As a YC backed college drop-out, I think there is enormous character development value in a college education. It is a great segue into real/high-value commercial endeavors. It teaches you so much more than "something practical". It's not about the formal pedagogy per-se, but the community and learning to navigate it.
> I think there is enormous character development value in a college education. It is a great segue into real/high-value commercial endeavors.
It's a great segue into real/high-value commercial endeavors if you're lucky. For others not so fortunate, they graduate into a Starbucks barista role.
Well, using Barista as a proxy for any job that a keymasher might regard as "nothing wrong with it as a waypoint", I guess a person might feel shame after long periods of time trying to get out of that waypoint, and not being able to because they're losing ground to recent graduates and the regular churn of the market looking for people with "more experience".
So yeah, I can see how someone would feel shame in that even if they didn't publicly admit it. An interesting question for you from here is, what do you think about the people who are in "nothing wrong with it as a waypoint" jobs?
> The job is but one dimension of life, and it's really not my task to judge anyone based solely upon their waypoint of the moment.
You're not engaging with the real and acute problem of, 1) keypusher gets to look at barista and say "oof, no medical insurance, no investments, living paycheck to paycheck" must be their waypoint, hopefully at 10 years deep into that barista career they get their break as a senior ruby engineer, good thing they were "just at a waypoint"
2). > What else are they doing? Do they have goals? Are they socially connected and building up those around them?
Are they healthy? Have they been able to maintain the same level of fitness as someone who works 4 hours a week writing internal tooling vs dodging traffic and dealing with an equally financially unstable manager screwing their ability to pay rent the next week?
By what rule am I engaging? It sounds as though there is a hierarchy on offer here, based upon salary/benefits, no?
The point I'm after here is that, while salary/benefits are a relatively straightforward metric, they are not the only metric.
Do we have rules of thumb by which we come to an initial evaluation of situations? Of course we do. But let us leave a little wiggle room and not close the case until the whole situation is understood, say I.
Humans are bad at driving. I do not want an automated system to be a substitute, I want it to be vastly superior and safer. 40,000 people die each year in car accidents in the United States. I expect an autonomous system to be ZERO deaths a year. Getting there will absolutely require more robust systems than what humans come equipped with.
I think he cut the sensors because he's so used to Muntzing — save money by cutting stuff until something fails and then putting it back — being a winning strategy.
That Musk is surrounded by sycophants means that Muntzing is now not going to work in general, because so many people will tell him that everything's fine even when it isn't. Only SpaceX can get past that, because RUDs are impossible to miss.
I understand you don’t like Musk. But regardless of that -
vision vs sensors. Isn’t it about shaving costs to make a mass produced car that’s attainable by more people due to lower costs and easier manufacturing?
When considering engineering, manufacturing, and cost only - I understand why it is why it is right now. Even the current Tesla Vision FSD today is amazing. Agree that I’d love to see sensors in the future as long as it doesn’t price me out.
Musk is complicated. I recognise he has done interesting things, my personal feelings to not detract from that. Even my very claim that he is used to Muntzing being a winning strategy is because (as I understand it) it did genuinely help to make the early Tesla models into products that were simultaneously affordable and not loss-making.
As for price, LIDAR has been built into high-end smartphones since at least the iPhone 12 Pro — 4.5 years ago. When LIDAR was new it made sense to avoid it, but I don't think that argument has been viable for a while now.
There's also the loss of ultrasonic sensors, which are cheap enough to be in budget teach-kids-electronics kits.
This seems really interesting. I'm curious how this compares to fully automated EHRs similar to what Modernizing Medicine has built for Dermatology practices. Also there's a startup called DayDental which does RCM, for dental practices. Additionally, are you planning on integrating with large EHRs like Epic/Cerner, or is this for smaller EHRs like SimplePractice?
I appreciate the interest! We love the efforts at the federal level and by other tech companies to modernize healthcare. We see AI agents as the next step in this evolution—where nearly all back-office needs can be productized into AI, enabling Cenote to provide every clinic with a best-in-class back-office team.
To your latter question, we’ve spoken with many hospital networks using Epic that would benefit significantly from our software. However, integrating with larger EHRs is notoriously labor-intensive, so for now, we’re prioritizing more accessible clinics.
Large hospital systems with EPIC can often get near-instant insurance approvals. Interestingly, they’ve done this without using AI.
A few examples are Cleveland Clinic which has instant approvals for a wide variety of specialties with most of the insurances they’re panelled on. For another example, OhioHealth had both instant approvals and instant copayment/deductible estimates at the point of service back in… 2013 (at least with Medical Mutual).
Back office workers are skilled workers who often know how to do things like navigate an insurer who denies things they shouldn’t be denying. How is an automated system going to do that?
Same with my doctor/hospital system as well. They use Epic. I will request an appointment, and I know within a minute of clicking accept that insurance has accepted the appointment, and how much I will owe.
Only once did I not get approved (for a sleep study), so I called the doctor's office, and they got me approved within a couple more minutes after pushing something else, and I got a new estimate in my portal and via text letting me know it was covered.
If the insurance kicked back that appointment and some AI was responsible for getting it approved on the doctor end (AI is definitely used on the insurance end), who do I call?
