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A good PM knows rejecting bad ideas is a big part of their job.

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Your real job is making your manager's manager thinks you do something useful. This has no bearing on whether you actually do something useful.

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and this is the fifth comment

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> However, I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical errors that result in incorrect billing routing.

What a claude excuse

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> The world is like a ride in an amusement park

only difference is, in real world there may be consequences that you may not be able to undo so you may have to be little careful while riding.

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I've seen some pretty janky rides at state and county fairs.

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Well, and some people are able to buy nicer seats on the ride with plush seats and air conditioning, and some people have to sit on hard backed plastic that hurts, and some people around you don’t get a seat at all and fall off and die routinely, and the ride keeps moving.

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Yea. "Life is an amusement park ride" is a pretty privileged take. If life is like an amusement park ride, there are about 500-1000 people in the world actually riding it, and the remaining 8 billion or so of us are operators, maintenance staff, concession stand workers, and groundskeepers keeping it fun for those 500-1000 riders.

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I believe the sentiment is that it’s a ride because it consists of synthetic stimulus, not because it is enjoyable.

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Do you really need to be a billionaire to feel like life is like an amusement park?

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invention of bitcoin is significant enough that world needs to know who really did it. Why is the person hiding is the real question.


Well, in few years not sure I will know how to think any more. If I am stuck on something I just ask the LLM and get the solution. While this shortcut sometimes saves me a ton of time and headaches, I miss that long route of thinking and getting to a solution myself. Maybe in future we will have gyms for brain workouts… I don’t know


But hopefully erratic behavior of such callers may actually bring some change because Karen is definitely going to complain about him once the manager asks why the fax machine is down.


this is magic. hope Spotify doesn't spot it and stop it!


> Mamba-3 is a new state space model (SSM) designed with inference efficiency as the primary goal — a departure from Mamba-2, which optimized for training speed. The key upgrades are a more expressive recurrence formula, complex-valued state tracking, and a MIMO (multi-input, multi-output) variant that boosts accuracy without slowing down decoding.

Why can’t they simply say -

Mamba-3 focuses on being faster and more efficient when making predictions, rather than just being fast to train like Mamba-2.


This is sort of what their first sentence states? Except your line implies that they are fast in training and inference, they imply they are focusing on inference and are dropping training speed for it.

It's a nice opening as it is imo


They don't say anything about dropping training speed.


> a departure from Mamba-2, which optimized for training speed.

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Yes? Mamba-2 optimized for training speed compared to Mamba-1. Mamba-3 adds optimization for inference. These are pretty much version numbers.


Agreed. What you wrote was probably the input, what we see is the LLM output with the directive to "make us sound smart, put gratuitous em-dash"


The first sentence basically does though, no?


Of course my only objection was the language. LLMs are now old enough to leave the jargon behind and talk in simple easy to understand terms.


I’d argue the opposite, the terminology is fairly mainstream by now and “inference” has a much more specific sense than “making predictions”.


The blog is technical, technical terms in the TL;DR seems relevant to me.


Found the guy who made the Windows error messages say “Your computer did an oopsie :(“ instead of including any useful information.


I don't get the downvotes, as I had trouble understanding the intro as well. It seems it was written for a very specific audience.


Yes, it is written for a specific audience.

That is not a reason for snark.

As other commenters have noted, it’s well written.


> I don't get the downvotes

Because the blog post is a technical one and the intro contains very common jargon, and the proposed alternative was wrong.


I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. As a longtime editor your version is immensely better. Looks like the original was probably not human-written.


Why would the simpler version be better for a technical audience?


> with the latest bizarre web stacks, frameworks for everything, node for this, npm for that, Angular, React, Vue, whatever - as if solving business problems just became too boring for software developers, so we decided to spend our cycles on the new hotness at every turn

I kinda feel the same way when I visit Home Depot once a year


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