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Top stories for Long   Why is it that an LLM, which is basically just a next-word predictor, can handle tasks that require abstract or logical thinking, like math or coding? Christopher F Clark, Yacc++ author, Intel chip designer, ex-Googler • Updated December 14 The answer to "Why is it that an LLM, which is basically just a next-word predictor, can handle tasks that require abstract or logical thinking, like math or coding?" is th... Read more » 205 54   Bloodbath In American Tech Jobs Continues Ozzy, Space Creator • Posted Nov 27 (screenshot from layoffs.fyi) Just 2 days ago, HP laid off 4000 people, pushing the number of tech workers laid off since 2022 upwards from 763,000. The overwhelming majority of those layoffs are in... Read more » 273 72   How do people who retired at 62 feel about their decision compared to those who waited until 70, in terms of happiness and quality of life? Karen Towers, former Retired Nurse • Answered November 19 I have been retired for 14 years now, having retired at 62. Life has been great. My brother waited until age 72 to retire as he would "make more social security". He died t... Read more » 1K 157   I fired my employee for eating a hamburger during his lunch break. Was I within my rights? Don Winters, former NG and AR Reserve 13B and 92Y (1994-2007) • Answered November 20 Yes, but… be ready for a lot of issues and an investigation. If this was the ONLY person fired for eating a hamburger, when 3 others were also eating a hamburger, this coul... Read more » 1.4K 417   Why does Google internally overwhelmingly use its own in-house developed software and nearly no externally originated opensource or proprietary software? Nadeem Shaikh, AI Engineer, Former Full Stack Developer, 10 Years in IT • Answered December 12 **Update Dec13 2025**: 2k Views in 24 Hours Thank you. Added some extra Information When Meta bought instagram, Instagram was totally deployed on AWS, Meta moved entire Insta... Read more » 99 4   Are the professors in Ivy leagues better and smarter than those in other universities? Bruce Krell, studied at Tulane University (1971) • Answered December 2 I have taken classes at Tulane and Rice, both top tier, and a range of state universities. I have also taught at a bunch of universities over the years. My experience both t... Read more » 43 7   THE IMMINENT EXPLOSION OF BETELGEUSE Alessandro13 • Posted Mar 16, 2024 We finally have an answer to what is happening in Betelgeuse. Do you remember when, in 2019, this star made headlines? The sudden and anomalous decrease in its brightness alerted astronomers around ... Read more » 754 72   Why do so many car dealers get upset if you don't like the deal they are offering and want to walk out? Jack Langston, former Officer at U.S. Air Force (1985-2021) • Answered November 3 My son called me when he was at a dealership talking to the sales guy. They did the "4 squares" and when all was said and done with the numbers laid out, I asked my son if ... Read more » 2.6K 21   Why do so many scientists dislike the German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder? David Kahana, worked at University of Regensburg • Answered September 29 Sabine Hossenfelder was a post-doctoral worker or a graduate student, I'm not quite sure which, at what became Walter Greiner's Institut at the Goethe University, in Frankf... Read more » 978 148   How fast can reincarnation happen after one dies? Tessa Lynne, Therapist and author of The Invisible Choir (1984-present) • Answered September 13, 2023 The soonest a spirit might reincarnate would be about a year after the end of their previous lifetime. The most common gap between lifetimes is about five or six decades of... Read more » 322 84   What is the proof that 11 is the only prime number of the form n² + 2 where n is prime? Enrico Gregorio, Associate professor in Algebra • Answered September 19 For prime [math]n[/math] we have [math]n\ge2,[/math] hence [math]n^2+2\ge6.[/math] If [math]n[/math] is different from [math]3,[/math] then [math]n^2\equiv1\pmod{3}[/math] by Euler-Fermat, so [math]n^2+2\equiv0\pmod{3},[/math] which means that [math]n^2+2[/math] is divisible by [math]3,[/math] hence not prime. For [math]n=3[/math] we have [math]n^2+2=11[/math] that's prime. Read more » 68 13   What will happen to programmers and engineers who may lose their jobs due to AI? Damon Kaswell, Application Developer at Large Multinational Corporation (2018-present) • Answered December 14 It's not going to be pretty. ("Allegory on Tulipmania," by Jan Brueghel the Younger, 1640) They'll go on unemployment, while the software produced by their former employers g... Read more » 483 76 Read more in your feed

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