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Worth underlining that designers work very hard to understand the needs of the particular situation.

Usually type designers consider the legibility of 3, 6, 8, 9, 0 (particularly 8 and 0) to be more important than between O and 0. But for coders, the ambiguity between O and 0 is a big problem, so a designer would consider that.

An example for pilots: you are heading 180 and radio it as "one zero eight". Even if you immediately correct yourself, it's a problem.

What does it mean to have less active parameters (36B) than the full model size (132B) and what impact does that have on memory and latency? It seems like this is because it is an MoE model?

I'm about to give up on London and move to San Francisco. Both cities are experiencing 10%+ house price inflation and all the pain that goes with it. New York has experienced much the same since the 2008 housing crash. Cities are in, suburbs are out. So I have trouble buying the hypothesis that London's increase is due to its use as a quasi-currency or foreign demand. The demand to live in London and other world cities is common and organic. I don't doubt the UK's retrogressive tax policies encourage more investment than normal but that's not the centre of the demand, nor are Eric Schmidt or Michael Bloomberg legitimately competing with me for housing.

EFF continues awful tradition of confusing personal digital liberty advocacy with lame complaining about not getting things that cost money for "free".

This map and many others include digital/creative agencies. They may be startups in the sense of new companies, but if we accept that definition why not include every new lawyer, restaurant, or retailer? Agencies are contractors and they don't own the value they build in a product. I hate to be bitchy and don't begrudge agencies but I think they're fundamentally different to tech startups.

For all this article's many faults, at least it is long-form and has more than two sources. I hope PandoDaily continues to support long-form journalism and I hope they inspire other tech blogs to do the same.

What exactly is misleading given there are several common algorithms used (cubic by Linux and compound by windows) and the gains are at least an aggregate 2x improvement on key performance metrics.

One thing I do see is that it hasn't yet been tested on real networks, only synthetic networks. It will be interesting to see if it provides real gains across the range of conditions, particularly in hyper optimized data centers.

It's a difference in approach that is tied to time: suburban American houses were mostly built after forced air central heating, and in that kind of heating insulation is "less" important (the air mass is mixed and heated thoroughly, not the structure). Europeans still use radiators which means insulation is more important (a radiator next to an outside wall is radiating half of its heat toward the outside wall). But fundamentally it seems like a US apathy toward waste more than an improvement.

SF has historically shoddy construction due to the gold rush, mail order housing bought sight unseen, and a mild climate.

If I built a house in the US I would have it designed by a European.

Amount of head on lager varies from country to country but it is hard to argue with a Czech given that they invented Pilsen lager. A good head has a different taste and adds a different texture to the beer and makes the carbonation (high in a lager) more smooth and less bitter.

No sorry the "man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune" question from another comment.

Yes lack of dates has always been a big complaint at the Palo Alto MENSA meet ups.

I asked these questions until a year ago. Brain teasers were never ok. They are defined as things that require a single insight and/or domain knowledge and could be communicated in a few seconds.

"Monopoly" is a perfect example of a brain teaser and anyone using that would be treated pretty harshly by the committee that reviews interview feedback. Estimate questions are not: there's no expectation of a "right answer" and the important fact is the working.

Some programming questions border on brain teasers to non programmers but that doesn't matter because you are asking programmers and again, it's the working that matters.

Finally different roles get different types of interviews. I worked in PM and there were analytical (these questions), product (design a better x) and technical (basic engineering interviews). The behavioral type was not one I encountered in PM or eng but maybe used elsewhere.

Exactly as I read it. The translation is better as "Jana was baffled when the officials showed her a print out of all of her facebook correspondence." The article makes it clear they asked her a lot of questions before they presented the facebook messages, so they clearly had suspicion.

I was ready to say that angularjs plus mobile does not work based on our experience but at least your demo works well, though I think it has few bindings. I'll try it later in android browser on froyo and see if it can handle that. We had kinda written off angularjs on mobile but have to say this looks good.