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FUD

How is this different from AlphaEvolve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaEvolve

I agree. Parent comment is making extremely generalized statements, about German cars with overconfidence. There’s not a single “German” car, it’s a huge ecosystem of brands like VW (Audi, Porsche), BMW, Mercedes. I’m quite sure they don’t have the single “user-hostile” interface.

> In the PISA exam, white American kids outperform kids in Hong Kong and Korea, as well as western european kids of non-immigrant ancestry.

Translation: rich kids have better access to top education in America. Got it.

What’s so shitty about it?

Stop whining

They are not lies.

I’m Polish, I don’t have to hide anything.

Wrong assumption, it’s been that way long before the energy crisis started.

It’s in the valley and because Polish state is kinda weak they cannot enforce nearby villages to stop burning garbage to heat their homes.

Exactly, seriously complaining about the fact that the system is designed to run on time rather than trickle down delays is beyond me.

Complaining about Swiss trains is beyond me.

Swiss trains are run by a national company and they’re great.

> For small values of N, log(N) is essentially a constant, <= 32, so we can just disregard it, making sorting simply O(N). For large values, even so-called linear algorithms (e.g. linear search) are actually O(N log(N)), as the storage requirements for a single element grow with log(N) (i.e. to store distinct N=2^32 elements, you need N log(N) = 2^32 * 32 bits, but to store N=2^64 elements, you need 2^64 * 64 bits).

How can I unread this?

I’m obviously operating within the assumption that Switzerland would follow EU regulations. So no chloride chicken. I agree with beef, much needs to be done. But… bells attached to cows are considered as torture.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/ski-holiday/endl...

Products are not higher quality… the only thing these tariffs accomplish is basically they allow agriculture industry to do the things the old way. Keep status quo, aka remain extremely uncompetitive and unproductive.

If Switzerland opened to EU competition then they would’ve seen multi store farming like in Netherlands. Subsidies would fare better.

DE is still cheaper for some products but not by much. I have no idea how do they manage there since salaries are like 2x less.

For the right set of requirements I can fix bugs in my system with significantly less effort, than rewriting a system which was built with wrong assumptions to begin with.

Again, wrong analogy. I don’t demand perfect analogies though. Treat this as rather charitable gesture.

Any efficiency gains which come from cleaner organization structure are gone because of the lossy translation mechanism between a PM and Eng team. You can argue that good PMs translate requirements perfectly, but this is a rare skill and I’m just saying I’ve never seen it from someone in this role. Perceived enjoyment of one’s role is a separate topic, but not completely orthogonal. If someone just wants to code and they force them to be a PM then their personal productivity might drop. This is why I asserted in the beginning I’m talking about feature teams, where a role fit I described is more likely.

As engineering becomes less expensive with generative models I can imagine efficiency tilts even further in favor of engineers doing more PM-like work.

What is so arrogant in expressing first-hand experiences?

Deeply flawed analogy. Engineers operate in the same organizational structure as PMs.

Also, in product feature teams it is up to the debate whether PMs provide any value, if you put engineers closer to customers. For the PM role to work, they need to convey customer requirements to product requirements. I have never seen a PM do a better job at this in comparison to just sending a TL to a video call with a client.

It’s not cope. You can compete for the same “quality of life” resources being in the median vs top 5-percentile. It’s not possible in the U.S. or UK.

I come from a country which had a strong Soviet influence, and in school basically we were taught that behind every hard formula lies an intuitive explanation. As otherwise, there’s no way to come up with the formula in the first place.

This statement is not true, there are counter examples I encountered in my university studies but I would say that intuition will get you very far. Einstein was able to come up with special theory of relativity by just manipulating mental models after all. Only when he tried to generalize it, that’s when he hit the limit of the claim I learned in school.

That being said after abandoning intuition, relying on pure mathematical reasoning drives you to a desired place and from there you usually can reason about the theorem in an intuitive way again.

Math in this paper is not that hard to learn, you just need someone to present you the key idea.

This. The article is just FUD, and full of wrong assumptions and conclusions.

What about it?

Exactly, I was going to ask about this bit…

It’s mind boggling why this resource has not been provided by NVIDIA yet. It reached the point that 3rd parties reverse engineer and summarize NV hardware to a point it becomes an actually useful mental model.

What are the actual incentives at NVIDIA? If it’s all about marketing they’re doing great, but I have some doubts about engineering culture.

What’s the url?

It’s basic game theory. If someone is not nice to you, you have to be not nice for them.

WWI was a thing.