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kurige commented on The Generative AI Con wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40

The downside to doing this is that you'll sound like an LLM. LLM-generated text is very obvious to anyone with basic reading comprehension and once detected will cause some people to summarily dismiss the sender as a bot.

kurige · 6 months ago

This is more than acceptable if it allows you to confidently send of an email in less than a minute that would otherwise take you 30 minutes of agony to write and still not be confident about.

Also, these aren't cold calls. The recipients aren't critical about how "botty" the email sounds.

kurige commented on The Generative AI Con wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40

kurige · 6 months ago

ChatGPT and LLMs have had a significant impact on my wife's life. She's a second language speaker, and having ChatGPT available to draft and proofread professional sounding emails and text messages has drastically increased her self-confidence and ability to communicate with colleagues. I think that's amazing.

That's also the only use of LLMs we've found.

kurige commented on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues theverge.com/2024/2/21/24... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

sotasota · 2 years ago

If you ever wondered what it was like to live during the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, well, we are living in the Western version of that right now. You don't speak out during the revolution for fear of being ostracized, fired, and forced into a struggle session where your character and reputation is publicly destroyed to send a clear message to everyone else.

Shut Up Or Else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_Ideological_Echo_Cham...

Historians might mark 2017 as the official date Google was captured.

kurige · 2 years ago

I feel like the fact that you are able to say this, and the sentiment echoed in other comments, is a pretty decent sign that the "movement" has peaked. It was just a few years ago that anybody voicing this kind of opinion was immediately shot down and buried on this very forum.

It will take a while for DEI to cool down in corporate settings, as that will always be lagging behind social sentiment in broader society.

kurige commented on John Carmack Leaves Meta facebook.com/100006735798... · Posted by u/viburnum

klabb3 · 3 years ago

I interpret this as strong circumstantial evidence that companies who start out as engineering centric and claims to be meritocratic eventually deteriorate into good ole nepotistic power play and a sea of bureaucracy. It’s quite entertaining to observe even John Carmack go through this very relatable frustration.

kurige · 3 years ago

I see it more as the simple truth. There's only so much influence you can wield working one day a week as an executive advisor. By his own admission he could have steered things better if he'd been more involved, but he didn't want to be more involved. He's got his own startup to work on.

kurige commented on Ask HN: How worried are you about the upcoming recession? · Posted by u/avl999

dgellow · 3 years ago

> If I lose my entire fortune and life savings tomorrow, I'll be fine. I'll flip burgers, deliver pizza or wash cars if I have to

I only have a limited understanding of economics, but I have a feeling that you may be misunderstanding dynamics at play during a recession. If I get it right people would stop spending money for non-essential things, so no more burgers, pizza delivery, car washing, spending on hobby’s, holidays, etc. Jobs with lower wages and ones with lower requirements are likely to be the most impacted. Add to this that more people are desperate looking for anything to get some form of income, you’re now competing with way more people for your burger flipping position.

Doesn’t sound like a great plan. But again, I may be completely incorrect here.

kurige · 3 years ago

Yup. I had the misfortune of being in Michigan, unemployed, at a particularly bad time. I applied to about 30-40 gas stations, movie theaters, fast food places... Everywhere I went I was told the same thing, "I'm required by law to give you this application form, but we're not going to hire you. Good luck." I didn't know anybody and couldn't get a job cleaning floors let alone flipping burgers.

kurige commented on Concise algorithms written in Julia github.com/mossr/Beautifu... · Posted by u/thetwentyone

enriquto · 4 years ago

> they mess up people's pattern recognition

you have described perfectly the problem that I have when reading n0code written by programmers who are not mathematicians... my mind wants to read variables with multiple letters as products of each letter.

I find multi-letter variable names extremely old fasioned, as when math was written explicitly in latin before the advent of algeraic notation.

EDIT: an illustrative tweet of my concern: https://mobile.twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/14109451739...

kurige · 4 years ago

> I find multi-letter variable names extremely old fasioned

Sometimes I read things here on Hacker News that throw me so hard I leave the site for a month or two. Congratulations, this time it's your fault. Goodbye.

kurige commented on Serverless: slower and more expensive einaregilsson.com/serverl... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

munns · 6 years ago

No. I've been at AWS for over 7 years in a few different roles. Came to the serverless space >2.5 years ago because I felt passionate about it (could have literally done almost anything). Again, sorry for mis-posting under my older personal account, it was rarely used fwiw.

kurige · 6 years ago

I wasn't criticizing you. I was pointing out that an equally likely and more charitable interpretation is that you posted as a fan of AWS before you started posting as an employee.

Turns out I was wrong in this case, but you've explained the situation and everything is hunky dory.

kurige commented on Serverless: slower and more expensive einaregilsson.com/serverl... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

shiftpgdn · 6 years ago

Kinda wild in your post history you're advocating for AWS as a cheaper superior platform without disclosing that you work there.

kurige · 6 years ago

Maybe that's how he got the job.

kurige commented on Cleaver – 30-second slideshows for hackers jdan.github.io/cleaver/... · Posted by u/iheredia

H4CK3RM4N · 8 years ago

I have to ask what this offers over a LaTeX/Beamer setup. I'm fairly happy using LaTeX for anything I'm sharing, but I'm curious about alternatives.

kurige · 8 years ago

Sure, when throwing some slides together last minute the first thing that comes to mind is "LaTeX".

kurige commented on Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee newyorker.com/humor/daily... · Posted by u/misnamed

waqf · 9 years ago

Fine, then I could write the same article about the traps inherent in trying to be useful to others.

kurige · 9 years ago

Eh, I agree it's kind of a strange choice of words, but you don't really expect people to want to spend more time with somebody who doesn't provide any value? Just being pleasant company is useful and has value.