loftyal

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Sky News investigated X's algorithm for political bias(news.sky.com)
4 points by loftyal 11mo ago|0 comments
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by loftyal 2y ago
Did you read the article? The sugared JS would be a superset of the target JS. So you would only need to learn the sugared.
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by loftyal 2y ago
...and people criticise node's node_modules. At least you don't spend hours doing this
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by loftyal 2y ago
So were the developments before the last AI winter..
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by loftyal 2y ago
Wait until you see China. There are multiple cities bigger than NYC or London that most people have never heard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...
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The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype(garymarcus.substack.com)
98 points by loftyal 2y ago|73 comments
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DeepMind’s AI predicts almost when and where it’s going to rain(technologyreview.com)
3 points by loftyal 5y ago|0 comments
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by loftyal 5y ago
Not everyone here is American, "they" is more ambigous in the UK and Australia.
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by loftyal 5y ago
^ This is the real answer that actually reliability works
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by loftyal 5y ago
They're trying to buy enough time to get enough people vaccinated before they "let it rip". Delta has an extremely high R value and will come back in force. This way we eliminate many more unnecessary deaths. Not hard to unde
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by loftyal 5y ago
Let's be honest, the media is just giving the people what they want, people subconsciously want bias news, its not pleasent to read news that disagrees with your own views. Why do you think facebook modified their algorithms for this?
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by loftyal 5y ago
I can't think of a witty response. I fold.
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by loftyal 5y ago
Grinding leetcode != software engineering. That is my entire point, not sure why you're confused.
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by loftyal 5y ago
I'm in London, can you name these companies? I'm earning 150k GBP a year at the moment (average senior/lead as I understand is about 80 or 90?), and have interviewed at a bunch of other companies with the same level. Intervie
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by loftyal 5y ago
This is definitely not true. I've been contracting for 6 years in London, and am currently in an inside IR35 role, and have quite a few friends in the same space but in frontend/devops and its all the same. The differnce is atleas
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by loftyal 5y ago
While I agree with you that theres a few like that, you have forgotten about the candidates that genuinely don't want to spend their spare time grinding leetcode. I worked at facebook, when I started looking for a new job, I had to sta
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by loftyal 5y ago
Isn't contract work looked down upon in the US? Here in the UK, its the opposite, contractors make atleast 2x the money, and most wouldn't dream of going back to salary position because no company wants to pay that for a permanen
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by loftyal 5y ago
Isn't it pretty much everywhere doesn't require leetcode, except the US? UK, Aus, and NZ definitely don't unless its with some American company.
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by loftyal 5y ago
This. I have a 4 year old MBP with a screen issue that's obviously not my fault. Apple refuses to fix it.
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by loftyal 5y ago
Please stop talking garbage on here. This isn't facebook.
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by loftyal 5y ago
This is why you need to ask everyone who interviews "What is Container vs Presentational, and why is it good/bad". If you cannot give you a good answer don't hire them.
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by loftyal 5y ago
Most other countries provide universal health care, private health insurance is optional.
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by loftyal 5y ago
Kind of ironic isn't it, the people against universal medicare are the same ones spouting "freedom", but infact universal medicare would give them more real individual freedom than any other bills sent to the Senate these day
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by loftyal 5y ago
Wont we achieve herd immunity via natural infecion then? Unless the virus starts to become like flu, which evades the the natural immunty very easily.
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by loftyal 5y ago
Do thousands then and get back to me. It's all patterns, this "inspiration", is just patterns, your just not seeing it yet. Its true on some degree, that you need some intelligence, but I have a few close friends who are FAAN
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by loftyal 5y ago
If they're IQ tests, then why does doing a whole bunch of leetcode questions make me better at it? Isn't IQ supposed to be relatively stable throughout one's lifetime?
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by loftyal 5y ago
This gap year has been pretty common in Europe/Aus/NZ for a while. Lots of young people do it. We even have visas for it called "working holidays" so they can work a part-time bar job etc, so you dont need to save up muc
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by loftyal 5y ago
20% of passively reading/watching materials, to understand the why, how, and avoid any bad patterns, and 80% actually creating/doing something I've wanted to do with that skill. This 20/80 mix works for me well and keeps
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by loftyal 5y ago
I would recommend watching 3Blue1Bown series on calculus. Its very easy to understand and somes with some great visuals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM
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by loftyal 5y ago
Lyre Bird of south australia sings like a chainsaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ

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