lagrangian
10d ago
High social status?
Yes. Not as high as a doctor, but absolutely. People - men and women - absolutely treat me differently (better) after learning where I work.
Money and status are too linked for it to not give status. There's some importance to it too - we (often) work on systems people know and care about. We're famously difficult to tell what to do professionally, which is itself a form of power/status.
lagrangian
23d ago
Claim not supported by your source, according to which the teenager was killed in a drone strike against someone else - just bad luck.
Two U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity stated that the target of the October 14, 2011, airstrike was Ibrahim al-Banna [not the teenager], an Egyptian believed to be a senior operative in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.[7][8] Another U.S. administration official speaking on condition of anonymity described Abdulrahman al-Awlaki as a bystander who was "in the wrong place at the wrong time", stating that "the U.S. government did not know that Mr. Awlaki's son [the teenager] was there" before the airstrike was ordered.[7]
lagrangian
28d ago
Flash 3? Interesting (if so).
~Consensus at Google, for working on Google's codebase, is that Flash 3 is better than Pro for agentic work. They changed the default for Gemini CLI over and everything. My, uh, friend is heavily involved in beta testing stuff and definitely feels this way.
lagrangian
29d ago
Use Flash, not Pro, for agentic tasks. Pro is smarter, but so much slower and more expensive that you will genuinely do better with Flash.
I find this wildly implausible.
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