You really have to just ask dumb interview questions. Testing them on answering questions while putting their hand over their face or their hands covering their eyes now. It's really dumbi-fied our interview processes (see https://datastream.substack.com/p/my-foolproof-interview-que...)
That's a good point. Lots of software companies are trying to become AI companies, not because they believe they are truly AI, but because CIOs are willing to invest in AI, so everything must become something that can fit in that budget.
This will crash in 1-2 years as CIOs realize most of this is useless, because at that point all software will be "AI Software" according to the marketing department, and we'll reset to CIOs making decisions on some other metric, such as a guy they met at a conference.
I had to get the police involved, but they weren’t much help. So, I went directly to the mayor. He was very understanding and had a personal connection to my neighborhood—his grandmother had built the very first house there.
That same afternoon, after our conversation, he had officers stationed in a spot where they could monitor the stop sign. On the very first day, they issued nine tickets.
This all happened after I had already been threatened on Nextdoor—just for answering a question about identifying a repeat offender.
Someone had asked me to list the vehicles I frequently saw running the stop sign, so I did. One neighbor responded, “A silver F-150? You’ll have to be more specific than that—there are at least five silver F-150s in this neighborhood.”
So, I clarified and said, “It’s the silver F-150 with the Trump bumper sticker on the right side.”
I should have never said that. People immediately took it as an attack on Trump and his supporters. What followed was a wild few months.
The chances of a piece of software being decent, performing well, and not doing anything secretly nefarious behind the scenes plummet as soon as the author of that software starts adding adjectives to the official title talking about how great their software it.
And if your actions end up undermining an independent free press and you're stuck with just propaganda in the future, well, at least you have some rhetoric to hide the guilt.
You don't have to stop playing. Kasparov (59) still plays here and there and he's still pretty great. Anand is 52 and is 13th in the world.
Chess requires a crazy amount of time invested and you're likely going to stop, and definitely slow, making gains at a certain age. Lots of people play chess for reasons other than becoming the world champion (since obviously most won't).
That said I play online chess too much and it's sort of a waste of time ;)
Yeah, it's sad to see champions giving up chess in their 30s but I can also see the desire to leave on a high note, before you've declined, and also spend your life on other things- you've already shown you're the best so why invest all that time and effort into keeping your title? There's definitely diminishing returns.
If you're talking about competitive players, they don't give up, they stop competing professionally and usually go on to teach. Competitive chess is a gruelling full time job.
The elephant in the room is that people with some mental illnesses can become erratic and violent. Someone above pointed out that cops are meant to "threaten and deliver violence." I think this is a vast simplification, but even under those criteria you can see why cops might be dispatched to deal with people who are mentally ill.
None of that is to say we shouldn't have other options, just that there are valid reasons to involve cops in some of these situations.
> Dispatching mental health specialists instead of police officers to substance abuse and nonviolent emergencies sharply lowered low-level crime in Denver, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.
> The Support Team Assistance Response, or STAR, program, which uses a mental health crisis interventionist and a paramedic to respond to nonviolent 911 calls, showed a 34 percent reduction in crime for offenses such as trespassing and public disorder, according to the study conducted by a Stanford University professor and researcher.
> Of the 748 incidents to which clinicians and paramedics responded, police assistance was never needed, according to the study.
You can also just have dispatch send both, but just have the cops there nearby for backup vs. being the first person into the situation. Hell, I'm reasonably mentally stable, but if I got a knock at the door and there's a uniformed police officer outside, I'm immediately in "oh god something awful has happened/will happen" stress and more likely to shut down or do something odd.
> The elephant in the room is that people with some mental illnesses can become erratic and violent.
The elephant in the room is maintaining stereotypes about the violence of the mentally ill that don't have any reference to statistics. Usually followed with a story about being yelled at by a homeless person once.
You're correct, some of the time you will need cops. I'm just not sure why it'd be more in Florida than in Seattle or San Francisco. There could be a reason why, I just don't know without the data.
Alternatively, why do you need cops for those situations? It seems like they might do more harm than good confronting already erratic person; there's a long, public history at this point of cops killing people by subduing them inappropriately. The situation has to be pretty extreme for you to actually need physical force to subdue someone. It happens, but it seems like these studies are telling us it's extremely rare.
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The role is called data engineer now. It's just one of many data engineering roles. Data engineers at a non-tech company could be 1 person holding up the entire system doing administrative tasks on it so to speak. It could also be one of many persons that work towards holding up Youtube's ML recommender systems.
I think just in general data engineer is a better term to find the same role across a lot of companies today.
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