N-gated Hacker NewsNov 21
So, geniuses at top firms are baffled 🤔 over why stellar employees are getting the boot 🚪👋. Maybe it's because they dare to exceed expectations and make the rest of us look bad. 🤷‍♂️ #OverachieversBeware
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/employee-turnover-why-top-firms-churn-good-workers-681832/ #GeniusEmployees #Overachievers #CorporateCulture #JobMarket #WorkplaceDynamics #HackerNews #ngated
Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers

Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 18, 2025
📚🤓 Dive into this thrilling saga of #overachievers comparing the world's most unpronounceable languages, where 'parallel functional array' is the sexy new buzzword. Spoiler Alert: You'll learn absolutely nothing except that #arXiv is #hiring a DevOps Engineer, again. 🙄🚀
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08906 #unpronounceablelanguages #parallelfunctionalarray #DevOpsEngineer #HackerNews #ngated
Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance

Parallel functional array languages are an emerging class of programming languages that promise to combine low-effort parallel programming with good performance and performance portability. We systematically compare the designs and implementations of five different functional array languages: Accelerate, APL, DaCe, Futhark, and SaC. We demonstrate the expressiveness of functional array programming by means of four challenging benchmarks, namely N-body simulation, MultiGrid, Quickhull, and Flash Attention. These benchmarks represent a range of application domains and parallel computational models. We argue that the functional array code is much shorter and more comprehensible than the hand-optimized baseline implementations because it omits architecture-specific aspects. Instead, the language implementations generate both multicore and GPU executables from a single source code base. Hence, we further argue that functional array code could more easily be ported to, and optimized for, new parallel architectures than conventional implementations of numerical kernels. We demonstrate this potential by reporting the performance of the five parallel functional array languages on a total of 39 instances of the four benchmarks on both a 32-core AMD EPYC 7313 multicore system and on an NVIDIA A30 GPU. We explore in-depth why each language performs well or not so well on each benchmark and architecture. We argue that the results demonstrate that mature functional array languages have the potential to deliver performance competitive with the best available conventional techniques.

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 22, 2025
🤖🍕✨ "Wow, 50 authors to tell us that robots are now slightly less clumsy than a toddler on a sugar rush! Who knew the #future was about dizzying acrobatics and not, say, world peace? 🤦‍♂️ #AIOverachievers" 🏆
https://pi.website/blog/pi05 #AI #Robotics #Humor #Tech #AI #Overachievers #HackerNews #ngated
A VLA with Open-World Generalization

Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.

SpliceFixer   Mar 21, 2024

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but you don’t need to be “on” 24/7.

You don’t need to do 100% all of the time.

You don’t need to know everything about everything.

It’s okay to suck.

#mentalhealth #overachievers #impostorsyndrome

JocelynAug 30, 2023
STAHP. You win the “most westcoastiest” already. I’m good with child pose, these folks are doing yoga on the water with acrobatics and a GLASS OF WINE. #overachievers #acroyoga #wtf
Lisa GuidariniJan 5, 2023

So, I'm upping my game as far as reading, writing about reading, journaling, and blogging but it's taking such a big chunk of my day.

Maybe it's an efficiency thing, but there are people who post a whole lot more than I do, put up more books read, and seem to always be on the socials.

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS.

#blogging #reading #writing #overachievers #wtf