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Comment SAT is Objective Measure (Score 1) 115

The value of the SAT comes as an objective measure of test taking. Given that students take a lot of those kinds of tests in university, it's also an objective measure of how students ultimately perform in university. The better a student's SAT score, the better they'll tend to do in college.

The fact that it's an objective measure is important. Students can manipulate grades. Some will beg and plead with teachers to turn those B's into A's. Some can just pay off low-paid teachers. Some students can go to private schools that all but guarantee straight A's. The point is that grades can be manipulated. The SAT doesn't suffer from those same problems. Students aren't begging and pleading with SAT test personnel for a better score.

Comment 95% of AI projects fail (Score 1) 160

Companies relying on AI to do the work of humans will eventually realize their mistake when 95% of their AI projects fail. Say what you want about humans, at least their projects tend to succeed. Corporate leadership now laying off people are eventually going to reverse course when reality finally catches up with them.

Comment Re:Google does this too (Score 1) 23

The smartphones we have today were copied from Apple. The only real comparison before then are Blackberries and Windows phones, both of which are very different implementations.

Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, was on Apple's board during the time Apple created the iPhone. He was later fired from Apple's board for conflict of interest. It's well known that Google copied other products from companies such as Microsoft. It's clear that Google took the ideas for it's smartphone from Apple.

Comment Re:FOMO (Score 0) 89

Simply put American AI engineers are not trying hard enough, And the talent that could be helping them is being discriminated against unfairly because they want things like basic human rights, And the tech companies are doing everything they can to completely control the lives of the people they hire which means that a lot of people with these skills are intentionally saying no to these companies because they don't want to be bound by them.

American AI companies dominate the world in this technology. That tells me the American AI engineers are doing their jobs at the highest level in the world. Stating that American engineers are not "trying hard enough" is pure nonsense.

Right now, American tech companies are laying off workers. That includes companies such as Microsoft laying off engineers who work on everything across the company, including AI. American tech companies are legally required to provide work to Americans first before hiring anyone from outside the country. There's a shortage of work, not a shortage of workers.

So maybe focus on working in AI in your own country instead of trying to find your way into mine.

Comment Re:Discriminates against the best workers unfairly (Score 1) 49

Remote work enables a race to the bottom. Why pay you a decent salary to work remotely when we can hire someone in Poland or India or China to do the same job for far cheaper? Maybe they're not as good as you as a coder. But, they can query AI just the same as you and get damn near the same result. Oh, and we can hire 5-10 of them for what we'd need to pay you.

Comment Re:End H1-B Hiring for Tech Jobs (Score 1) 178

The purpose of the H1-B program is to fill labor shortages in specialized fields in the US. We both agree there are no shortages. Therefore, there is no need for H1-B workers.

Regardless, the H1-B is an American program. Since it looks like you’re not an American, we don’t need your input on our laws and how we implement them.

If you would like to hire these workers, then please discuss that option with the leaders of your own country.

Comment Re: I call BS (Score 1) 178

CS degrees were never all that valuable for software developers. I've done enough hiring to have a strong preference for a high school graduate with a decent GitHub page over a CS graduate with their name on a research paper.

In fact, I'd also hire a physics major over a CS major if they demonstrated basic coding skills.

You like hiring folks at the peak of confidence on the Dunning-Krugar chart. They've learned just enough to become extremely confident in their own skills. In reality, they've only covered a fraction of what a graduate from a CS program has covered over 4 years.

I've worked with multiple people with this background. They can be very good when working in areas they know and have experience. Problem is that their knowledge is limited. They're often painfully ignorant in certain areas where it's obvious they haven't studied. They can be extremely difficult to instruct because they consistently want to reinvent new ways of working. It gets worse when they achieve any level of success on the team and get to the point where they can influence decisions. This becomes especially problematic when approaching topics such as security and authentication where there are known good standards to follow and not following those standards can result in catastrophic failure. I literally had one graduate of a javascript coding academy argue with me that his security proposal should be a new security standard. He literally wouldn't listen to me when I told him that's not how that works and to just implement OAuth 2. He was the front-end lead and wouldn't accept my answer.

Comment Re: Tariffs (Score 1) 45

Taiwan IS independent of China and has been for decades. It’s not something I have to support. It’s already true.

It’s only in the mind of Chinese communist party officials that Taiwan is part of China.

And no, China is a politically backwards, authoritarian, communist regime. Yes, I’m sure they have all kinds of “statistics” showing citizens love their government. Who collected those statistics? Right the government. Those aren’t reliable. Neither are they based on truth. Chinese people tell the government what they want to hear.

China has done well economically since the 1990s because they partially moved away from strict communism to a more market-based economy and partially because American business moved their factories to China. Either way, it was help and influence from America that improved the lives of the Chinese.

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