laidoffamazon

IIRC the Alexa enabled voice remotes also used a similarly small model though perhaps not this small

I’ve always been fascinated (and angry) at people that just don’t have trouble passing or getting interviews

That’s amazing! I live next to their former office. Do you know which theater they rented out?

So how much did they have to donate to the MAGA PAC for this one?

I was hoping for Pantheon too (I’m 90% sure Holstrom uses EMacs instead of Vim?)

I’ll be honest this seems low for what he’s been through.

There's not going to be many non-Ivy+ graduates at these companies. I make Jane Street/HRT/etc new grad pay 8 years into my career

Cognitive elites are the MIT and Ivy+ grads that make up Jane Street like the speaker.

People like me aren’t getting $5m+ bonuses for being an SRE (I don’t have the pedigree to work at Anthropic either)

I'll never understand how these cognitive elites live. They're just a completely different kind of human than the rest of us.

Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?

I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing

Correct, as he should have

I went to a state school, worked at Amazon and didn’t get a 2300 on my SAT - I definitively am lower caste but the caste/class divergence isn’t well understood in culture I think.

As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me

btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts

I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all of them.

I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid.

They have a billboard with the copy "Compliance before you tell your parents you dropped out of MIT"

The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get them an exit to become a Venture investor even if they fail.

Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space

As someone trying to monitor the situation using Twitter the last few weeks it’s awful and it used to not be!

I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.

I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in effect for 2 months in 2021

Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.

This is genuinely pathetic, Patrick. You want to say it so bad but can’t!

No notes on the fraudsters pardoned by this current admin of course.

All terms are made up by humans

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptoracist

To the extent that Bits about Money has an editorial line on that controversy, it is this: if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, and people claiming that it is unlikely you have identified a blue fish will swiftly be made to look like fools. But the interesting bit of the observation is, almost entirely, the base rate of the pond. And I think journalism and civil society should do some genuine soul-searching on how we knew—knew—the state of that pond, but didn’t consider it particularly important or newsworthy until someone started fishing on camera.

Does Patrick want to address the fact that this happened during school break and that Nick Shirley didn't prove much of anything?

I don't recall Brett Favre's scam in MS on HN

I’m aghast but numb to this now.

The biggest question for me now is how the usual defenders of this lawless administration will try to defend this or both sides it.

I'm reminded of how 720p Plasma TVs had input resolutions of 1024x768 - the pixels themselves were rectangular

Interestingly I didn’t catch this, I liked it for not looking LLM written!