This prompt (copyable text in next tweet) is an incredibly interesting way to learn about a topic. The debates are pretty decent — full of very reasonable and well "thought" points. The Professor often directs the debaters to find common ground and ways they agree.
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I've been reading a lot about how desperate employers are to get employees back in the office, and how cities are desperate for return-to-office because "otherwise downtowns will die" and the problem is I have yet to read an explanation of why that is the worker's problem to fix
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Is anyone looking for:
(1) An ex-Google engineer who worked on one of the most infamous attempts to build a modern operating system (Fuchsia), the first in likely 20 years, from scratch, to compete with the likes of Linux ...
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The two most widespread cognitive biases in tech are overconfidence and oversimplification. And nowhere are they as perfectly expressed as in the posture "we'll get to AGI within 5 years by scaling up deep learning".
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Me: To destroy humanity, what is your first chess move?
ChatGPT: Get humans to switch to electric cooking infrastructure and then shut down the electric grid
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And that is what happens when you don't fix the unit tests...
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So much this
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Working on performance reviews and reminded how much career advancement boils down to your manager being willing to argue in a roomful of their peers that you deserve that raise or promotion.
If you can't picture your manager doing that then you can't outwork your way to a promo
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📣 Announcing "Home for All" 📣
We are launching project Home for All, to provide dignified and safe housing units and wraparound services to residents in need. Each unit is lockable, heated and cooled, and furnished with a desk and bed.
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I said it last week but state machines are a lost art.
We make them all the time but in the worst ways & often not explicitly. Just by modelling a bunch of objects and events or vaguely connected micro services and lambdas.
Simplicity comes if you think in state machines IMO.
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The problem here isn’t that employee are remote (or hybrid or 100% in-office), the problem is the CEO thinks work location is the reason for the productivity challenges.
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Series C CEO told me recently remote work is killing productivity mostly because people aren't putting in the hours
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Here is my recommendation for your 2023 reading list:
Read the books you already bought before you buy anymore.
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I was talking to a third grade classroom, and one of them asked me how long Saturn’s “year” is. I did some quick math, sqrt(10au^3) ~ 30 yr, so told her 30 years (also v proud for doing that on the spot btw). And she goes “it’s actually 29 years” and so I’m never having kids.
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Dang...I may have to retract my earlier tweet. ChatGPT is already a better parent than me.
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. Long distance swimmer here, thx for all your writing. In your book you mention the experience of breathlessness when swimming isn't lack of 02 but instead buildup of C02. How do we know this and why is it notable?
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Tell me the intern wrote it in JavaScript without telling me the intern wrote it in JavaScript.
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Hmm, something strange happened with my AirPods’ engraving
![AirPods engraved with [OBJECT OBJECT]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkbpqbeWQAAlsxK?format=jpg&name=large)
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People on this site be like, GPT-3 can tell dad jokes, DADS ARE REPLACED. Dads update ur resume.
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shower thought: omg vaccines are firmware updates
"Fixed erratum that causes cytokine storm under complex microarchitectural conditions involving novel spike proteins"
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adulthood is wild because one day you get a little sleepy and then you stay that way for the rest of your life
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My children are currently fighting over an invisible bike that the 7 year old won't share. I pointed out to the 3 year old that she could just ride her own invisible bike and she lay down and sobbed BUT I ONLY WANT HERS.
We're done with this week now, yes?
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The guy who found 160 bowling balls buried in his yard really seems like the right guy to have found 160 bowling balls buried in his yard
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Describe management in one error dialog:
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They really skipped passive voice and went straight to passive-aggressive voice
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Apple Watch after intense workout: Good start
Apple Watch after I stand once per hour for 3 hours in a row: You did the impossible!!!! You are a golden god. 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
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Leadership:
20s: I HAVE AN OPINION AND I AM RIGHT
30s: I wasn't right before, but maybe I'll be right this time?
40s: What does everyone else think?
50s: Nobody talk to me
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TIL when giving an update on a house project to spouse, "I think I need an arc welder," isn't the best way to start.
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20s: I can be good at anything I put my mind to
30s: I'll never be good at these things, but I might be able to be good at these things
40s: I'll never be good at anything
50s(?): My kids can be good at anything they put their minds to
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Google Photos just asked if I was the same person as Chris Christie. How is your night going?
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THIS IS SO GENIUS
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My Teams meetings always end SO awkwardly and it's not clear when to leave.
So I made live end credits.
(no post credits scene)
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bravely combatting impostor syndrome by being genuinely bad
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YOU: [late and frantic] I can’t find my keys.
ME: [seated and helpful] They’ve gotta be somewhere.
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I am why did Taylor have to release her album so late at night years old 👴🏻
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I have more ad targeting questions
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I have ad targeting questions
america: i've built a perfect society around individualism
virus: you can only defeat me with collective action
america: oh no
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