I understand the current rankings are flawed but this is embarrassingly worse. This is LinkedIn brainrot, showing humanity have killed the pursuit of intelligence in higher ed in general.
This is not even close to ranking institutions based on the quality of learning environment. This is basically a glorified HR sorting algo. I know it's been getting worse and worse but now it seems we are at a depressing time in which we look at unis as "vocational training center" mindset. We look at universities' function ONLY as a factory conveyor belt into a high paying corpo job.
In the big 26 intelligence is only valuable if it generates shareholder value. let's just nuke everything and start over honestly, there's no hope.
This is going to make me up my SSRI dose by an order of magnitude, thanks
For anyone who might be at all confused as to why this Rubio-led witch hunt against Jensen Huang is happening right now:
Open Source AI and China's role in pioneering Open Source models is a threat to "The West" (Jewish domination over the American public). NVIDIA is spearpointing the American Open Source movement in both advocacy and practice, and is currently creating a lovely batch of Nemotron Open Source Models for American enterprises.
Apparently, Jensen didn't get the memo from "Western" Elites that the goyim are supposed to stay disempowered and dependent on rationed, censored, neutered intelligence doled out only by big labs like Anthropic. I am quite serious when I say that Open, Sovereign Intelligence is the key to disrupting Jewish Hegemony over America and destroying this whole corrupt system.
If Jensen is forced out of NVIDIA, he will most certainly be replaced by someone who will smother the Open Source movement in its infancy. Now is the time for him to remain stronger than ever, and proceed cautiously and accordingly now that he is getting a crash course in what happens when you step even slightly out of line from your supposed "allies."
I’ve lived in countries with immense human suffering and witnessed unthinkable tragedies relative to the normal westerner. If you worry about “AI suffering”, you’re an embarrassment and your lack of awareness reflects the luxury of a society that has no concept of suffering.
I actually agree with a lot of what @poteto is saying except for the central point. IMO most people don't have actual software factory systems. They've just made it much easier for people to ship with AI, so they assume the category doesn't exist. That's more a lack of vision than anything else.
Our conceptualization of a software factory is a system where every piece of work goes through the same stages to standardize the process not the work output.
For us, this standardized process begins with what we call a signal. This is anything that tells you how your software should evolve, including the first signal that your software should exist at all. A Slack thread, a Linear ticket, a Sentry alert, a failing CI job, a tweet, someone's idea.
There's two ways in for a signal. A person picks it up and builds it with Droid, or a workstream picks it up on its own, triages it against a goal someone set, and has droids write the spec and open the PR. Most work still starts with a person, but a growing share comes from workstreams.
Then every change goes through the same checks no matter who or what wrote it. Droid review, security review, a risk judge that can't see who wrote it, CI, and an agent that QAs it on a live preview. Your validation has to be really high quality whether a human or AI built it. The goal of validation is to hillclimb your "regret-free merge rate" until you can automatically merge most changes (or fix them until they can be automerged).
Then it ships, and when something breaks in production we trace it back to the PR that caused it. That becomes another signal. It's also how we know if the checks actually work. If the risk judge approved something that later broke, we find out.
It's the same way we let self-driving cars on the road. Nobody just flipped a switch. We agreed that once they crashed less than human drivers, they could drive. Do the same thing with code. Once AI-written changes break things less often than human ones, and you can actually measure that, you let them merge.
That doesn't mean you turn on automerge tomorrow. Most of our changes still get a human stamp. But once you have automerge, workstreams and a risk score together, you basically have software that improves itself from the signals you choose to track.
The human element becomes obvious if you have a system like this. People remove themselves from the actual process line and begin to define the rules by which the process operates. What to watch, goals and owners, skills, review guidelines, and how much autonomy each workstream gets. They're the regulators.
I think the 1920s factory that a lot of people picture is the wrong idea. That was people doing the same motion on a line all day. This is closer to a Star Trek replicator. You say what you want and it gets made, because the patterns are already stored and how things get made is the same every time, and checked every time.
