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Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know much, but a little bit of critical thinking can easily help you understand what's really going on.

1. All these plant construction deals have due dates both on paper and off the paper. Build these by x date kind of deal in order to get x amount of support or tax cuts or regulation burden eased etc in these states. So these companies are trying to build these things ASAP.

2. Also these due dates are off the paper. When new leaders come in at federal, state or municipal, it always carries risk that some things will change and construction of it becomes difficult. Projects of this scale can be scrutinized and delayed to death because they are "illegal" because it can't fully satisfy million lines of legal clauses. It is possible because the political climate allows it. Even from Korea side, imagine new regime comes in from Korea side that tries to build ties with China, and they say we are reducing ties with US and you should ease development etc. These companies are then in negative by order of billions.

3. So time is of essence.

4. H1B would be the visa to get for these workers but it is gamed to death and these workers can't get them in time.

5. So both America side, and Korea side agree in an underhanded way to agree that these workers can come into work, build the plants and train the local workers ASAP.

6. Look at the recent interview by Trump where he even admits it is expected that workers need to come in fast to build these plants. So he's understanding of the situation. He's been a builder for his life. He know projects of these scale require a green light from the authority to work.

7. Trump is likely using this incident as a bargain chip for trade negotiations or ICE accidentally going pitbull on an unintended target

Comment · 1 year ago
""" Not because AI can't do the work. It can.

But because the economics don't translate the way VCs claim. When you replace a $50,000 employee with AI, you don't capture $50,000 in software revenue. You capture $5,000 if you're lucky. """

So you are saying, AI does replace labour.

Comment · 1 year ago
I am feeling nostalgic just looking at this.

The year is 2012, rails is the hottest thing and mongodb is the inifinity guntlet scaling monster. BackboneJs and underscore were said to replace all jquery and we deployed things with just one command to heroku. The good ol days

Comment · 2 years ago
This was the same perspective i had as an engineer working on a finance problem for accountants and sales. So i would build a nice reporting tool that had modern ui. The people liked it at first but they always regress to spreadsheet. They just ask me to export the data in spreadsheet.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Leetcode questions are the worst form of interview questions, except for all the others" - Churchill

I too used to hate leetcode questions, but after conducting 100s of interviews as an interviewer, leetcode style questions are the best way to test intelligence and coding skills ive found in general.

However, leetcoding interviews must be paired with system design and topgrading in order to have balanced interviews. Leetcoding alone is incomplete but i find it essential.

Comment · 3 years ago
Bias, disposition, tendency, whatever terminology you would like to give, is baked into rationale and induction. You cannot have the latter without the former. This is even more true with LLM. Without bias, LLM is inaccurate and will become useless.
Comment · 3 years ago
Fantastic work. I am looking forward to something like this being adopted in games.

Things are moving at a dizzying pace. I've been in tech for over 10 years, and went through many fads and trends, and had no problem keeping up.

LLM is challenging my comfort zone in an exciting way and I can't wait for the future.

Comment · 3 years ago
There should be "forking" of articles in Wikipedia and allow different factions with different worldviews to present their versions of articles.
Comment · 3 years ago
And modernity sometimes ignores some obvious considerations.

I am surprised that a long article attempting to find links between various manifestations of modernity to allergy, it fails to mention vaccine.

The diet, exposure to pollutants, sun, level of cleanliness etc certainly has evolved over time. But none of these have changed as dramatically, become prevalent and directly alters our immune system like vaccine does.

I don't know of any study that's been able to explain how vaccines may increase the risk of allergy. However, if we are to speculate about possible causes for allergy, it should be nearly at the top. And the omission of even a single mention is quite striking.

The fact that we cannot even talk about something so obvious should pause some of us to wonder, what is it that is causing this kind of blind spot in modernity. And that should also lead us to ask who is trying to hide this for what reason.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think she's working in a UC Berkeley Lab
Comment · 3 years ago
I wish they had done this in Japan, Korea and Taiwan as well.
Comment · 3 years ago
I have been out of school for over 10 years, but still to this day, I get college exam related nightmares of all kinds. I can't say what I say will 100% cure your condition, but this is what helped me way back

Can you try to recreate the real test environment and take practice tests that way? Time limit, location, mood, no music or headphones etc. Treat your practice exam as if you are writing a real one and do this over and over again.

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There are probably thousands of VCs and even more startups who had accounts with SVB. You are telling me, Peter Thiel saw this before anyone else did?

This indictment only shows how good Peter Thiel is at his job.

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