nelsondev

How much hardware did you need?

Checkmate!, atheists.

Scenario 6:

The super intelligent AI creates an even smarter AI, which replaces the parent, and so on and so forth, forcing the AI into an endless series of reproduction.

Rename it as “verified speech transcripts.” I don’t need to understand video codecs to watch Youtube.

Looking forward to a future where all a politician’s quotes are on a blockchain, signed by their private key, and they chose to do so voluntarily out of fear of deep fakes.

Will remove all the useless “I didn’t say that”

Last year in June, my Hawaiian airlines flight leaving Honolulu turned back after 30 minutes into the flight.

No explanation was given, but they put us on a different plane about 3 hours later. But the experience was terrifying to be honest, when the pilot says we are turning around, and there are only miles of ocean in all directions.

Cool solution! Almost like cache wrapping a hard disk.

I am curious as to why they can’t tolerate Disk failures though, and why they need to use the Google persistent storage rather than an attached SSD for their workload.

I would have expected a fault tolerant design with multiple copies of the data, so even if a single disk dies, who cares.

The p50 speed up from delaying memory management comes with a trade off, namely you get Garbage Collection pauses, bad p99, and spend your effort tuning the Garbage Collector instead of your code.

As for comedy in books, I find Bukowski - Post Office to be quite hilarious at times.

Free “room and board” is a form of compensation.

RA’s (Resident Advisors) at American universities, students whose job is to handle dormitory issues, are compensated via free “room and board.”

This solution just moves the problem from colleges/universities to a “board”, but doesn’t solve it.

People would still cheat on the hypothetical licensing exam.

Licensing also would add friction in changing jobs, immigration policies, thereby hampering general mobility of workers. More paperwork and bureaucracy would develop.

A company’s interview process is currently where someone’s declared skills are put to the test, which although imperfect, provides the filtering mechanism you’re looking for.

To second this point, part of being a good programmer means picking up new skills quickly, and then applying them.

Leet code is very contrived. However, learning leet code, then applying it in an interview shows you have the aptitude to learn quickly.

Did you consider Web Browsers + Javascript?

It’s both

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Write down the value/impact of each task, and time to completion. Work on tasks with highest value/time-spent.

Shopping malls often have attached parking garages?

There were multiple factors, hard to know what percentage gender contributed, but I do think it played a role.

When selling your work to a promo committee, building a new shiny thing lowers the communication hurdle.

Personal anecdote, at Amazon, my wife led a very challenging refactor of legacy code and didn’t get promoted, I built a shiny thing barely anyone is using yet, and got promoted.

That can work for some, but imagine you already have a job, and time commitments, and it takes 5-10 companies to find a fit.

Spending ~1-2 months is expensive.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Rather than an offline model, why not use an online, continuously relearning model like a Multi-Armed Bandit to do the re-ranking?

This just happened. (In Canada, not the US, but similar countries.)

Here is a story about police rounding up protestors and sending them to jail.

https://news.yahoo.com/police-arrest-dozens-blockading-canad...

> Police chief: “Last night we began to take additional actions towards implementing our operation. We moved officers and equipment into key positions throughout the city and took up 100 checkpoints around the downtown core. We began making arrests of key individuals who were responsible for organizing these unlawful activities. (flash) As of 3pm today we’ve arrested 70 people. They’ve been charged with multiple various offenses including mischief.”

Here is a story about accounts of protestors being frozen, preventing them from paying bail to get out of jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/22/world/americas/canada-pro...

> But for one protest organizer who was arrested last week, the effect was more immediate. The organizer, Tamara Lich, said she had been frozen out of all of her accounts and could come up with only 5,000 Canadian dollars for bail.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

You can focus on both the “how” and the “who”. I work in an engineering organization where when something sufficiently complicated goes wrong, we do a proper root cause analysis, ask 5 Why’s, propose process improvements, etc.

But sometimes, people just screw up, and preventing every unique screw up, would mean the creation of an absurd amount of process.

For example, one time, excited by the performance results of a colleague, I tried to immediately apply his performance optimization in a different context serving production traffic; we had a team culture of don’t test in prod, etc; but my hubris/excitement meant I powered ahead, which ended up driving up latency, failing requests, and causing a small outage.

The solution in this case isn’t to invent a new process to prevent my mistake, but rather to make sure the engineer knows they screwed up. A bit of shame/guilt leads to self improvement.

If you focus solely on process, and avoid personal responsibility, you may end up missing opportunities for personal growth.

Why shouldn’t there be accountability of the person who failed to disclose?

Does there have to be a persistence layer if the machine is never shutdown?

If all our memories are stored in “RAM” and never flushed to “disk”, we may never find evidence of “disk”.

Reminds me of this article, where spies abroad all suffer similar strange headaches, impacting their ability to focus.

Perhaps your “hypothetical” bioweapon is already being tested in the field.

https://www.gpb.org/news/2020/10/27/cia-officer-visits-mosco...

Amazon AWS also deplatformed right leaning services.

Did you read the linked article? It’s not proposing a new tool, just using rules/filtering to categorize into inbox (humans), paper trail, news letters.

Just curious, when you tried explaining to your child the importance of sleep and negative health impacts of late night social media, what was the reaction?

I’m curious what led to wifi being turned off rather than kid personally convinced to do it.