FlyingSaucer

Maybe its only my gig and my area of the world, but going through the rounds with companies can be quite a grueling process and many recruiters can't explain the exact technical details or give any concrete salary information.

It's hard to just do it to test the waters when you have a technical project and multiple interviewing rounds (which also include live coding, which for me is very stressful).

I completely agree. I used to live in Liege and would travel to NL, Brussels and Hasselt regularly. The juggle between different public transport subscription was difficult on top of the constant outages.

The extensive bushfires and droughts are definitely big factors. I worked briefly for a forestry in rural Victoria, where we would encounter koalas somewhat frequently where we would plant trees, These are lots that would be planted completely and years later cut and burned.

Wonder what would be also the effects of this on them and wildlife in general.When I have seen Koalas in the wild they seemed very apathetic- saw one stay at the very top of a blue-gum (which famously can shed huge pieces without much warning) even during a storm.

from the article: 'Warning sign (of a critical moment in AGI development) will be, when systems become capable of self-improvement.'

Is the meaning of self improvement here means that the model will actively optimize itself towards improving on its mistakes outside of training? Because under my understanding for this to happen we would need the model to be in a different form than current ML.

While many units generally consist of smaller teams, the teams can often be changed and switched around as people get specialized or re-assigned at different points, this generally doesn't happen for the very elite units.

Small teams are kept together at all times since very early in the training. Doing the same exercises many many times with the same exact people leads to mastery that makes them just seem faster and more fluid.

The lifestyle point is also true, its easier to keep your edge when there aren't constant mindless tasks to be done (gate duty) for many hours a day.

- I'm saying this from experience with armed forces, but can't claim its true for all elite units everywhere.

This is from my own experience working at a TP call center, for a major tech client and not in Albania or Colombia.

External and internal audits are known for weeks in advance such that they could put a facade on in time. During audits you suddenly don't have a limit on bathroom break time (generally an alert would come at 15mins per day) and there would be pizza at the office every other day. Only 'loyal' employees would be chosen to any interviews/meetings about culture etc.

Yes! The subtitles can be completely different than the dubbing in some cases which makes it difficult for me to watch with both.

Also, they sometime use a bit odd translations. I saw a Belgian show and they translated smoking a cigarette into smoking a fag. Which I guess is technically correct (based on the cambridge dictionary), just an odd choice for general EU viewership

English isn't my native tongue so perhaps i'm missing some subtlety, i thought ethnic groups are people who share a common descent?

Honestly asking, not trying to nitpick.

Huh, so its not only me. My grandparents came from Libya in the late 1950's, but for some reason the very north of Africa doesn't quite qualify for most people as African "enough" for me to be of African descent. Feels like for many people the benchmark is either skin color or not coming from a traditionally Arab country. A similar thing happens to acquaintances of mine of Tunisian or Algerian descent.

I guess the geographical line is somewhere around Mauritania

That's the biggest annoyance in my eyes. As a motorcyclist, i think its ok for the engine to make some noise (not counting the obnoxious cruisers or bike with some aftermarket exhausts), but there is truly no reason to rev up hard while sitting in traffic or in a slow central streets.