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by gkuan 2y ago
At least they save on the interview travel costs now since most interviews seemed to have moved to Zoom and ilk.
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by gkuan 3y ago
Your comment reminds me of the Guardian’s piece on cities busing homeless from a while ago [1]. It was kind of like Defcon. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
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The search for extraterrestrial life as we don’t know it(scientificamerican.com)
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The search for extraterrestrial life as we don’t know it(scientificamerican.com)
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by gkuan 4y ago
It may be hard to imagine, but dividend yields were not always this low [1]. Investopedia has it usually something healthy over 4% up until 1990s it seems. Over that 1926- time frame, dividends are said to have contributed 32% of the total
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by gkuan 4y ago
Besides K&R and Modern C, I like the classic Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by van der Linden.
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DARPA Bio-Inspired Restoration of Aged Concrete Edifices(sam.gov)
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by gkuan 4y ago
Another tip I would give: try to be timely. Especially for college grads/early career, for some companies even when companies are hiring, they might not be hiring all year long (for college grads). The prime college hiring season (summ
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by gkuan 4y ago
One more resource that may be helpful, there are a whole bunch of tech interview meetups in various cities. Those meetups are a tremendous resource in terms of sharpening interview skills and finding supportive peers and people further alon
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by gkuan 4y ago
Does your college offer career fairs or college-specific job boards? Chin up. Breaking in is definitely challenging, but there are resources out there. Hopefully as the pandemic effects subside, there will be more in-person networking event
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by gkuan 4y ago
Yeah, it is unfortunate but being at a target school sometimes does give an unfair advantage. But the bright side is different companies have may a different set of target schools.
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Type Directed Synthesis for RESTful APIs(arxiv.org)
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Mysten Labs Announces Sui Blockchain(medium.com)
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Proposal for Terra Rebirth Passes(fortune.com)
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by gkuan 4y ago
This (more yield with longer duration) is true most of the time, but sometimes the yield curve inverts. Especially in recent months, the yield curve has flattened quite a bit.
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by gkuan 4y ago
MSVC has a good amount of C++20 support now https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support#cpp20 .
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by gkuan 4y ago
Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but you got me curious, looks like from TreasuryDirect that one doesn’t have to be a citizen to buy and hold, just a resident with a SSN is fine [1]. Everything else right on! [1] https://www.treasuryd
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by gkuan 4y ago
> The final approach I've encountered is where research problems come from an external body. For a good helping of the government research organizations, they hire academics and practitioners as Program Managers (PMs) who gather the
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by gkuan 4y ago
One interesting thing is that even nominal Treasuries are yielding above CDs at the moment but the difference is more like 20 bps or so. Can you imagine the people who bought i bonds in the 2000s when the fixed yield part of the return was
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by gkuan 4y ago
I do wonder if differences in language governance models impact uptake. Being completely biased (having worked on the SML/NJ compiler a long while ago), I very badly want to see more adoption. There is definitely continuing activity wi
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by gkuan 4y ago
Unfortunately, for this particular type of bond, a Series I US Savings Bond, they can only be purchased through TreasuryDirect or by way of a tax refund. Since 2012, they are no longer sold through banks [1]. For regular Treasury Bills, Not
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by gkuan 4y ago
TIPSWatch also wrote up a comparison between I Bonds and TIPS [1] from September 2021. [1] https://tipswatch.com/2021/09/07/i-bonds-vs-tips-whats-the-b...
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by gkuan 4y ago
Where are you seeing real yield on TIPS? There is certainly that 0.125% positive fixed coupon rate subject to that principal inflation adjustment. Looking at https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/anncer
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by gkuan 4y ago
And if one happens eventually come under the IRS Form 8815 MAGI cutoff, it has a federal income tax exclusion for education [1]. Consistent with what you say, it is exempt from state income taxes, which savings accounts typically aren'
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by gkuan 5y ago
US I-series savings bonds are yielding 7.1% (and is tax advantaged) which seems to be better than the staking yields of the more reputable PoS coins.
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by gkuan 5y ago
Interestingly, there is a Cambridge ML (binary was called CML not to be confused with Concurrent ML CML), which seems to underlie the Nuprl theorem prover ( http://www.nuprl.org/book/Metalanguage.html ), and was used in
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by gkuan 5y ago
The blog post seems to be getting some ML language history wrong: Caml was developed in INRIA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml ) and ML was originally from Edinburgh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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MapLab: What It Takes To Map Mars(bloomberg.com)
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Dfinity Mercury Genesis Event The Internet Computer(dfinity.org)
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by gkuan 7y ago
I once did the LA transit ride from Thousand Oaks to Pasadena and back entirely by transit (40 mi one way by driving, transit was more circuitous than that). More frequently, I would take Thousand Oaks to Hollywood or Thousand Oaks to DTLA

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