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I think the thing is that in a huge amount of hiring, we don't know what attribute K is, nor if it is good to be considered favorably during hiring. It is amazing how often we look back and see what we used to evaluate people by 50 years ago was so wrong, but believe that we have it right THIS time.

So, as a people we default back to hiring people who look like us, think like us, and act like us, even if that isn't representative of the larger population, and even if it restricts the population of people who are likely to be perfectly qualified, given the chance. Keep the playing field tilted towards "us", whoever that may be in the given situation.

And it just so happens that with our enlightenment we exclude the people who have always been excluded. A funny coincidence how we keep coming up with that same solution, rather than challenging our own assumptions as lazy mammals.

Marimo is such a leap forward that I think the Jupyter people will adopt its concepts directly. So elegant, so useful, both for people and machines. Love it.

I believe that is a reference to the treatment of Uyghurs in China.

Please don't listen to all of these folks who are trying to bring conflict into your life. You did something interesting, and learned a lesson about how big institutions actually work. It is a great story, and one that you can tell your friends.

The easiest path forward is to do what it takes to graduate, it sounds like you are one quarter away. Smile, play nice, help out where you can. Get everything in writing.

Definitely TALK to a lawyer and have that in your back pocket. It is likely there is some sort of legal aid through the law school and you can. However, only use this as a last resort. It would be no problem for a university to drag something like this out for months or years and you will be left without a degree.

Like the Roma?

But as a comparison of scale, both the airports in Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth are larger than Manhattan (27 mi2 or 70 km2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Fort_Worth_Internationa....

While that is a ton of activity (and empty space, if you have ever seen those airports), the Big Apple might not be the best reference for scale.

Great point!

(Disclaimer: I work for Elastic)

Elasticsearch has recently added a data type called semantic_text, which automatically chunks text, calculates embeddings, and stores the chunks with sensible defaults.

Queries are similarly simplified, where vectors are calculated and compared internally, which makes a lot less I/O and a lot simpler client code.

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/semantic-search-simp...

21 direct reports is far too many to be an effective manager. I currently manage 8 technical people and 8-10 seems to be the sweet spot, where I have time to do things like have 1-1s, help with career planning, get people promoted, deal with escalations or cross-team issues, hire replacements, etc.

I have had as many as 15 and after 10 you really just have to start picking what you want to fall off of your plate as a manager. Unfortunately, the things that fall off first are the things that help your direct reports the most. Eventually, you just get behind on everything and end up being completely reactive and only able to focus on short-term solutions.

21 direct reports are a lot if you want to be a good manager and support your people.

I think it is just leaving the bag for picking up on the way back. Not really that complicated.

Hey! Have you been reading my email? This is a perfect analogy of the medium-to-large business that I work for.

Interestingly, a great application for GenAI is to copy and paste code and ask it, "Why is this not working?". It works even better if you give it the specific error you are getting (and it is a well understood system).

Fair question.

I mentioned this in another comment, but Learn to Rank allows a customized sorting order that is specified by an administrator. Where you see this is in systems where you need a really fast evaluation (ms) and computation doesn't work well.

For example, in an e-commerce system you might want search results that reflect what your users are likely to buy. For a few items you might be able to do something computationally with SQL, but at scale there are lots of features and signals and noise and it quickly moves past algebra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank#:~:text=Learn....

I am coming from the search world, but databases were my first experience in the industry.

It would be interesting to see some things like Learn To Rank or semantic reranking become a part of SQL. These have real impacts on accuracy with generative AI.

Not sure how practical this is.

I really enjoyed this one. Fascinating, thought provoking work.

The president certainly could, even if it was illegal.

| You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

On a related note ... the ship names in the Culture always gave me a laugh. Here is a complete list: https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

It is very ironic to have a lot of text discussing this subject without hearing the music.

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_about_music_is_like_da...

Interesting, my partner's son got one for free for developing some graphics drivers that needed to be ported to the Vision Pro. I was super interested in it for a few days but we never took it out of the box. I have been meaning to take a look at it, but life keeps getting in the way.

Well, there ain't no tellin' when he's down for a jack move ...

And that penguin's name ... Johnathan Livingston Seagull.

An easy way to see how well you are listening is to try and have conversations where you speak less than 50% of the total time.

You don't have to time yourself with a stopwatch (although that would be more accurate), but you can look back on conversations and easily see where you said far more than you heard.

The UI for Wolfram is SO much prettier than Jupyter notebooks.

What a fantastic, personally revealing piece of art. Really well done.

I had similar concerns so I at least moved my email to Fastmail and then set up a google account tied to it instead of Gmail. When you create the google account, you can just choose to use an existing email address (see https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en#exist...).

Also, with fastmail if you use your own domain you can have any email address automatically forwarded to the same box. So, if your gmail account for "me@mydomain.com" gets shut down you can start a new one with "myself@mydomain.com" and you will still have access to all your customer service emails and info that may have been sent in the past. Any other provider should do, but I have liked fastmail a lot.

SSO + Gmail at the same provider = risk of permanent loss of access.

I am an engineer and have been working in Sales Engineering for more than 15 years now. You are on an interesting and fruitful quest and I wish you well.

The biggest shift in moving from engineering to sales is that your priority is no longer being the smartest person in the room. Unless, of course, you understand that the smartest person in the room is the person who gets the deal done in a mutually advantageous way. There will always be someone who wants to appear smarter than you, LET THEM. Your goal is to make a living.

The one thing I would say to remember is that your integrity is the most valuable thing that you have, bar none. Don't trade it away for anything. Over the long-term, sales is about finding a great solution that meets the needs of your customer, not winning deals or negotiations.

Here are a few books I found useful in my journey: * Let's get real or let's not play - https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Real-Not-Play/dp/1596592060 * The Three value conversations - https://www.amazon.com/Three-Value-Conversations-Customer-Lo... * Never Split the Difference - https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De... * Leadership is Language - https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Language-Changes-Differenc... * Draw to win - https://www.amazon.com/Draw-Win-Course-Innovate-Visual-ebook...