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Latour

7 karma · joined January 23, 2019

Recent bachelor's grad working as an MLE at FAANG
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Latour··on The developer job market is insane
It is most likely to avoid it becoming like CS Career Questions, which is inundated with students who haven't even started their first job yet.
Latour··on AWS will offer HF’s products to its customers and run its next LLM tool
Additionally, for those not in the know, Anthropic was founded by some pretty senior ex-OpenAI folks, presumably carrying over a lot of the same culture and technology. It's as close to a copy-cat investment as one could get.
Latour··on Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy for industrial vehicles
Hi Stefan, this looks great!

I'm curious to hear what you think your competitive advantage is against other players in this space such as Applied Intuition. From my research, Applied Intuition has a focus in the AV space but has been moving into other verticals. Cheers.

Latour··on U.S. companies are hiring Latin America’s tech talent
There was a HN submission awhile back about a Dev in Japan who did this very thing. Hiring people such as college dropouts, or older women, who have higher expectations of being stay at home moms in Japan.
Latour··on Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
A primary benefit of Android is that Google is allowed to put their search engine on Android mobile devices for close to free instead of multiple billions of dollars.
Latour··on Working at Goldman Sachs Suuuucks, Leaked Internal Survey Shows
What's the difference between hardness and effectiveness in this context?
Latour··on Why are boys academically underperforming? [audio]
I'm pretty sure the consensus is that in the developing world, STEM education is considered a more viable path to financial independence [1].

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...