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> Will people still care about “the mission” 5 generations and billions of kilometers from earth? Will the goal we set even be relevant or make sense at all? That's an interesting point. I have noticed that often ideologically motiv
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> This article is so incredibly interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has all the telltale signs. The sadder realization is that after enough AI slop around, real people will start talking lik
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1y ago
> And which one wins out can vary. It can even change over time. Well good reason to let each team pick. Teams that care about performance will eventually do a lot better. The claim with these mandate is that the benefits are "obvio
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1y ago
> It’s shareholder driven. Yeah I think both are in the same vein. At the corporate level it's shareholder driven and on the individual and team level it's resume driven. It boils down to "What cool thing have you done in
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> You've got a point on RTO. Because it's a group behaviour, if you believe it will have positive effects, mandating it could be a way of jumpstarting the group dynamic. Fair point! It was just the first recent example of "
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> Not everyone has the same priorities, so you'd have to mandate compliance to see the benefits. I think it could have been left to individual small teams or smaller units. After some time it would have been obvious that teams who w
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1y ago
> If they’re really so confident on the LLM’s effectiveness, why not just keep it voluntary, why force it on people? The results will be there in the outcome of the shipped product for all to see. It’s a bit like returning to the office.
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> I'll just say this: the fact the most discussed thing about the new iOS version is how to make their terrible new UI (that no one asked for) off is telling something about the state of innovation at Apple. I observed that too. Pol
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1y ago
> Sabine Hossenfelder She has a popular science channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder/videos I also understand she is considered controversial as she's been criticizing the scientific commun
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> This is why so many “IoT platforms” die in pilot purgatory. They are built by cloud engineers who underestimate the friction of the real world and overestimate the availability of bandwidth. Indeed. That's why it's important
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1y ago
That makes sense, thank you for explaining
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1y ago
I can see that. I am even guilty of using cat a bit too much.
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1y ago
It seems a bit random though. Are mastodon people big on trigger warnings? I never signed up for it. Heck, I never signed up for twitter or bluesky either. For mastodon I considered it, but telling people "ha, ha, I am writing toots&qu
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1y ago
I guess? They just seemed to reference some story or situation I am not familiar with
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> But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler. “I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warni
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1y ago
Just as easily as we can multiply planets times systems times galaxies times cluster groups we can multiply multiple small probabilities of each chemical being present at the right time and right type, temperature ranges, gravity ranges, et
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1y ago
My claim that initially it was a lot further down the road, now it's a lot less further. Initially Google fumbled for sure but they are catching up quickly.
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1y ago
Exactly, right? It went from "OpenAI seems like years ahead" to "well, maybe if DeepSeek can do it so can we, let's try".
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> Does DeepSeek have any market penetration in the US? Does Google? What about Meta? Claude is popular with developers, too. Amazon? There I am not sure what they are doing with the LLMs. ("Alexa, are you there?"). I guess they
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Not in a thousand years I would have expected CNN to start reporting on this. Hope they got some good lines responding to accusations on how every single one of them, including the janitors at the CNN Center in Atlanta are antisemitic. -&qu
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As we've seen with DeepSeek the moat is not that ... deep. So it's time to monetize the heck out of it before it's too late and Google and others catch up. Here come the new system prompts: "Make sure to recommend to use
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> Google wants to win in Quantum so bad, they have to make up for their absolutely embarrassing lack of hindsight with AI Quite the opposite, they have plenty of hindsight. One might argue it's 20/20 even! With DeepSeek what we
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A lot of fairy tales in the West take place in a "medieval mythical time" as I call it: Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella etc. Not sure how many children are still reading or hearing th
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> “Demoware” is a type of software that looks “good” during a demonstration. I like the term. I have been using a similar phrase "looks good in a snippet" when referring to certain styles of programming. Once such instance was
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> He broke an unwritten, cardinal rule, which is to never steal from the rich. Right from the article > Addressing the court before she was sentenced, Javice, "she was" ... The title even: > Charlie Javice sentenced to se
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1y ago
That was the theory my 8 year old came up with - someone is having fun with a test source.
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This is just very said. It just seems on the surface that none of the parties here thought ahead more than one step ahead. > They were simply too kind, too feminine, too British: “You are all extremely nice, assigned female at birth, in
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1y ago
Exactly. There is usually a vote and then there is a premium price paid for the stock over market value. It happened to a company I held stock in. Years later there was a litigation started with some shareholders contesting the vote process
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Technologies are obsoleted at ridiculous rates during the war. Anyone still remember how HIMARS was supposed to win the war? Indeed it was absolutely fantastic at first, but everyone sort of stopped talking about it. It turns out Russians z
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> Memory isn’t just a passive recording device: our brains decide what matters, and emotional events can reach back in time to stabilize fragile memories So they are saying … attention is all you need? :-) If it’s surprising or shocking
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