lokhura

>Generally it’s possible to do that in English much more tersely than it is in code.

I really doubt this is the case for any decent amount of complexity. English is ambiguous. Programming languages exist because we don't want this ambiguity from natural languages. A sufficiently descriptive spec written in English is barely indistinguishable from just code. We've come full circle.

I'm not the one that made the original claim. The 25% is the government's figure. Whether some of it was classified incorrectly is up for debate. I haven't personally double checked every claim, but it is not hard to believe that money is being siphoned via those grants into DEI programs, and it is the government's position to not fund these programs anymore.

Here you go https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/4BD2D522-2092... It's not 55%, it's more like 25% of the budget.

I hope Toptal has changed since I interviewed with them in 2015, because it was one of the worst tech interview experiences I had in a while. The interviewer was rude and clearly inexperienced in the tech stack he was asking questions about. I did a take home excersise and it was clear that he didn't even bother to read the code and just wanted to outsmart me.

At zero temp there is still non-determism due to sampling and the fact that floating point addition is not commutative so you will get varying results due to parallelism.

Nowadays it's easy by using undetectable interviewing AI tools. See:

- https://ultracode.ai

- https://interviewsolver.com

Well worth it. Highly recommend these tools to play the dumb interviewing game.

I'm not a fan of Sam Altman, but this is such a non-issue. The solution is simple: adapt and find new ways to be creative in the world of AI. Copyright is becoming a thing of the past and rightly so. We just have to collectively accept this and move on because laws won't stop it.

And C#, Python, Rust...

When you don't have connections, lying is the best advice to get the good jobs. I just lie about anything I know I can learn on the job. No experience with Vue but know React? No problem, I'm a Vue expert. No experience with with C# but know Java? No problem, I know C# by heart.

Once I get pass HR and get to talk to an actual engineer I can reevaluate my lies and drive the interview into the areas I'm actually experienced with.

Also, interviewing is a game. Even if I'm not looking for a new job I just do it to practice and for fun. It feels pretty good to reject an offer and know your worth.

Two reasons why this probably happened. 1) you paid too little, and 2) you probably had people in-office too so the remote employees were second class workers. The solution is simple: pay above market rates and create a truly remote culture.

I'm a minority in tech too and I never respond to the race, ethnicity and gender questions. There are many red flags to find out which companies are likely to be racist. If the company's diversity statement is larger than the job description, I do not apply. So far this has worked pretty well for me. I applied to 25 jobs in the last month and I got 3 interviews so far. I think ethical companies that do not partake in racist statistics appreciate you not answering those questions.

I do this too. From what I've been told, this may be a symptom of ADHD, namely hyperfocusing [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus

Here are the top most challenged books of 2022 according to the ALA:

    - "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe
    - "All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson
    - "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
    - "Flamer" by Mike Curato
    - "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
    - "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
    - "Lawn Boy" by Jonathan Evison
    - "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
    - "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
    - "A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas
    - "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins
    - "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews
    - "This Book Is Gay" by Juno Dawson

Who is "you folks"? I can think for myself, thanks. I'm providing some context for your naive or perhaps intentional misunderstanding of what is actually happening.

And who do you think votes for these decisions? The parents. So presumably many parents think that some books in school liraries are not age appropiate.

I haven't even expressed my opinion on this topic yet you are assuming my stance because you lack nuance. That's why I suggest you read the actual books that are being challenged and come back with a more informed perspective.

States are not banning books and talking about gay and transgender people. Not sure where you got that info from. As I understand, what they are doing is removing non age appropiate books from elementary and middle school libraries, some of which include LGBTQ content. I would not call this "banning a book", in the same way that not being able to watch violent movies in elementary school is not "banning a movie".

I would suggest you look into the content of the books being challenged and come to your own conclusion as to whether they are age appropiate or not. After all, the term "age appropiate" is subjective.

Here's an interesting thread with some examples: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1620927983627427840

Also, Youtube has plenty of videos where people test ChatGPT's biases.

The question is not whether it has a particular view of the world or not. It is quite clear that ChatGPT has a liberal political bias. I think the question that we should ask is if this bias was intentionally introduced by OpenAI (with RLHF or otherwise) or if it ocurred naturally given the training material, assuming the internet and academia in general have a liberal bias to begin with.