sharadov

I live in the Bay Area, and I've noticed that within Asian and Latino communities there is a great amount of socializing.

Maybe it's the culture or because you are an immigrant in another land, that you feel that bond.

But it's very apparent.

It can't be as bad as it's now. There is no corporate oversight whatsoever.

Yes start with a monolith but split it sooner than later ( was at a company where they realized it too late, after being in business for 8+ years) .

It was a nightmare at that point. We pretty much gave up.

Very clever - they bought the distribution platform for AI!

I was in Vegas a few years back with friends. While walking the strip, notice this massive throng of kids all around us. I learned they were in town for the BTS concert.

I noticed this young girl, no older than 20, wearing a Pink Floyd "Dark side of the Moon" t-shirt, I asked her what she thought of the band.

To my abject dissatisfaction she responded "I bought the T-shirt because it looked cool".

In that moment I a GenExer, felt a profound generational dissonance.

I am not defending the US LLM industry or the government, all I am saying is it's similar to an arms race. I did not suggest anywhere that what China is doing is illegitimate. China has state supported capitalism, and they will do whatever it takes to prop up the AI industry. Anthropic and OpenAI want the same protections.

What makes the Chinese models this good? I don't believe it's distillation alone.

This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures "Some observations on Kimi: It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that"

https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412

China's strategy of spending billions on training these models and open sourcing these models away is strategic - they want to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.

To win on the AI front by any means necessary.

The pushing problems around under the guise of solving them for political gain is what corporate and government malfeasance is all about.

The better you are at the game the higher you climb!

More noise than actual speed.

Why are you assuming that the machines or their masters will be benevolent? All actions so far have been contrarian.

This is a rather optimistic take in my opinion. My take is more Orwelian, given how the folks in charge of shepherding AI have behaved so far

Most people are not good at articulating their thoughts into words, let alone writing well.

Now, AI has given all these Linkedin psychopaths who did not have a voice because of their affliction a rare kind of superpower to endlessly spew their meaningless dribble.

I cringe every time I have to go on the cesspool that is Linkedin, but forced to since am job hunting.

Microsoft, Amazon are all building forward deployment engineering teams - to increase AI adoption. It will take time, but it will happen.

Very few people have their finger on the pulse of a paradigm shift as it's happening - and he was there to capture it at the right place and the right time. Excellent read!

I was really hoping that they Ipoed this year, so we can see their stock shoot up and down in flames, and we're really done with them and Sam Altman, once and for all.

It's all about enjoying the journey.

I listened to a couple episodes and concur, the overt-criticality and smugness was off putting.

I think there are more nuggets of wisdom in great fiction than these self help books.

Maybe if someone put together a list of fiction books that correlate strongly with self-help categories, it would be immensely useful.

A great fiction book helps you vicariously experience a character's life while self-help is an instruction manual which sadly does not provide the same form of connection.

All the writers that I love to hate - hariri, gladwell! Will give it a listen

More often true than not!

Unfortunately this can work both ways - if it's a low politics environment yes, it will work to the engineer's advantage but in environments rife with politicking, people will be quick to swoop in and take credit and at the same time give 2 hoots about throwing you under the bus.

What is stopping the US government from stepping in and nationalizing these companies?

They've already talked about taking a stake - https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/us-officials-eye...

Trump took a 10% stake in Intel.

These models are getting very close to that line.

As someone who worked remote for 8 years I can see a few reasons

- Really hard to get juniors up to speed when they are remote, when I started out as a junior I sat around a bunch of senior folks, and inhaled in all the knowledge via the interactions we had all day.

- In my previous company, we hired a bunch of juniors who clearly were not self-motivated. There were few who were actively disengaged, would not even care to turn the camera on. They were a few boot-camp grads who though motivated, I could not for the life of me teach computer fundamentals. You can't learn a 4 yr degree's worth of stuff in 6 months at a bootcamp.

Yes Covid was great for us senior folks who did not need direction and were disciplined, but really bad for junior folk.

Big red flag - definitely identity theft there!

Sorry OP you had to go through this - not knowing your circumstances, but golden rule, once the interview starts getting invasive, please cut it short and move on.

Recently I had an interview for a contract position. First off, it was a zoom interview where the interviewer did not have his camera on.

He promptly asks me to share my screen - which I found odd, since I had no content to share with him.

Next - he tells me to go the top right screen of my mac and asks me to disable bluetooth.

I said am not going to do it, since I had my airpods connected and within the next second I also told him am not interested in proceeding with this BS interview.

There are boundaries of human decency, which you should never let anyone cross.

Plenty of competent engineers - who are clearly builders have also been let go. Enough with your trite analysis.

Coursera used to have good quality courseware, now I get better stuff via a simple search on youtube. Youtube killed these two companies, well Udemy was garbage from the get go.

That's how characters are named in "Steal a Brainrot" , a Roblox game.

I think AI is the final nail in the coffin of meaningless slop that started pervading our lives after covid.

I see people tiring of this brain rot, especially Gen Z, there are more offline events - music festivals, day time raves, running events, people are appreciating more things analog - LP records, cassettes, younger people getting turned off by social media.

Next couple weeks - financial and insurance services announce layoffs!