jorpal

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by jorpal 3y ago
Authenticity is important. Praising effort because you read it improves outcomes, even if you internally don’t think it’s praiseworthy, would be inauthentic and eventually degrade your relationship in my opinion. However I’ve been amazed by
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by jorpal 3y ago
Cali EDD is a joke. I never received my paid family leave money after my daughter was born last year. Their phone lines are always full, and they don’t respond to email.
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by jorpal 3y ago
Yes the go version takes way longer materialize our configs compared at my work compared to sJsonnet (from Databricks). The first time you switch it adds (or removes? I forget) a bunch of newlines at the end of files which is annoying to ha
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by jorpal 4y ago
I do agree with you that the bank will likely not collapse with help from the big banks. But business wise it is not in a great position with lots of low interest rate loans. Still, I would expect some recovery in the stock price.
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by jorpal 4y ago
No one wants to pay full airfare for an infant: > Hoffman recognizes the drawbacks of requiring parents to purchase airplane tickets for their youngsters. The main concern is that families will not be able to afford the airfare and will
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by jorpal 4y ago
I thought propublica was for hard hitting investigations on big issues of public importance? Who cares about fake badges on social media?
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by jorpal 4y ago
And some people trust it without a second thought. This past New Years there was a huge snow storm in the Tahoe area, many roads were closed, and clueless Bay Area people were following google maps directions around the closures into unmain
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by jorpal 4y ago
My wife was using fetus as her first guess throughout most of her pregnancy, in honor of the fetus. Baby is 1 month old now, and the first guess preference has changed. Too bad this word didn’t come earlier, she would have got it first gues
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by jorpal 4y ago
You should finish the masters, and meanwhile get an internship for the real world experience you crave.
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by jorpal 4y ago
At least half of them are Indian, in my experience.
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by jorpal 5y ago
I’m similar to you in this aspect. Some of my friends have taken advantage of remote work to go travel and work at the same time. I hate that idea. Would much rather be productive and focused at home, then totally unplug for vacation when t
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by jorpal 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! At our hospital the standard of care is delayed cord clamping, although it sounds like they wait only a few minutes, not 15+ minutes. It used to be done in ~<1 minute, I guess, so a few minutes is called delayed now.
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by jorpal 5y ago
I get that it is very tempting. We all want to do anything that could help our kids. However, there are also an endless number of things people are selling to new parents that prey on that reflex. I truly don’t know the right thing to do he
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by jorpal 5y ago
I know some people keep the cord blood in a private bank. In my opinion it only makes sense if you have family history of or current relative with a disease that could be treated with it. Since the hospital we are using (Stanford LPCH) has
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by jorpal 5y ago
My wife is 33 weeks pregnant with our first. We plan to donate our baby’s cord blood to research. Cool to think it could help researchers develop treatments like this in some small way!
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by jorpal 5y ago
That quote reminds me of the Bo Burnham song “That Funny Feeling.” It would fit nicely alongside lines like “stunning 8k resolution meditation app.”
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by jorpal 5y ago
You missed my favorite iteration: Silicon Shire.
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by jorpal 5y ago
I agree, no problems in the real world are solved. I guess that’s where all the meta verse nonsense comes into play.
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by jorpal 5y ago
The problem is we train way more PhDs than there are tenure track positions available. Most PhDs won’t be lucky enough to get one of those academic positions, and a postdoc is just delaying the inevitable transition to an industrial job. Po
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by jorpal 5y ago
I’m sure they’re working on it. Databricks, however, also has Delta Live Tables coming out soon I believe.
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by jorpal 5y ago
Anyone remember StumbleUpon? You could easily edit your interests and get different types of content. It was the pinnacle.
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by jorpal 5y ago
Basic game theory dictates that if automated driving is seen as too safe, pedestrians will feel comfortable walking anywhere, anytime. Dense downtowns will become completely gridlocked and unusable for cars. Which maybe isn’t a bad thing. B
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by jorpal 5y ago
One of my favorite things to do is explore a foreign city with a recent Lonely Plant book to guide me. I think there’s something fantastic about that experience that can’t be replicated by an app or website. When I’m traveling one cool tech
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by jorpal 6y ago
Revenge against the finance nerds. If the finance nerds bought companies made by tech nerds they’d be fine.
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by jorpal 6y ago
I studied these a bit during my PhD. The focus of my research was gravitational wave (GW) astronomy which involves incredibly sensitive instrumentation. The history of GWs before 2015 contained notoriously dubious detection claims and we we
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by jorpal 6y ago
There are certainly roles out there for a Data Scientist who just crunches numbers. A good friend of mine does exactly that for a large traditional retail corporation. Just by using standard ML tools he replaced a whole team of analysts for
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by jorpal 6y ago
The number of detected events depend on the volume of space surveyed. So, for some increase in detector sensitivity x you get x^3 more events, roughly speaking. We’re just getting better at detecting them.
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by jorpal 6y ago
1. The frequency evolution of the measures waveform depends on the mass of the objects. Once you know the mass you can use the amplitude to infer the distance. 2. Galaxies do contain supermassive black holes at their centers. However the fr