I think this hits the nail on the head. Obviously a lot of the participants in this discussion are programmers, so there is going to be a fair amount of bias where people feel like their self-worth is being attacked/devalued. That being said, from a company perspective, this should much more unlock "moving faster" than "let's rest on our laurels". Any company that has a leading position in a particular industry is currently at greater risk of upstarts achieving their feature set in a reduced amount of time. The incentive for all companies will be to find programmers who are skilled in directing and debugging AIs.
I am currently building an iOS app using GPT-4 (I don't know Swift), and am developing an awareness of what it can/can't do, and surprised that I'm moving at the speed I did when creating React Native apps. In a possibly more competitive future market for developers, it does work in one's favour if some developers resist the efficiency improvements of AI.
This does sound like a test that is almost "set up to fail" for an LLM. If the answer is something that most people think they know, but actually don't then it won't pass in an LLM which is essentially a distillation of the common view.
They're probably referring to this photo [0]. This effect was actually due to the fact they were on the spacecraft in motion, but it's apparently possible to have an earthrise near the edges of the Earth-visible portion of the moon, because the Moon isn't completely stationary relative to earth:
> Because the Moon is tidally locked with the Earth, one side of the Moon always faces toward Earth. Interpretation of this fact would lead one to believe that the Earth's position is fixed on the lunar sky and no earthrises can occur; however, the Moon librates slightly, which causes the Earth to draw a Lissajous figure on the sky. This figure fits inside a rectangle 15°48' wide and 13°20' high (in angular dimensions), while the angular diameter of the Earth as seen from Moon is only about 2°. This means that earthrises are visible near the edge of the Earth-observable surface of the Moon (about 20% of the surface). Since a full libration cycle takes about 27 days, earthrises are very slow, and it takes about 48 hours for Earth to clear its diameter.
Kim Stanly Robinson also hits on this in Red Moon. Someone is emotionally invested in having a particular plot of moon where the earth peeks out through a gap in a crater wall during the wobble.
Sure, in the sense that the Earth can never leave a small fixed area of the sky, that area of the sky generally doesn't include the horizon, and the Earth cannot be seen to move at all except over very long periods of time.
In other words, not only are they not the same, they are not similar in any way, nor is "rise" an applicable term.
One of my favourite books is Huysman’s Against Nature, where the anti-hero protagonist has a fascination with these paintings. Oscar Wilde used that book as the inspiration for the book that corrupts Dorian in The Picture of Dorian Grey. Against Nature is a short, but fascinating read. Would recommend!
I’ve wanted to build one for a while, I’m a web dev by trade so a side-project is a good time to try out some new tech.
Secondly, I love the web but I find it’s revenue models a bit too indirect, e.g. advertising. People are simply more likely to set up a subscription for an app rather than a website. And I really didn’t want to monetise it via ads.
The json files loading on the site is actually just Next.js preloading the content for instant page transitions.
The site is mainly used for sharing poems with people who don’t yet have the app installed. I’m intentionally keeping the app a first class citizen as that’s just what I wanted to do with this project.
1. Account creation isn’t actually necessary, if a user wants to back up their saved poems they can just use iCloud to sync them.
2. The subscription largely provides full access to all curated poems. It felt like the most appropriate thing to make part of the pro plan. I didn’t want to take anything away from users who had installed the app before the pro plan was introduced, so they have been automatically added to it for free.
Congrats on the launch! I’m interested in using this app as I’ve also been looking for something like this and your implementation is very sleek. Regarding the subscription, do you have plans for future pro-only features?
For anyone looking to explore poetry a bit further, I did create an app for this purpose. The design, development and curation of the app is all done by me. It’s a react native app which I actually find hugely rewarding to work on (it provides me with a sense of purpose that my day job lacks).
Anyway, exploring poetry has been fascinating and I truly urge anyone to do so if they have an interest in it. It’s never time wasted.
> According to a report published by the National Audit Office, just over 1 percent of COVID-19 contracts worth $24bn awarded to suppliers between March and July last year, were awarded using a competitive process.
So when death rates were rising exponentially and the world was trying to make sense of covid, it's a bad thing that regulatory red tape was cut? I personally would like to see a crackdown of corruption in UK politics, but this seems like a really weak argument.
The problem is more who they were awarded to rather than the process. Having a “VIP lane” for friends, family, and donors is about as corrupt as it gets.
The issue at hand is that the UK government (or at least some people within it) seems to have been happy to use this as a pretext for awarding huge procurement contracts to personal friends and donors without any oversight or transparency as to how these descisions were made. See for instance this politico story from today: https://www.politico.eu/article/conservative-uk-ppe-contract...
You can also mention how companies encourage disloyalty by paying new starters significantly more than existing employees. I’ve seen great people working hard towards a promotion, putting in the hours, playing everything right - only to be passed over for a promotion due to management politics and a boss that was looking out more for herself than her team. Meanwhile, another employee simply just left and walked into another job with a £25k pay increase. As long as companies continue to be myopic with regards to salaries, it incentivises people to jump ship every couple of years.
Probably better off responding more along the lines of:
I bring a wide array of industry experience, that you'll benefit from. I'm hoping for a longer term engagement, but even if it's a shorter one, I typically leave them better than I found them.
In your own words, ofcourse.
P.S. I suspect your statement will get you rejected from companies that know they have the same problem but can't fix it. If you don't need a job, be as honest as you want, if you do, you're better off going with the positive spin.
Yup, this. We took temporary pay cuts last year, which was more or less understandable, business was down. But I did a couple of interview rounds and got offers that were 15-20% above my pre-cut salary. And people were shocked that I was leaving.
I am currently building an iOS app using GPT-4 (I don't know Swift), and am developing an awareness of what it can/can't do, and surprised that I'm moving at the speed I did when creating React Native apps. In a possibly more competitive future market for developers, it does work in one's favour if some developers resist the efficiency improvements of AI.