I just trust my accountant will use excel and what they are doing isn't rocket science.
I have no interest interacting with someone who is going to get into how great the slide ruler is and how kids these days need to learn the slide ruler. When I was younger I thought this type of person was highly admirable but now older and wiser I see how full of shit they are.
I am not a dev but there is obviously a supply vs demand problem or you would at least be getting a single interview.
There is also a marketing problem in that everyone thinks they have to do the same thing to stand out but if you are doing the same thing as everyone else then you are doing the opposite of standing out.
At one point in my career when I was struggling to get interviews, I gave up and decided the jobs available to me are the ones my friends can help me get. You will amaze yourself with how much more effort you put into your network when you take the internet posting jobs off the table.
There is also much to be said for being able to program but doing something else besides pure software engineer.
The best recommendations are from humans who love music and you also share their taste in music.
Once every few years an amazing recommendation bubbles to the surface on Youtube for me but compared to a music lover's top 100 for a certain year? It isn't even close.
There is no reason you need algorithmic efficiency in this domain. 1000 recommendations might even be objectively less enjoyable than 10 recommendations since it will cause you to not explore any single recommendation all that much. Most of my favorite albums were not 1st listen instant favorites. Actually, quite the opposite.
A great album to me is also going to be out of sample and not in the training data of what I have liked in the past. That is a large part of its greatness.
If the economy is bad people seem to enjoy news articles about how things are going to get worse and if the economy is good people seem to enjoy news articles about how things are just about to crash.
I am super picky when it comes to art and I think these look like complete shit when compared to what I have seen from Sora.
Not even in the same ballpark. Even when things are wrong in Sora it seems like the imagery is still very crisp. If I watched these videos for 5 minutes I know I would get a headache.
I have had my first legal weed experiences in the past year in New York and even the lowest THC % at the legal weed store is stronger than anything I use to get on the black market when weed was illegal.
Then there are these incredible 10mg THC infused lemonades that are amazing.
On the other hand, the novelty of legal weed only lasted about 4 months for me. Because the store was there and there was this selection I never had access to before I wanted to try different things and was smoking more than I would have normally. At the end of the day though it is all still just weed. It is fun for me but only once a month at most now.
I also don't know a single person that didn't smoke weed because it was illegal and now they do because they can go to the store and purchase it legally.
I think that the polling has doubled for users because people can answer the poll honestly when weed is legal. The idea that weed being illegal is keeping 50% of the potential weed smoking population from smoking is utterly preposterous.
If anything, what is interesting is how many people who would never try weed when it was illegal, will still never try it when it is legal. They may say it is because it is illegal or they don't want to smoke but you can't sell them on 10mg legal lemonaid either.
The problem with these things is they stack on each other and we never go backwards. Any single aspect is not a problem so much and someone will argue the merits of why it is a good idea.
The system this builds though on a multi-decade scale is total insanity.
I don't see how it is possible that there is anything resembling what we would call a free and open society in 50 years.
We love to romanticize the path not taken too. If I look at the mistakes I have made in my life, if I could go back and change them I would still just end up making different mistakes on a different path.
Some of those alternate paths would have been a dead end too, literally. We take the value of the path that was chosen is one that means you are alive to read this on 4/28/24 completely for granted.
Anyone who posts that is an obvious idiot that you shouldn't listen to about anything.
Just someone who either has nothing to do with music or does but has an absolutely obnoxious personality that will point out some meaningless detail in the specification.
It is just mind blowing that my 1997 Korg Prophecy and 10 year old Waldorf Blofeld are all linked up to my brand new computer using the latest version of Abelton live with a midi interface that I don't even remember when I got it but its old too.
I would just add that I think I have encountered situations that knowing the weighted average answer from the training data for topics I didn't previously understand created better initial conditions for MY learning of the topic than not knowing the weighted average answer.
The problem to me is we are holding LLMs to a standard of usefulness from science fiction and not reality.
A new, giant set of encyclopedias has enormous utility but we wouldn't hold it against the encyclopedias that they aren't doing the thinking for us or 100% omniscient.
No doubt. I find these churches amazingly beautiful.
I also think in the sense of how a church in 1500 was not a relic of the past the way we view a church from 1500 today. I would say a church from 1500 was much closer to what the churches in this article would have been in 1500.
Of course, there is a real issue that while I find these amazingly beautiful I would never go to one because I am not the least bit Christian or religious.