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While we're at it, the new lottery class of 2021 has 2-4x the failure rate as other merit entry classes. Who would have guessed throwing random people into the deep end of pool makes them drown?
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@CommonSenseGuy4
Mostly arm chair sarcasm. If it's funny, I updoot. Pragmatism over idealogy.
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@DrCamiloOrtiz It's more important that unready students take their place and flunk out.
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Imagine how many brilliant people were denied admission to Yale over the last 6 years so that an administrator could brag to their friends that they were "dismantling power structures."
Neetu Arnold@neetu_arnold
Yale is bringing back the SATs: “SAT and ACT scores are strong predictors of a student’s future Yale academic performance”
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@caps_raunak LLM weakness is the nonstop renaming/moving website config elements in AWS, Azure, M365. So while code is great, integration answers are fairly horrible.
Go screen X, click Y, go to Z.
I can't find Y.
My bad, try D!
Not that either.
None work, deprecated in v16.3, f me.
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Bro I'm so fucking tired of this AI shit.
You spent years learning a skill, grinding your craft, and now some fucking robot trained on millions of people's stolen work just does it better in 3 seconds
And everyone's clapping like idiots "Wow so cool!!"
We're literally building the machine that's about to make us worthless and celebrating it. This isn't progress. This is suicide with extra steps.
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@marcjoffe Allowing kids to enter UCB STEM without strong calc AB/BC showing in high school is recipe for disaster. Imagine an SFUSD public freshman who is only allowed to start in Algebra 1 and finishes senior year with precalc. Cooked.
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@EscanorReloaded Lets replace our distributed workforce with a single point of failure that can increase prices 27x or more at their whim, what could go wrong?
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CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
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I signed it. The data are clear. Standardized tests are the best predictor of college success and the least biased indicator we have. Getting rid of them was incredibly foolish.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
"Current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors." Over 280 University of California STEM faculty have signed an open letter calling on the Board of Regents to reinstate standardized testing in admissions:
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@neetu_arnold Breaking: kids who suck at math and English tests also suck at college STEM that is based on, you guessed it, math and English!
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University of California STEM professors want standardized tests back due to severe math deficiencies among students:
“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle school mathematics”
“The current admissions metric, based primarily on GPA & essays, can no longer reliably distinguish readiness for university-level STEM majors in an era of severe grade inflation & AI assisted application essays”
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Hey Lisa, if you're against me because I was on a TV show in my 20's, wait til you learn what Karen Bass was doing in her 20's...
Variety@Variety
Lisa Rinna says she doesn’t want to see a reality star like Spencer Pratt as the mayor of Los Angeles: “I’m a reality person. You wouldn’t want me as mayor!” #AMAs
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@GovPressOffice Do you ever reflect on your posts and think, god we are such hypocrites? Yeah, didn't think so. Keep being the poster boy for why the Spencer Pratts of the world are going to take over.
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@OrevaZSN A browser plug-in that uses AI to detect AI and auto block. I like it.
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@Jason @beffjezos Weird, China imports 0 top athletes from the world and tied the USA in 2024 in Olympic gold medals. Just stop it with the cope. Countries can in fact be the best in the world w/o importing the world.
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@beffjezos Sports teams recruit the best of the best, globally, in order to win... the US should be no different.
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Ok, gloves off. Fuck it.
CCP wants US open borders to dissolve the US and render it dysfunctional.
FSB wants US closed borders to maximize multipolarity / break ties with allies in their backyard.
Anybody pushing for any of these extremes is a useful idiot to foreign agents.
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@DGarrettDG God, I am so tired of startup chuds who think just because they work 996 building yet another AI wrapper that they are god's given gift to the world. We care about balancing societal good over your stupid app, got it?
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they talk about "founders" like a protected class lmao
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
Honestly pretty devastating. Founders can't afford to leave the country while managing a billion dollar company. This will also affect many employees who are some of the top scientists in the world in their specialty, working on mission critical tech for the US. Sad day.
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@DavidSacks Sorry bro, the only guarantee for corporations is the requirement for increased profits. Nowhere in a board meeting does the chairman say our mission statement is to create more jobs. Just look at Meta and Cloudflare laying off 10% even with record profits.
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Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?
A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.
We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.
Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.
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the opposite is actually true.
if you look at chinese sources, they endlessly discuss the strategic implications of the recent american craze for “diversity” as a WEAKNESS. they even have a phrase for it: “社会分裂”, or “social splitting”. Chinese academics inside their elite universities who write in Chinese for PRC government audiences talk about how american diversity erodes social cohesion, lowers trust, and makes governance harder.
There are prominent academics in china who focus on the US who discuss this as a self-inflicted vulnerability… see Diao Daming (刁大明 ）at Remin University; he and others openly write about how stupid and suicidal this sort of thing is.
[see: 身份政治、党争“部落化”与2020年美国大选 （Identity Politics, the “Tribalization” of Partisan Conflict, and the 2020 US Election)]
China isn’t importing Indian engineers and “founders”. They’re sending ethnic Chinese students and researchers to US institutions and corporations, then recalling them to the motherland once they’ve learned everything they can.
And they are laughing at us.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos
Ok, gloves off. Fuck it. CCP wants US open borders to dissolve the US and render it dysfunctional. FSB wants US closed borders to maximize multipolarity / break ties with allies in their backyard. Anybody pushing for any of these extremes is a useful idiot to foreign agents.
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@romanhelmetguy The discourse on "but you'll lose out on great founders." Weird how China and Israel are able to make tremendous technical strides w/o the need to yeet a single H1B over.
The H1B scam pendulum has gone too far, and now we need to swing back hard to crush the fraud.
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>Eliminate gifted & talented programs
>Racially and sexually discriminate in college admissions and hiring
>Colleges prefer foreigners bc they can charge them more
>Companies prefer foreigners bc they can pay them less
> “Americans aren’t qualified, we need more foreigners”
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@antoniogm I buy them off FB for almost free with a busted seat piston, replace for $30 because I'm handy, and gift them to friends and family. That endless supply of 90s Aerons still giveth.
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Nobody actually buys new Aeron chairs in SF.
Every Aeron chair was created in a one-time Big Bang event during the first dotcom boom in 1999, and has been passed along from failed to new startup in an uninterrupted 30 year chain.
It’s the Law of Conservation of Aeron.
Marc Randolph@marcrandolph
One of my reliable signs that an early-stage company is in trouble: I walk in a few weeks after their seed round closes, and every employee is sitting in a $1,000 Aeron chair behind an automatic standing desk.
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@marcrandolph I'm still sitting in the same gen 1 Aeron I bought at home 20 years ago with the spin knobs for the arm pad tightness. That $900 I spent has outpaced it's utility to me. I've bought several more for family dirt cheap off FB because I can easily replace seat piston for $30.
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One of my reliable signs that an early-stage company is in trouble: I walk in a few weeks after their seed round closes, and every employee is sitting in a $1,000 Aeron chair behind an automatic standing desk.
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@gregcello I'm convinced the job of HR is reduced to sending happy Kwanza and Hannekah emails and holding useless diversity reeducation camps, because payroll, benefits, all that stuff is automated through this party vendor anyway.
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eliminating HR would make corporate America enjoyable again and might even help solve the fertility problem.
Michael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper))@PoltFan69
Gen Z boss in a bread line! Gen Z boss in a bread line!
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Everyone is trying to claim me for their tribe. There’s no R next to my name, there’s no D next to my name. I’m not part of a political party, because I hate politicians. I’m just Spencer, husband to Heidi, father to Ryker and Gunner, and I’m a pissed off Angeleno who loves my city and is fed up with what corrupt politicians have done to her.
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