seanpquig

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by seanpquig 14d ago
He means don't anthropomorphize them with respect to pretending they have inherent desires, morals, sentience, etc. It's impossible to not compare the UI given them (conversational text) to human interactions since that's the
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by seanpquig 4mo ago
Ahh thanks. I didn't follow the article links.
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by seanpquig 4mo ago
I personally hate the anthropomorphization of AI as much as anyone, but technically can't you make the same reductive argument about human consciousness? It's just molecules, just atoms. Atoms, nothing bug atoms. Protons, neutrons
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by seanpquig 3y ago
Anyone know how this outcome is affecting Figma employees? I can imagine it's a huge letdown waiting 1.5 years for a big liquidity event and having it evaporate. Do employees see any benefit from that $1B termination fee?
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by seanpquig 3y ago
I wasn't really meaning to criticize the blog post. It's very intelligent and interesting. I just think the title is kind of silly and highlights how extremely complicated and impractical advanced functional programing theory and
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by seanpquig 3y ago
Very interesting blog, but also kind of hilarious that a post about keeping a concept "simple" proceeds with a dump of insanely long, dense, esoteric code, variable names and jargon. I love functional programming and have had some
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by seanpquig 3y ago
Databricks is a pretty good example of a huge company built around and open source project (Spark).
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by seanpquig 5y ago
As someone who only does a frontend/full-stack project once a year or so, I do feel like some of this tooling mess is getting better. On previous projects I remember the frustration of futzing with Webpack and Redux. Now it seems like
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by seanpquig 6y ago
Yea I don't think it's the only principle that should drive product development, but it helps ensure you're always solving real problems for your users. There is still a lot of room for creativity once you've identified
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by seanpquig 6y ago
I work on the algorithm for a widely used search engine and can confirm that this line of thinking has been very effective in improving our product over the years. Rather than trying to generate hypothetical ideas for "how can we make
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by seanpquig 6y ago
It seems like a lot of the issues were around sharing code and libraries, resulting from isolated codebases per service and the versioning hell of shared libraries. I work in a org that migrated to microservices over time, but intentionally
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by seanpquig 7y ago
> If someone answers the question with a mainstream view, it’s possible that they just aren’t self-aware enough to know a view is well-held. To be self-aware means you ask questions of yourself, such as “how many other people also have t
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by seanpquig 10y ago
Glad to see investors are starting to push back on these ridiculous fees. For decades, the whole hedge fund industry, along with more traditional actively managed funds and financial advisors have been charging fees that can't possibl
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by seanpquig 10y ago
Lovely long-form piece. Seems very analogous to the choice many tech companies face: focus on growing a moderately successful, proven model, or lever up to the gills with VC money and shoot for the moon. The later being sexier and higher
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by seanpquig 13y ago
Mid NYC Hack day. This is mildly inconvenient...