Luiz breaks down his daily routine at MathWorks Natick
BIG TECH
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Amazon Strategy: Not Being First to Market
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Yeah could be it, but they have been at this for a while would not be surprised if they are taking the Amazon approach. NO NEED TO BE FIRST.
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Samsung’s Limited AI Potential in Smartphone Market
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Tbh i see Samsung in more of a niche as they will probably reduce their ai for settings and dos on their smartphone. I mean, would still be cool to talk natively with your smartphone for doings, but I don’t see them rival with Meta, Google or OI at all. M2cents
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Facebook Research and PyTorch Developments in AI
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You must have been living under a rock. https://
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Post-Elon X Platform Sees Surge in Obvious Bot Activity
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Why do I see *far* more obvious bots in my replies now than I did in the pre-Elon days? I don't get it.
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Tech Industry HR Practices and Employee Referral Accountability Standards
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Yep, but you’d be absolutely dumbstruck if you met someone in the U.S. or Canadian tech industry who was formally punished by the company for introducing the company to someone who was later e.g. fired, right.
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Blameless Postmortems and Senior Engineer Support Culture
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Oh making something explicit that was implicit: there do exist companies who have blameless postmortem culture whose senior engineers would not take time out of their day to console a terrified newbie. And there exist ones with blameless postmortems where seniors would.
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Engineer Retained After Systems Issue: Company Culture Matters
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“I never would have hired you into a shop that would countenance [firing an engineer for a systems issue].” might be an almost verbatim quote from that discussion. The last I checked I think he was still a staff engineer there, some years after an incident that few remember.
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Google DeepMind Releases AGI Levels Framework
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Google DeepMind just released a paper that contained their “Levels of AGI” tiers. There are 6 levels, from 0-5 where top tier is SuperHuman. According to the paper we’ve reached Level 1. Link to paper below
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US Banks Language Support Gap in Digital Banking
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A day after praising Chase for having spend tens of billions of dollars to be able to put an in-app banner to First Republic clients I am reminded that many U.S. banks believe languages spoken in the world are English and Other.