throwaway71958

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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Ouch, "making stuff up". That's harsh, my man. Thus far I've made absolutely nothing up in this thread, or indeed in any others under this account. And you're using a PR puff piece written by Google HR to discount y
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Did I say it was "data"? The closest anyone has come to "data" on this (that I know of) is Google, in that experiment where they just hired people at random. But they decided to ignore the results and stick to the soul c
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
To quote Abraham Lincoln: "Do not trust anything you read on the internet". I know it from my own experience and that of many others who have been through the gauntlet. Take it for what it's worth, I'm not selling you an
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Well, don't wait to get fired then. Find a better paying job you like and go for it. It doesn't seem like you have much to lose anyway, and the best way to increase your paycheck is by moving around and not letting employers take
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
I'm not sure I believe that, actually. As elaborate as the process is, there are still plenty of false positives. I'm not convinced a simpler process would have produced a materially different outcome.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
They certainly still _are_ among the top choices for top people, but they're no longer the _best_ choice for most. I can't in good conscience advise anyone to join any 70K person company. "Cog in a machine" describes it
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Yes. Getting hired by Google is only part of the deal. Actually _succeeding_ when you're already there is much more difficult. It's a high pressure environment with a lot of very smart overachievers. Because of this it's sort
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
They don't. In fact they even did an experiment and admitted some people at random, irrespective of how well they did in the interviews. Those people were found to perform about as well as the legitimate interview "lottery winners
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Don't take his word as a word of god from heaven. Google's interview process is just as shitty as anyone else's, and shittier than some I've been through. It selects for people who do well on the whiteboard under pressur
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
One thing interviews can't select for: creativity and motivation. And in tech those two criteria are the most vital, especially motivation. I can easily fill in the skills gap in someone who's motivated. I can't do anything w
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
It's not so much about "making it look like Russia" as it is about making the current administration look illegitimate. There are literally trillions of dollars at stake, as well as very affluent lifestyles of some very influ
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
It's a proper noun that describes an obscure sub-structure of US Congress. Now, quickly, name some sub-structures of the Russian Duma for us, and tell us what Putin thinks about them.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Russian here: Russia very definitely does use online trolling domestically (same as the US I guess). They also use paid "pro-government" rally attendees. That's very well documented, including direct video evidence on Youtube
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
To quote a Russian poet, Alexander Pushkin: "Oh it is not hard to fool me, for I am willing to be fooled."
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
To this day I don't know what the word "caucus" would even correspond to in Russian. And English/Russian language pair is notoriously bad in machine translation systems. We're talking borderline unreadable, in eithe
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
I'm not saying he/she was. But do consider that in one case the most cursory circumstantial evidence is enough to convict, but in this case the same level of "evidence" is not enough to exonerate. Double standard, anyone
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
For a pro-Russian shill I seem to be doing a bad job, seeing how I'm actually Russian and made no attempt to conceal this fact.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Sure. But if that's what you really think, then you don't get to assume that the DNC was hacked "by the Russians". Agreed?
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
I've observed the whole Brexit thing with great interest, but I don't feel well versed in the vernacular. And for someone well versed, it'd be difficult to know what the person who's not well versed wouldn't know. W
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
"The peoples" is unlikely. "-ing" after most verbs is unlikely. "the" is unlikely before "Freedom Caucus" and "NSC". There's no "the" in Russian, and ESL speakers often omit i
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
To my ear, this obfuscation sounds Middle Eastern, due to the frequent use of "-ing" in verbs whether it belongs there or not. I know an Iranian guy who does this a lot.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Well, there's no Russian first-language bias in that text for sure. Another argument in favor of the opinion that this was written by an American: the author seems to be well versed in the memes of the US political discourse. Someone f
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
As a Russian myself, I can tell you with certainty that there are mistakes in that text that a Russian ESL speaker would never make, and verb tenses are a bit too good for an unskilled speaker. Due to the combination of these two factors, I
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
This is incomplete: they need to also include the political affiliations of owners of "fact check" sites, and perhaps also FEC disclosure for donations above threshold, and sources of financial support. I.e. this site comes from P
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
At least one person is thinking straight. This is basically a blanket license to learn from everything you do, even if you do it in third party apps. Right now those apps are opaque, and Google can't see what you're doing there. A
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Note however, that on Intel it's actually slower than run off the mill float32 linear algebra library like Eigen or OpenBLAS. Its main forte seems to be ARM.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
They're also not very interested in making it easier for you to train models at home. Not that it's a big risk for them if you were able to do so: you don't have the data, and your models are only as good as your data, but th
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Some of the multi-author articles on Distill have a very important (IMO) innovation. They quantify precisely the contribution each author has made to the article. I would like to see this become norm in scientific papers, so on the one hand
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
Have you tried to manage projects across timezones and cultures? Usually the way this works is all of the outsourced work has to be redone in the US anyway, at twice the original cost.
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by throwaway71958 9y ago
>> should be normalized for geographic location No it shouldn't. Top N thousand by salary should be admitted, the rest -- rejected. How are you going to enforce your "geographic location" once the worker is here? We can

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