Thiel at least is one of us (meaning, Asperger's) even though he's evil. Same with Musk. But those two just paved the way for fake aspies to come in with their weaponized fake autism and turn the tech industry into what it is, where all it takes is that Nick Fuentes sociopath-twink energy to raise a seed round.

Palantir is next-level satanic surveillance. At least, if it works, and on that sort of thing, who the fuck knows.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646566)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646812)

Furthermore, if you've been paying attention to Palantir's follies and foibles over the last 3-4 years, it's pretty clear that their programmers never fully internalized Bayes' Theorem. Look at their stock circa November 2021.

Musk is also not any kind of autist, and not a fat-brained math guy. He doesn't design the cars or the rockets. He's never designed shit. Thiel never wrote a single piece of code or designed a goddamn thing either. He is a lawyer who went to the same lol school as EPAH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646853)

That's assuming "autism" is one thing, which it's probably not. I'm guessing there are several different processes that cause the various forms of autism.

I'd guess that Musk is in the high 120s and that Thiel is in the 130s. They're not the geniuses they're made out to be, but they're not total idiots either.

This all said, having so much money and status for so long has probably taken them down a fair bit from their peak IQ. So, Thiel might be dumb *now* just because he's been rich, and around other rich people, for so long. If he was tested at his peak, though, I'd bet on him being upper 130s, maybe even 140s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646895)

You do see a lot of hard drops--30 IQ or more in useful intelligence; I have no idea if this would show up on an IQ test--though that come from early success, because when people are invited to join the bloated slugpeople who rule the world, very few turn the invitation down, and almost everyone becomes like the people whose company they keep. It happened to Paul Graham and it happens to all tech CEOs, so it wouldn't surprise me if it happened to Peter Thiel as well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647277)

C/Python dominate because they're simple enough, at their abstraction level, that they can be taught in school without also having to teach a bunch of other things. I'm honestly shocked though that Python still has such a showing in ML. Sure, PyTorch is fast because of GPU acceleration, but everything that has to be done in regular Python is still going to be slow because of dynamic typing. So if you can't vectorize it easily (e.g., Monte Carlo tree search) you are probably going to get lousy performance.

I'm a fan of functional programming but I've given up on trying to evangelize it. The business world does not care about getting PL right, and in anything specialized (a) the answer to the PL question is "It depends highly on what you're doing" and (b) you can probably use anything since the challenges are much harder than mere coding.

Best programmer? Definitely not Paul Graham. Not now, not then. I'm better than he is--I've seen his code--and I'm good but I'm not legend level.

The best programmer is probably someone we've never heard of who works for the government, TBH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646591)

It used to be very hard to build an AI that could play that kind of game at any level, but now that neural net libraries with autograd are so easy to use, I could probably cook something up using basic grad-level RL (DQN, maybe some tree search to refine it) that would beat me, at least in terms of single-player metrics.

The reading-of-players aspect might be hard. If an AI trains through self-play, it's not a guarantee that it learns how to detect and model others' strategies, as opposed to executing one specific strategy very well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646615)

i work in big tech btw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47649313)

Why did you make so many sock puppets on Wikipedia

Why are you a shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646710)

Sockpuppets? I had, like, two or three. Back then they were called role accounts and it was considered acceptable. As for that hate page about me, most of those were either other people or completely nonexistent accounts. And everyone used sock puppets back in 2004. It was till '06 or some shit later that they changed the policy against them. Also, the guy who made the page accusing me of having hundreds of them (a) was proven to have made some of those accounts himself, and (b) got kicked out of school for something rather disgusting.

I don't know what your definition of a shitlib is, but I'm a leftist. I have nothing in common with the sorts of "liberals" associated with the DNC, the New Yorker, the Ivy League, etc. I'm a socialist and I actually want to see the existing system burn, but I'm fairly trad on cultural issues, so in many ways I have more in common with conservative rednecks than stereotypical liberals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646784)

Make America Great Again - Trump '24

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646793)

Also his whole shitlib TDS shtick is nauseating. Like be a goddamn man. Being a grown ass man from the Millennial generation and melting down about Trump, Thiel, and Elon is goddamn embarrassing. Seriously. What kind of nasally Jew ratfuck do you have to be to be a 30 something man in 2024 and be whining about the threat to democracy. Wah I don't like conservatives. Wah. I'm MOC I have 4 followers but my opinions are super important wah. It's all so tiresome.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647667)

If someone is killing people because of their race or ethnicity, I'm strongly inclined to side with the people who are trying to stop that.

