cosmicradiance

The article in context is not just about Chrome, but the various avatars it has manifested into.

So no. Same menu/web-pages; but served differently as per individual needs.

Who's taking the baton?

System Design Interview I and II - Alex Xu. Take one of the topics and do it practically.

The same though goes into working with languages.

I was a fan of Python’s list compressions, C#’s LINQ expressions, ORMs and functional/object-oriented abstractions.

Now, I have started appreciating simple procedural languages like Golang.

China didn't look like a competitor until they were miles ahead.

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu

They are definitely not on the cloud.

People who crave karma points will continue do so. The game isn't for the faint hearted. SO still has the best gamification model and there isn't any competitor.

Why will SO be gone? They are now partners with OpenAI - https://stackoverflow.co/company/press/archive/openai-partne...

Wrong. As per the article - a part of our brain is a prediction machine. A human body is more than the sum of its parts.

On the current state of AI - do you believe it has "intelligence" or is the underlying system a "prediction machine"?

What signs do you see that make you believe that the next level (biological intelligence) is on the horizon?

Not really, you first have to catch up the vehicle ahead, before you start overtaking. At present, they are miles behind.

1. With the recent developments at CockroachDB one may like to bundle it along with MSSQL and Oracle.

2. Like the author, I will like to understand "Why not MariaDB? (a free variant of MySql)".

Back to simplicity - your contact list is your filter. If the phone doesn't identify the caller - send to voicemail.

Google settled for the status quo.

After covid, like many other organizations, they went too lean, concentrating on sustainable operations, expecting a tough market.

WFH was an effect of their adopted work-culture and not a phenomenon in itself.

I mean AI transformers. I understand we have pre-embedded STT, though I will like the option to include my own - say an English grammar GPT and expose it by an API for progressive enhancement of content.

If anyone is willing to put an effort in building a new browser, I have just one wish - allow embedding open-source transformers in the browser; available for both the user and websites/extensions.

It would have been better if the term used was Prediction Machine, rather than Artificial Intelligence.

One may argue, what's in the name? AI is a catchier term and covers the umbrella under which terms like - statistics & predictions, ML, NLP AGI, etc can be grouped.

* As an engineer it makes sense since the ultimate aim should be to reach AGI.

* As a salesperson it makes selling the technology easier.

* As for the rest of the world, the term has a varying meaning, one that is limited by only the individual's imagination.

  - My wife, who has a PhD in Biotechnology believes AI to be more like a sentient being.

  - My sales director feels AI should be able to act like a real salesperson, taking vague instructions, researching and churning presentations to hit the customer's heart. 

No doubt the tools are here to stay and I am not opposed to that. My only advice for young programmers is - when something just works like magic, dig deeper until it becomes science.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live ... - Machiavelli

Anyone who started programming in the early 2000s would know that intrinsically. Now there are so many tools and frameworks which abstract SQL. It's no surprise that the newer generation has eureka moments discovering structured-query-language as a comprehensive program to interact with databases.

Doing whatever is necessary to get money from VC's

I feel that a specialized AI becomes too niche to be useful for the common folks.

A general LLM model, that is "jack of all and master of none" may remain the go-to choice for the masses. These systems leave the last bits of intelligence to be filled by humans.

Yes, the VC funding will dry up, but hardware and algorithmic advances will decrease running costs by equal amounts. The author said the same - "The current reliance on expensive GPU clusters may give way to more specialized, efficient AI hardware. This could help mitigate some cost pressures."

As with the cloud, prices increase once competition dries out. Even if hardware becomes cheap, the services will cost more because shrewd and greedy boards run most businesses.

I agree. Python also satisfies the principle of lease power. Adapting Atwood's Law[1], for ML projects - "Any ML project that can be written in Python, will eventually be written in Python."

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

It would still be SEQUEL if not for the trademark dispute -

"SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley aircraft company."

Further reading - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...

Open source; Closed contribution

No, there is no visible sign for AI to replace coders beyond interview assignments. And that holds true across domains other than programming - various university and institutional exams.

I won't be sure as to where you are geographically, though if I was to predict - jobs are harder to find a) because they are shifting to third world countries or b) in third-world countries due to a large work force

Here's another - https://zerodha.tech/blog/working-with-postgresql/