namocat

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by namocat 1mo ago
OpenAI has a PBC now
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by namocat 2mo ago
I now wonder whether Tang Tan was involved in the Masimo incident while at Apple. Maybe he brought that part of the Apple culture to OpenAI.
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by namocat 3y ago
Yes, thank you - It was unexplained, so I got stuck on "Why 48?", thinking I'd missing something right out of the gate.
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by namocat 3y ago
Almost all of the OpenAI team signed a letter saying they would resign if the board is not replaced, so safe to say that they do care about the leadership drama; perhaps more than the rest of us.
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by namocat 3y ago
This is what I suspect; that their silence is possibly not simply evidence of no underlying reason, but that the underlying reason is so sensitive that it cannot be revealed without doing further damage. Also the hastiness of it makes me
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by namocat 9y ago
s/Hipchat/sed/
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by namocat 10y ago
In other words, the end justifies the means. Uber should make that their motto.
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by namocat 11y ago
It's an HTML5 video, so you can adjust the speed with JS if you can get the right element. e.g. to set the playback speed to 120%, you can do: document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.2; in the JS co
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by namocat 11y ago
I was in the same boat as you (loyal Samsung owner, still using my trusty S3) until a few months ago when I decided to go for last year's LG flagship, the G4, and I gotta say I've been extremely displeased with LG. Particularly,
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by namocat 11y ago
So what you're basically saying is: "samy is my hero"?
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by namocat 11y ago
Relevant bit from the latest season of the Startup podcast: https://youtu.be/qfpdzPnElVU?t=738 *spoiler alert - this is toward the end of the season, in case you'd rather listen to the podcast in order
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by namocat 12y ago
Because the bootcamp industry hasn't been around very long, you're right, there is no good data. But from my experience and the experience of my peers in my class, I believe that adapting to new technologies/new ideas is act
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by namocat 12y ago
After deeming the academic science career path too exploitative and fraught with landmines, I decided I wanted to being a transition into the tech industry as a software engineer. Only trouble was... I didn't have any of the necessary
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by namocat 12y ago
Yeah, I was very surprised to see Athens, GA in the top 5. I was not even aware that they had a substantial public transit system and I lived in GA for ~15 years.
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by namocat 12y ago
I completely agree with this article, but wonder if it's inevitable for someone to jump in and try to make profit off of services for the public good if there are people out there willing to pay for it. For example, if we had sufficien
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by namocat 12y ago
I have a PhD in Neuroscience and left the "postdoc treadmill" to be a software engineer. So far I am very happy with my decision and wish I would have read this article before getting my PhD. It's 100% accurate, and everyon
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by namocat 13y ago
This is so dead on. I recently left my post-doc position from a top school, and it evoked such a reaction of "take me with you" from my fellow labmates when I was leaving. The hopelessness is palpable in a lot of grad students&#
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by namocat 13y ago
Any advice on how to develop these skills? Would it just be experience? If so, it seems to me to be a chicken-egg scenario where it sounds like you'd need several years of experience to even get an entry-level or "lowest rung&quo
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by namocat 13y ago
> eager and optimistic, but woefully ill-prepared for professional software development. Mind elaborating on this? I'm currently going through one of these and am curious for when I am applying for my first post-bootcamp job.