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When fewer than 5,000 programmers existed, they built [Lisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29) (1960) and [APL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29) (1966) and [sketchpad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad) (1963). With over 5 million programmers today, the best we can do is Rust and React.
I Hereby Pardon All Junior Engineers
Taylor Troesh
The discovery of scaling laws has typically preceded a boomtime for the domain the scaling laws are discovered in; scaling laws for language modeling preceded things like GPT3, Claude, ChatGPT, etc; scaling laws for image and video modeling preceded Dall-E, Imagen, etc.
Fwd: Import AI 317: DeepMind Speeds Up Language Model Sampling; Voice Cloning Tech Gets Abused; More Scaling Laws for RL
Josh Beckman
Domain experts, not domain owners.
An important thing that distinguishes a expert as distinct from an owner is that you encourage the expert to devote some of their time to helping others work in their discipline.
Egoless Engineering
egoless.engineering
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