Multiple brand surveys have shown that Berkeley is one of the best known brands outside the USA after Harvard, right alongside Stanford. Especially in Asia.
Yeah, pg is a great example: obviously bright guy, pioneering VC, who now dishes out some of the worst takes on Twitter. Are we supposed to care what he thinks still?
For what it's worth, I think patio11's writing on software consulting is the best I've ever read. I'm sure he knows this space well, but there are...different viewpoints.
nevermind. turns out someone else had logged into twitter and forgot to log out. i didn't notice because i haven't been using the site in ages. please ignore my initial comment
Let's take one claim in this paper - that the value of Recaptcha tracking cookies are $888bn over 3 years. Alphabet's total revenues over the last three years were $940bn. Are we seriously to believe that a tracking cookie used in one product accounts for more than 94% of Google's total income?
I'm not going to take any other claims in this paper seriously, because this one is so obviously ridiculous.
Meet with Dan Stamper-Kern, Jon Simon, and whoever else at length, go get coffee with their grad students without any postdocs or the PI present and ask them to tell you the shitty bits, and make your pick. Don't worry about the school -- it's not important. The advisor is.
The thing I wrote was just test automation that executed in the browser, file system, and shell commands. There are excellent tools that do this, but they are all big. I only wrote my own because I wanted something that executed faster and can send test commands to other computers. Any mock data generated was generated as result of the test interactions executed.
Thomas Carlyle was pretty hard on it in the 19th century.
> Consider, for example, that great Hat seven-feet high, which now perambulates London Streets; which my Friend Sauerteig regarded justly as one of our English notabilities; "the topmost point as yet," said he, "would it were your culminating and returning point, to which English Puffery has been observed to reach!"—The Hatter in the Strand of London, instead of making better felt-hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheels; sends a man to drive it through the streets; hoping to be saved thereby. He has not attempted to make better hats, as he was appointed by the Universe to do, and as with this ingenuity of his he could very probably have done; but his whole industry is turned to persuade us that he has made such! He too knows that the Quack has become God. Laugh not at him, O reader; or do not laugh only. He has ceased to be comic; he is fast becoming tragic.
Interesting read. Our lab was founded inside a campus engineering center of digital. So we still have some memorabilia (like a 'cyber cafe' sign from digital) lying around. Actually digital research in Germany was sold to SAP, which didn't have research at the time (SAP actually pretty much scrapped their research division pretty much about 10 year since they seemingly never grew really fond of it)
Nah nobody knows that, it is a lie. The reason healthcare in the US is expensive is primarily providers. As reported by e.g. Vox.
In fact us out of pocket spending is low compared to OECD, and overhead while relatively high is not huge. It's that the doctors and hospitals in the US are paid much more.
It's safety, yes. To fail this test there can be any number of causes but for Tesla they specifically mention light, axle, and breaks as failure points.
The 14.2% was for cars receiving their first Hauptuntersuchung (main inspection) done every 24 months (so 2-3 years old cars). If a car model has that many problems while competitors in a similar price range and use model don't, that could point to an issue with part quality.
DEC is a cool name. Digital Equipment, serious stuff. Sadly the era of three punchy letter names is over. What have we got now?
“Apple” (random word, even worse, it is a type of plant or something), “Facebook” (like a type of yearbook?) “Google” (sounds like they make candy or something), or “Intel” (who knows? -tel is just what companies ended their names with in the 80’s and 90’s).
DEC. What do they make? Equipment. What kind? Digital.
IBM would be good if the middle word wasn’t “business.” Business? Eh. Lame. The business is an aside, it is here to justify the machines. E, because Equipment is solid and physical.
ARM? Looks good at first. But then you find out… the A stands for Acorn. What the hell are we doing here, gardening? No. Terrible. We want D, for Digital, because we’re in the figure, the era of ones and zeros, not acorns.
Which is the hostage puppy? Half the HIV treatment in the developing world? The people clearing landmines? The malaria treatment? Or is it tuberculosis? Or security and economic aid to our allies, particularly allies that are fighting wars? Or funding the groups that are standing up to our authoritarian adversaries? Feeding people facing famines? Economic assistance to bolster employment in countries to reduce the demand for people to migrate to the US?
If everyone has incredibly good AI, then perhaps the unique asset will be training data.
Not everyone will have the training data that demonstrates precisely the behavior that your customers want. As you grow, you'll generate more training data. Others can clone your product immediately... but the clone just won't work as well. In your internal evals, you'll see why. It misses a lot of stuff. But they won't understand, because their evals don't cover this case.
(This is quite similar to why Bing had trouble surpassing Google in search quality. Bing had great engineers, but they never had the same data, because they never had the same userbase.)
> Why not get mad at all the money appropriated to USAID to fund specific causes and find out most of that money went to pay for houses near Langley, VA and Politico accounts?
It didn't, and I'm disappointed to see that there are people on HN who fall for such absurd falsehoods.
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for $0 a month you can search 400 billion web pages on any other search engine with an adblocker. if Spotify's business model was "we're going to charge you $120 a year to show you otherwise free and ad-free content more efficiently", they'd be face down in the pool, and rightly so.
I would love to pay for kagi, but the $5 tier would give me search anxiety and $10 is cheeky as fuck. I appreciate that charging per search is a less stable business model than monthly tiers, but it would have made me a customer a long time ago.
The author is a well-known proponent of manned Mars missions. I would disagree with some proposals in the article - to me it looks easier just to use more Starship flights initially than to develop the Starboat early on (and in general the Starship capabilities seem to be misunderstood). I also suspect the nuclear energy points are taken too lightly. Author tries to propose scaling back missions, perhaps in attempt to reach lower economical thresholds, but it might also cost in other ways.
Speaking as someone that's worked at a startup and also in FAANG, if you're the type that's predisposed to existential dread, the sense of dread in a startup is differently but equally existential when the startup may not be able to cut paychecks or even be around in 30 days, and you have to scramble to find a new job.
At the startup, there's not even the $150k to subtract out.
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