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Can ChatGPT-3 fix hiring?

I can see GPT-3 optimizing the screening and hiring of contractors and technical employees. Here’s how. — Screening and hiring candidates is usually a suboptimal process. At best, you end up solving the secretary problem. Even so, the best solution to the secretary problem only finds the best candidate for the job just 37% of the time. Hiring is suboptimal for a few mutually reinforcing reasons. Why is hiring suboptimal?

Interview

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Can ChatGPT-3 fix hiring?
Can ChatGPT-3 fix hiring?
Interview

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I Litter, therefore I am

India has a littering problem. That’s no secret. Is the situation salvageable? A couple of policy proposals that could make an impact. Introduction Before his descent into MAGA madness, Mayor Rudy Giuliani led New York City, most famously, perhaps, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Even…

India

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I Litter, therefore I am
I Litter, therefore I am
India

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The journeys we can still take safely

When I was a boy, I used to love to visit my mother’s workplace. As a teenager and a man in my twenties, that love changed into wariness. …

India

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The journeys we can still take safely
The journeys we can still take safely
India

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Just mail it in

Why I made my own blog platform because I hated WordPress, Ghost, Markdown, Hugo, Jekyll, Netlify, and everything else out there — I like blogging. I absolutely hate setting up a blog. Let me backtrack. I like blogging but I used to absolutely hate setting up a blog. I have since built something to make me enjoy blogging again.

Blogging

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Just mail it in
Just mail it in
Blogging

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Dec 22, 2022

How to do the LA Times Crossword

The LA Times Crossword is exactly right for someone getting into doing Crosswords. Here’s how to get better at doing them. — A bit of background The LA Times crossword is published seven days a week here. The toughest puzzles appear on Saturday. Mondays are the easiest. Sundays are roughly as difficult as the average Thursday puzzle but twice the size. The LA Times Crossword is American style meaning black squares make up a much smaller…

Games

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How to do the LA Times Crossword
How to do the LA Times Crossword
Games

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Dec 12, 2022

Jingostan (Gully Boy)

The meaning behind the lyrics — (My personal sense is that Indian writing about Bollywood does disservice to the depth of feeling behind some its songs and stories. In posts like these, I want to add a more nuanced read of Bollywood content.) Gully Boy was made in 2018 and came out in 2019. Jingostan, just…

India

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Jingostan (Gully Boy)
Jingostan (Gully Boy)
India

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Nov 21, 2022

I thought as much as I could about Sridhar Vembu so you don’t have to

A critique of the man behind the adulatory stories — By now, most people in the startup world know of Zoho and its productivity suite. At last count, they have 45 or so products supporting everything a business could need — from email to CRM. Famously, Vembu operates out of a small town in Southern India called Tenkasi, or the…

Zoho

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I thought as much as I could about Sridhar Vembu so you don’t have to
I thought as much as I could about Sridhar Vembu so you don’t have to
Zoho

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Nov 17, 2022

A neat way to check your punctuation

Does the punctuation you use actually reflect the cadence of your writing? — This article is not about Grammarly or any other such spelling and grammar check. This applies to any reasonably well written article where all the low hanging fruit of grammar have been plucked. Here, I will help you ensure that your article is actually read the way you intended. Cadence Cadence…

Writing

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A neat way to check your punctuation
A neat way to check your punctuation
Writing

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Nov 17, 2022

What happened when we applied to St Gregorios, Chembur

It is atrocious what they are able to get away with — Chembur is the throbbing, though clogged, heart of the eastern suburbs of Mumbai. It has something for everyone — broad sidewalks running alongside wide, tree lined avenues in areas with names like Diamond Garden and Deonar and low lying, flood prone, dirty, hellholes like Shell Colony. What it does not…

India

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What happened when we applied to St Gregorios, Chembur
What happened when we applied to St Gregorios, Chembur
India

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Nov 15, 2022

Elon Musk may be right about ending remote work

And what questions to ask while interviewing for a remote role — Why listen to me? Earlier this year, right before the economy was starting to turn sour and soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a friend of mine interviewed with and joined a CPaaS company — think Twilio but in South Asia. CPaaS stands for Communications Platform-as-a-Service. She had been aware of this company for a…

Remote Working

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Elon Musk may be right about ending remote work
Elon Musk may be right about ending remote work
Remote Working

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Sai Ramachandran

Sai Ramachandran

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I am the founder of https://moogle.cc which lets you write and post to your blog from Gmail. You can also reach me at sai@ramachandr.in

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