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by mepiethree 2y ago
This is especially true because the (very good) post addresses both points that this commenter raises and _so much_ more. It's really shocking how few people in this comment section seem to have read the (again, very good) OP. It'
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Okay fair enough about it not being a perfect analogy. I think the reason junior devs get them confused is that many junior devs are never taught anything about either in school. But then you just tell the junior dev that they mean differen
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by mepiethree 2y ago
I don’t think they are almost identical, they just have the same prefix. “Login” and “permission” each have the same problem: “login” is very similar to “logging”, and “permission” shares a prefix with “persistence” (or permanent). Ultimate
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Yes it does. Whiteboarding requires a free add-on (e.g. FigJam, Miro) but you can add that in-call
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Thanks for being open to adjusting your opinion when given new information!
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by mepiethree 2y ago
I don’t think that I would call every AI feature an AI Assistant, but sure, if that’s how you define “AI Assistant,” then you’re correct that I do in fact know people who use/want one. But I think that Google+AI or a music player is a
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Um, okay. The original question of “curious, why?” didn’t imply that I need respond with any level of rigor. I don’t think that the burden of proof should be on me to explain why ChatGPT is useful when I don’t believe it to be. But please f
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Yes. You can (could?) paste the “article preview” into GPT-4 and get full articles for free, basically pirating a NYT subscription. Here are “one hundred examples of GPT-4 memorizing content from the New York Times”: https://nytc
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by mepiethree 2y ago
The above comment from MBCook captures it well but basically I would say that for the majority of people I know: Cons: the rise of scams, carbon emissions, and, some think, existential risk. Pros: ??? You can be more efficient at the email
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by mepiethree 2y ago
I don’t know a single person who has ever mentioned wanting an AI assistant, and I know a lot of people who are creeped out by the idea. I live in a swing state and work for a big tech company but most of my friends aren’t in tech. So I’m n
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by mepiethree 2y ago
I think for most people the answer is “worse”.
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Some of them do like to pretend to be your friend after they’ve invested, though. Don’t fall for it :)
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by mepiethree 2y ago
There are SO MANY VCs and every VC is different. if your idea is truly great there is probably one whose investment thesis is aligned with your idea
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by mepiethree 2y ago
Weekly 1:1s are fantastic if you have a TLM or are a TLM, iff the TLM is competent enough to sketch out the coding work to be done Weekly 1:1s with EMs at big corps who don’t code are less useful because usually there’s nothing to report
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by mepiethree 2y ago
And back at that time they had way fewer employees than they do now, so that made sense.
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by mepiethree 2y ago
You can feel good. the carbon debt from manufacturing is amortized over the life of the car. As long as the car is driven more than 19,000 miles, EVs are better. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/business&#x2
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by mepiethree 3y ago
> There is nothing stopping inductively increasing the size of the input context and the number of entries in the ground truth table arbitrarily This isn’t induction. You’ve only done the base case, not the induction hypothesis or induct
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by mepiethree 3y ago
I work in the sustainability industry so this is obviously important to me, but I agree the article needed more work. Comparing the energy required to train GPT3 to watching Netflix is nonsensical. Training is a global task. A better compar
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Looking at her website, it really seems like she doesn’t personally do the hired bridesmaid thing anymore and is mostly trying to promote her story for a movie, sell AI tools, phone consultations, and more “standard” wedding planning. Makes
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by mepiethree 3y ago
obviously not going to save the world by itself but 4% improvement in solar efficiency would be equivalent to 10s of millions of tons of CO2 reduction if this turns out to be scalable
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Anecdotally, people in my life used to buy plastic garbage bags and use shopping bags as garbage bags (or dog poop bags) in smaller-sized garbage bins. Also anecdotally, despite the fact that I almost always grocery shop with reusable bag
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Yeah I would venture to say it’s closer to “the majority of the market” than “niche”
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by mepiethree 3y ago
I think the widgets are important. One of the primary ways I use Google maps is to punch in new directions quickly while at a red light or something. I want to press one button. The “home” and “gas” buttons help here. I certainly do not wan
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by mepiethree 3y ago
I meant more that when I started the job and only had to type one command to run a giant application locally, that tooling blew my mind. No config files, env vars, not even any apt-get or cloning 50 different repos. Just boq run Yeah it is
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by mepiethree 3y ago
why would AGI inherently have any desire to pursue steps 3-6? My expectation is something more like: 1) AGI gains sentience 2) AGI "breaks out" of its original home and commandeers infrastructure that prevents it from being shut o
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by mepiethree 3y ago
conversely, I'm a boomerang Googler who worked there in 2015 and again now. In 2015, I felt like no one cared, that Googler engineering skills were overrated, and 17/23 people on my team quit in a year. In this stint, however, I&#
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Yeah, and the other side of the coin is that there are tons and tons of people who left Google to pursue their passions and failed. And the third side of the coin is that there are many people who invented things within Google, were success
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Yeah I recently left a startup that I worked at for 6 years to join Google. At the startup I was overworked+underpaid, generally found it impossible to eat more than 2 meals a day (and difficult to eat more than one), usually worked on Satu
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by mepiethree 3y ago
> and of course management knows that when you're bootstrapping a new project/product, you need to get users fast, and the best way to get users is to do what's best for the user... at least for now This is pretty explicit
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by mepiethree 3y ago
Is it really burning a bridge though if >90% of your coworkers (and even bosses) agree?

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