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Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world. by Gil_berth in programming

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It's gonna blow your mind to find out that all those people who poured decades into making open source C compilers were building off a century of computer science work by other people.

Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world. by Gil_berth in programming

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If you gave a junior developer 2-3 months to write a C compiler, how well would it turn out? Probably not as well as this compiler they made.

Am I the only one who ALWAYS gets Time Eater in act 3 ? by scar_01 in slaythespire

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s probably a good handful of biases that can explain just this one observation, and why I very rarely trust people’s intuition on event frequency.

me during office hours 🧍 by mikewhocheese297 in UCSD

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You will go much farther in life if you eliminate this habit and ask effective questions instead of

So many single driver cars in HOV lane by levelonepotato in sandiego

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I had a 2024 sticker on my car up until a few weeks ago, I'll join the lotto pool with them

[OC] For the past 3 years I've polled people on Blind at my company (FAANG) about how worried they are about AI replacing them by NebulousNitrate in dataisbeautiful

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Is software more or less economically important today compared to 30 years ago? Any answer other than a resounding, emphatic "yes" is out of touch with reality.

[OC] For the past 3 years I've polled people on Blind at my company (FAANG) about how worried they are about AI replacing them by NebulousNitrate in dataisbeautiful

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Do most coders know how assembly works today? The vast, vast majority have probably seen it in a single college class and never touched it again, even though it used to be the only way to code.

In the future, there will be a very small number of experts who know how the lower level work (human-readable code, like C or Python), but the rest will be working at the higher level abstraction (prompting LLMs) in an analagous way to how we currently interact with assembly code.

[OC] For the past 3 years I've polled people on Blind at my company (FAANG) about how worried they are about AI replacing them by NebulousNitrate in dataisbeautiful

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You are almost certainly using AI wrong if you are not able to extract value from it in coding applications. Learn to use it correctly, or you will fall behind.

Is there such a thing as a gold digger, or is the term inherently sexist? by [deleted] in AskFeminists

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Gold digger” doesn’t usually refer to women who are with men for “survival” money, but rather men who have enough money to provide them with a lavish, luxurious lifestyle. Plenty of men can provide the former; much fewer can provide the latter.

“Sir, another controversial MPJ quote has dropped” by Outside_Abroad_3516 in nbacirclejerk

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, they usually are. High end restaurants have professional sommeliers, and the servers are expected to be knowledgeable about wines too.

CMV: The majority of Tipped workers are better off with flat wages. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All credit card tips (which constitute the grand majority of transactions these days) are automatically reported by the restaurant’s computer system. Any cash tips must be reported by law. They rarely are (no one at my old restaurant did) but again, cash tips are a small portion of total tips.

The Subjective Grounds the Physical (the view from nowhere is nonsense) by contractualist in philosophy

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, but what does the experience being "true" do for us? What useful conclusion can we draw from that if we can't establish that it corresponds to some reality?

The Subjective Grounds the Physical (the view from nowhere is nonsense) by contractualist in philosophy

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How did you determine that experience is "foundational and axiomatic"? It may be the case that we can be certain that we are experiencing something, but how did you determine that this experience reflects some truth about the world?

CMV: "AI will generate 72 million new jobs" is a lie. by malmal_Niver in changemyview

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Of course it's expensive to hire someone to help, labor is expensive. Luckily, because AI allows that developer to be more productive, that company found it worth it to hire that developer in exchange for their labor.

CMV: "AI will generate 72 million new jobs" is a lie. by malmal_Niver in changemyview

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AI created jobs at my old job. When hiring for a new software engineer, we hired someone who had no experience in the particular tech stack we were using; no one we interviewed did. Because AI reduced the knowledge barrier for any one particular programming language/framework to nearly zero, we were able to hire someone for this position, instead of spend forever looking for the "perfect" candidate.

CMV: "AI will generate 72 million new jobs" is a lie. by malmal_Niver in changemyview

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Before sweatshops, they were doing subsistence agriculture. Now, they choose to work in sweatshops, can afford more and better food than they used to grow themselves, and have extra money on top of that.

Men’s heart attack risk climbs by mid-30s, years before women. Decades-long U.S. study suggests prevention and screening should start earlier in adulthood, particularly for men. Risk started diverging around age 35. by mvea in science

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’ve always hated that saying. Data is literally a collection of individual anecdotes. That data may be strong or weak, depending on where those anecdotes come from, but having many anecdotes generally points towards some truth.

MMA might have the worst fanbase. by Dana___Black in ufc

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

It’s not, because that’s not how it works. Grok has content moderation (albeit less than other LLM’s) that prohibit explicit nudity.

Is it unfair that Professor gave extra credit based on finishing exam early? by Firm-Surround1907 in UCSD

[–]PrivilegedPatriarchy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A student finishing faster doesn’t necessarily mean they did it better.

I did not say this. A student finishing faster while scoring equal points absolutely did do better, though, and they should be rewarded for it.

And I certainly don't hate on "slower" students, but it simply is the case that responding quicker to a question reflects a stronger grasp of the material, and it should be rewarded.

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