qazpot's comments

I think you are taking a very major assumption that LLMs are deterministic infact they are exactly opposite. They are probabilistic systems.

- They do not transpile Rough English to Deterministic English. Infact they do not do any transpiling at all.

- LLMs learn the probabilities of words in the dataset for all contexts from that dataset (context is a ordered set of words). This is called training.

- Once training is done, LLMs can generate text given a prompt and the probabilities that it has learned. The analogy of LLMs being auto-complete on steroids is very apt.

- Whether the text generated by LLMs is factual or not is purely coincidental.

I would highly recommend watching and working though the code (if possible) of NanoGPT by Andrej Karpathy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

A lot of things which seem like magic about LLMs will get demystified.

Now one can argue that LLMs are showing human like reasoning/intelligence/sentience as an emergent behavior. This is hard to argue against because all these terms are extremely hard to define.

IMO, the only emergent behavior that LLMs are showing is the output they generate looks like it might have been generated by a human which should not be surprising given that LLMs like ChatGPT has trained on a large amount of human written text available on internet.

> won't take everyone's job, it will just open up new areas for new jobs.

This was true for Industrial Automation when machines automated physical work and humans could do knowledge work.

Now machines are on the verge of automating knowledge there would be no work left for humans.

This article could have been two bullet points.

1. Read the book Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson and identify which archetype you are - Tech Lead, Solver, Architect, The Right Hand (Details are in the book)

2. Find an organization which has the career track for your chosen archetype, find a mentor who has gone through that path.

India has had a long standing culture of torturing and burning because of dowry and female foeticide.

However, the judicial system instead of fixing the problem went ahead and created lopsided insane laws which are now being exploited.

Just leaving this here

According to The Apache Software Foundation, its name was chosen "from respect for the various Native American nations collectively referred to as Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance".[15] This was in a context in which it seemed that the open internet -- based on free exchange of open source code -- appeared to be soon subjected to a kind of conquer by proprietary software vendor Microsoft; Apache co-creator Brian Behlendorf -- originator of the name -- saw his effort somewhat parallel that of Geronimo, Chief of the last of the free Apache peoples.[16][17] But it conceded that the name "also makes a cute pun on 'a patchy web server'—a server made from a series of patches".

China is taking revenge for getting them addicted to Opium during the century of shame from rest of the world.

The only problem with the analysis is a single Asteriod striking anywhere on earth can wipe out billions of people.

A powerful earthquake even it hits a large city would wipe out only in millions at worst.

They do not scale the same way.

IIRC wordpress does this for new hires. Everyone spends their first few months in Customer support, which is a nice middle path to the extreme you are suggesting.

This is also good for new hires as they get to a grounding on what matters (customer experience).

This is awesome, reminds me of some of Bret Victor's work.

> The British Museum is one of the greatest places on earth.

Where treasures looted from other cultures are displayed ?

Both.

I can bet there are a lot of people still working in crypto because of sunk cost fallacy.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications is the best starting point.

One of the many reason's I like Apostol's Calculus book is that it starts with integration first and then diffrentiation which is how the field developed historically.

You can not have any arbitrary surname because each surname belong to a caste. So if you take a higher caste surname then you will have to pretend like you belong to higher caste.

Also there are other factors which can tell which caste you actually belong to.

Your birthplace. Your parent's birthplace. Which part of the city you were born in. The accent you speak your mother tongue in.

These are benign questions that your indian colleague might ask or notice.

I dont think the current form in which casteism is practiced in India is related to profession.

Right now in India, lower caste people are mostly free to pursue any profession (unless you go to rural areas).

Discrimination comes from the fact that higer caste people simply despise/hate/consider lower caste people impure or inferior.

Casteism is much more worse.

You or your children or your grandchildren atleast have a chance on moving up in class in a capitalistic society like West.

In Casteist society you neither your descendants can ever leave your caste and will always face discrimination does not matter how much money you have.

Is there any word when programmers engage in some other activity and then realize and rationalize that the said activity has a lot common with programming.

> Data gathered from its scientific instruments, once collected, is stored within the spacecraft’s 68-GB solid-state drive (3 percent is reserved for engineering and telemetry data)

Hope the SSD does not fail after 32768 or 40000 hours of operation.

Yes, it is a common type of endgame.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess/The_Endgame/King_and_Roo...

Funny, english people crying about being colonies.