It's really helpful with MongoDB Query Language (also MQL). Document models without a rigid schema and a less intuitive API are where this stuff comes in real handy. MongoDB's GUI Compass already shipped a feature to generate queries and aggregation pipelines from natural language.
> What’s deeply frustrating is that for more than a decade Sal Khan similarly said that the videos on his “Khan Academy” would revolutionize education, and they utterly failed to do so.
How does one determine whether an edtech startup like KA has succeeded or failed? As someone who has found KA useful at times, I don't understand where the author is coming from
I recently heard someone say their favorite cure to writer's block is to read more and do research.
I found something profound about that. Writing is hard when you don't have anything to write about, and maybe there's something analogous to be said for goal setting.
As a fellow overthinker who also struggles to articulate my goals, I find it easier to think about incremental improvements than overarching goals.
For example, I want to become a better systems programmer, but I'm not really sure what to do with that desire. Goals are hard. But when I see C++ code, I know that I tremble at the sight of syntax I'm not familiar with, and that uncertainty is much easier to act on. I still won't "know" C++ in its entirety after an afternoon Googling session, but I definitely made some progress
> He refuses to engage earnestly with the “doomer” arguments. The same type of motivated reasoning could also be attributed to himself and Meta’s financial goals - it’s not a persuasive framing.
Exactly my thoughts too.
I don't agree with the Eliezer doomsday scenario either, but it's hard to be convinced by a scientist who refuses to engage in discussion about the flagged risks and instead panders to the public's fear of fear-mongering and power-seizing.
