Grumpy Monoceros

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Madisonian, software engineer, and general nerd. I don't know what I'm doing here

“Almost everyone I know says they want to write a book,” he said. “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.”
A list of authors of the study linked above 1 Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Av. Dr Arnaldo 715, São Paulo 01246-904, Brazil 2 Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 3 Département de Nutrition, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 4 Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
A New York Times Live post of the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy center. It shows a picture of stacked pizza boxes on top of a truck, with the text: The crowd cheers as one of the work crew members stacks what looks to be 10 large pizzas on the bed of the truck. One worker digs in — it seems like this will be a working dinner.
Screenshot from the linked article: Another major difference is that, unlike the vast majority of Jewish Israelis, Arab citizens do not have to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the country’s military. They can still enlist, and some do, especially Druze and Circassians, but some are stigmatized in their communities as a result. Yet, not enlisting can significantly disadvantage them both socially and economically. For instance, many Israelis make important and lasting personal connections with their fellow citizens through the IDF, and they also receive many financial benefits, such as education assistance and discounted permits for building homes and owning land.
FAQ section Do these results say that AI isn't useful in software engineering? No—it seems plausible or likely that AI tools are useful in many other contexts different from our setting, for example, for less experienced developers, or for developers working in an unfamiliar codebase. See Appendix B for potential misreadings/overgeneralizations we do not endorse on the basis of our results.
Given both the importance of understanding AI capabilities/risks, and the diversity of perspectives on these topics, we feel it’s important to forestall potential misunderstandings or over-generalizations of our results. We list claims that we do not provide evidence for in Table 2. We do not provide evidence that: Clarification AI systems do not currently speed up many or most software developers We do not claim that our developers or repositories represent a majority or plurality of software development work AI systems do not speed up individuals or groups in domains other than software development We only study software development AI systems in the near future will not speed up developers in our exact setting Progress is difficult to predict, and there has been substantial AI progress over the past five years [2] There are not ways of using existing AI systems more effectively to achieve positive speedup in our exact setting Cursor does not sample many tokens from LLMs, it may not use optimal prompting/scaffolding, and domain/repository-specific training/finetuning/few-shot learning could yield positive speedup
Screenshot from a news article. Social media is simply a more appealing news source for Khanal, who says he’s turned off by the biases and political leanings of traditional news outlets. News influencers, on the other hand, are “actually connected to the people they’re getting their news for.” Khanal’s behavior is not unusual.
A screenshot from a New York Times article. It reads: "But a piecemeal network of looser regulations nationwide enabled a lone gunman with no criminal history to drive undetected across several states on his way to the city. “It feels impossible to stop something like this,” Ms. Blair said. The attack underscores the limits that even a dense web of gun safety laws and private security precautions can have in a country flooded with inexpensive weapons. Beginning last week, the gunman, Shane Devon Tamura, 27, who lived in Nevada, drove through several states, including Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa and New Jersey, before arriving in Midtown Manhattan, his BMW filled with ammunition."
A screenshot from the article containing a snippet of an all-staff email from Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. It reads: "I recognize that these changes come at a time when we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before. Our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger. The success we’re seeing currently is based on tough decisions we’ve made previously."
A fluffy cat, curled up and sleeping on a towel on a kitchen counter
A screenshot from a CBS News/YouGov survey, asking "If the Trump administration wants to deport someone rom the U.S. who is not a U.S. citizen, what should happen to that person next? That person should..." 63% of respondents said "First get a U.S. court hearing or other U.S. legal process, beore they can be deported" 37% said "Be deported, without getting a U.S. court hearing or legal process frst"
A pot of mulligawny soup on a stove
A screenshot of the New York Times main page. A news article, "Musk's Anti-Government Blitz Shakes Washington", is circled in red