Very interesting, but I don't really understand why it can't just be Yaxe?
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Very misleading and a misunderstanding of what's actually going on.
Example: "The Census Bureau reported in 2021 that a paltry 28% of STEM grads are working in these supposedly in-demand, highly paid and important STEM jobs."
It's not 28% of all STEM grads, it's 28% of physical science STEM grads.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring...
I'm going to do a better job than some shmuck journo.
"37% reported a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation" & "About half of workers who majored in engineering (52%) or computer, mathematics, and statistics majors (51%) worked in STEM."
This makes a lot of sense, about half of all STEM grads are going into STEM jobs. It's in tandem with the famous 50% of lawyers are not practicing law.
I'm certain that if you started doing breakdowns of demographics you would result in it making even more sense and easily explainable.
AI has brought back some of the fun from 2010~ because you can generate non-pre-approved content for fun and profit and have a big community to share it with.
My long time acquaintance got out after a number of years, in his late 20s after committing a crime at 19, was intelligent and knew computer science extremely well after teaching himself in prison and after he picked up projects on github and grinded leetcode.
He did gig work, but that wasn't sustainable so in the end he bought someone's identity and lies on resumes and background checks. He can obviously hold no job that does serious background checks. He has a high school education.
Hope you find employment without having to resort to this, but that's a harsh reality.
If a library is not constantly updated then there is a high likely hood (99%) that it just won't work. Many issues raised in git are that something changed and now the package is broken. That's reality sis.
Reddit is ultimately the solution, but it was ruined because of the corporate clown car needing everything to be advertiser data consumer friendly. What I mean is that by creating a subreddit, you are creating your own aggregator. If your content is edgy, niche, etc. then it's almost impossible to find if not outright banned. And god forbid your niche actually does get popular, because then suddenly it must change by virtue of forced moderation, what's allowed, outsider influence, etc. All in the name of ads and getting a piece.
Advertising needs more regulation. In the West's 80s and 90s, we did get on track to crackdowns, but this was focused on children and protecting them. Now YouTube/Google/Alphabet is somehow able to avoid that legislation because..... ?
Greenfield vs Brownfield experience teaches us differently, you don't need analytics involved. Scope creep doesn't just eat up man hours, it eats up the ability to maintain and bring onboard new people. Learning new features to you doesn't eat your time when you already know the product. Learning new features as newguy is far harder because you don't know the underlying product, but you're expected to know the core product, including all new features.
This is tech debt, and all code becomes it, because devs die. Fortunately we end up moving techstacks, which allow the new devs to eliminate that code debt, temporarily.
You see this same thing in gaming. Dota 2, LoL, CS, Live Service XYZ are not getting new players because the amount of things you have to learn now vs when the game was new is mountanic.
The Audience stays the same, but the Show changed. E3 was a trade show for developers, actual journalists, and the gamurz. Journalists decided to make politics fashionable for the world of gaming and so it did.
E3 banned Booth Babes when their core audience was males. E3 tightened up on what was going on behind the doors with the groupies. Technology and games stopped being revolutionary or edge and now it's safe. No more actual gaming icons, we need celebrities and influencers.
This is the result of the mainstream industry adapting to SafeGaming only. SafeGaming isn't appealing to enthusiasts, just AAA gamers who continue to get taken for a ride.
VGA is going to die when their politics decide to change, leaving their current audience behind. Always happens.
In order to help this they make all kinds of deals with governments. What I am getting at is without more information, I can't really tell if this is a good or bad thing. Companies that aren't profitable and use government to stay afloat should go out of business.
It's very frustrating with these studies because they don't attempt to normalize anything at all. Imagine teaching derivatives and finding that some students learn faster than others. Their excuse? Oh it must be because they did fractions when making pancakes.
One of the easiest ways to create a replicable study, which they won't ever do, would be to place students who have no experience typing (which is common for every generation) and see which ones learn fastest. If you are bothered by this then we can do learning piano, filtering out any student which may have musical practice ahead of time. It would be easy to find. Hypothesis would be that those with higher IQ have a higher rate of mastery.
I still believe in the theory that Altman was going hard after profits. Both McCauley and Toner are focused on the altruistic aspects of AGI and safety. Altman shouldn't be at OpenAI and neither should D’Angelo.