btheshoe

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by btheshoe 3y ago
nah it's not top tier college, it's just being insanely smart in the mathy way.
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by btheshoe 3y ago
Huh, in my circles the real trophy jobs are quant roles at top firms. And given the caliber of the people there - and the compensation - they're arguably not trophy roles. Tbh ppl going for the pm/vc path are seen mostly as tools.
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by btheshoe 3y ago
do me a favor and look up all the papers in thinking fast and slow that failed to replicate
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by btheshoe 3y ago
so based. But I do have to say that when the president of one of your top institutions resigns over misconduct, the level of misconduct is probably a fair amount over optimal. And speaking with my friends in, eg, alzheimer's research,
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by btheshoe 3y ago
> The peer review system is not designed to catch fraud, it's designed to catch scientific or experimental errors. Yes. > Giving up on science is such a vast overgeneralization. You could take your statement and replace "man
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by btheshoe 3y ago
On the whole, all these scandals in manipulated research have deeply shaken my trust in many of our scientific institutions. It's clear by now this isn't the case of a few bad apples - our scientific institutions are systemically
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by btheshoe 3y ago
ya so notice the pattern before anyone else and extract money by filling the inefficiency. this isn't a profound insight, the nature of alpha is that it's temporary and limited. doesn't mean it doesn't exist and you can&
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by btheshoe 3y ago
? Personally I'm comfortable uploading my resume wherever - it's my resume, it exists to advertise my skills. I'd give it freely to anyone who asks, there's nothing on there I'd consider private almost by definition
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by btheshoe 3y ago
the nba player's association has secured nba players a nice share of revenue. seems to me like engineers could do something similar.
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by btheshoe 3y ago
I've never felt unsafe in an alleyway in sf. but probably the same as any other city - don't be a dumbass, avoid the alleyways in shady parts of the city, esp at night.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Very interesting approach to gaining a comparative advantage in the labor market: pay everyone less.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I personally don't like the undertone of the class (tho very grateful that this material exists!!!) - this idea that universities are failing their students by not teaching them necessary material. I think a better phrasing is that stu
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by btheshoe 4y ago
The issue I see is that humans seem to have many of the same problems as the ones they point out ml systems can have.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
generally, this is a reputation thing
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by btheshoe 4y ago
nah, i have plenty of similarly smart friends who are doing just fine. he'll fit right in in some college environments, and he can take the time he's not wasting doing class and pursue real things that matter, like research.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
re "calculator for text": gpt => wolfram alpha is scary good
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by btheshoe 4y ago
notice how hackernews uses an off white for its background? do you find it hard to read?
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Openai is a bunch of scientists. And their product is not exactly unique - all the major cloud vendors will have a chatgpt available soon. So openai won't copy for the same reason AWS can't copy all of its customers - presumably t
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by btheshoe 4y ago
What's ae level
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by btheshoe 4y ago
doomer take but tbh i respect it. but the central thesis of the tech industry is that it allows for products to be created with very low marginal cost which facilitates the high returns and if that thesis turns out to no longer be true then
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I think this makes assumptions about the demand for software engineers that seem unproven. Law salaries are bimodal because the demand for lawyers is limited, so there's only so many big law firms that can exist. In the near future, at
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I'm sorry but I'm unable to take anything nick land says seriously anymore But in general I don't think I'm taking the permanence of twitter or fb for granted - they both fill a clear need and I don't see any new pl
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by btheshoe 4y ago
The problem isn't chatgpt, it's curriculum. If students were motivated to learn to write (and the skill is genuinely useful, this shouldn't be a hard task) this wouldn't be a problem. But instead for whatever reason we&#
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by btheshoe 4y ago
It seems to me that the deaths of Twitter and Facebook are being greatly exaggerated (by this article, and by the vibes generally). A decrease in users is not the same thing as a mass exodus. And I'm frankly skeptical of any claims tha
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by btheshoe 4y ago
I saw them, takes a while though. Just keep scrolling
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by btheshoe 4y ago
makes sense, considering that the current economic climate in the tech industry will impact bootcamp grads the most.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
> My spicy take is that React is not an abstraction above the DOM, it's an abstraction parallel to it. Why do you think this? Would be interested to hear the reasoning behind the take.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
My friend works in that exact lab as an on campus job. He's been telling me about his job watching gorillas, always thought it was really cool.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
Why would a German company not want to hear about the impact that a potential employee created? What's the difference in culture here? Genuine question.
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by btheshoe 4y ago
... who cares? Functionally, I have never gone beyond the 3rd search page when looking for a useful website. I can see how the search engine does find the astronomical number of search results, but then just decides for technical reasons to

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