codethatwerks

Given you are happy to work say 60 hours a week, what is the optimal use of the extra 20.

For some it might be free work for their employer in return for something. Example might be in financial trading etc. to get a bonus or raise or promotion in a shop that is killing it.

For some it might be leetcode and reading everything on levels.io and teamblind.

For some it might be active investing for example property renovation.

For some a side business.

For some TOGAF and Scrum qualifications.

But remember 1000hours a year is a lot to bet on your company or colleagues vouching for you and being in a position where that matters.

Etc.

Not sure. Read the recent PG essay. But I reckon you are going to be writing the procurement app for a midsized building firm, or a ERP for a road haulage firm, or a shift management system for a hospital, rather than some low hanging tech bro idea fruit. What they call “IT”.

I disagree with #1. Not entirely but it is about perception. Working an extra 10-20 hrs a week for free in return for a chance but no guarantee of a vouch is in itself a bad deal. So while you may have reasons for working long hours, hoping someone has your back is not a great one. Unless you have known them since you were 8 or something and even then.

The problem with using an eggplant to denote end of string is backwards compatibility.

Shareholder value is fine. Share seller value is what is targeted.

Google is big enough to avoid innovators dilemma. You just create a new company and leave it alone.

I reckon it is more that you needed special circumstances and series of events to become OpenAI. Not just cash and smart people.

1% of 10T is 100B

0.1% of 10T is 10B

Seems Predictable

Nice pun

Is there a name for this rugpull that is a recurring theme in tech, when you rely solely on another service bringing attention to your service.

E.g. when youtube cancels you or your adwords account is blocked so you no longer make money

About 0.085% of AUM

Maybe a single rep cares? But not the whole company.

Wordpress (or whatever)

The make sure internet archive archives you!

Honestly it has been a godsend for repairing broken Stackoverflow links!

Now I reread about state actors… I am not sure about that. There is a balance between can it be read and can people find it. You can shove it in the blockchain but maybe 3 people will read it but might be a good option for your O(N) algorithm for factoring primes. Or whatever the equivalent attack on Elliptic Curves is! Because it is foundational knowledge that will spread itself.

OTOH if you want to maximize viewership maybe choose a jurisdiction to host and register domain name that is most friendly to your cause.

For some things, just find the right journalist. Panama papers springs to mind.

Coffee shop? Customers fine, but health inspectors and rent increases are your antihero. As well as too much competition.

Possible but maybe 2060-2100. The big rub with LLMs is training time and methodology. RAG exists because despite the name, these AI systems cannot really learn, at least human level stuff.

I believe it is probably possible due to the very very mathematical nature of the universe and it’s reliable calculability.

The only difference might be semiconductors might thermally not be able to do it since to dissipate the heat you need distance which then limits communication speed due to c and you might need that speed.

OTOH we can do tricks evolution missed so there is that. Quantization isn’t available for grey matter.

I don’t think you need a strict superset of human talents to be an AGI. Certainly whistling tunes is not required.

It is hard to make a slow one. Even shared hosting wordpress with the cache turned on is fast.

You can fool yourself with money too. Often it is more profitable to do the unethical thing.

Yes he tells you how to increase your odds in the lottery from 1E-11 to 1E-6 perhaps. His advice assumes you won the birth lottery already. Really you can’t be motivated by being the next Google because it (approximately) won’t happen. Be excited by the other things on the way.

What is the parallel advice for a 40 year old? I guess the programming and tinkering stuff still applies. But university cannot be redone. Sure I can study but I wont have any connection to most young people. I’ll be the old guy. And this assumes I can afford the loss of income.

I assume a lot of start ups are started by older people too.

I think for older people an advantage is to solve older people problems. Like how sucky accessing all kinds of “adulting” things are from aged care to dealing with myriad systems with kids schools or any other problems that have inevitably been chucked at you. Some of these “startups” might actually be lobbying/political work for the good that doesn’t make money, some might be startups.

Also being older I don’t care about making a unicorn. I see that as an odd goal for a founder of any age but a great goal for an investor.

What about a single API for builds, implemented in multiple general purpose languages.

End users get to pick a familiar language to them.

Similar to how Pulumi is available in multiple languages.

Then code both builds and meta build concerns as you would code anything else.

Causation is just correlation, and a good story. :-)

450lbs but because it is not straight up but up and back that probably gives a 2-1 leverage so 225lb or 100kg. using your legs to lift it would be in the realm of a regular male weight trainer but not the average jo or jane.

Could it be made of lighter material. Ironic how the garage door is perhaps the most armoured part of a house

What about a counterweight or a piston instead (pistons are used in pull down beds which might be a similar load)

Gmail 2004. I wish I kept my 1998 hotmail then that would be the oldest!

It depends a lot on company culture but ideally talk to a decent sample size of the employees across teams and find their perceived pain points. Then measure things: time to build locally, time for CI, time for tests to run, release frequency. Gather the combined data from measuring objective things and developers subjective experience and work it out from there.

If your role crosses over with SRE and platform then you need to get the data for these things to.

Make sure you understand why X is like it is for all X that you want to change. Know the history and the battles won and lost that got it like that.

Move slow and fix things!

Of course if the culture is all “quarterly goals, show progress etc.” then you may need to adapt for that too. Maybe get some quick win projects out that are no brainer things. Parallelize tests or project master branches etc.

By the way your list of changes might be perfect or awful. It is like a diet plan… it depends on the person and the reason for it.

Wholesale vs. retail? They probably don’t want to deal with 1000 HNer accounts buying a single chip and do credit checks on them all (or do retail at all).

UK and Australia has universal healthcare and doesn’t tax entry level people that highly.

X axis drug usage (street value), Y axis (number of car washes)

Vacuum Tube -> A100 cluster

Technician -> MLOps Engineers