Almost all of the comments have someone’s pet theory about the cause of the decline in achievement. The truth is we don’t actually know why there is a decline or how to stop it.
The truth is obvious, you just don't like the solution.
Readit Newsposed commented on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math apnews.com/article/naep-r... · Posted by u/bikenaga
Surfing
Just keep getting better at programming, and have a deeper understanding of a topic like how a computer works low level. That takes time, focus and effort but it will be worth it. It's knowlodge that will remain, who knows MCP how long will be there? Also, even if we reach 99% of the code generated by machines(and I don't believe it if not for trivial code) you'd still need deeper skills to understand it, not only semantically but looking at the big picture in terms of architecture and business/design implications. My suggestion is the contrary of many tech influencers, do not deep dive into prompt engineering or similar stuff, that's the trivial part, if you fail at prompting don't let them convince you you have a skill issue, you're not paid to chat, you're paid to solve problems, prompting is trivial, you must understand problems and requirements deeply. I actually refreshed my high school math and with it I've been able to do so much, from AI basics inner workings to computer graphics, there is so much in core knowledge that is underrated these days. I think I'll soon start the Computer Enhance course from Casey Muratori for low level stuff and performance. Since the advent of LLMs I actually wanted to learn more than before, it has been beneficial to me
Agree with this
posed commented on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch byran.ee/posts/creation/... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
Dude this is great, you not only build a cool thing, but also you know how to preach about it! Very proud, hope you do great things. Don't let the spark die.
posed commented on Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? · Posted by u/throwaway_43793
My advice: Keep honing your problem solving skills, by doing math challenges, chess puzzles, learn new languages(not programming ones, though that might help too), read books; anything that’d help you get newer perspectives, challenges your mind is good enough to withstand the race against AI.
People treat Github like social media
It is a social medium by definition, tbf.
posed commented on Social engineering takeovers of open source projects openssf.org/blog/2024/04/... · Posted by u/mooreds
I recently had a xz moment where the rust zip crate was taken over by a single person and the original crate was completely replaced. I'm still not sure if this was legit or not: https://github.com/zip-rs/zip-old/issues/446
That does look suspicious.
posed commented on Algebra problems selected from the Romanian Olympiad (Part 2) andreinc.net/2024/03/25/1... · Posted by u/argulane
> It's a shame the school system doesn't put more emphasis on why you'd need to solve such difficult problems in the real world, as in, what are their theoretical or practical applications of the knowledge gained from solving such problems.
Speaking as a PhD in math, Olympiad problems are very different than ordinary research math problems. Olympiad math problems in particular don't require creating new theory, but rather brilliance and knowing a bunch of standard tricks and how to apply them in insightful ways.
Becoming good at solving Olympiad problems won't really give you much skill in solving creative research problems, but it does give some indication of pure ingenuity as one dimension of mathematical intelligence.
I don’t think that is cut and dry as such, being able to solve IMO(International Mathematics Olympiad) level problems require a significant level of creativity and imagination, and folks who are good at it naturally have an aptitude(and perhaps an upper-hand as well) for problem solving in general, research or otherwise.
posed commented on Lessons from a never-ending personal project siddhesh.substack.com/p/p... · Posted by u/weekendvampire
This reminds me of a rather wonderful video about getting stuff “done” vs pursuing perfection :- https://youtu.be/bJQj1uKtnus?si=bdyI83voqRb2B3rY
Bang and StrictData are fine locally but things get enormously worse when that data flows into deeply-layered libraries that I don't own.
Then, I need to understand and modify the evaluation behavior of a deeply-layered external software stack, including its crazy type-level magic, all before a looming deadline.
Seriously, how is this good for my sanity or career?
What’s your product if you don't mind sharing? Curious.