mdcds

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by mdcds 4y ago
> I see people report learning stuff, working on side projects, etc etc on HN. How? 1. people on the internet are full of shit 2. Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) takes a 3 hour break from work to, quote: "have dinner and spend time with
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by mdcds 4y ago
> It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable, -1 for strawman disagreeing with someone and raking high on Disagreeableness BigFive trait are two different things
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by mdcds 4y ago
data is just that, not an argument in itself. how you use it to disprove something is up to you.
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by mdcds 4y ago
I don't trust numbers on Blind. But I do look at averages for a specific role at a specific company on Levels
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by mdcds 4y ago
People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same. Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded for fungible units of B.
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by mdcds 4y ago
a side, but a sincere question: what do Data Scientists do and what can I expect one to produce as productive output? I've worked as an SDE on data engineering projects myself (Spark / Hadoop stuff) and have friends who are ML res
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by mdcds 4y ago
> To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees From what era / decade? World isn't static. MS is CS earned in 80s means a different thing than the one earned today
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by mdcds 4y ago
#2 links to atomic-energy.ru So it's probably nuclear plant control console and I'm guessing nuclear fuel rods are represented by a dot inside the "sun" and rods themselves are suspended in some sort of a circular enclos
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by mdcds 4y ago
Is it illegal you use fake name and fake age on the internet? asking for a friend :)
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by mdcds 4y ago
Actually, the relationship with 6-month treasury is even stronger: https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=%24UST6M&p=W&b=1&g=0&id=p1...
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by mdcds 4y ago
Just something to think about: Fed Funds rate follows the 2-year treasury with a lag. What BlackRock calls "deliberately causing recession", I would call "following the signal from the bond market" Chart: https:/&#
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by mdcds 4y ago
I've been using ChatGPT to summarize text and as a replacement for a search engine to look up concepts. Examples: - "what is the difference between Semigroup and Monoid" - "summarize following text: <paste som
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by mdcds 4y ago
I'm heavily involved in interviewing at my current org and have been pondering same questions. Some ideas: 1. use ChatGPT (or similar) to test your questions. I read that GPT-like models cannot do abstract manipulation. Perhaps the
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by mdcds 4y ago
Since said person doesn't want to listen you and you don't have the direct authority over that person, I think it's reasonable to ask the team manager to deal with it. Say something like the following. Just remember to includ
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by mdcds 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT the opposite quesiton (why becoming cheaper) :D Streaming services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, and HBO Max are becoming cheaper for a few reasons. First, the streaming market has become more competitive in recent years
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by mdcds 4y ago
> “The price of streaming services is reflective of the economic realities and costs that it takes to produce and distribute the content,” Schmitt says. Lies. Things are priced to maximize the amount of profit, which is Quantity * Price
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by mdcds 4y ago
Consider this angle: what if it's your intuition telling you that whatever you are doing isn't important and you should be focusing your efforts on something else?
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by mdcds 4y ago
> The belief is that the climate is not static It's a justified belief. Climate isn't static. For example, Sahara desert used to be an oasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
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by mdcds 4y ago
My Slack notifications are on only for DMs and mentions, and only during office hours. If there is a crisis afterhours, my teammates/manager have my phone number.
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by mdcds 4y ago
> Wouldn't it make the most sense to announce those decisions before making layoffs? no. layoff from the bottom first. then push out more people as needed. bottom performers have fewer options and, on average, will be willing to put
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by mdcds 4y ago
well then, I'm going to not subscribe even harder
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by mdcds 4y ago
> The interviewers expressed a wish to see me go more in depth on technologies, but I simply don't have much experience in any of them I conduct system design interview sessions for my org. My advice is to find opportunities to work
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by mdcds 4y ago
I've been using Return Youtube Dislike addon for Firefox. Idk how accurate it is, but you can gauge the sentiment (mostly positive, mixed, mostly negative)
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by mdcds 4y ago
I switch between Scala and Python all the time. My trick is to use different editors with different color schemes. IntelliJ for Scala, VSCode for Python. My brain switches immediately.
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by mdcds 4y ago
Which people? Def not mom-and-pop investors who use pension funds and wealth managers/advisors to keep their investments in (usually) diversified portfolios.
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by mdcds 4y ago
I had the same question! The mechanism of higher rates reducing inflation isn't clear to me. Does it go down because people with cash choose to park it and earn interest instead of buying goods and services? Or does it go down because
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by mdcds 4y ago
> First you have Price's Law - half the people actually doing work rises with the square root of the total employee count. It's a variant of Pareto law. So as you grown bigger, the critical path of viable operation depends on f
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by mdcds 4y ago
Where does superior performance come from? SSDs optimizations, multi-threading, and O(1) mem allocator?
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by mdcds 4y ago
> There is no evidence of fraud since then absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence ~ NNT Just because no one found fraud, doesn't mean it isn't there. I'm optimistic about Charles Hoskinson's project to d
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by mdcds 4y ago
did the company survive?

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