I've seen a B player on my team turn into an A player in just the last couple of months

But I do agree with you about the C thing, if youre a C you need to move immediately to at least a B, otherwise leave

Extract with sound waves is an interesting idea, but dont romanticize demand that doesnt exist, it wrecks credibility, literally in the first sentence of the article

We have benchmarks on our domain and it does there are models that are 2x to 10x cheaper for a small drop in percentage points in accuracy

It's worse than this, it's more like our thinking. There's already plummetting math grades [1], handing over our thinking to AI megacorps where there's likely to be a monopoly or duopoly is an incredibly dangerous thing for humanity as a whole.

[1] https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grade...

I would suggest you do some internal reflection and very honest introspection to find the root cause of your dissatisfaction - are you not doing your projects because some other vice is getting in the way? Or maybe the answer is you just need rest and theres only so many hours in the day.

The addition of that last word is the difference between the chance at eventual success and the human burning out on world peace, time machines, free energy devices.

We were getting some 30-40 applications a day when we were at peak search, and when you get so many, after a few weeks, you start looking for anomalies, show me some glint of greatness, a spark of wit, evidence of original thought, something to show youre not just pasting slop or ticking boxes.

The candidate on the other side of this might say "but theres so many applications to do, I cant do that for every one" and maybe thats the crux, the candidate who puts in the extra effort to stand out will win, and thats the purpose of these questions.

During the normal course of Whitehouse communication I would expect that a review of the visual style, the messaging tone, and the overall professional style of communication would set the bar for the standard that institution represents.

This feels like a dorky intern, prompted an LLM and kept saying "make it scarier" until this garbage showed up, and then it was fast tracked to an 80 year old president who is stretched so thin physically and cognitively that his judgemrnt is impaired to the point where this campy, whacky, garbage seems like a good idea

Also I said "intermediate and junior" engineers - meaning INexperienced engineers, not experienced ones, so you quoted me wrong in that part too.

Where did I say that? You just pulled that out of nowhere and then refuted it - strawman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Rsync for people who just want a folder and it automatically shows up on all of their computers and phones at once. Rsync for people who are never going to use rsync because an ancient command line application with a zillion flags on it is just about as user hostile as you can get.

Is there a bunch of tech geeks who can rsync themselves? Of course there are, and this product absolutely, categorically and unambiguously isnt for them. But guess what? There's 100,000,000 people who both want their folders synced and have no idea how to use rsync (and dont want to). Thats what they are building, and that's who its for, and thats why the have 2.5 billion in annual revenue. Because they famously ignored the "iTs jUsT rSYnC" crowd, and built a product that actually works for 100 million people

The algorithm engineer is so in love with the idea that an algorithm is the solution to everyone's problem (its a natural human bias to think the world desires what we have) that they way overweigh the importance of route planning improvements which are incremental or worse - would be thrown away because the practicalities of implementation doesn't warrant the marginal improvements.

I have a 15 GPU cluster in my house just so I can study HEAs - but I understand thats out of budget for a hobbiest so that's why I recommend you start with simpler systems and slowly increase complexity.

You might see various datasets for HEA, HEA property prediction, and synthesis predictors, but cold hard truth of the matter is that the quantum interactions at the interatomic level are so complex, the configuration space youre searching is so massive, that no dataset is going to make a dent in it, so models are only really useful as VERY VERY VERY approximate screening tools (sometimes) - and thats not even talking about micro-scale phenomena and macroscale phenomena - which are enormous subjects on their own and just as important!

You must simulate all of these, you can't just do a Microsoft Mattergen that spits out an idealized crystal structure at 0 Kelvin, because in the real world, thats barely the first step.