It’s strictly more complicated and slower than the obvious thing to do and only exists to satisfy the abstract machine.

Iirc the work on safe transmute also involves a sort of “any bit pattern” trait?

I’ve also dealt with pain implementing similar interfaces in Rust, and it really feels like you end up jumping through a ton of hoops (and in some of my cases, hurting performance) all to satisfy the abstract machine, at no benefit to programmer or application. It’s really a case where the abstract machine cart is leading the horse

They've never been at the forefront of latency games, like Jane Street isn't the firm sweeping equity markets since they have the fastest radio network out of CME (dubious value) or getting their quotes first-in-line every time.

Is Paul's statement much different from the statement "talk is cheap"?

> How do you justify using AI for your game art? I have thought about this, and couldn't justify it. I also know that I hold on to morals almost to a stubborn degree.

different from

> How do you justify using Blender for your game art? I have thought about this, and couldn't justify it. I also know that I hold on to morals almost to a stubborn degree.

Aside from a vague implication that it is immoral to use an AI tool instead of to generate your own game art?

Most problems I see with moderns statistics aren’t of the form “ohhh, they fooled you by using a subtly wrong statistical metric to ascribe significance” but “the way the data was gathered/interpreted is fundamentally wrong and made to mislead”

It absolutely has to be something like this at a bare minimum. The whole "We pay full base" argument is nonsense when the TC is multiples of base.

This is not true in trading. If I go take my strategy/forecast and go to a competitor, I can just outright take the same opportunities that the other desk was taking (to a fairly good approximation). There's no real branding/network effect - it's a pure quality of execution business.

Yes, I very definitely made this anything remotely resembling this argument in my post.

Regardless, it would be a beyond-amazing deal for most employees if they got lifetime yearly TC from a quant firm only on the condition that they didn't work for a competitor. Mindblowingly, shockingly, amazing.

The two main issues I have with them are that firms tend to give them to just about everybody (instead of just to folks working very directly with real IP), and they only pay base salary, not something closer to actual total compensation (often multiples of the base pay).

Having said that, the quant firm is relatively unimportant and not a good reason to prevent a total noncompete law. It's probably better to just ban them then try and make allowances that aren't full of loopholes.

GPUs have taken over much of the niche where these processors excel, number crunching where you have entirely pre-determined memory / compute access patterns.

I've been around people who made legitimate good-faith efforts to diet and eat "healthy", but have no idea that "just a bowl of rice to go with it" and "I need my afternoon milk tea" and maybe another snack are like 500+ extra calories each day, that hardly even leave you full.