How much is the company worth today? That will tell you what the percentage points are worth.
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I think a big part of the problem is how programmers developing AI routines deal with generating aspects of a problem space the AI doesn't understand. Which is all of it.
I use Google voice. When I receive voice calls, the Google Voice application attempts to transcribe the voice recording.
Most of the content is fine, but when the program encounters part of the message that doesn't meet it's expectations, IT JUST MAKES SOMETHING UP SOUNDS GOOD TO IT.
So if someone leaves me the voice message "Your code is 532-94AA" Google voice transcribes it as "Your code is 532-9488"
If my wise-cracking friend ends a a message with, "Talk to you never" Google will translate this as "Talk to you later".
If someone leaves me voice directions, "Turn <garbled> at the intersection", google will randomly pick a direction: "Turn right at the intersection".
It's like having a lazy, irresponsible assistant who really doesn't give a shit about communicating messages to you accurately. As long has he sounds good, that's all he cares about. "I don't know" isn't a concept Google AI even considers.
Instead of admitting it isn't confident about a sound, it just reaches up it's ass and makes a guess. And since AI's actual understanding of content is zero, everything sounds good to it.
That irrelevant.
The point is that in any given relationship, expectations are established and how well an expectation is met greatly determines the outcome.
If a student, employer, son, friend, mate agrees to completing a 1-hour task within a week and they fail to deliver, that's a problem. There are consequences.
The gist of the article is that the student is really the victim and should be pandered to.
That might work for a student or a someone's kid, but any other relationship is going to end badly. Friends, partners and employers get to choose their relationships. If you're irresponsible and disrespectful, they get to chose someone else.
> Late penalties almost certainly impede learning since they cause the give up effect,
You're confusing causation with correlation. Late penalties do not impede learning. Chosing not to learn by not doing the work impedes learning.
If a student isn't mature enough to meet expectations, the underlying cause should be addressed: the student's imaturity, irresponsibiltiy, home environment, learning disablity, lesson plan, whatever...
Removing consquenses for failing, making excuses, and giving the student a victim identity isn't doing the him/her any favors.
Why do you think that?
The point of life is to teach you how to deal with life.
That lesson is going to serve them well in the workplace.
Teach students that they are entitled to bad behavior, bad work habits, and deadlines? Fuck deadlines
The next generation is going to have a hard time competing in the global workplace against cultures that do enforce reasonable consequences for fucking up.
That's the problem. You had a tool to judge a video was worth watching without having to watching the ads.
Now you have to watch ads to find out if the video is crap. This is a very good thing. for Google
It's good for Google. That's all that matters. More crap videos will be clicked and more ads will be watched before the content starts and the user can judge wheather or not to watch.
More ads watched. That's the only consideration.
As with real artwork, the eye is drawn to embelishments, exagerations, and simplification and directed by composition.
In pieces by a competant artist, these add a new level of interest and dimension to the piece.
With these images, following what makes each image is always a dead end. There is no composition and the embelishments are mechanical, random and uninteresting.
For example, I find myself wondering why the the artist chose to paint the mouth so asymetrical. Is the artist trying to express an emotion? Who is the subject, and why have the been rendered as they have. It's confusing and a challenge to critique the artwork... until I realize its just bit of randomness generated by algorithm incapable of any creativity beyond how the programmer applied generic and randomizing programming methods.
There isn't and cannot be anything unique to any of the images. Once you've studied any one of them, you've really experienced most of what the programmer/artist has contributed.
While you might want to just compile a release version your program, Microsoft has other priorities. Initialize profilers, networking subsystems, debugging support, check the internet for whatever-the-fuck, check drivespace on drives you're not using, see if bill gates' dead grandma's cookies have been delivered...
In particular, things that really should take microseconds can take minutes. E.g., just starting the fucking editor
Virtually every feature seems closer to a MVP implemetation; nowhere near the "good enough" stage
Just my opinion
Be evil.
Do you honestly expect China will become more humble and less bold over time?
The smaller the company and the closer you are to the owners, the more your relationship with them is that of a tool. A disposable and replacable tool.
When you work for a larger company (assuming you are providing more value to the company than your employment is costing them), your job is secure. Your day to day is relatively comfortable. You are also likely to be surrounded by more peers which contributes greatly to job satisfaction. You belong.
Look at it this way. If you notice your postman one day looking at his phone for a bit instead of delivering mail, you probably arn't going to get too bent out of shape over it. While you are paying taxes to employ his services, you're not too invested in his productivity.
