NB:This may not be a word-for-word transcript. Bartleby: What Makes a Good Office Perk? Something that an employer can cut and that an employee really values When companies tighten their belts, they look first to discretionary spending. ...
Go meta. Step outside what you’re writing and be self-aware. “Sarah, this is an email where I tell you what I heard and you tell me if I’m headed in the right direction. Don’t be too polite with your feedback. I can take it.” Tell em. Tell em what you told em. (...
“If we don’t respect people’s good faith attempts to disseminate technology [it makes it] harder for people to release things.” Irrespective of the strength of open or closed models of AI dissemination, Biderman notes that the leak is likely harmful in terms of reducing trust between comp...
That they’re not giving me the experience that makes them the most money, but the one that’s best for me. David George: That’s the experience today, right? It’s a very different world. Andrew Bosworth: It is. But you can already see the beginning of it. Some companies are ...
Fine-tuning generative models to learn the nuances of what makes a business unique may prove too difficult, running such computationally intensive models may prove too costly, and an inadvertent exposure of trade secrets may scare companies away. Or it all may happen but at a slower pace than ...
The instinctive assumption—that something in the environment must be causing a dramatic rise—is misleading. The increase is not in actual incidence but in diagnosis. This is due to broader diagnostic criteria, better screening tools, increased awareness, and a shift in the kinds of children ...
If the metaskill “Creativity” is on the high level, you can understand where you need creativity (and you’ll create something unique), or where no improvements are needed. Communication. This metaskill will help you to reach mutual understanding, establish business and personal relationships, ...
Different meta-data means, importantly for static languages, different types of output objects from callee functions depending on the error, which can only be handled in an ugly fashion. But even if there's no such problem, you have to test every function call for errors. If a function didn...
While no single answer to what makes a writer has been produced, the voice of writers themselves has tended to be recorded largely through the study of individu- als rather than considering larger groups. This research project offered the interest- ing prospect of hearing from authors in the ...
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. We all must have something to love. Especially is this the case with woman, whose capacity for affection is much greater than that of man.” ...