steev

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by steev 6y ago
But isn't the real issue how these small changes add up over time? Seems kind of like saying "a single car will not put out enough CO2 to impact the atmosphere" but here we are with millions (billions?) of cars that are defin
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by steev 6y ago
Work harder. Never give up. Nothing to it but to do it (Ronnie Coleman) The journey is the reward (I think this is Steve Jobs) What can I do to move myself towards my goals right now? These are things I usually say to myself throughout the
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by steev 6y ago
You really want all their staff to lose their jobs just so your image search results experience is better? Seems a bit selfish don't you think? What about all the users that enjoy it? I don't like pinterest and I get the frustrati
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by steev 6y ago
At least for beginners, they absolutely are. I have found undergrads generally get the idea behind something like HashMap<Integer, String> but getting them to reason about OCaml modules takes quite a bit of effort.
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by steev 6y ago
> I can't understand why OCaml doesn't have mass adoption. Probably for the exact same reason each year you think about learning OCaml you decide not to (I mean this sincerely, not trying to be snide). I think the main reasons
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by steev 6y ago
I am not sure I follow. It seems plausible that the sky-high taxes are a major motivator for people wanting to leave CA but a recent change in SF made it possible for people to move to a different state (e.g., Twitter and FB allowing perman
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by steev 6y ago
This [1] is a a much more detailed course that gives a great introduction to OCaml. [1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2019sp/textbook/in...
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by steev 6y ago
The Girl Scouts are a non-profit yet they don't give their cookies away for free.
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by steev 6y ago
I don't see how this is a nuanced perspective - it seems to restate the same complaints/arguments just about every comment makes in these discussions. A nuanced perspective would look at the arguments as to why OpenAI is doing the
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by steev 6y ago
How on earth is any of the advertising antagonizing? I had to read through the course page twice to look for anything remotely resembling a criticism and came up blank. If it is the quote you added to the bottom of your comment, my question
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by steev 6y ago
I am completely baffled by this response. At a minimum, that is not what narcissistic means in any sense of the word. I cannot understand how trying to improve yourself, whether as a research, programmer, or just general human being, makes
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by steev 6y ago
God forbid anyone pursues higher education because they want to become a better researcher. I would suggest you spend some time thinking about your EQ rather than spending time on the internet posting nonsense generalizations about entire c
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by steev 6y ago
I work from home as a software engineer at a major tech company. Infrastructure: my company provides money to setup your workspace. Buying a desk is the most expensive part here but really you can get a solid setup for < $500. Internet c
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by steev 6y ago
A degree from a reputable university doesn't count in _any_ profession (ok, that's hyperbolic - it certainly counts for something in run-of-the-mill office jobs). Even doctors, lawyers, actuaries, accountants, etc. have to prove t
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by steev 6y ago
That's not the case at Google. The call schedule for SREs is pretty nice.
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by steev 6y ago
They are working on things that interest them. What is wrong with that? That is also a little insulting to the researchers that are actually studying how to cure cancer.
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by steev 6y ago
Probably to try and prevent this from turning into a flamewar. A lot of people just read the title and don't read the article and then comment based on what they think the article is about.
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by steev 6y ago
I'm guessing they are referring to a work phone.
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by steev 7y ago
This doesn't seem any more ridiculous than companies setting a higher price and then always having the item on sale. I think JCPenny famously tried simply lowering their prices and sales went down. I guarantee if you ask the average pe
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by steev 7y ago
It seems pretty reasonable to me, as an interviewer, to look up the question I am thinking about asking to see what is available online. Is there a reason you wouldn't do this?
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by steev 7y ago
My main objection is it dramatically decreases your productivity. If building and testing takes 5-10mins (which is the case in our codebase) trying to fix a bug can take forever when you aren't exactly sure what the cause is. You don&#
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by steev 7y ago
That was my hunch. > People always say "use numpy", but that is only possible if your algorithm can be described in terms of vectorized operations. For many kinds of processing, the only alternative is C/C++ (through Cytho
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by steev 7y ago
I tried really hard to like Julia and just couldn't get behind it. We used it for a research paper in the area of optimization and by the end of the project I really regretted it. Performance and built in numerics libraries were great,
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by steev 7y ago
> Typically straightforward Numpy gets me from 40x slower than straightforward C to 5x slower. I find this hard to believe. What kind of numerical work are you doing? Even something as simple as matrix-matrix multiplication should be har
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by steev 7y ago
This sounds like an architecture problem, not a language problem. Can you elaborate?
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by steev 7y ago
I don't think he's saying he literally thinks slower than 80 WPM. I interpret this to mean the rate at which he writes his thoughts down matches the amount of time it takes him to think of what he wants to write next or how he wan
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by steev 7y ago
Just to be clear, the book series you are referring to is "Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture" published by Morgan-Claypool, right? If you had to rank them in importance for the average engineer, how would you rank them?
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by steev 7y ago
The scale and complexity of the problems is appealing to some people. There are very few companies where you get to work on problems with the same scale problems as Google.
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by steev 7y ago
In my experience you can share your views in Google as long as everyone around you shares those views.
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by steev 7y ago
Not to get too much into the weeds, but in my experience in HPC for numerical work out-of-bounds read/writes are almost never an issue. I say almost because I'm sure someone somewhere as slipped up, but I've literally never h

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