On the other hand, if you've hired a plumber and you're paying him $150/hour, discovering him taking a personal phone call is worrying. You're directly paying for every minute he's on the phone. You aren't happy and the next time you need a plumber, you'll be considering your options.
Now consider taking an emergency phone call as the employee:
If you are a plumber working directly for an owner/customer, taking an emergency phone call is stressful. The customer/owner is JUDGING you because it's his money paying you. That phone call is more likely to negatively affect your livelihood.
If you are a plumber working large company, your foreman is probably more interested in not losing you and having to spend time replacing you. Your wages aren't coming direcly out of HIS pocket, so he's more invested in believing your phone call is reasonable. He WANTS to believe that.
I've worked for a dozen small companies (20-100 employees) and a couple large companies (200-10000 employees). My job satisifaction has been much, much higher at the two large companies.
So then instructor reads and grades our book reports and returns them to us. So I'm expecting all her markup to be related to my review of the story content. So I was surprised when I saw that she struck out the work "so" in my book report. So I can't remember her comment but it was something like "unneeded" or "trite". So I thought about that, and reread the sentence without the leading word "So" and found it clearer, not as cluttered and less pretentious.
Building things that people will not pay for is called a hobby.
You're not entited to an income from your hobbies.
> This is a story about me dreaming
Yup
> 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0 (kwcodes.com)
You didn't even try to finish 2 of the 5 projects You didn't even do anything in 2 of the 6 years.
Your title is clickbait. Seems like you want attention more than you want money.
By comparison, looking at my github, I started over 50 projects in last year and finished a dozen of them. Hobbies all of them and I didn't expect to make a dime. If you want a reality check, head over to https://itch.io/jams. You'll find 10,000 hobbies projects not making any money.
This is a misleading statement.
Software engineers like it because they can write it in a terminal window _and many, many other reasons_
> In fact, the whole programmer's fetish with writing everything with a plain terminal text editor needs to die.
While killing the text format might validate your ignorance, it would also kill the software industry's productivity.
search without reasonable cause is a violation of the 4th amendment and due process
Facebook's announcement says more about Facebook than the product/solution that Zuckerber is pitching.
The "metaverse" should be a collection of tools that people choose to use; like the Internet. Facebook would like to take away that choice. It would like control and to monopolize.
How is Unity any different than any other tool?
If your business is profitable only if other people support you for free, you simply do not have a viable business.
Perhaps women tend to choose to lead more balanced lives because they find it more rewarding and meaningful.
Why more men are CEOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbH0Q39JCPk
This answer entirely defeats the point of the Primer system. There are already many books and pdfs for leaning Python.
> For self-learning, imho, constraints are good.
I would argue that for a self-learner, self-imposed constraints are a good thing.
The externally imposed constraints of the Primer system defeat the greatest advantage of self-learning; that the student can control, prioritize and take ownership of his learning program.
The challenging part of coding is converting domain knowledge into correct code.
An AI has no high-level understanding of the domain and desired solution. It just guesses at what you might want and glosses over all the edge cases and exceptions that actually need to be considered and resolved. The issues that only come to light after a real intelligence studies the problem, and works through correct steps to implement a solution.
It's an iterative process, because the solution is arrived at only after attempting a solution, learning what you don't know or haven't considered about the problem, then resolving those ambiguities, and producing a revised and more correct solution.
When responsible programmers realize that they don't know what they don't know, they ask questions and apply the answers.
AI never realizes when it makes mistakes because it has no domain knowledge. It just pulls a best guess out it's ass and says, "Here you go. Check my work."
Since scientists haven't found a conclusive common cause of death, perhaps they are confusing cause-and-effect.
We shouldn't ignore the possiblity that birds with nasty eyes are being culled specifically for that reason. An "avian eugenic program" if you will, designed so the world will be populated by more attractive birds.
Like flossing your teeth and checking the tire-pressure on your car, it can save you frustation down the line.
You might want to refer to a project you worked on 8 years ago. If you don't standardize your workflow, you may never be able to find it amoung the dozens of computers and storage devices you've used over the years.
If you ever work on a collaborative project, the ingrained habit of using a remote repo will help your effectiveness working in a team.
Using a remote repo can also serve as part of a 3-2-1 backup strategy. Not using a 3-2-1 backup strategy? Well... plan on losing hundreds of hours of work some day in the future.
"Toxic masulinity" has no obvious or direct meaning. It's a made up term. It's marketing. It itself conveys no useful meaning other than to associate masculitity with toxicicity.
To tie such a negative term to any other social/gender group would be called out as the biggotry it is.