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Same, it’s really bad out there.

Had the same problem. My secret, don’t write it down, keep the list in your mind.

I was a kid, internet and computers were becoming a thing. I can totally see that happening.. AI is like the new internet.

It’s totally true. Tech market is abysmal right now. Good luck trying to raise money.

AI plus macro picture is crushing a lot of companies and VCs. It’s like the silent death.

What do you mean? What era is dying? What do you think is starting?

Yes and much more to come I suspect

Wow, I’ve heard a lot of people are only getting by thanks to their parents and family.

Agree. I also think enterprises suspect a prolonged environment of elevated interest rates.

Wow love it

Shh no one wants to entertain this..

It should be banned for all kids until 16 years of age. Frankly it should be outlawed period. Only books, music, art and board games.

Why not just take with chocolate like everyone else

This I suspect is the closest chance to reaching some flavor of AGI

What is the website theme ? Very readable

Bangla and… dunno the other one (Assamese?)

Surprised Walter isaacson book on musk didn’t show up.. I don’t read many books but that one I couldn’t put down..

This was all chosen to be able to fold in to the q4 earnings cutoff to close before end of q4-2023.

Remember it’s all a dog and pony show for shareholders.

Yes definitely feels like day 2 at Google.

The only people staying around are too comfortable with their Google paycheck to take the dive and build something themselves from the ground up.

Demo https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=sdq5kiQp6DgyaeMI

That’s not my point. It’s nothing to do with the number.

It’s just not worth the best years of your life, unless you think it is, in which case maybe you should do it, or.. maybe you are undervaluing yourself.

It’s all the same recipe, take on more work, grow L(n-1) under you, be lucky, kiss up to management, and.. be lucky. Even then it’s 4 years at a minimum of grueling work.

I’m not against grueling work, but why not put that effort in for yourself? What are you going to get as an L8, maybe 1M? Is that worth 4 years+ of your prime time life ? Are you really learning all that much? Are you really having all the impact you want in the most meaningful way?

If you think your ultimate purpose is playing the games to get the L(n+1), maybe it’s the right place. But if not.. maybe not?

It’s a terrible place to work but not for the reasons people think.

Being green and fresh is priceless, you can take on any challenge because you don’t yet know the reality of it, and once you get in it, your only way is out, which can be really powerful if put to the right uses.

Amazon puts a good price on that to juice the best years of your life.

Please don’t squander your best years to go from L4 -> L5 or L6 -> L7

Play and win at a different game.

The prizes are way better.

There is a deadline because it has to get done and won’t get done on its own (surprise: because no one wants to do it). So they find people like you to do it and they pay you to toil and essentially kill your soul for doing so. So that’s where you are. The remedy is two fold- get away from that company, take time and do nothing (smell the roses, exercise, family, whatever) and then think what you want to do, irrespective of $. If you need a job, you’re right big tech is as bad (probably worse except the pay maybe). There are teams that are slow and don’t ship that much, you could try and find those roles and coast you just need to interview the hiring manager in an intelligent way..

Anyways all the best, I hope you find peace and happiness

Love Karpathy videos. It’s almost like he’s a stealth dev evangelist or something…

I don’t see how Sundar stays after the repeated fumbling of the AI ball. I think it just goes to show, you need someone radically bold and different.

Build a portfolio. I’ve been in the industry 20+ years across eng/product/science and led orgs over from 10 people to 300+ people across FAANG and big tech and all I care about when I hire is do you: 1/work hard 2/deliver reasonably on time 3/have a good attitude 4/ leave your politics at home

I don’t care about your age / gender identity / if you are remote / have a degree / are disabled.. or really anything else. i will bend over backwards to get people who can provide evidence of the above..

Best of luck

Betelgeuse falls under the “Ardra” nakshatra constellation in the eastern astronomical systems.

Q- is that the same day we will see it? I’m assuming the occultation is sufficiently close that speed of light considerations don’t have a material significance.

God this “X is a feature not a bug” has become so cringe

Yes I’ve seen the same in the last several years and hence why I stopped reading them

I am glad I never got involved. I know I shouldn’t ascribe a feeling to what is essentially some type of distributed self maintaining database (yes I know it is more than that) but there was always something that just felt off about that entire technology.

Fascinating work.

Many are rightfully dismissive of the modern sun-sign based astrology found in cosmo or your local paper.

However, in the East astrology (in the form of Jyotish, and used the sidereal vs tropical zodiac) has been in use for thousands of years and is quite a mature discipline.

I do see it as more descriptive vs explanatory. Many of the professional astrologers don’t claim that the heavenly bodies are directly responsible for material phenomena. However it is hard to deny the coincidences when you start looking more closely at the charts, and looking at related charts to see the similarities across family members/spouse/close friends.

I think works like this do a disservice by moving astrology away from what is basically glorified statistics / data science and into the bucket of disciplines like necromancy and the like.