I feel seen

U should get out more physics guy

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.

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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So much this

And that is what happens when you don't fix the unit tests...

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

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".

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 ... 🧵

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.