I seem to remember this specific class at the CMU School of Computer Science being described as a “weed-out class”.
Readit NewsIfkaluva commented on Great ideas in theoretical computer science cs251.com/... · Posted by u/sebg
Isn't the struggling with docs and learning how and where to find the answers part of the learning process?
I would argue a machine that short circuits the process of getting stuck in obtuse documentation is actually harmful long term...
No :)
Any task has “core difficulty” and “incidental difficulty”. Struggling with docs is incidental difficulty, it’s a tax on energy and focus.
Your argument is an argument against the use of Google or StackOverflow.
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Unfortunately if it takes you 4 years to significantly upskill in tech, you are learning way too slow to survive in this industry. Most of the major innovators I know are dropouts, because they realized college is suited to train you to work in academia, where very few jobs exist, almost no one worth working for cares about degrees anymore, and the debt only makes surviving harder.
IMO the best education and credentials come from picking interesting projects you have no idea how to do, then learn everything in your way to ship them as open source so potential employers can see your work.
If you can get a degree on a scholarship for free, wonderful, but college should be viewed as more of a hobby or a way to network, rather than a way of obtaining marketable technical skills.
I don’t agree that “college is to train you to work in academia”.
I work in FAANG, none of my colleagues are dropouts.
Many BigTech founders are dropouts, but that’s a separate game altogether.
1. Copilot for Microsoft PowerPoint
2. Copilot for Windows Notepad
3. Copilot for Windows 11 Start Menu
Nah man, I’m still waiting for Copilot for vim.
The death, maybe, but not the lack of hiring. At $BIGCORP, where I work, I haven't seen an externally hired junior dev in at least 2 years in an extended team of ~100 people.
My prediction is that you will see that trend reverse soon. Have the teams become top-heavy?
I’m not sure if this is true.
At the company where I work (one of the FAANGs), there is suddenly a large number of junior IC roles opening up. This despite the trend of the last few years to only hire L5 and above.
My read of the situation:
- junior level jobs were sacrificed as cost cutting measures, to allow larger investment in AI
- some analysts read this as “the junior levels are being automated! Evidence: there is some AI stuff, and there are no junior roles!”
- but it was never true, and now the tide is turning.
I’m not sure I ever heard anybody in my company claim that the dearth of junior openings was due to to “we are going to automate the juniors”. I think all of that narrative was external analysts trying to read the tea leaves too hard. And, wannabes like Marc Benioff pretending to be tech leaders, but that’s a helpful reminder that Benioff is simply “not serious people”.
Ifkaluva commented on The Science of Satiety per Calorie dietdoctor.com/satiety/sc... · Posted by u/rzk
Failing the smell test.
This feels more like someone trying to sell you something than help you find satiating foods.
There really is only one study in the field of satiety: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15701207_A_Satiety_...
Which to the articles credit, it links in reference '3', but then fails to use the data within.
The journal article cites potatoes as having a Satiety Index % of 323+-51. The next highest is Ling Fish with 225+-30, yet TFA omits mentioning potatoes and chooses rather to harp on about protein protein protein which is very faddy diet advice across all major social media platforms at the moment.
Also none of their satiety scale illustrations show the humble white potato.
WOOO, I can make a VR copy of my messy apartment! Come check out the peeling paint and the mysterious stain on the ceiling!
I guess in VR you can delete the stain?