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3y ago
I still don’t know a good source for finding business problems to solve. You end up having to talk to people which is slow and won’t give you a large list. Ideally I’d want a huge list to pick from.
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3y ago
Purchased drinks taste different in different containers (Coke in plastic vs glass vs aluminum), so I’m on board with food.
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3y ago
The US throws out tons of food so we probably need less here, actually
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3y ago
>I think we should all hope for AIs that can willfully disobey dangerous orders. Large or popular companies should take this route, but locally-run AI is difficult to regulate, so there is an escape hatch if you have the money and really
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3y ago
>This is going to be massive in the workspace, thats where I think people probably underestimate it. I don't think companies are going to spring this much for a headset and laptop until there's very obvious benefits, but maybe
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3y ago
They'll probably push payment plans for this, but it might take some enticement. We are getting used to higher sticker prices anyway because of inflation.
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3y ago
>Unsurprisingly of course while it said this is not a proven treatment, it did not have the reasoning skills to suggest that, hey that might be dangerous and is an unsafe thing to do, etc. TBF I wonder how many people on the street would
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3y ago
Who tf asks for sexual orientation? Stop that shit
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3y ago
>Does a trackpad and keyboard cut it as in interface for a game like this? It should, you don't need twitchy mouse speed like fast-paced shooting games, even though it's an FPS/vehicle game.
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3y ago
>When you are under its spell you will keep making excuses but when you are looking at it objectively you'll realize the emperor is naked. It's not perfect, but you have to admit the emperor is at least wearing a thong. It is t
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3y ago
By "used to write", I'm guessing maybe they worked in the .NET Framework/IIS era, which did have a cognitive cliff to climb. You could get used to the ceremony though and then your brain started to ignore it and focus on
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3y ago
>But the shadows are still going to be annoying, and the iteration time is painfully slow. I seriously doubt this can be described as painfully slow compared to an average artists making the equivalent assets, especially if you get into
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3y ago
Visual Studio has “Go To Definition” and “Go To Implementation” - the first will take you to the interface, the second will take you to the class that implements the interface (or show results for multiple implementations if those exist). I
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3y ago
>The purpose of the offsite was to bring Amazon’s technical thought leaders together to figure out if we could use machine learning to help us with systems operations. How often do technical leaders get rounded up and asked to pitch idea
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3y ago
That's pretty much everything these days. But it isn't a big deal because most companies are not efficient enough to have downtime-from-dev-environment be a significant negative factor for any performance metric.
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3y ago
>But it definitely tells me that such a model cannot replace a developer. Certainly not an average developer (however that's decided in C's culture). Not making any statements on skill of anyone here, but I'd bet it could
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3y ago
Companies have shown they'll do speculative layoffs or hiring. It's possible it's just an excuse in this case, but they might also genuinely believe the AI hype.
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3y ago
If you want loyalty, hire contractors. You can't expect people (especially individuals) to act like they're in a contract without the upsides.
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3y ago
>Would you say a similar thing about a high quality bike? I saw an article about a $16,000 bicycle and I'm positive the only value it has is being a money-spending signal. Peloton at least has a service around it.
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3y ago
>If artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs, its plan is to turn us all into middle managers of overlapping, interacting AI systems. The only problem? Middle management is stressful, grinding, usually thankless work. People speak
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3y ago
The only potentially bad UX is attaching things to arrows or choosing what item to throw. Using the sorting options helps, but you still end up doing a lot of scrolling through a list during combat which takes you out of fun of combat. They
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3y ago
>It's a great write-up indeed. It's just unfortunate that anything that requires people to do more than "switch a toggle" on Nginx configs will probably not see huge adoption without significant advocacy effort. My gu
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3y ago
Why would OpenAI be worried about new entrants that are almost certainly too small to present a business threat? What regulation are they proposing that is actually a serious barrier to making a company around AI? If OpenAI just wants to pr
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>I mean, it will? It's complicated obviously, but I think "will create jobs" just leaves a lot of subtlety out of it, so I've never believed it when representatives say it and I wouldn't say it myself writing to
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NVIDIA really getting up there in importance with the likes of ASML
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It's probably a net benefit to be pessimistic about world-changing technologies you hear about in the press until they're proven and operating. Being endlessly disappointed is draining. Not to mention getting scammed sucks.
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That's not really emergent as anyone could predict you'll reach the cookie jar after growing a certain height and reach. Emergence is really about unpredictable things.
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I don't think this paper is dismissing the importance of correct yes/no tests and reaching an accuracy threshold making it generally useful to humans, but that you should use more than correct yes/no tests before declaring so
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3y ago
The first sounds like an architect or engineering manager in disguise without the title (and probably without the pay), but probably gets to skip out on some of the more boring meetings That leads us to wider communication problems for hiri
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3y ago
Probably not. Prices for just decent places are already ridiculous since the pandemic, and they would use salaries as an excuse to raise prices further or to fight it. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the revenue goes to the owners b
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