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by sage76 3y ago
The way these people think and behave, reminds me of some science fiction novels. I noticed a weird thing in many of them, the people building all that tech and breaking new ground seem to just be invisible, and all the drama seems to be cr
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by sage76 3y ago
I wonder how the split was among the technical talent vs non technical talent in siding with/against Altman.
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by sage76 3y ago
He was fired from YC : https://archive.ph/fLzoF Brockman hired the top researchers with help from Yoshua Bengio. Elon Musk was the biggest initial donor, and he is on record saying that Ilya was the key hire. https:/&
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by sage76 3y ago
I have been wondering the same about Altman. Dude had a failed startup, and somehow wormed his way into being the president of YC, a job he f'd up and got fired from, and then managed to parachute into being the CEO of OpenAI. Some peo
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by sage76 3y ago
>I did the learn a language a year thing and that helped me get a job as a compiler writer. >And I was able to leverage that into becoming a quant as I put in the hours to relearn all the math I'd forgotten from school. What was
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by sage76 3y ago
A high school grad is in charge of a cutting edge AI startup. Generally I wouldn't gatekeep, but here, it seems apt.
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by sage76 3y ago
Companies expect you to be productive immediately. In my experience, they give you no slack at all to learn a stack. It's best to have 1 stack you have deep expertise of.
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by sage76 3y ago
Since private complaints routed through internal channels don't generally work either, this is a good thing he has done. And no, public statements can make you a public target. These are not easy to make.
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by sage76 3y ago
You are implying that every manager is competent and every criticism from a subordinate is baseless.
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by sage76 3y ago
> there aren't a lot of other black women in leadership at Google. Makes this targeted attack feel worse. Are people of specific races to be put beyond criticism?
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by sage76 3y ago
Idk why you are downvoted. It's become a cultural trope to use "I did it for my family" as an excuse to justify absolutely heinous stuff.
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by sage76 3y ago
My dog told me he's replacing Emmett as the next CEO of OpenAI.
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by sage76 3y ago
It might be the influx of all the MBA-CEO-Steve-Job wannabe types due to the tech boom and normalisation of tech entrepreneurship, and due to YC becoming a brand.
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by sage76 3y ago
Except successful people just fail upwards. Execs are allowed to do the dumbest shit imaginable and keep their jobs and bonuses. The average engineer so much as takes a bit longer to push a ticket, and there's 5 people breathing down h
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by sage76 3y ago
There's definitely more to this than just Ilya vs Sam.
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by sage76 3y ago
> It's quite possible an AI company does need a better vision than "hire some engineers and have them make AI". Seems like all these "business guys" think that's all it takes.
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by sage76 3y ago
Man I hope Elon jumps in and backs Ilya. That drama would keep me entertained for a while.
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by sage76 3y ago
Ilya is spiderman then lol.
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by sage76 3y ago
What a waste of time. If there's 1 thing I have learnt, it's that people PREFER to spend time with their phones. People might SAY they are lonely, but their actions speak louder. They don't WANT social connection to the degre
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by sage76 3y ago
Anecdotally, I have seen stress be a major factor. I know businessmen who are under a lot of stress, and even in their 40s they had major health problems. Others who seemed naturally inclined to be a bit carefree (not careless) seemes to on
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by sage76 3y ago
Author is just another grifter peddling pop-psychology/bro-science nonsense like thousands and thousands of others, since it generates like, views and even conversation (like at HN). None of it is worth paying attention to.
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by sage76 3y ago
> You also lose the ease of just walking over to someone to ask a question Here's what typically happened in every company I worked at. I ask a question, they tell me to look at the documentation. I look it up, do what I needed to d
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by sage76 3y ago
I have seen that, and it was helpful. But at least in machine learning and AI, if you want an admit into any top 10 US PhD program, you need a publication or 2 in a top tier venue, preferably first author. In other fields and lower ranked p
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by sage76 3y ago
> there’s increasingly an expectation that students should come into a PhD program with one or more publications already under their belt. For top programs ideally these should be first author (not yet an absolute requirement but it’s mo
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by sage76 3y ago
> I think it is only the case in companies where there is no proper onboarding process or it is an afterthought. I think this is what it comes down to. Most companies have nonexistent onboarding, so new hires can be unproductive for quit
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by sage76 3y ago
MBAs are brand whores, and YC is a brand now.
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by sage76 3y ago
Ruby has the worst, most complex syntax I have ever used.
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by sage76 3y ago
> Tech is a rare industry where you can easily pivot into it later in your career Everyone I know who is older and already in the industry, is having a bad time trying to change jobs.
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by sage76 3y ago
It's weird, in India, most companies have 2 month notice periods. Many have 3.
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by sage76 3y ago
I never know what to take seriously and what not to. I used to take it all seriously, and that didn't work. So I don't take anything seriously, and I lose interest. I have not figured out any balance whatsoever. I don't know

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