I left in 2021 because I saw the toxicity growing. It looks like Jassy’s AWS culture is spreading into CDO from what I’m seeing in threads like this. I’m glad I got out when I did.

Honest question, why?

If I'm getting laid off, I'd rather an email. It allows me to collect my thoughts and respond in a way that is optimal for me. It also let's me avoid showing any emotion that could cause problems for me

To clarify: If I got laid off today, I'd be pretty happy about it. If my boss was having a difficult conversation laying me off and I'm obviously happy about it, it might sour any future working relationship. It's not my boss necessarily making the decision, and there are many former bosses who have moved to other companies that I'd be happy working with again

Didn't they buy a company that "specializes" in vehicle IoT? I remember getting recruiter emails for this company whose major claim to fame was that they were a Ford subsidiary focused on vehicle IoT.

They are counting on the fact that most people don't know the difference because math is hard.

Link?

When you build an office like that you gotta put it to use.

Mean and average are synonymous. He was precise and correct in his terminology. It is only you that does not understand the meaning of a mathematical average

Edit: And to drive it home a bit more, the advantage of using the term mean is that it is more specific. Mean is less likely to be misunderstood for another meaning than average, but both convey the precise meaning he intended

I wouldn't normally add that level of pedantry, but wanted to point out you misused precise when you meant specific. Solely because you're attempting to be overly pedantic

That's why I get triggered anytime someone talks shit about European Union. Your country is trash and these corporations can get away with just about anything.

Just another reason why you should join a Union.

Average is a neat little math trick to use here. Median is a much more meaningful number to use

Imagine 5 people use TikTok with ages of: 10, 15, 15, 15, and 65

The average age for that group is 24. You can technically claim the average age of those users is an adult, out of college. The median, however, is only 15. 15 is a much more accurate descriptor of that group than 24. It's obvious why TikTok is choosing average here. It's very easy for a small segment of older users to drag the average way up

Gotta love the USA, one of the worst countries in the world for workers rights…

https://aflcio.org/2014/5/22/us-rated-alarmingly-high-global-survey-worst-places-workers-rights

I’m not worried, but I do expect everything to change. Many people think their job is too difficult to automate, but I don’t believe that will be proven to be the case.

When we add AI to the cloud and modern software development tools, we find that AI will be able to quickly do some amazing things.

Please note that I am not talking about just ChatGPT, I believe within 5 to 10 years cloud providers could offer a way to create many complex systems in the cloud.

This is insane because if by close sourcing this, they are slowing down the rate of advancement and discovery since now everyone has to reinvent the wheel.

The fact that they've spun their EV operations to its own unit bodes well for them. This will help focus their efforts and hopefully avoid falling into bad habits of reusing too many legacy components/architecture, which seems to have kneecapped some of the other OEMs.

We're waiting to see their first fully dedicated EV, but the Mach-E and F-150L are really good considering they're parts bin cars made to get experience with EVs.

Burning billions is never fun, but it's got to be done sooner than later if they want to stay competitive.

you made the hive angry

What makes you think it wouldn't be?

Expect a delivery event July 1st for their 20th anniversary.

It's not as if we haven't seen multitudes of development vehicles and the factory build out.

After refusing to say how many parameters GPT4 has, refusing to give over any details of training dataset or methodology and doing so in the name of staying 'competitive' I'm taking the stance that they are going to do everything in their power to obfuscate the size of the model and how much it costs to run.

e.g. Sam Altman has said in the past that the model would be a lot smaller than people expect and that more data can be crammed into smaller models. (Chinchilla and especially the very recent Llama papers prove this)

Would I put it past the new 'competitive' profit driven OpenAI to rate limit a GPT4 that is actually similar in size to GPT3 to give the impression the model is bigger and takes more compute to generate answers? No (as the difference in inference cost is pure profit)

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Yeah it average out to 25 year old

Isn't warning users that TikTok is a "China based social media site" good enough for Americans to choose if they want to use it? If you are concern about China having your data or influencing your decision, don't use it.

lol. Yeah. Who needs any of them there fancy a u t o m o b i l e s when a horse and buggy is just fine.

Apple is the most inefficient company in the world.

Apple is a private company and allowed to enforce employment participation measures.

There's probably one account that claims to be 1 billion years old.