Before you ping a peer, senior, or open a thread asking for help, put a reasonable amount of effort in first to solve the problem. Not asking you to bang your head against something, but make a reasonable attempt - read the error message fully, check the docs, search the codebase, try one or two hypotheses, or better - ask Claude (at least). This matters more than it sounds. When you come to someone having already done that groundwork, the conversation is completely different. You are not asking them to do the thinking for you. You are asking them to help you get unstuck. That is a much more productive use of everyone's time, including yours. It also builds something that will help you throughout your life (not just your career) - the muscle of debugging independently. Tbh, this is something I feel was, is, and will always be super crucial. Each time you try to solve it on your own before escalating, you get a little better at it. Over time, you stop needing to 'escalate' as often. Again, there is no shame in asking for help. Asking is good. But the quality of the ask matters. "I tried X, then Y, I think the issue is Z, but I am not sure" is a completely different conversation than "it is broken, can you look?" Hope this helps.

Prof. Barto was at a conf in Delhi in '09, also my first academic event. He was standing by himself at tea but I was too chicken to introduce myself. Later I self rationalized that intrinsic RL rewards is such an obscure theoretical topic 🫣🥴 talk about poor reward functions!

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Thanks @AKanisetti for writing the book that gives context to my south Indian upbringing. This is great and brave writing, for being beyond your years and for clearly acknowledging what isn't/can't be known, for distilling facts with common sense. Await your future works eagerly

My dad making lecture notes for his class tomorrow with chatgpt. Over a decade of us trying different tutorials/devices/settings, he is finally deriving value from technology directly. All it needed was a complete rethink of how information is searched on the web. Thanks @sama

"Would that I had established a style guide prior to this process," muses the supremo, slipping into the pluperfect subjunctive mood, a place of regrets where few happy things dwell." This is the kind of writing on tech I crave each day! theregister.com/2024/10/08/l….

Breaking news: Our biggest competitor is a monopoly. Are my fellow Bing employees triggered as well? Do all OKRs with side-by-side comparison wins get an F grade? Asking for my trillion-dollar employer.

If your devOps is not in order, I may not be smart enough to find the bug but I am experienced enough to know it's there.

ChatGPT is down so people are going to Claude but Claude can’t browse the web so people are going to perplexity but perplexity is hitting chatGPT and GPT is down so it’s hitting Claude so with all this traffic chaos all 3 are now down. Also nobody uses Gemini but just to show they’re getting a lot of traffic they shut down too. That’s how we got the AI blackout

The reason why the ECI site is so fast, is because... it's all statically rendered HTML, updated every five minutes with what I assume is a batch job. No SPA dumbf-ery here.

.@Spotify @SpotifyCares should have been my no-brainer preferred alternative to Google Podcast but I don't see a one click import from OPML option yet. Extraordinary! How is lapping up users from Google not your top most priority? #factthatIhavetoevenask

I get my "me time" waiting for git pull to execute on prod repo

So powerful! Respect!

Why are the election dates finalized like it's a last minute Goa trip!? I made travel plans for that week a month ago! 😕