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Pedagogy in the Age of AI [video](youtube.com)
1 points by sumanthvepa 22d ago|2 comments
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by sumanthvepa 28d ago
We definitely need mathematicians to understand it and verify to us that the math is correct. And it takes a mathematician to even talk to the AI in a way that will be useful. There is no way I could personally get Claude Fable or Opean AI
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
I'm pretty confident that no 15 year old would have learned about void coefficients if Chernobyl hadn't happened.
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
Well. I own my business and I really hate this attitude that some startups executives have. I want quality. Not blind speed. I want speed to be a by product of a well built product and a system that builds it. Not a bunch of slop thrown ove
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
Yes. China is behind on some of the crucial technology that gives the West its advantage, but this framing that the country is on the verge of collapse is just not true. Also recreating a know technology usually takes much less time even if
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
Not an American, but I would argue that this level while little bit of a concern is not a huge issue for a superpower that borrows in its own currency and has the military and economic might to crush any party (sovereign or corporate) attem
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
Using Pangram to detect AI slop is a very bad idea. I tried it on my own writing which I knew to be written by me and it marked it as AI generated.
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by sumanthvepa 2mo ago
Not quite in job interviews, but when I'm selling to a client, I just ask in the interview if it is okay, if I connect with them on LinkedIn. Some say yes. Others say no. Should work in a job interview setting as well. It also has the
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by sumanthvepa 3mo ago
Dammit! Why am I the only 'Ivy type' that cannot raise a round?!!! .
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by sumanthvepa 3mo ago
Yes. While they may have been justified in firing him for not following policy, they also lost a talented engineer. (I'm sure they don't care) I would have done the intelligent thing here and looked at how the project could have b
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by sumanthvepa 4mo ago
But why would ask these people about topics they don't understand? Or they sending you unsolicited responses?
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by sumanthvepa 6mo ago
They purchased 129 tons of gold in Europe. Their asset position did not change: they converted cash to gold of the same value. They then sold the 129 tons gold in the US vaults for $16 billion. That gold was originally purchased I'm gu
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by sumanthvepa 6mo ago
Very true. We have a private git repository running on a server that serves as our master. Works fine for us. We backup to GitHub. But it isn't used in any way in the dev workflow
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by sumanthvepa 6mo ago
I rarely run my apps fullscreen. It's because I have multiple 4k monitors connected to the machine. Using an app even chrome or an IDE fullscreen would be too big. But do use apps fullscreen when Im traveling. The laptop screen is too
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by sumanthvepa 7mo ago
Not true. I'm a really heavy user of AI. And it's improved my productivity dramatically as a developer, but it doesn't work in every situation even in programming. I see it as an indispensible tool, but its not, right now, a
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by sumanthvepa 8mo ago
Most VCs can't read markdown.
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by sumanthvepa 9mo ago
Interesting. I required all my devs to use local VMs for development. We've saved a fair bit on cloud costs.
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by sumanthvepa 10mo ago
Learn for yourself then. I run my own company and learning new stuff so I can use it in my business is one of the few joys of being the owner. No permission required to try the new hotness (And if you screw up -- you have only yourself to b
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by sumanthvepa 11mo ago
Code is just ‘compiled’ intelligence.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
There seems to be some sort imputation that, just because someone is on an H-1b, that they are not a good engineer. I used to be on an H-1b and gladly came back home to India. I run my own business now. And yes. I'm ex-Anazon. It was a
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
This. Right now the consumer surplus created by improved productivity is being captured by users and to a small extent their employers. But that may not remain the case in future.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
What benefit could one possibly get by farming karma on site like hacker news. It's not like one can gather followers or something. I'm always mystified by folks who do this. Would love to understand the motivation.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
I've been wondering exacrtly this. Surely, its not hard to get setup with your own website. It's not like substack is giving you much distribution.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
The problem with predicting that China won't catch up on GDP per capita with the West is that the West too went through those growth phases about a century or two ago. It will take a 100-200 years, but China, and the rest of world will
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
The Michelson-Morely experiment is probably one of the most famous null result in all of science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
I create most of my OpenGraph images using AI. As far as I can tell, there is no copyright on those images. They are in the public domain (I think?)
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
I've been working full time for myself for the last 13 years. Multiple projects clients etc. It becomes easier in terms of work pressure when you can afford to go full time on your project. (But of course, you have be careful with mone
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
I struggled with it too, but one solution that works for me is blocking time for specific things. For example I will block 4hrs in the early morning to work on my project 5 days a week. I keep friday evening and Saturdays free for family an
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
The real cost is an opportunity cost. It doesn't show up in the financials. Your ability to react quickly to new business opportunities is hurt. Most CEOs and boards don't notice it, until it's too late.
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by sumanthvepa 1y ago
It's interesting. My closest friends use my last name, while everyone else uses my first name at work. Apparently it was a hangover from the custom at old British public schools that some old Indian schools retained into the 70s/8

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