Computer science in college vastly underprepares you for a real software job.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education from MIT is my favorite online class that covers all the "glue" you miss out on: unix, git, cli.
AI makes this easier, but it helps to know what to ask it for
"Karl Barth found close parallels between Shin Buddhism and Christianity, but he believed that these similarities were actually human constructs that stood against true faith."
Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.
Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out.
We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Here is what we know:
- Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.
- At 12:19pm, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 12:23pm, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told that he was being removed from the board (but was vital to the company and would retain his role) and that Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post.
- As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira who found out the night prior.
The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon.
@gdb I wonder what startups like @usespeak_jp are going to do, once ChatGPT-audio loses its unnatural accent in non-English languages such as Japanese.
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I wonder if there is any data about the correlation between whether people get a PhD in a non-applied field (most of humanities, pure math/science) and whether their parents are wealthy.