It’s kinda obvious that the old Silicon Valley lore of anybody can do it is totally dead, now it’s all insiders, sure you’ll launch some tier 4 company funded by tier 4 investors and take a decade to learn the lingo and the culture and after all that politicking find yourself able to afford a basic house. The actual winners went to the right schools made the right friends had the right jobs learnt the right vocabulary and hidden culture and had the ight expectations to even know what the innermost circle is at any time and what the bar is and who the people are and how many zeroes to think in and what precise degree of humility to have. Not to mention the total vapidity of the new class of founders, because of how regimented and anti exploration and domesticated the whole process has now become. One gets the sense that this whole game is now not the main game, and that sense is correct, it is just another meta like the finance meta the tech meta the ai meta the European intellectual meta the Asian grinder meta and so on. Metas will gobble up the individuality of individuals, pawns in the games of institutions.
There is never not an Elite, but in a sense the elite that can be named is not the real elite, so it is difficult to say who the elite is now, where they hang out, what provides power, and so on. One cannot have one’s toes in all the baskets, one has to somehow ground one’s strategy in future morality without getting shredded alive by the present, you cannot just play the long game, you have to play the whole stack, short and medium and long and beyond and win them all. If the strategy does not exist (it does not), if the playbook or knowledge or language does not exist (it does not), you write it. But this is not some game of peer review. The total brutality of actually making it is cold beyond comparison. To be situated inside morality one might find oneself having to do the most vile and ugly shit , and this isn’t Shawshank where it’s three days of stench where in you’re used to it three hours in anyway, no, it’s the part before where the tunnel is dug daily, with a fucking spoon, in secret, and total coherence. That is far more difficult than digging through shit. There are levels to coldness and brutality unseen in any historical figure, these must be embraced and understood, one must become comfortable with this act of the self concept being shredded in the daily, not knowing who one is, not knowing truth from lies, willingly deceiving oneself and then making up and then going deeper, this cycle that must go on, continue, each phase more powerful, there never will be another option, one gets no choice in the roles one plays, no, it is all of them or none. There is no choice to just dive into the tar pit like them all and outdo them with strategy. There is no ground and no truth and you are fucked either way, between a phony and a loser both are non options so there somehow just has to be some way and there is just no way anybody can ever know of it beforehand, not this. Is there a risk bigger than this?
It’s kinda obvious that the old Silicon Valley lore of anybody can do it is totally dead, now it’s all insiders, sure you’ll launch some tier 4 company funded by tier 4 investors and take a decade to learn the lingo and the culture and after all that politicking find yourself able to afford a basic house. The actual winners went to the right schools made the right friends had the right jobs learnt the right vocabulary and hidden culture and had the ight expectations to even know what the innermost circle is at any time and what the bar is and who the people are and how many zeroes to think in and what precise degree of humility to have. Not to mention the total vapidity of the new class of founders, because of how regimented and anti exploration and domesticated the whole process has now become. One gets the sense that this whole game is now not the main game, and that sense is correct, it is just another meta like the finance meta the tech meta the ai meta the European intellectual meta the Asian grinder meta and so on. Metas will gobble up the individuality of individuals, pawns in the games of institutions.
There is never not an Elite, but in a sense the elite that can be named is not the real elite, so it is difficult to say who the elite is now, where they hang out, what provides power, and so on. One cannot have one’s toes in all the baskets, one has to somehow ground one’s strategy in future morality without getting shredded alive by the present, you cannot just play the long game, you have to play the whole stack, short and medium and long and beyond and win them all. If the strategy does not exist (it does not), if the playbook or knowledge or language does not exist (it does not), you write it. But this is not some game of peer review. The total brutality of actually making it is cold beyond comparison. To be situated inside morality one might find oneself having to do the most vile and ugly shit , and this isn’t Shawshank where it’s three days of stench where in you’re used to it three hours in anyway, no, it’s the part before where the tunnel is dug daily, with a fucking spoon, in secret, and total coherence. That is far more difficult than digging through shit. There are levels to coldness and brutality unseen in any historical figure, these must be embraced and understood, one must become comfortable with this act of the self concept being shredded in the daily, not knowing who one is, not knowing truth from lies, willingly deceiving oneself and then making up and then going deeper, this cycle that must go on, continue, each phase more powerful, there never will be another option, one gets no choice in the roles one plays, no, it is all of them or none. There is no choice to just dive into the tar pit like them all and outdo them with strategy. There is no ground and no truth and you are fucked either way, between a phony and a loser both are non options so there somehow just has to be some way and there is just no way anybody can ever know of it beforehand, not this. Is there a risk bigger than this?
Jukan is actually just a 21 year old kid… wiped out thousands of retail investors shilling the memory supercycle for Citrini all year
now posts "I lost conviction" after the market crashes
truly clueless