The main question is whether these groyper fucks can get farther into the forces. They've probably achieved 20% penetration, which is a scary number, but I think they're close to their high water mark. Militaries and police forces are fucked up in other ways, but your average police department isn't going to just let a bunch of right-wing murderers take over.

All that said, the inevitable world revolution that ends capitalism will probably be started by the right and finished by the left, in the same way that slave states instigated the Civil War, got the shit kicked out of them, and then had to change their entire economic system just to continue existing. The right is always quicker to use violence than the left. At some point, someone will try something truly stupid--not embarrassing small shit like Jan. 6, but something much bigger--and I'll be curious to see how it plays out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646831)

so you're inclined to side with white nationalists against Jewish perpetrated white (and arab) genocide. troublingly antisemitic post.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646849)

I don't think Israel's overall intent toward Gaza is genocide, although there are a few psychopaths (e.g., Ben-Gvir) who lean that way. However, all wars become genocidal if they are not stopped, and both sides have atrocious leadership. Likud (Netanyahu's party) is fucking awful and evil; Hamas is fucking awful and evil.

Some retaliation for Oct. 7 was justified, because what Hamas did on that day was truly unforgivable. Turning Gaza into a parking lot? No. That went way too far. It won't get the hostages back and it won't make Israel safe in the long run.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47646879)

The idea that there's some vast Jewish conspiracy behind everything is absurd, though, given that they can't even get rednecks (individually powerless, collectively dangerous) to stop hating them. They're a small, vulnerable minority group with above-average (but greatly overestimated by outsiders) academic and financial performance. That's it. They have the same spectrum of heroes and villains as we do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647268)

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/570/679/418.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647228)

It may be a plot hole, but part of the fun of the SNES-era final fantasies is that the plots are intentionally over-the-top and ridiculous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647254)

I would keep up the leetcode enough that you can "talk tech" but, if you're already a manager, don't risk being typecast. The money in tech these days goes to the same political assholes who win everywhere. If you want to swing for the $500k jobs--I warn you that they still fucking suck and are in high-COL areas--then brand yourself as a manager who "keeps on top of" serious programming.

Beyond that, it's a lot of connections and luck. The difference between being one of Google's supernumerary VPs and a CTO for a Midwestern insurance company or car dealership network is, in the final analysis, nothing else. In fact, the latter are probably smarter. Power and acclaim make people stupid, as you see in business, and it does not take long.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647256)

Internal lateral moves, to better specialties, can open up opportunities later. Job hopping to make lateral moves is a bad play, usually. The cost of having to prove yourself to a new set of people doesn't merit the small pay bump. Save the job hops for real opportunities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647289)

In writing, you try to explains the sensations a character is feeling--the sights, the sweat on the shoulders or brow, the smells--and, when someone's running through a forest fire, they're going to feel things through their feet.

Farisa comes from a culture where being barefoot is seen as humiliating--this particular element is Arabia-inspired. And since she's a refugee, she only knows her culture from literature and therefore is even more stringent about it than she would be if she had grown up in it.

Women are (nonsexually) very into feet, though it's only directed at female feet and it's usually purely aesthetic. Men, on the other hand, either are not into feet at all (like me) or are intensely sexually into them for reasons I don't fully understand.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647666)

Almost all cultures are pretty weird about feet, for reasons that I don't fully understand.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647697)

WOW

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647699)

Blessed to be able to read these words

U r 160 IQ minimum!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647688)

If down, learn C. I know he's controversial, but I enjoyed Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way. Beej's Networking Guide is a must if you're going to do system programming at a serious level. Rust seems interesting and promising, but C will give you more mileage because it's basically a lingua franca.

If you're going up, then consider Clojure. Oh, and to refresh your Lisp, pick up SICP. It's short enough that you can probably get through it in a month or two.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47647727)

I learned C programming with basic linux syscalls a while back but it's been >7 years at this point. Wrote a very simple shell, learned basic ipc/sockets/shared memory/etc., but the only jobs I could find were webdev nonsense since lower level programming generally required actual experience and I've been floating along in tardland ever sense.

I'll take a look at the networking guide

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5526621&forum_id=2#47649058)