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RECRUITER ACCIDENTALLY EMAILED ME HER SECRET INTERNAL SELECTION GUIDELINES 👀 (REDDIT THREAD)

A job recruiter accidentally included their secret internal selection guidelines when contacting a potential job candidate. The guidelines listed specific educational institutions candidates must have attended, types of candidates to avoid (visa candidates, job hoppers, graduates from coding boot camps, people with experience limited to big companies, and more), and other qualifications. The listing disqualified candidates who have ever worked at Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Capgemini, and several other companies. The listing indicates that top-tier CS schools are the primary path to early career jobs right now.

WHY ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE STILL HASN'T BEATEN POKÉMON

Claude Plays Pokémon has been struggling to make consistent progress in Pokémon, but even this sub-human level of performance could hold significant lessons for the quest toward artificial general intelligence. The AI model has been struggling to interpret the game's pixelated world as well as a human would, but it performs better in the text-based portions of the game. It has trouble remembering some of the information that it has learned and making sense of what it knows, sometimes inserting incorrect information into its knowledge base. The system's progress can vary quite a bit between runs. There are some signs it can tell when it doesn't know what it is doing and that it needs to be doing something different.

IT WASN'T THE APPLE TV+ SPEND, IT WAS THE APPLE TV+ STRATEGY

Apple made a series of strategic blunders with regard to Apple TV+. The company clearly thought it could use its clout to bully its way into making massive Hollywood hits, but the move was miscalculated - even the marketing was bad. Netflix is the only real tech company that has bent Hollywood to its will and that's largely because it had a great strategy from the beginning and stuck to it, while also being malleable enough as needed. Expectations and strategy have seemingly reset within Apple - the company is now changing to meet the market it arrogantly walked into.

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