What I'm Reading: February 1

Career

• Blizzard manager quits after refusing to give an employee a low performance evaluation

  • Blizzard uses stack ranking, where employees are graded on a bell curve

Tech

• Interesting discussion on a recent quantum paper in the comments of this blog post (including the author of the paper)

  • The paper seemed to be interpreted by many as having proposed an algorithm that could crack RSA encryption, but the comments disagree, claiming it doesn't prove any realistic speedup

• ChatGPT writes decent malware, and hackers seem to be experimenting with it

  • (Are you tired of hearing about ChatGPT yet??)

Etc

• Lumpfish can reduce sea lice in farmed salmon

  • An alternative to chemicals to treat sea lice

• Debt ceiling talk from Joshua Forest at the NY Fed

• Manheim report: used car prices coming down, supply increasing