I am a really heavy Claude Code user but source control is still one area where I have regular bad experiences just using Claude.
A new grad is not necessarily the same as a potential H1B hire. Tech workers are not fungible. A company might prefer to hire an Indian or Polish person who has won ICPC, has hard-to-acquire experience, etc. over a…
I think the idea of shaming people for being successful conquerers is ironically very western. Ask what the Mongols think about their conquests or the Han or what the Turks think about the Ottomans or the Russians about…
I don't know what you imagine perceptions of the British empire to be but most people don't think the UK sent 10000 ships to India to zerg rush the existing power structures.
> That's partly because inequality doesn't fit into their models. Well Piketty being wrong doesn't fit in many people's models either. Economists routinely do talk about inequality and I think it's intellectually…
AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past two decades?), so I think this is…
> Since AI vision is not yet good enough, it’s possible that one reason the AIs do relatively poorly on this new test is because the verbal descriptions of the questions are not written as well as they could be, and…
If you do a global comparison the US is incredibly richer rather than these countries being incredibly poor.
Self employment is 3 times higher in the UK than in the US actually: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS/r...
The UK leads in Europe for start up founding… Almost nobody in the UK works for the same company for 50 years and this used to be a thing in the US too. Canada has similar laws/issues. Social mobility is also higher in…
At least in my industry non-competes seem to be a tool to reduce worker mobility and a way for competitors to collude and keep costs down. It's a highly-paid industry FWIW. I think it makes sense to ban them.
Non-competes are a thing both in the UK and several EU countries and quite common in some jobs. Also quite enforceable and also not necessarily paid.
Given that women generally avoid dating lower-paid partners, there's a good chance you wouldn‘t or that those people would be outliers.
At least the version I hear most often about is a gross disparity between the genders without taking anything into account. IIRC if you look into it it's mostly a maternity penalty anyway.
I get your grievances about Germany, but alimony/child support laws can turn out much worse than that in many parts of the anglosphere. Bad bureaucracy is also hardly unique to Germany. The tax thing I do get.…
Anytime Spotify makes money the music labels up their prices. Music streaming is not that great of a business model.
Yeah, I used it today to interact with some database stuff I have some passing knowledge about and it told me a bunch of wrong things. Though it also helped me solve the task; ChatGPT at least requires you to somewhat…
Also the only fossil fuel Germany has in abundance in its own territory.
I've copied like 3 things from SO in the last year max. Speak for yourself.
Ultra high net worth individual
I partially agree on that - for example, I find it hard to believe the LLMs will make many lawyers or doctors redundant - not necessarily because of a lack of capabilities, but due to regulatory burdens.
Because the computer in this case is relying on a vast repository of human knowledge encoded in these languages to go from 1 to 3. Machine code was probably not in the training set. Would be interesting if you could…
A lot of nasty ideologues that caused massive suffering also believed that
Both China and Russia eschewed US tech and they have much, much healthier tech industries than Europe. The US also doesn't really believe in foreign competition ("Buy American", recent huge industrial subsidies as part…
I trust the app to be a more reliable intermediary between me and the restaurant rather than ordering directly. I trust that the app is more technically sound (I've had problems ordering from 'bespoke' apps and…
I am a really heavy Claude Code user but source control is still one area where I have regular bad experiences just using Claude.
A new grad is not necessarily the same as a potential H1B hire. Tech workers are not fungible. A company might prefer to hire an Indian or Polish person who has won ICPC, has hard-to-acquire experience, etc. over a…
I think the idea of shaming people for being successful conquerers is ironically very western. Ask what the Mongols think about their conquests or the Han or what the Turks think about the Ottomans or the Russians about…
I don't know what you imagine perceptions of the British empire to be but most people don't think the UK sent 10000 ships to India to zerg rush the existing power structures.
> That's partly because inequality doesn't fit into their models. Well Piketty being wrong doesn't fit in many people's models either. Economists routinely do talk about inequality and I think it's intellectually…
AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past two decades?), so I think this is…
> Since AI vision is not yet good enough, it’s possible that one reason the AIs do relatively poorly on this new test is because the verbal descriptions of the questions are not written as well as they could be, and…
If you do a global comparison the US is incredibly richer rather than these countries being incredibly poor.
Self employment is 3 times higher in the UK than in the US actually: https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SL.EMP.SELF.ZS/r...
The UK leads in Europe for start up founding… Almost nobody in the UK works for the same company for 50 years and this used to be a thing in the US too. Canada has similar laws/issues. Social mobility is also higher in…
At least in my industry non-competes seem to be a tool to reduce worker mobility and a way for competitors to collude and keep costs down. It's a highly-paid industry FWIW. I think it makes sense to ban them.
Non-competes are a thing both in the UK and several EU countries and quite common in some jobs. Also quite enforceable and also not necessarily paid.
Given that women generally avoid dating lower-paid partners, there's a good chance you wouldn‘t or that those people would be outliers.
At least the version I hear most often about is a gross disparity between the genders without taking anything into account. IIRC if you look into it it's mostly a maternity penalty anyway.
I get your grievances about Germany, but alimony/child support laws can turn out much worse than that in many parts of the anglosphere. Bad bureaucracy is also hardly unique to Germany. The tax thing I do get.…
Anytime Spotify makes money the music labels up their prices. Music streaming is not that great of a business model.
Yeah, I used it today to interact with some database stuff I have some passing knowledge about and it told me a bunch of wrong things. Though it also helped me solve the task; ChatGPT at least requires you to somewhat…
Also the only fossil fuel Germany has in abundance in its own territory.
I've copied like 3 things from SO in the last year max. Speak for yourself.
Ultra high net worth individual
I partially agree on that - for example, I find it hard to believe the LLMs will make many lawyers or doctors redundant - not necessarily because of a lack of capabilities, but due to regulatory burdens.
Because the computer in this case is relying on a vast repository of human knowledge encoded in these languages to go from 1 to 3. Machine code was probably not in the training set. Would be interesting if you could…
A lot of nasty ideologues that caused massive suffering also believed that
Both China and Russia eschewed US tech and they have much, much healthier tech industries than Europe. The US also doesn't really believe in foreign competition ("Buy American", recent huge industrial subsidies as part…
I trust the app to be a more reliable intermediary between me and the restaurant rather than ordering directly. I trust that the app is more technically sound (I've had problems ordering from 'bespoke' apps and…