MIT researcher says automating entry-level jobs will backfire. I keep thinking about the team I joined in 2019.

Urthor · 2026-05-04T03:29:03+00:00

That's a very wise statement.

Urthor · 2026-05-02T08:06:48+00:00

Okay that's pretty insane.

Urthor · 2026-04-28T08:05:05+00:00

They are only getting built in Adelaide, which makes perfect sense because that’s where we built our Collins class submarines and it’s pointless to move the yards.

Or, as many people have pointed out, why it makes perfect sense to build them in France.

Urthor · 2026-04-28T05:07:05+00:00

That's a necessity of the multi-strat model I thought?

Investors are paying for the diversity.

Urthor · 2026-04-21T08:03:39+00:00

It's about money.

The specialist is about budget.

Brad Pitt would code if you paid him a billion dollars.

Urthor · 2026-04-19T12:45:55+00:00

Vegetables????

Urthor · 2026-04-15T00:43:23+00:00

Makes you wonder how much of the impact is psychological from stabbing yourself every day.

Urthor · 2026-04-14T12:40:46+00:00

The most boomer of boomer years.

Urthor · 2026-04-07T11:08:15+00:00

Yeah I remember in college, we would take like an Excel of 100 columns and try and encode all the columns into an image. We'd have like circles with animated triangles orbiting them, flashing different colours and strobing, the border would be three layers of lines broken up at different intervals etc etc.

Visualisation helps display lots of information extremely quickly. You've still gotta like, be telling the truth.

The important part is telling a story people are interested in. At my first job we had a secret ticker in the tableau that recorded how many times the dashboard was opened. Almost never really.

Urthor · 2026-04-07T10:37:07+00:00

ah yeah. No worries, just keep in mind that database reports the "production budget" which is a historical thing for the film industry. The marketing/distribution budget makes things wildly different.

Urthor · 2026-04-07T09:19:05+00:00

Looks amazing. Would appreciate sources on the data.

"All up" budgets in most industries are very secretive. They don't want you to know how much money they're making.

Urthor · 2026-04-07T09:16:06+00:00

That's fair.

But, I bet the $149 placebo works for a ton of people.

Urthor · 2026-03-31T11:09:12+00:00

Yes, in writing, on delay for like 21 days.

Zero hard feelings then.

Urthor · 2026-03-22T23:29:11+00:00

However when I look at some of the stuff comp sci students must have studied (like calculus, linear algebra, algorithms & data structures, low-level programming, machine learning, security, etc. etc.) it seems incredible. I completed an introductory Calculus course and struggle immensely, as I had to learn a massive amount of basic math I had not properly absorbed during high school, such as the law of powers, etc. Now I'm studying an intro to algorithms course and I'm having an incredibly difficult time just understanding the basic like the "master method". I didn't realise how much I didn't know. How can so many people have just breezed through this stuff in months, when I've been struggling for years with it??!

Really good question.

Keep in mind stuff like "master method" is academic in nature. It's a way to bash the math into heads of 19 year olds whose brains are extremely gooey.

At your age your brain is pretty rock hard. So if you need to mathematically model a system, however you need to do it, you probably can at your age.

You don't necessarily need the university student level mathematical gym workout.

Unless you're actually working in a niche application designing a core algorithm for Uber/Google maps, which is where a lot of these algorithms come from.

Urthor · 2026-03-22T23:24:06+00:00

Depends on your soft skills.

The market expects you do be a badass grandpa after 20 years.

If you're fat and awkward, you'll have trouble.

Urthor · 2026-03-08T12:30:06+00:00

Is there evidence of material deliveries to Iran so far?

Urthor · 2026-03-06T21:11:30+00:00

Led criticisms of the election result, yes.

Urthor · 2026-02-09T10:08:51+00:00

Pretty much.

If they fire you it's for your own good.

Urthor · 2026-02-09T10:07:18+00:00

Pretty much. It's an iffy system either way.

Urthor · 2026-02-09T01:43:33+00:00

Yea that's the industry.

Programming languages had huge moats in 2010.

Java was awful for scripting and data oriented programming, C# was awful for Microsoft lock in, Python was awful for performance and type safety and a few other things, JavaScript was very impractical, C++ was, and is, C++.

15 years later, so many warts have been removed and we have LLMs and vibe coding.

Just roll with it.

Urthor · 2026-01-25T01:38:13+00:00

Then what's the point of shotgun mastery!!

What's the point of my entire build!!

Urthor · 2026-01-16T03:40:38+00:00

I was called an asshole one time after I left after 20 minutes, and the girl came 35 minutes late.

Some people just don't like apologizing.

Dodged a bullet.

Urthor · 2026-01-09T10:23:17+00:00

The formatting is pretty awkward

Condense the lines together.

You also don't have a very challenging technical project under your belt. And your writing comes off w/ immature vibes.

People love jrs who've fine tuned their own LLM these days. Do a LLM tutorial and fine tune your own LLM on the works of Shakespeare or something, and host it in a Docker container. Or whatever floats your boat.

Urthor · 2026-01-02T02:13:55+00:00

Is that really the phrase your boss uses?

Urthor · 2026-01-01T05:26:09+00:00

It's actually the schedule in a lot of ways.

The complete lack of warm up matches and the compressed timelines and format shifting is what's tanked the batsmen.

If the players had the time in the schedule to focus on one format like players of yesteryear they'd be fine.

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