17 May 2025

Really? The people that Microsoft is letting go are mainly the software engineers and project managers. They are keeping the marketing people and I don't see any accountants being laid off. This is crazy. They really are depending on AI writing their code, I guess. Seems short-sighted to me.

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What can you do with a slide rule?  Quite a bit. 

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Terence Tao has his own YouTube channel now. There's a couple of videos out on Lean, the AI-powered proof builder.

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Compressed music maybe harmful to your hearing

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These nerds calculated π to 300 trillion decimal places. It's a new world record. I'm older to remember when you needed something like a Cray Supercomputer or at least a cluster to achieve this. This video showcases the computing setup, and not the math. I assume they used the Chudnovsky Algorithm.

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Prosper Portland can't function without government money. Maybe they'll have to shut down. And hey, Portland has more homeless people "despite" all the homeless services. You think that maybe??  Nah, that can't be.  I wonder what Fox Butterfield would say?

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Excessive use of cell phones ranked as the top pet peeve of managers, at 78 percent. Some 61 percent of managers found their new hires were entitled or easily offended, while 57 percent noted these new employees were unprepared for the workplace. Lack of a work ethic scored 54 percent, followed by poor communication skills at 48 percent and lack of technical skills at 27 percent.

Other concerns managers had about the graduates included lateness, failure to turn in assignments on time, unprofessional behavior, and inappropriate dress and language.

I'm not paying off their student loans.

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