ensan

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by ensan 4y ago
If you’re just an end user and a non-engineer, how can you (1) universally judge the level of programming of data scientists to be (2) mediocre?
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by ensan 4y ago
"There is huge genetic IQ gaps, lol. Some cats are so smart they blow your mind, others are mouth breathers. The normal distribution is real." I'm very curious about how well someone with a "lot of experience in digital
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by ensan 4y ago
Intelligence is not well-defined even for humans, and we have little understanding of what goes on in an animal's "mind", yet people like you use terms like IQ for cats like they're established facts. For all we know, it
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by ensan 4y ago
I don't know your situation but I while there are certainly ultra-competitive CS programs (e.g., Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, CMU), there are many research-focused universities in the US (R1) that are totally good-enough for doing research
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by ensan 4y ago
Is it just me, or are the salaries much lower in UK than in US? Why?
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by ensan 4y ago
Why not apply to PhD/MSc programs in the US? The PhD stipend is well above starvation levels and you can go to internships during summer to earn more money and accumulate experience. I have seen many, many people in FAANG with PhDs in
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by ensan 4y ago
There is currently a hiring freeze at Meta for most positions but this rescinding case was mostly caused by visa lottery problems it seems like.
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by ensan 4y ago
No.
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by ensan 4y ago
Especially in biosciences. But it’s probably the case that the hardware that Apple produces don’t use fancier methods such as DL/RL that much and depend on more traditional methods. You need capable GPUs for the state of the art stuff
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by ensan 4y ago
No, especially in fields that have as much citations and papers on average as ML/DL/RL. If a paper in any other field was cited 44k in ~8 years, it must have made life-changing discoveries. Maybe some of the early papers on COVID-
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by ensan 4y ago
"ML is starting to fizzle out as a “savior” of the industry after lofty promises were never fulfilled." What? Siri, text completion, all the health- and activity-tracking features of Apple Watch, computational photography, Photos
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by ensan 4y ago
Wow, reading a few pages of mostly spiteful & angry (at Mr. Goodfellow) replies on macrumors.com was really eye-opening. Ordinary people seem to have no idea at all how much in-demand someone at the level of Ian Goodfellow is.
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by ensan 4y ago
"The paper mentions 35 (!) manual restarts to train OPT-175B due to hardware failure (and 70+ automatic restarts)." https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1521572873449533440
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by ensan 4y ago
Isn't there a tax deduction aspect to a lot of these donations? Anyways, 100 more Nature-level articles about climate change is not going to change the situation if there is no political will (or if it seesaws every 4-8 years at best).
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by ensan 4y ago
Ironically, I suspect a lot of them might end up in fossil fuel companies and do greenwashing R&D.
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by ensan 4y ago
"If it's from Stanford, pretty much whatever you want." That not true at all. The name of the university can only get you so far. For example, if you have a climate-related degree, can you really compete with Stanford CS majo
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by ensan 4y ago
I have not had the time to read the paper and see how the authors address this, but the biggest flaw of this study is relying on subjective reports by the owners. Almost all dog owners I know are used to playing down the severity of their d
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by ensan 4y ago
" peer-reviewed long term study " This is not a silver bullet, even for recently published Nature/Science papers. You need to convince 3-4 people to get your paper published in the end. For many controversial papers, there i
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by ensan 4y ago
"There could be plenty of reasons why pitbulls feature highly in the dog attack stats (severity making attacks more noteworthy, type of owner increasing likelihood" Well, the severity of their attacks is essentially a results of t
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by ensan 4y ago
But is writing a (somewhat pathetic) open letter really trying? Perhaps organizing a strike would convey more meaning, although I don't see that happening at all.
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by ensan 4y ago
"The S&P 500 had record profitability during this completely unplanned WFH experience." Correlation != Causation
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by ensan 4y ago
"They pay well because demand for engineers is high" Do they pay their teams in Canada, India, China, etc. as much as SV? No.
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by ensan 4y ago
The method proposed in their Nature method may be very impactful, but the paper itself is nowhere near as rigorous as the other Nature papers I've read; it is written more like a white paper and I believe if this paper was submitted by
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by ensan 4y ago
“I also can't help but not overlook that he's an UFO nut.” Well, that’s your personal opinion but I’m not sure how his thoughts on UFOs discredits his view of the work culture at Valve. One can have metaphysical and spiritual beli
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by ensan 4y ago
Calm down, no one claimed to speak for you. I come from a country where 6 ft.+ is considered pretty tall so I totally believe that this type of metric is not universal. In fact, there is no real analogue there and I have never heard of a fe
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by ensan 4y ago
"Basically this means that in modern dating, if you are short, you are very likely to die alone and this trend will only get worse in the future." You're being overly dramatic and don't have any to support your claim. It
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by ensan 4y ago
So what? If you look at the average speed of a racing car shortly before it crashes, it will be very high.
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by ensan 4y ago
Look at the luxury stores being regularly robbed in cities like LA. Not exactly “civil”, but it’s an inevitable consequence of inequality: rich people can’t easily enjoy their nice things.
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by ensan 4y ago
“Once you hit a critical mass of these people, it completely sours the culture and it becomes an irreversible black hole.” By all accounts, it already has.
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by ensan 4y ago
This unusually rosy anecdote (claiming to work 2 hours per week???) is from an anonymous account created a few hours ago just to comment on this story. Let’s not take it more seriously than we have to.

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