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> The only thing is that nobody understand why they work so well. This is exactly what I have ascertained from several different experts in this field. Interesting that a machine has been constructed that performs better than expected an
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I think it's important to go into an interview with the mindset that I am interviewing them as well as they are interviewing me. Why give them a reason for withdrawing an application if they don't ask for one? If they ask for a re
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Great article! My opinion: the ones interviewing you for a position should be the ones you will be working with from day to day. This way the both of you get to evaluate how you feel about working together. I have declined job offers where
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Chef Jean Pierre is the best, he explains so good that I really need to listen once to remember forever. Before discovering him, I wasn't interested in cooking at all and I listened to all the other chefs like Ramsay and Oliver but the
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Speaking as a curious European, just how much in 'donations' is required to get your kid into a place like Stanford?
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What do you think happened to the tens of thousands that lost their jobs? Are they homeless now?
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Please stop with these obvious pharma ads, nobody needs to take Ozempic! Change your lifestyle and most importantly: STOP EATING JUNK FOOD
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I completely agree about the excellence of Direct Democracy (DD). One of the most common arguments against DD is that: "people aren't smart enough or knowledgeable enough to make important decisions". My reply to this is: and
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LOL thanks for your great insight into this matter
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The European Commission (EC) is particularly sinister in so many ways and not like any previously known modern democratic entity. The EC has been constantly pushing for less democracy, less transparency, more censorship for decades. All the
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It's 2025 but still no robot butlers, why?
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Poor students, learning from hallucinating LLMs LOL
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The author says that health insurance in Europe is provided by the govt and for most it still is, there are plenty of people getting private health insurance as the govt health sector is collapsing, so this argument is mute. Also, in the 23
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You're right that it can be difficult diagnosing children but that is why, at least here in Europe, kids are observed by medical professionals along with their parents over several visits to child and adolescent psychiatric units. Some
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Why would anybody need this tech? Are we hunting autistic people? Please stop.
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'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries' And hypocrites will never stop whining
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pg 132 "2.1 The characteristics of the first large oscillation (12:03) indicate that it is a phenomenon generated within the Iberian Peninsula. It is an atypical oscillation, with a frequency of 0.6 Hz, and its origin has been correlat
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Huge snub of Elon Musk's xAI. OpenAI is basically anti-Trump yet he still went with them. Says a lot about Trump and Musk.
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Thanks! So great to watch these demos in 80-90's of the wizards creating these spectacular visuals.
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It goes to show that the LLMs aren't intelligent in the way humans are. LLMs are a really great replacement for googling though
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I have mentored and been mentored and it's a tough process but necessary. It's what is stopping a lot of people learning a new profession later in life in my opinion, who would want to mentor an older person? I mentor young people
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It would be interesting to see which is faster/better in competitive coding, the human coder or the human using AI to assist in coding.
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Thank you for your insight about the hiring environment! What are your thoughts about getting involved in an open-source project or something else to get some more experience?
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I can take a pay cut definitely. I am a hobby programmer writing simple programs for my own use in Python but I have signed up for a university Python course to get better. I was thinking of getting involved in an open-source project but wh
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I'm 53 (physician) and would like to pursue a second career in programming but realising it's really hard.
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Great news to see the abominable corporate news media wither and hopefully die.
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To improve your health never start with adding a chemical! Instead remove chemicals and toxins first and foremost.
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I welcome every article that exposes just how bad "AI" is.
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Stop eating junk food. It's as simple as that.
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