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depereo commented on Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada cbc.ca/news/politics/fede... · Posted by u/astlouis44

abdullahkhalids · 2 years ago

Interestingly, last year, Canada introduced tax credits to support the clean energy technology sector [1]. Its "total over $60 billion over the coming ten years" [1]. But there is also some actual money in the same package.

So I wonder, what the thinking of the government is in deciding when tax credits and when direct subsidy.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/202...

depereo · 2 years ago

Tax cuts are used more often when the government wants to see more private investment into an industry. Not really an issue with 'AI' right now.

Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.

depereo commented on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses wbaltv.com/article/baltim... · Posted by u/tbihl

dgfitz · 2 years ago

Baltimore city and PG county voted for a democratic president. Rest of the state was red.

depereo · 2 years ago

10 EC votes to Biden. 0 to trump and no hope of any in this year's election.

1/8 red house seats. The other 7 very comfortably blue.

The rest of the state doesn't seem like it matters much to the only results they'd care about - seats and EC votes.

depereo commented on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses wbaltv.com/article/baltim... · Posted by u/tbihl

chx · 2 years ago

> It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and I expect the Congress to support my effort

This is what he said. I would expect Congress to play along too -- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??

depereo · 2 years ago

Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.

depereo commented on Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired twitter.com/Carnage4Life/... · Posted by u/crhulls

HarryHirsch · 2 years ago

This is especially painful for college grads, who don’t have specific experience to fall back on.

There is no training or university pipeline any longer?

depereo · 2 years ago

Not in 3 years each of experience in 'this specific nodejs library' and 'gcp networking' and 'foundationdb'.

depereo commented on Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-05-... · Posted by u/panabee

outworlder · 2 years ago

> calling the use of neural networks in statistical work "AI" is misleading at best.

Neural Networks are not considered AI anymore?

That just reinforces my thesis that "AI" is an ever sliding window that means "something we don't yet have". Voice recognition used to be firmly in the "AI" camp and received grants from even the military. Now we have that on wrist watches (admittedly with some computation offloaded) and nobody cares. Expert systems were once very much "AI".

LLMs will suffer the same treatment pretty soon. Just wait.

depereo · 2 years ago

Another entry in the 'marketing and technical terms don't mean the same thing despite using the same words' saga.

depereo commented on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9 npr.org/2024/03/06/123627... · Posted by u/everybodyknows

lazide · 2 years ago

Zero deaths though!

depereo · 2 years ago

Good validation of the 'fail early' strategy. If the door came off when they were higher up it would have been worse.

However, this failure seems to have not followed a strategy; the result was just luck.

depereo commented on Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession" techradar.com/pro/nvidia-... · Posted by u/romeros

bmitc · 2 years ago

> "It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. And that the programming language is human, everybody in the world is now a programmer. This is the miracle of artificial intelligence."

The Nvidia CEO doesn't understand what programming is.

depereo · 2 years ago

He understands that if he keeps spouting this stuff the stock keeps going up.

depereo commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar

ParetoOptimal · 2 years ago

You make it sound as if big companies are generally really effective and its enabled by their bureaucracy.

depereo · 2 years ago

Not my intention, sorry!

Big organisations are stable, mostly due to the often frustrating inertia and lack of risk taking coupled with their existing, mature revenue streams.

depereo commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar

belter · 2 years ago

Can somebody help me out here? I went to the GitLab pricing page: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

Where do I select my location so as to get my location based price?

depereo · 2 years ago

Like with any other business, you talk to the sales team and come to an agreeable middle ground.

We don't pay 'list' for gitlab SaaS.

depereo commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar

cousin_it · 2 years ago

Sure, you could argue such people are needed only at the early stages of a company, and counterproductive when the company gets bigger. But I don't buy that. Why then are big companies asking all the time: "Oh, where's our internal startup spirit? How can we bring it back?" Right after firing the people who encapsulated that spirit, for being "hard to manage".

depereo · 2 years ago

I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.

The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.

Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.

If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!