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In athletics words can be a hindrance, as they add time to the thinking/doing gap.

Several years ago he taught kids locally in the Bay Area. Very sad to see someone go that's so young.

There's early adoption from individuals. Much less from enterprises. (They're buying site licenses, but not re-engineering their company processes)

There's so much white space - this is the cost of a brand new technology. Similar issues with figuring out what cloud tools to use, or what python libraries are most relevant.

This is also why not everyone is an early adopter. There are mental costs involved in staying on top of everything.

I think articles like the OP destroy the meaning of words like rigor. If the work was even remotely reproducible we'd see a gold rush that puts AI to shame.

This is also why talent marketplaces don’t work so well.

We can know who is good for our last situation, but it comes with bias and is very hard to measure. This is true even for jobs that are easier to measure like Sales or Support.

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Growth in the percentage of population going to college. And from a research reputation point of view it’s very important to create a lot of mini-mes.

Chicago has a $220 million annual deficit before the Trump issues. You can’t blame this fiscal mismanagement on the ebbs and flows of politics.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Can you defend funding full scholarship plus stipend PhDs in fields for which there are no jobs? (At the expense of undergrad financial aid or something else)

Very true. Many of my favorite nightlife places have closed too. Then again, I gave up drinking, so I put their kids through college like I used to!

If they don’t like it they can vote it down or make a higher bid. This is why almost all buyouts come with a premium. If they choose as a group not to sell then the deal doesn’t get done. They elect a board to get the best deal for them.

Also true of favorite restaurants and childhood haunts. Things change and interests move on.

Have you ever met someone from Mensa or Harvard that didn't bring it up? :-)

Wouldn’t the TAM be defined by number of agents? In the end there will be more agents coding than people.

Follow the money.

Let's say you're listening to a podcast extoll the virtues of a high protein low carb diet. You'll assign a mental probability that they're correct. Does that prior probability change if you learn they've signed a protein shake company as a sponsor the same day the podcast was released?

They're pushing so hard on Gemini because they know the search days are limited.

Very good point. There’s a big difference between “everyone gets heard” and “everyone gets a veto.”

Breaking ties is part of the leader’s job.

Of course if every issue requires the leader to break the tie, then perhaps there’s either a management issue, and incentive issue, or people don’t understand the strategy.

I'm huge into measurement, and quantifying this has stumped me. It's one of the few areas I'm willing to surrender and say "Let's just pick a % of time to put on it."

It's bad to say "Let's give it to folks who are underutilized or have capacity" because those are rarely the people who can do it well.

All I can come up with is the hardening % should be in proportion to how catastrophic a failure is, while keeping some faith that well done hardening ultimately pays for itself.

Philip Crosby wrote about this in manufacturing as "Quality is Free" https://archive.org/details/qualityisfree00cros

Me too. Especially since their Marketing approach (lower cost, lower frills) is so different than their strategy elsewhere.

This is the referenced report: https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-...

I thought “whoops, wrong wedding” was a little anti-climactic.

Most companies have to worry about profitability and revenue rather than the hype train of the current bubble.

True!

Easy to see how social sciences can be games. Much sadder to see Mathematics get gamed too. It provides ammo to folks looking to defund the topics.

This is interesting data. For all the talk of bringing up the bottom and "No child left behind" this suggests we're still succeeding. And as anyone in California will tell you, schools are doing this at the expense of the top students.

I get that COVID is part of the cause. Forcing one instructor to teach to 30 kids of widely varied abilities makes it worse. In that model, nobody learns.

I concur. It's the ultimate in category creation.

Awesome product!!!