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by madrox 2y ago
I think the shortest way of putting it is: stay curious; find people willing to teach you; teach others what you've been successful at.
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by madrox 2y ago
It's like that old saying, "where ever you go...there you are."
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by madrox 2y ago
I've found that you don't see yourself without people around you to hold up a mirror
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by madrox 2y ago
I can't speak to your specific circumstances, but perhaps this will help. I find that people I talk to with chronic job dissatisfaction have a difficult time taking risks, because despite not liking their current circumstances, the unk
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by madrox 2y ago
I don't think you have to have Fuck You Money to get to this point. Most people eventually become disillusioned with work enough that they reevaluate what matters to them. Getting a very profitable exit is just one way to trigger that
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by madrox 2y ago
Market efficiency follows a lot of the same laws as evolution, and I think the author identifies the same fallacy many do about evolution: that there is some implied natural progression to perfection or negentropy. You don't need to be
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by madrox 2y ago
I think an assumption that a lot of people make about people with power is that they say what they actually believe. In my experience, they do not. Public speech is a means to an end, and they will say whatever is the strongest possible arg
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by madrox 2y ago
I can see where you're going with this and I can understand why you don't want to get into authorization, but if you're going to be encouraging tool developers to spin up json-rpc servers I hope you have some kind of plan for
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by madrox 2y ago
This is a great point, but I wonder how much of that kind of search intent is part of google's traffic. If that becomes the only reason people use Google I wonder if they'll go the way of Yahoo. Maybe that's hyperbolic, but t
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by madrox 2y ago
These are great reasons why this business will be hard, but given how ChatGPT and Perplexity are making inroads into search traffic, you can't deny it's an experience consumers prefer.
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by madrox 2y ago
My hot take on this new era of search engines is that "search is a bug" and even trying to be a search engine is a fool's errand. Search solved a problem of the legacy internet where you wanted information and that informatio
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by madrox 2y ago
I agree with the premise that numbers aren't a replacement for actually knowing what's going on, I think there's a false equivalency the author has that if you're a manager wanting metrics on your people that it's b
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by madrox 2y ago
As a former line manager, there have been two cases when I use metrics: I'm promoting someone, and I like having numbers that back up how good they are, or I'm firing someone, and I like having numbers that back up how bad they ar
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by madrox 2y ago
Lately, I've been thinking about how you might bring notebooks to web browsing...something that would make it easier for an LLM to interact with your browsing and thought process. This was timely because it got me thinking more about h
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by madrox 2y ago
When I got my first EM job in 2011, implementing true agile was the dream. I became a zealot to every PM or business leader that came my way. I insisted that not only would we get more done, but we'd get better quality stuff. It was a
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by madrox 2y ago
Sure, but now we're stretching the definition of "essay" past what's useful for the topic at hand. This is a thread about AI checkers for essays, not math proofs. And no, it isn't rigorous, but it's a pretty go
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by madrox 2y ago
I don't think we're too far at odds. I think the difference is that I'm talking about the classroom...especially general education, where AI essays are the problem. To your point, not every student chooses to spend time at th
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by madrox 2y ago
I never wrote a single essay for a math class, so I think there are alternatives. But I think you're missing my point. If a student can go through their education never writing an essay the way everything thinks they're meant to d
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by madrox 2y ago
This is probably the best counterpoint in this whole thread
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by madrox 2y ago
So you're saying you've never used StackOverflow in your life? I find your analogy works against your point, because manual labor does use a forklift and other heavy machinery whenever possible. It's better for human health
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by madrox 2y ago
This is, sadly, an idealized notion of education that just doesn't match the reality of a general ed classroom. Students don't study to gain understanding in a majority of their classes; they study to pass. True, not all students
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by madrox 2y ago
I'd argue that was not how writing was used in schools when I was growing up.
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by madrox 2y ago
I don't know about this. Take away the moral gatekeeping of calling it cheating and look only at outcomes. If students use AI instead of doing it themselves, are they worse off in a material way that only essay writing could provide? I
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by madrox 2y ago
I think you're absolutely correct. I worry that the uncomfortable truth AI is revealing is that essay writing is a less essential skill than we'd like to believe. We can say things like "personal gain above all" and the
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by madrox 2y ago
Writing teachers have a lot to learn from Math teachers, who have had to fight against the crutch of calculators for decades. The future here is obvious. More in-class tests to evaluate writing ability instead take home is what will happen.
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by madrox 2y ago
I think Kagi is correct and that the way we explore information on the internet will look very different in X years with all the changes LLMs will bring. I think the real question will be what will it look like. I don't think it looks
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Remember this the next time you cut a technical corner to launch faster
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Yeah, this has shades of "shining your shoes for the fat lady" to borrow a Salinger reference, and I understand that within the context of performance, but maybe I expect this to generalize farther than it does. There are many dom
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by madrox 2y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. As the author acknowledged at the end, the piano tuning maybe was "good enough" in the beginning that no one would really notice the difference. What, then, was the point that leads us to say this p
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by madrox 2y ago
* For some definition of near and mandatory Even when they started mandating airbags in new vehicles, it took something like seven years to go into effect so car manufacturers had time to plan. And then they didn’t make cars that didn’t hav

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