I dont think the original series of guided meditations from the headspace founder was aimed at productivity. From what I remember, it's a pretty typical breath- and bodyscan-centered vipassana style. I can't comment on any of the subsequent instructors or lessons though, haven't tried them
I mean, he does like a good rant lol. But this seems like a bad take. The witness came out ~8 years ago, and Braid came out ~8 years before that. Braid Anniversary is launching next week, he's actively developing his language and next game (occasionally streams).
"he's just resting on his laurels now" I think is clearly wrong
GP refers to the controversy around how you should hold an iphone so it doesn't lose reception. First few versions had a receiving system which could be easily interfered with by not holding it right (shorting notches on the outer rim) if you were used to hold a phone at the top, i.e. palm at your ear (vs cheek). Jobs suggested to not do that.
Did you watch any of lifecoach's slay the spire streams? He has some very impressive win rates/streaks and is I think much more conservative with potion use than most players.
In slay the spire, both HP and Potions are limited resources, so throwing a potion to save HP is not necessarily a wise decision if you're at a low risk of overflowing your potion inventory and won't save much HP. There's also deck dependance here where you CANNOT win certain fights with your current deck without having a certain potion saved, but you CAN survive the fights until that fight without using potions with minimal to no HP lost.
The better analogy in this case is the resource gold, where it's usually a trap to pass up buying a useful item in order to save your gold for a better once since that will cost you HP on average/will increase your variance of HP loss and end runs. There's items in the game like "Maw Bank" which generate gold each floor until you spend it at a shop which tempt your monkey brain into dying halfway through the game without having visited a shop once. While saving potions for half the run happens regularly, saving gold for half the run tends to end poorly.
He's playing Watcher. But yes, to maintain his high winrate he's optimizing to mitigate bad rolls
(re Watcher, I'm not saying his results aren't impressive, but its not comparable to the original 3, see first run of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLmKGqwAIU where baalor wins vs heart using only starter cards)
23% > 20% which means if someone goes into the field of computer programming they're more likely to remain in the field if they are a woman than if they are a man. "remain in the field" is used as a proxy for success.
You could argue about whether or not it's a good proxy for success, but your response sounds like you think women would be more likely to drop out of the field alltogether than men, which doesnt appear to be true
Does it really say that or are women just slightly more probable to enter the field without a degree?
And I'd argue it's a pretty bad proxy. Because the field might be growing (or shrinking) and percentages don't mean anything. 23% of 10k is less than 20% of 5k, for example. The percentage numbers don't really indicate whether someone will stay in the field, it's just a number that's highly dependent on a lot of variables and a very bad indicator for "people are staying in the field". I'm happy to be corrected, it's just how I read this.
Additionally, if your assumption is that 23%>20%, that would kind of mean that it's capped at 23%, right? Once more the CS degree quota is higher than 23%, following your logic, that would be an indicator that women are more likely to leave the field because it naturally gravitates towards 23%. But that's not based on anything, you could argue just as well that it's an indicator that more women are starting to take interest in CS as a career.
> they're more likely to remain in the field if they are a woman
Top earning fields (+most fields) were rife with strong resistance to hiring women. For women who'd managed jobs in top-earning professions (<pay) - this was constant, persuasive pressure to stay where they were.
source: grew up around professional women born early 1920s (budget analyst, peace corps, navy intel, usvp sec).
consider that a lot of the culture in tech is also there for the first four years of undergrad, and so 23% often represents the people who basically made it through four years. are people who have experienced it for four years likelier to put up with more of the same?
Wish we'd get more articles from actual practitioners using generative AI to do things. Nearly all the articles you see on the subject are on the level of existential threats or press releases, or dunking on mistakes made by LLMs. I'd really rather hear a detailed writeup from professional people who used generative AI to accomplish something. The only such article I've run across in the wild is this one [0] from jetbrains. Anyway, if anyone has any article suggestions like this please share!
The relevant state of the art here, is the state of "what can an 8-year old kid who just learned how to type" create videos of. That was even worse 12 months ago!
If there is an IDE plugin then I use it first and foremost, but some refactoring can't be done with IDE plugins. Today I had to write some pybind11 bindings, basically export some C++ functionality to Python. The bindings involve templates and enums and I have a very particular way I like the naming convention to be when I export to Python. Since I've done this before so I copied and pasted examples of how I like to export templates to ChatGPT and then asked it to use that same coding style to export some more classes. It managed to do it without fail.
This is a kind of grunt work that years ago would have taken me hours and it's demoralizing work. Nowadays when I get stuff like this, it's just such a breeze.
As to copilot, I have not used it but I think it's powered by GPT4.
