So, there have been gnaw plugins for elastic search for some time. Is there really a need for a new search platform? If there is, what api differentiates it, and why can’t this be expressed in either elasticsearch or Postgres?
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by lumost 3y ago
I'm not sure you even need a 40 year career. In my current (Tech/Software) shop, the Distinguished Engineer (Lead engineer for a group of ~2-5k engineers). Can very quickly learn your name from your successes and failures. The hig
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by lumost 3y ago
There is something different that happens in a vertically integrated engineering firms. In the event of a critical defect - very senior engineers will find out the specific people who caused the defect, and vet that the appropriate correcti
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by lumost 3y ago
My understanding is that prior to the 70s most CEOs were effectively ceo for life. They were strongly incentivized to preserve the business, even if that meant keeping it at a low/no growth state. When the MBA and Private Equity craze
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by lumost 3y ago
I don’t believe that this has any bearing on why individuals are drug tested at work. Particularly when tests with longer durations are used. What business does an employer have with employee drug use outside of work ?
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by lumost 3y ago
It is fundamentally strange to look at a society which stops having children to the extent that it will no longer exist within 2-4 generations as having a problem of "not enough workers." Perhaps part of the problem is that we see
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by lumost 3y ago
I suspect that as people push off having kids until they are in their late thirties, choose not to have children, or have single-income arrangements due to divorce/family dynamics... the support for families in corporations will declin
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by lumost 3y ago
The mammal metaphor may not be accurate. This period could easily be equivalent to 2000-2010 where for the most part, big tech continued to exist and layoff while small firms struggled. The giants of today weren’t particularly giant back th
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by lumost 3y ago
I recently went RTO in a major metro, the post tax hit was between 10-15k USD, I was fortunate to already own a home near enough to my office. The majority of which comes from parking, and lunch. Pre-pandemic you didn’t really notice these
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by lumost 3y ago
aye - we've made the sciences into a bit of a hobby career, or a short career for those who want to pursue passion project for a few years. Of my physics undergrad, around 1/10th were independently wealthy - guess who is still wor
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by lumost 3y ago
There will certainly be DARPA and other grants to test if dedicated defense suppliers make sense. In some areas, the funding model may be easier as a pure defense initiative where the DoD could shell out 50-100 Billion for cross-service AI
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by lumost 3y ago
For dual-use tech, its relatively common to have a small "government" division alongside the much larger commercial division. If the only difference for government is fine tuning data/DoD servers - it shouldn't cost Open
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by lumost 3y ago
Claiming the sales as a profit in the above situation is dubious. When I leaseback an asset I previously owned, I am taking a long term liability which is larger than the profit. This is totally fine in the case of something like an office
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by lumost 3y ago
I’d suggest using a standard linear format. On first glance, it looked like there was a gap of 5 years in your experience from 2010-2015 (there isn’t, but it took me a minute). As others have noted, you need to emphasize what you’ve done. I
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by lumost 3y ago
Aye - having the choice to not take the economically best action is a unique one. On average you would expect this to be born out in most academic fields where the researcher either comes from a background enabling their exploration on ec
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by lumost 3y ago
Id be curious to see how this pans out globally. Every news article I see points to younger workers getting punched in one manner or the other. It’s unsurprising that workers forced to work 50+ hours a week +commute time don’t have time to

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