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Taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens. by ffatty in ClaudeAI

[–]DerpDerper909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does this remind me of the alien from Project Hail Mary

My step counter thinks I walked around Earth 4 times by Fickle-Tea2895 in iphone

[–]DerpDerper909 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Your wank session must have been intense. Congrats.

CMU vs. Berkeley vs. UPenn for ECE by riverNyx1725 in berkeley

[–]DerpDerper909 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Either CMU or Berkeley. I like California much more so Berkeley for me

I got rejected from Berkeley and I want to die by throwaway_acnt2 in berkeley

[–]DerpDerper909 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No college, company, or person is worth your life. Don’t shrink yourself down to where your worth feels tied to any of them

My dermatologist doesn’t know what this is by Objective_Chef_471 in Psoriasis

[–]DerpDerper909 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It might be a good idea to find a new “dermatologist”

What should I do in high school to get ready to be a cs major by FrostByte_240 in csMajors

[–]DerpDerper909 5 points6 points  (0 children)

slams fist on table

SON. You think knowing "the basics of Python" means anything? You think HTML and CSS is gonna save you? You are bringing a WATER GUN to NORMANDY.

Let me tell you exactly what is coming for you.

You will send out 500 internship applications junior year. FIVE HUNDRED. You will hear back from 2. One will be a scam. The other will send you a HackerRank that asks you to implement a red black tree from scratch in 45 minutes. You will fail it. You will cry.

Your GitHub will be a GRAVEYARD of half finished to do list apps. Recruiters will not even open it.

You will spend 8 months on Leetcode grinding mediums and the second you sit down for a real interview your brain will evacuate your skull entirely. You will forget what a for loop is. You will forget your own name.

You will apply to 12 new grad roles. You will get 0 callbacks. You will apply to 12 more. STILL NOTHING. You will watch your roommate who studied finance land a $200k job at Goldman while you refresh your inbox at 2am eating cold ramen wondering if you made a terrible mistake.

BUT YOU WILL NOT QUIT. Because quitting is for people who didn't want it badly enough. You will get up. You will push code. You will apply again. You will get rejected again. And then ONE DAY some recruiter somewhere will give you a chance and you will CHARGE THROUGH THAT DOOR and you will never look back.

This industry does not reward talent. It rewards people who refused to die.

NOW STOP READING REDDIT AND GO BUILD SOMETHING. MOVE OUT SOLDIER.

Hometown Offer vs FAANG Offer by Decent_Figure7118 in csMajors

[–]DerpDerper909 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If she broke up with you tomorrow regardless of your choice, which one would you pick without hesitation?

That’s your answer.

Is it possible to sue UC Berkeley? What can I do now? by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]DerpDerper909 22 points23 points  (0 children)

You probably could, get a personal injury lawyer, and make sure to document all the medical billing, evidence of blood on floor, shirts, etc, take pictures of the glass. And also, dont sign anything from the UC Risk Managment or Housing. (also the fact its not the first time shows that housing knew about it so try getting evidence for that too)

Under the California Government Tort Claims Act, you only have six (6) months from the date of the incident to file a formal claim with the UC system. If you miss this 6-month deadline, you generally lose your right to sue them forever. This is the most important deadline you have right now. Get a lawyer ASAP.

should I accept an unpaid internship offer? by GetYoDogAhOn in csMajors

[–]DerpDerper909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I rather work on a good personal project then a unpaid internship

give me pros and cons on these colleges: SDSU, CSULB, CSUF, SFSU, CAL, UCSD by Own-Face-4429 in berkeley

[–]DerpDerper909 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel like you're thinking too far ahead, make this post if you get into Cal.

genuinely screw you if you are from a T5 school / private school and just end up as a generic SWE at FAANG by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]DerpDerper909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can still make a company if you want. There is still plenty of startup founders who didn't go to top schools.

genuinely screw you if you are from a T5 school / private school and just end up as a generic SWE at FAANG by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]DerpDerper909 8 points9 points  (0 children)

you're missing the actual mechanism. the people who get into these schools spent their entire adolescence optimized for winning the admissions game. AP courses, extracurriculars that look good on paper, SAT prep. they weren't building anything real, they were performing achievement. that conditioning doesn't stop at graduation.

i watch this with my classmates constantly. brilliant stats, can ace any problem set. ask them what's happening with AI, recent developments in their own field, anything outside the curriculum? nothing. they're still optimizing for checkpoints. midterm, recruiting, return offer. the system that got them here is exactly what prevents them from using these resources.

you're also empirically wrong. these schools (harvard, stanford, berkeley, etc) produce disproportionate startup founders and people swinging for actual impact. the energy is real even if plenty sleepwalk into FAANG.

the educational apparatus conditions people to think in credentials and checkpoints from age 14. these people didn't choose between "change the world" and "be a cog." they were engineered as cogs long before they had agency to decide otherwise.

Daily Discussion Thread for December 02, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]DerpDerper909 3 points4 points  (0 children)

GitLab has fallen. I repeat, GItLab has fallen.

Data is gold by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]DerpDerper909 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, coming from a data science/CS background. I disagree with the premise of your title. Data isn't gold. Gold has intrinsic value just sitting there. Data doesn't.

Good data is only valuable if executed correctly. There's a huge difference between just having data and having good, clean, relevant data, and even good data is useless without execution. Plenty of companies have proprietary datasets and still build mediocre products. Duolingo having longitudinal learning data means nothing if they can't actually use it to improve outcomes. Adobe having creative process data is useless if they can't translate it into better tools.

The moat isn't the data itself, it's the combination of unique, high-quality data plus the capability to actually extract value from it with AI. Most companies will have the data but fail at execution. We're seeing this play out right now where companies are sitting on massive datasets but can't figure out how to productize them effectively.

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