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by ewjordan 8y ago
This seems like a great topic for a pre-trospective meeting to discuss the process of how to structure the process to figure out the process.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
PM is a super heavily overloaded term that you'll run across in pretty much any company larger than small, definitely not specific to Google (disclaimer: I work at Google and don't speak for the company, but I'm brand new s
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by ewjordan 8y ago
I 100% disagree. Have had extremely interesting conversations out of essentially this question regardless of my status relative to the person I'm asking (plus or minus 3 levels in the management chain), except in the rare case that the
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by ewjordan 8y ago
For a sufficiently advanced definition of "just playing the odds", that's pretty much what any model does.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
> If the curvature were slightly less than 1, the topology would be "closed", meaning it would be finite, and traveling in a straight line ends back where you started. Doesn't this require the assumption that the spacetime
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by ewjordan 8y ago
> You're assuming that it was based on whether or not the candidate was hire. Nobody with an iota of experience in machine learning would do something like that. (For obvious reasons: you can't tell from your data whether peopl
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by ewjordan 8y ago
I don't think I'm with you. A neural net cannot do this - picking apart male and female tokens requires a signal in the gradients that force the two classes apart. If there's no gradient, then something like weight decay wi
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by ewjordan 8y ago
If they were using any sort of neural networks approach with stochastic gradient descent, the network would have to spend some "gradient juice" to cut a divot that recognizes and penalizes women's colleges and the like. It wo
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by ewjordan 8y ago
That would be "amended" if we're gonna go all the way with this.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Once your test suite is big enough that it won't run within a minute or two, it's kind of hard to keep a "green on each commit" workflow, though. Especially with UI and visual diff tests in the mix, I certainly don'
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Will the other tech companies be remembered for never resisting in the first place? IIRC Microsoft and Yahoo we're both like "censorship and tracking? HELL YEAH, where do we sign?" from day one.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
I use several different computers and operating systems regularly, and it's really useful to have my browser history, bookmarks, extensions and other configuration synced up. That's not to say I'd be miserable without it, b
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Yeah...and that thread says that the change is basically nothing, just a UI indicator: > Q: I don’t get, though — if you’re signed in to the browser but sync is off, then what does it mean to be signed in to the browser? What does it do
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by ewjordan 8y ago
I'm still not clear about what the actual change in behavior even is - seeing some statements on Twitter from someone on the dev team, it sounded to me like there isn't actually any difference, just a UI change to show which Gma
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by ewjordan 8y ago
The big difference between leaving a relationship and leaving a job is that even if you're in a good place, a job will never last for life. Some relationships will. Anecdotally, I don't know a single person that has regretted leav
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Absolutely, though I'd warn that if you naively use PHP and a default setup (Apache with default settings for PHP or something like that), you're probably not going to serve as much traffic per server as a naive Python or Ruby set
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by ewjordan 8y ago
If a company already has a large PHP codebase, then it's probably the right choice to stick with it. And it can scale just fine, easily as well as Python or Ruby if you dig into how to do it right. But to manage scalable PHP (or any la
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by ewjordan 8y ago
"What most people really mean when they say someone is a good fit culturally is that he or she is someone they’d like to have a beer with." This is never how the companies I've been at treated culture fit interviews. Maybe I&
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Extremely interesting take, with a lot of good stuff to think about. I'm unclear about the claim that less economic growth would be better, though, and the author seems very committed to it. I wasn't able to find the article they
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Opiods have been around forever; pardon my ignorance, but what is different now that makes so many more people get hooked on them? Presumably people felt the same levels of pain in the past as they do now, given the same maladies. Is the si
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by ewjordan 8y ago
A decade ago self driving trucks existed only in thoughtspace; today they're actually being built, driven, and refined. That the old estimates we're wrong doesn't mean the tech will never happen, it's almost available r
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by ewjordan 8y ago
There are dedicated reporters at a lot of outlets for each of the tech giants, I don't understand that complaint. I've talked with several of them, they show up at like every tech gathering they're allowed into, and many pe
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by ewjordan 8y ago
What else can you do in Seattle with absolutely zero skill or qualifications and no willingness to commit that pays that well? Not a joke question. I'd have loved any fraction of $880 a month when I was in college and was otherwise wor
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Fair, I upvoted you because that's a wrong interpretation of what you said.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
"figure something out, or die" The Republican party salutes you, you speak their disgusting and morally bereft "truth" with extreme accuracy.
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by ewjordan 8y ago
That "European presence" requirement is, by itself, an attempt to force their laws on the world, and if it's going to have teeth, will require other countries to bow to pressure to enforce it even though they had no input. If
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Yes, and thank you, I couldn't remember the name of the book to reference it! I think it makes a somewhat strong case; to me, the big problem to explain regarding the evolution of intelligence is the fact that it only helps survival a
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Evolution wasn't trying very hard to create intelligence; it's really not that useful for survival relative to how expensive it is biologically, to the extent that some people think it's more an artifact of human mate selec
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by ewjordan 8y ago
Well, "We want less traffic, build more roads" actually helps, in a way: all the additional people driving are doing so because it's more convenient than the next available option, so they're all getting real value out o
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by ewjordan 8y ago
People want more affordable housing by apartment count; activists will happily block large projects that would include sizable numbers of affordable units because they're not happy with the percentage of affordable units. The percent

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