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What's HR'a rationale?

" My thought is to write it in Python, profile it, and if needed, rewrite the slow parts in C. "

Your thinking is correct though sometimes, even with the best intentions, people stop at the first step. Fixing code that already works is usually not a high priority task.

He's up for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

https://x.com/S_OhEigeartaigh/status/1843979139948355893

The paper has a mention : "These authors contributed equally: ..."

However, it appears that some the authors were more equal than others.

Maybe the story here isn't so much whether Hinton is a physicist or not, but rather a lack of groundbreaking progress in physics to give the Nobel to.

It was very prestigious by ~2007, but only within a much smaller niche of programmers nerds.

It describes bad startups.

"Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap." (V.I. Arnol'd)

Reminded of Steve Yegge's claim a couple years ago that India had run out of developers.

What happens when Vietnam runs out too?

Hardware engineers making half of what software engineers make. A reminder of the stark difference between the two job markets.

Product sense, design thinking, understanding of the customer/market, knowing what to build.

This. Americans value high skilled migration less than Europeans do. The proof is in the pudding (ie immigration policies)

No I can't tell the difference other than the colors. Sayls have optional features including lumbar support ; adjustable armrests.

In my experience, HM Sayls are easy to find secondhand. However, you'll probably need to dismantle the chair to add grease to the mechanisms.

Cheap Linux workstations.

It wasn't just the obvious price advantage, but despite Solaris' best efforts, Linux was still superior, because people could learn it at home.

Are you sure ? Actually the quantities reported are only a bit more than a smoke alarm's worth. https://tech.lgbt/@tryst@meow.social/112537465686977310

The same material is used in smoke detectors.

Pretty sure indiehackers don't get offered CEO positions.

Also 100% sure that his next business will be many times more successful than Tiny Pilot.

Congrats! Bootstrapping a HW business to good profitability and acquisition is a remarkable achievement, particularly outside of China.

Fair enough, however if your top idea is to start a web design firm 2024, this indicates that you perhaps haven't been exposed to more promising problems in any other industry. Maybe taking a job for a couple of years, in some field you are curious about, would change that.

Have you considered getting a work visa + a tech job in western Europe ?

Thiel also said : "competition is for losers". He was right

Scrum is a developer empowerment tool that turned into a micromanagememt tool. A stupendous own goal for the software development community.

Success has many fathers.

Same here.

This also happened about a week ago, but was reverted/fixed within a few hours. So, I'm hoping Twitter will fix this.

It has all the features you need, but due to a lack of manpower, it's really lacking polish compared to Solidworks. "Free for personal use" Commercial CAD is probably better if you're learning. Once somewhat proficient, you could consider switching to FreeCAD.

Exactly my personal experience. The talent arbitrage for £30k physics grads is real. But it's hard to take advantage of when you are that physics graduate, and can't build up any serious savings.

100% agree. The future of CAD consists in more specialized CAD platforms, not tweaks to general mechanical CAD. Cabinet Vision is one good example.

> it was a large team

A lot of people want to take credit for it, but wasn't it started by a guy called Alec Radford ?

Au contraire, it is very related. Every big success looked modest initially.