Adding the letter archive into a LLM prompt is a good read. you can use this as a source https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

perhaps I'm missing something. Why not start the learning at a later state?

If the goal is to achieve end-to-end learning that would be cheating.

If you sat down to solve a problem you’ve never seen before you wouldn’t even know what a valid “later state” looking like.

Why is it cheating? We literally teach sports this way? Often times you teach sports by learning in scaled down scenarios. I see no reason this should be different.

That's effectively what you get in either case. With MLM, on the first learning iteration you might only mask exactly one token per sequence. This is equivalent to starting learning at a later state. The direction of the curriculum flows toward more and more of these being masked over time, which is equivalent to starting from earlier and earlier states. Eventually, you mask 100% of the sequence and you are starting from zero.

behind paywall. Amateur sleuth from West Virginia may have decoded the Z13 cipher and solved the mystery of the Zodiac killings identity.

Should change the name to Matrix Processing Units

The US Constitutional government is meant to be slow, methodical and gridlocked. It is supposed to take enormous compromise to get any decision created into law.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" -James Madison

Very close. In fact you could still say that it still is competing with Python for users. There is still an active community of developers.

While the 1 hour rule is mostly true be careful with discount airlines. Frontier Airlines does do a 1 hour boarding. I've heard of cases that if you are late to boarding, even if half hour ahead of departure, they will not let you board the plane. I'm sure it depends on specific airport agents protocols. My point is I'm not sure you can always use the 1 hour buffer.

I was definitely stopped from boarding when I arrived to the airport 45 minutes before departure when on Spirit. That was the last time I used Spirit.

That management philosophy is one of the reasons that the US lost its dominance in auto manufacturing and market share, in my opinion.

I agree. Group channels on relevant topics is very helpful. Especially on technical details relevant to getting work done.

Yet here goes my rant. Nothing can replace a good in-person interaction. Perhaps I'm the old guy in the room. When teams are trying to build something there is nothing like water-cooler talk and banter about the work that helps relate shared challenges. Granted this is going to very specific to organizational needs.

I don't work in software development so perhaps my needs are different than most on Hackernews. I've managed teams in person and remotely. I've found that managing in person is a much more productive way to work.

I’m also an old guy at 51. I have been in cloud consulting for the last five+ years and I’m perfectly capable of leading large projects remotely.

I can do it in person. But I find diagramming with collaborative tools, shared Google docs, etc to be much better than in person drawing on a whiteboard. There are remote collaborative tools for everything.

With the tools available now, you can record all of the meetings and don’t have to take notes, have transcripts automatically generated and summarized with AI. I can then take all of the transcripts and other artifacts, throw them in Google’s NotebookLM and ask questions and get answers about the project (with citations).

I do the same for transcripts of meetings I am not in - mostly pre-sales.

Yes these are all approved tools.

The channels I'm talking about weren't about work, they were about hobbies - biking, cars, cats. I found that interaction quite fun and actually much better than in-person chats because I could choose to interact at my pace and comfort level.