I'm all for AI helping you out, possibly extracting useful information from paper forms, but we haven't used paper forms in a LONG time.
I'm not a doctor, but my wife is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she's tried at my insistence to use some of the AI software for her practice, and it all falls flat to the point she will not try anymore and has sworn off AI completely. She doesn't use Siri, her browser blocks the google AI results, and most of her research is in her medical books anyway.
I know this is __so___ off topic, but the $ goes in front of the value for USD. It should be $500. Again, again, I know read the room, there's a tragic war going on, and the US is becoming complicit in the tragedy. But if we don't have time to be pedantic about monetary symbols then what good is the freedom we still possess.
Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.
I think the general rule is that in English the currency symbol for the primary currency goes in front of the number, while the symbol for a subunit (pence, cents, etc) goes after the number.
Interesting. However, most of the world follows US-GAAP, so the global de-facto is $, for USD, to go in front of the numeric value. I learned that from this __very__ good introduction to understanding financing instruments called "Pricing Money" https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money...
People are downvoting this, but I'm always suspicious of comments online that imply they are from the US but mess up simple details that no native US user would mess up.
I dunno, a friend of mine does this, and she's a naive born American (and so are her parents). English is her only language. She knows it's "wrong", but just likes it better.
MathAcademy really is fantastic. I've done 5300 xp so far (80+ hours), and am almost finished with their Math for Machine Learning. It's remediated a lot of things I've struggled with during my University ML classes. Seriously a wonderful pedagogical experience. I can integrate multivariate functions easily, know all my derivative trig identities, and I don't get confused by continuous random variables any more.
I think Math for ML is __fantastic__. And based on the curriculum Jason has published for ML, it seems very __very__ promising. I've done a fair bit of ML @ Cornell, so I've had exposure to a lot of the material he plans on covering. However, I glossed over a lot of the theory because some weakness in my math. I feel like this has been remediated with M4ML and ML should expand and solidify my understanding.
Edit: Wrt to computer graphics, going through M4ML and the ML sequence will really help you understand what's happening there. Convolutional Neural Nets, Gaussian Splatting, all rely on these same principles.
Is there another ML course besides Math for ML? If so can you share a link
I just started going through Math for ML and can also attest, it is amazing. Pedagogically revolutionary, and helping me fix up all sorts of gaps in my math background.
they do. in a ways, 90% of computer graphics is linear algebra and multivariate calculus. both are subjects you will find in mathacademy. once you learn those two, I recommend Peter shirley's book for a lesson on how to apply what you learned to computer graphics. https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Computer-Graphics-Steve-...
It’s just ok. Certainly better than watching some random yt videos or passively reading a tb. For context I did ~11k pts to finish M4ML. It’s a little frustrating to see them chase the money and make ML/programming courses while the core differentiator (lesson quality) is still lacking in the later math topics. There are persistent issues that annoyed me so much that by the end it was like pulling teeth go grind out the points every day.
It has you overfit on the style of questions they ask, and I never felt like I got a good grasp of lots of the later topics despite passing my reviews and quizzes no problem.
Can you go into more detail about your experience it’s difficult to find negative or critical reviews of MathAcademy. (Well except reviews in the same vein as Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament [1])
I’m taking their Math Foundations 2 now. So far my only two complaints are:
1. Everything feels like a random grab bag of “tricks”. There isn’t a coherent presentation of why this works or why it’s important.
2. Geometry lessons just suck. I don’t blame MathAcademy for this, since they basically follow what would be considered standard American high school geometry curriculum. But after having gone through Euclid’s Elements, everything here just feels empty by comparison.
Overall I’m still very happy with the product. They do largely deliver on their promises.
It __does__ matter. Pointing out that somebody is flagrantly and openly defying their oath to the constitution is important. It’s important to note that we are no longer a liberal democracy. It is important to call out the fact our republic has ended.
"I expect that you will eventually find somebody who is foolish enough or enough of a coward to file your motion, but it was never going to be me." - SDNY Prosecutor resigning after being asked to drop the Eric Adams corruption case. The people who would push back are resigning as their last resort. Soon anybody who has any sense of fidelity to the rule of law or the constitution will be removed from power.
Not everyone has the appetite for litigation. It can be expensive in cash, time, and relationships. Anyone supporting a family will need to consider the effect it will have on the family. We aren't all brave enough to fight against such a powerful adversary even if no one else would be negatively affected by doing it.
Of course population level passivity in the end allows the adversary to win but it's hard to be the first to stand on the front line.
Litigation is absolutely horrible. There is a reason they say "you can't fight city hall."
The gov will burn itself down to fight you in court. They generally don't like to settle because losing just means they may have to raise taxes or insurance premiums. No gov attorney is likely to actually lose their job because they fought too long or hard and lost.
Very common. This often stops the amount being put in the court records, but having settled one recently I think it is hard to hide these payouts from an informed, determined member of the public.
For instance, my settlement had to go through the financial committee of the county. Which means the lawsuit was scheduled as a line item in a televised public debate. Also, you could at least FOIA the bank records to a degree and reverse-engineer any payouts.
A properly scathing resignation letter catches media attention better than anything you say after being fired, which would be interpreted by many as whining.
