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Comment Re:feedstock (Score 1) 35

considering how hard it is to get into an Ivy league college why wouldn't most of their students get As ?

That's an argument for employers not to care what the grades were, if all Harvard grads are good enough, and I'm sure there are plenty of employers who will take any Harvard grad.

But for the employers who wish to be even more selective, hiring only the best of the best (and obviously offering appropriate compensation because they're competing with the other employers who want the best of the best), it's useful for them to be able to use GPA to discriminate between the mediocre Harvard grads (who would presumably be outstanding anywhere else) and the high-performing Harvard grads.

Harvard does the students a disservice by giving most of them A's. And the smartest students are going to realize it and look for an institution that is more discriminating, where they can prove their worth.

I'm surprised that cover letters were ever a very good signal, myself. Didn't students always get someone else to help them write the letters anyway?

Comment Re:Utah (Score 1) 18

Ah Utah.. the state you incorporate in when you want the business friendliness of Delaware, but know you are going to be doing something shady and need a more crime friendly place to set up.

Funny, but I'm wondering if there's actually something behind this. Can you elaborate in what way Utah is friendlier to Crime? Utah does have a long history of multi-level marketing scams, but I think that has made the legal environment less friendly to fraudsters.

Comment Re:Nowhere near AGI (Score 1) 173

Regurgitation, aka an alternative to a search engine, has progressed but no progress in terms of reasoning or ability to design. I'd call that a zero result for AGI.

You don't know what you're talking about. Spend some time discussing a novel engineering design with a current-generation LLM with a self-talk reasoning overlay.

Comment Re:what advantage? (Score 1) 24

Putting aside the tepid yields, they do call the buyers "investors"

can't imagine doing any kind of "day trading" with such a thing, given lack of variation during a typical day, so that 24/7 availability seems mostly pointless. 5 days of 16 extended hour trading should be good enough for money market etf.

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