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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> As a coffee lover myself, how/why did you make that jump? My reasons are right there in the original post: "bathroom trips... bad breath... stain your teeth". Those things become more obnoxious as I aged. Throw away ja
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> I’m curious about which type of products you have been working on and what type of product decisions the engineers you have been working with have done. IME: technically-trained PMs are worth their weight in gold. PMs without a techn
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
PMs are ideally senior engineers who've learned how to communicate with customers, salespeople, and clients (both senior management and end-users). Unfortuantely, many companies/projects/teams don't budget properly for t
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> I'm not sure we will still be a society if we eliminate family bonds. There's a significant difference between not having nepotism and eliminating family bonds. > We are tribal and protect our families. Many of virtuo
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
What you're saying is so true, but it's worth saying: it doesn't work. This is exactly how once-great tech companies die. This is how governments lose the faith of their citizenry.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Because the benchmark went up.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Side question - won't it be more profitable to sell some and keep some for potential future profits, so the overall risk is lower but you still profit potentially? Selling all your stock comp immediately is more about diversifi
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Not at all. Or rather, Who knows? Maybe. But certainly, at least today, a SoTA model generating a quality encyclopedia certainly is not doing what human writers do, and is certainly effectively copy/pasting. Maybe in 50 years -- or
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> if it was machine generated, did it take creativity?... but did the output that is being copyrighted? In the US, this question has been settled since at least the 1990s (e.g., in the context of videogames). The output of algorithms i
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> Why wouldn't this be the case? One possible legal theory: because the algorithm was trained on a text corpus upon which the algorithm's owner has no legal claim. In this particular case, I don't think that theory would
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
It's helpful to remember that the Bay Area is extremely expensive, and even more helpful to remember that some people have large families. I could pretty comfortably raise a family of 6 on $100K in a midwestern city, or a family of 6 o
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Yes, mathematicians mean something different and specific when using the word bias. The average non-expert is not misusing the word. They are using the word to express a different -- and far more popular -- meaning. Neither is wrong, but in
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
The distinction between ML and programming is mostly propaganda, in the sense that it's not flat out wrong but is mostly used to win money/power. It's not actually a helpful way of understanding... anything.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> IMO it attracts people that can't come with SOTA advances in real problems and its their "easier, vague target" to hit and finish their PhDs while getting published in top journals. I'm also pretty wary of interpr
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> If your model does not adequately predict the data generating process, then your model absolutely does not explain it or articulate its inner working. That's a very dynamicist viewpoint. I don't necessarily disagree. Howeve
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
I think it's a real open question whether the interpretable models are actually worse, or merely worse in competition/benchmark problem sets. The more deep models I build, the more I'm convinced that behind every inscrutable
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Yeah, but I don't need great writers. I need people who I can trust to given presentations to clients, executives, or directors of other divisions of the business. I need people who can communicate clearly in writing with clients/
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> I think grads are much more likely to possess these skills for sure, but I would guess that a large percentage of grads don't possess these skills either (at least in my experience). I agree with this assessment. Even some top-t
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
The official explanation from the vendor is that this was an "anti-fraud security setting". Can anyone familiar with CC processing provide insight on whether that's a reasonable explanation? Regardless, a problem that require
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
https://fi.google.com is great if you travel often.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> 4. I think academia suffers from this as well. Mathematicians and physicists always go on talking about "simplicity" and "beauty" as if their job is to deduce the simplicity of the universe. There is a lot of valu
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Those studies say something more like "UW Madison/U Washington/UIUC really do give you as good an education as the ivies" and quite a bit less like "college doesn't matter/is just a signal".
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Their familial controls don't make much sense to me. An actuary's kid will have an easier time becoming an actuary. Same for lawyers and doctors. That doesn't mean that college is a non causal factor in those students lifetim
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The Next Bio Startup: Born in the Wild vs. Bred in Captivity(a16z.com)
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
What about the Equifax case or the Zappos case is high risk? Or even low risk?
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Even in development. In fact, probably especially in development! I've done a lot of programming where my productivity was input-constrained, so I know that that such jobs do exist. I much prefer jobs where my productivity is idea-co
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Most students in CS are hired prior to graduation. On both sides the savings of skipping that last semester are marginal, and on the student side there's a nontrivial opportunity cost. 6 months of: studying whatever problem you want wi
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
> with four years of college time, you can get two career educations with real life industry experience ...depending on both the student and the career. Many tech jobs require not much more than literacy, 6th grade algebra, and a tiny
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
And then everybody clapped.
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by throwawayjava 7y ago
Speed limits are originally designed to reduce risk, not "compensate" for it. You can tell this is true because the victims of crashes caused by speeders do not receive proceeds from speeding ticket fines. And this is sensible. Ho

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