Yea no mention of the layoffs the past couple of years although this blog post was published today. Satire? Fluff piece? Or maybe an advertisement for cursor and copilot??
Article supposedly published by a CS professor but if I had published something like this in uni I feel I may have gotten laughed at.
As per the topic,
I could see software jobs increasing in total number due to the emergence of machine learning jobs but to generalize and say the demand is as strong as ever is a little disingenuous especially when ever other CEO claims ai will and has already reduced the workforce
Maybe I'm just a bad dev but I'm baffled how they charge $46k for "29 features" and $56k for "43 features"... Straight up guestimations and magic numbers
but then again they also highlight how you don't have to know anything about tech to use them, so I'm sure setting "fixed pricing" for a fixed number of "features" is a great way to snake oil salesman potential customers
I’m not getting into angels and pinheads, but modern ML has the ability to perform “fuzzy analysis,” and interpret results in a far more flexible manner, than ever before.
They may not be able to match an MIT Ph.D, at analyzing experimental feedback, but they can probably match a lot of research assistants.
It’s like having a billion RAs, all running experiments, and triaging the results. I understand that is how they have made such good progress on medicines, with AI.
> “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
The CPU/GPU is to an LLM kinda like axons and dendrites are to the human brain: just a low-level implementation detail. The main crux of an LLM is what happens at a higher level.
The machine-level instructions being executed are just matrix multiplications. Billions of them. The complexity of LLM behavior is emergent from that.
Could be anything from network to plain marketing and SEO.
I'm assuming the lack of new users is due more towards the marketing and search engine optimization of the new international site.
If a forum has very little posts to begin with or active users it may scare away new registrations. That could be the problem.
Another (personally) more glaring issue is the major differences in domain names. I would be afraid that they are not associated with one another and may distrust the international site altogether.
I'd recommend putting the English site under a "subdomain", such as:
en.administrator.de
That change should also improve your SEO I'd assume.
Thank you in advance for your reply. We have already tried the subdomain 'en.administrator.de', but Google doesn't like it when English content is hosted under a .de domain. I can also rule out the network, etc. It can't really be SEO as the administrator.de site runs on the same portal software and SEO works well there. We've checked it with tools and, apart from a few minor issues, there's not much to complain about. My concerns are more about the texts or the workflow. Maybe our German way of describing things to users is different from the international way. Maybe we need to do it differently. But how? I'd be grateful for any tips or ideas.
Would you register if you visited our website? If not, why not? We would like to know and it could help us.
These are only my personal opinions and they may not be widely applicable, but...
The domain name "rootdb.com" makes it sound like the site is about databases. That's not a topic that I find particularly interesting, so I would have assumed that it's not for me from the start and probably would not have gone there.
I'm not a big fan of the organization of the site. When I first looked there, it was a jumble of miscellaneous topics. It wasn't even clear to me that it was a "forum" in the sense that I'm used to. (Still isn't, to be honest, but I probably missed something). Clicking on the forum link takes me to a search form. Since I'm new and not looking to search for anything, that isn't really helpful to me. I could be misunderstanding the purpose of this site, so forgive me if this is not a helpful thing, but what I'd love to see is the ability to browse by section with the posts in reverse chronological order. Being able to turn off the thumbnail images would be a bonus.
> Would you register if you visited our website? If not, why not?
I wouldn't unless I found myself using the site pretty frequently for a while first. Registration is a very big ask and I won't do it unless there's a very big reason to.
> .. but what I'd love to see is the ability to browse by section with the posts in reverse chronological order.
Just a quick question: When you click on a topic under 'Forums', the latest posts are displayed. Am I correct in understanding that you want the latest posts to appear at the bottom (in reverse chronological order)?
> When I first looked there, it was a jumble of miscellaneous topics.
Well, this is an overview of all new posts in all topics. As we are a general IT forum, there are naturally a lot of topics. In general, the whole page is 'the forum' with different views (with topic images, ticker, stream).
> ..being able to turn off the thumbnail images would be a bonus.
That's what the ticker view is for. It shows the latest posts without thumbnails. As I said, we work with many different views to satisfy all users.
> The domain name "rootdb.com" makes it sound like the site is about databases.
It should be a bit like imdb.com, a database full of IT knowledge - not the database itself (although we do have that as a topic).
But that's what I meant by good feedback. Here in Germany we've had very positive feedback about the organisation. Internationally it seems to be different. Interesting, and thank you very much. I look forward to more feedback.
> When you click on a topic under 'Forums', the latest posts are displayed. Am I correct in understanding that you want the latest posts to appear at the bottom (in reverse chronological order)?
No, I prefer it the way you have it. Newest at the top. There's ambiguity that I didn't realize here: to me, "chronological order" means oldest to newest (how time runs), and "reverse chronological order" means newest to oldest (timeline running backwards).
Although the article focuses on amateur athletes, i doubt it hasn't hit the pros yet in some way.
Not the first article I've read preaching good Testomonies/anecdotes on ozempic and the like either
I'm still wary about major side effects but rarely do I hear of them... maybe deep down inside I want there to be some because i simply cant believe a drug is this revolutionary
The majority of studies on the long term side effects have so far been with diabetic patients who tend to have better maintained diets. It’ll probably work even better with athletes who have good diets and all that exercise.
The anecdotal reports coming from some sources like plastic surgeons (they specifically were talking about skin and muscle elasticity) may signal some discovery coming down the pipeline for the average person who takes Ozempiv without improving their diet to account for the protein deficit.
Especially when you don't know if the feedback given to you is legit or not (copy pasta, ai summarized, or in this case, tech "word salad" to recommend it should be open source)
Release if and whenever you want. Revoke access, "delete" the repo, do a complete rewrite that never ends up in prod, YOU decide.
Have a great day and best of luck (someone not interested at this exact moment to review your GitHub project but enough to reply to this thread - maybe I stumble across your next Show HN though and I hear your elevator pitch).
Luckily I use my phone for most tasks and can avoid my two remaining windows machines unless necessary.
Also I doubt it's just me but every other day when Windows forces an update "restart and update/shutdown and update", upon restarting I am again prompted by Microsofts dark patterns for all the telemetry, defaulted to ON (location, biometrics, etc).
Literally every second update windows wants to re ask me and I have to either select "skip for 3 days" (comical) or walk through each step and toggle each one off...
Unfortunately Microsoft no longer innovates and can only continue to try to data mine but they are fighting a losing battle.
At this point revenge may be best to just use a cracked windows install on a VM using a dummy email. You want telemetry, have at it ;)
The grass isn't greener. With the amount of advertising, tracking, and upselling on iOS and Android, our smartphones are significantly worse than Windows 11.
Completely anecdotal, current student, but some people learn differently from in person class vs online/remote. Also, imo not every degree/course is best done online (e.g., trades, arts, performing arts). Right now I am taking classes which cannot be done online.
I do however understand where you are coming from. MIT courseware is abundant, youtube, library resources, github `awesome` lists...
If there wasn't bureaucracy/capitalism surrounding higher education i wouldn't mind it coming from tax dollars since it would be another log added to the fire per se. Plus it helps to create a stronger workforce (theoretically, assuming graduates). Without the right safeguards, free college edu wouldn't work, would be nice tho
