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I need and appreciate the help. “You didn’t write that awful page. You’re just trying to get som…#
I need and appreciate the help.
“You didn’t write that awful page. You’re just trying to get some data out of it. Beautiful Soup is here to help.”
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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I would rather not be HTML scraping, but the RSS feed omits rel links (<https://datatracker.iet…#
I would rather not be HTML scraping, but the RSS feed omits rel links (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5005#section-3) so it is what it is.
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“Now that we’re inside the run function, we can go back to writing normal Go code where we ca…#
“Now that we’re inside the run function, we can go back to writing normal Go code where we can return errors like it’s nobody’s business. We gophers just love returning errors, and the sooner we admit that to ourselves, the sooner those people on the internet can win and go away.”
https://grafana.com/blog/2024/02/09/how-i-write-http-services-in-go-after-13-years/
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“Although Generative AI and LLMs have led to a paradigm shift in the methods we use to direct o…#
“Although Generative AI and LLMs have led to a paradigm shift in the methods we use to direct or restrict language models to achieve specific functionalities, what hasn’t changed is the fundamental value of Lean product engineering practices.”
https://martinfowler.com/articles/engineering-practices-llm.html
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“At first, this puzzled me. Why would managers pull the plug on experiments that were improving…#
“At first, this puzzled me. Why would managers pull the plug on experiments that were improving the bottom line? The answer was simple: power. Shifting actual power, authority, and decision-making down to workers was just too much of a threat to traditional managerial authority.”
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/02/against-managerialism
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@darkuncle Same here.#
@darkuncle Same here.
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@thudfactor Thanks for sharing this.#
@thudfactor Thanks for sharing this.
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“At another company, an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the fi…#
“At another company, an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed “baseball” or “basketball” – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned “softball” – typically women – were downgraded.
Marginalised groups often “fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools”, says Schellmann.””
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination
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Biased data encoded in automation perpetuates bias. From 2017 about the illusory “pipeline problem”:
“Many of the top tech companies aren’t even recruiting at the HBCUs — Howard, Spelman. All these schools have CS programs,” he said.
So why aren’t big tech companies recruiting at HBCUs?”