CinchWrench

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by CinchWrench 6y ago
>It's typically used as legal bribes for the governments of those countries, who distributed it to all their cronies at the top Wouldn't those be exactly the people you need in order to stop these scams?
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Piazza (forums) and office hours (bluejeans--think youtube livestreams but on a proprietary platform. For me, this semester, I finished a group project where we coordinated over slack/google hangouts. After that project, I didn't
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Uh, yeah they do. Just because the climate isn't as nice as the Bay Area doesn't mean people don't have homes there. For one, the culture/night life is incredible there.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I can think of two in my extended network just off the top of my head. One is a run-of-the-mill general practitioner and the other is a brilliant entrepreneur. And these are people I live near in out here in East BFE.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I was being downvoted. I kinda want the downvotes back. Makes me feel like a rebel.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
NY -> Miami California -> Austin I think you could probably chalk a lot of this up to where company leadership has their vacation homes.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I've dropped out. It's a lot of work, but the hardest part for me was staying engaged with the process without in person interaction. Pandemic has been hell for me, too.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I wish it were harsh to say that.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
It's no joke, pal.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Lol. which people? The ones questioning why we should accept this or the ones foisting this on the population? I could tell you but I'll be b& from commenting. :-)
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Doesn't matter. They have access to unprecedented levels of free pornography so they're too pacified to be a threat to the ruling class.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Will not happen. The U.S. military industrial complex views these sorts of algorithms as a vital technology in fighting future wars, and also fears that it's at a disadvantage to China because 4x population means a strategic advantage
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Those and SVR's get me through 99% of the algorithmic part of my job, though! The rest is some unsupervised stuff like k-means and PCA. What would you like to see instead? (INB4 CNNs/RNNs other deep learning topics)
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Yup, I think I and that child are talking past each other. :-( It's good though because they raise some really valid points about the importance of intuition. I joke with my colleagues that all we're doing is encoding data as a
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
>the fundamental skills that you need are mathematics and software engineering So much this. If I have to interview another junior-level DS who has a MNIST project in their github and still somehow can't manage fizzbuzz or a fibona
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I've worked extensively with MIP and never heard the phrase "tragedy of the integers." Can you tell me where I can go to learn more about this outlook on issues associated with (i suppose) linear relaxations of integer proble
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
So in spite of what Friedman and his Chicago goons would have had us believe, it turns out the world is in fact not, flat. Huh.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
You nailed this. What all of these pearl-clutching arguments amount to is former gatekeepers kvetching about there no longer being a gate for them to keep. The information dissemination landscape is evolving, and we are only being held back
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Sorry, not allowed to count for the compensation reported to us gov.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Rule is for base pay, contingent pay (bonus/incentives) is not allowed.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
DHS gets rejection-happy for renewals, forces companies' HR people to do the RFE dance, rejects, candidate has to get on the next flight out. Not fun to watch happen, but I blame the companies, not the government.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Bureau of labor statistics keeps and publishes salary info. The hard part is making the job titles line up. https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm Somewhere on that site there's a listing for H1B levels as well. I
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Right. And you're not going to learn to use any of those in a sophomore-level course on MATLAB to earn your MechE degree.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I totally agree on the sophistication--I did a ton of HPC work for my masters thesis. But a class where you had to write some code to do basic finite element analysis or solve linear systems doesn't make you qualified work on a distrib
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
prejudice--against what? Genuinely curious.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Because the applicant wasn't qualified to do it. H1B is not a jobs training program, but they were trying to use it as one. The US has a jobs training program for foreign workers/grads. It's called OPT. That's abuse.
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
Want to know how I know you work for a good company? Be grateful! Not all of us are so lucky!
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I've seen this abused so badly though--our compliance person in HR was asking me to help write one a while back for a candidate that had a BS in mechanical engineering and no relevant work experience, claiming that a course the applica
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
I think you and the parent are just talking past each other and you really agree on the same thing. I don't see this as a new wealth transfer though, I see it as the cessation of an ongoing wealth transfer. I think the parent does too
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by CinchWrench 6y ago
did you know netflix's first CEO is Edward Bernays' great-nephew?[1] Makes a lot of things make sense. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph#Early_life_and_e...

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