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A Barnum Effect type statement really haha. One should be suspicious of any brush that you can earnestly apply to "all" of hundreds of people's personalities at once. "Having elements of both broad category X and broad category Y" is absolutely a rich vein for that.

Applicants definitely peak in their leet code ability at graduation. Probably doesn't help that they're have lots of free time and motivation to grind for their first job. It's a mistake to hold more senior people to same standard.

I know what a Jeeves-style character is supposed to be like, but I couldn't tell you the origin, and I'd never heard of Wooster before just now.

The beige/brown fans give me a woodgrain vibe more than anything. Straight white would probably be more popular with LED folks imo.

yep, white pc component are almost always at a premium :p

I wonder if spreading breadcrumbs is a more popular hobby among men than women?

Maybe more so for web developers.

I’ll get my coat.


Clever experiments to measure tiny values are probably my favorite kind of science. Millikan found the charge of an electron by looking for a common integer multiple of charge in tiny oil droplets. Or LIGO measures gravitational waves by watching the interference pattern generated over time by two light beams taking different paths.

My immediate assocation with the term would be 'tribalism' so a lot of in-fighting seems on-brand.

"To be clear when we floated the idea of 'federal loan guarantees' we were only asking the government subsidize building a bunch of cheap supply for us. We definitely believe in competitive markets." https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-does-not-want-govern...

It's funny how the big AI labs can effortlessly say both "if we don't continue the arms race we'll just be choosing to lose to China in 7 months" and "if Chinese labs didn't copy our models using ""distilation attacks"" they would be years behind". The enemy is both as weak or strong as the paragraph demands.

Chatbots are certainly not objective. There are countless articles are this that and the other bias with them. The whole sycophancy blowup or their basic inability to choose a fair random number without assistance should clearly demonstrate that they have many implicit biases. The distribution of answers chatbots give to questions is being constantly and deliberately tweaked by their developers.

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