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by tomcat27 4y ago
This sounds like useful advice. Thank you.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I just can't think well on interesting problems while someone's talking to someone behind, someone at my face at the cubicle trying to hit a conversation. Hence, WFH. Don't like team because finding good team 10xs everything
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by tomcat27 4y ago
Don't like to be a contractor.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
> What companies want is team players who are often fun, light and friendly, actively work to build trust with a team through socialization, promote good practices and patterns and don't begrudge the fact that a portion of their day
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Ask HN: I just hate working in teams
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by tomcat27 4y ago
Firing over this very un-googly
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I think it's fair to expect interviewee to solve 2 LC mediums in 45 mins given by the candidate. That's the current FAANG expectation. If a bad candidate is too costly for a company, so are a bad company too costly for a candidate
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by tomcat27 4y ago
People on internet seek engagement else why eve write a blog. Twitter is indisputably better for engagement.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
They are not banks. They are forex traders.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
It's not in the spirit of decentralization to stop withdrawals
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I just don't understand why Apple Music search is so bad. Sometimes only exact match returns albums. It's so bad that appending "Apple Music" in google works better.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
The problem is magic doesn't happen when people put jury duty on their CV
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by tomcat27 4y ago
Not sure how that slipped. Sorry.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
> You might mean 4 "doublings" Rate of change: Enrollment increased by 4 times. Population increased by 100 times. > How do you double elite universities? Doubling elite universities: I mean more outreach from let's say
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by tomcat27 4y ago
The US population increased 100 times since 1800s from 5M to 500M. Harvard enrollment increased 4 times since 1800s from 1.5K to 20K. The number of universities in the US did grew greatly during these 200 years, but the funding distributio
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by tomcat27 4y ago
Low barrier of entry is actually a good way to increase readers. I bet they are now not as influential as they were in 80s and 90s
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by tomcat27 4y ago
It makes sense to write three versions on a topic. 1. A PPT Deck. A 2 mins elevator pitch, A 10 mins potty reading 2. A Blog post. Ok you got my attention, why should I care? 3. A Careful Argument. I see your point, explain me everything Pe
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by tomcat27 4y ago
> However, I think it's extremely unprofessional to write a blog post saying that your supervisor is superficial or your research group is performative art. lol. You don't know the weight of crushed aspirations and a two year o
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by tomcat27 4y ago
How to be a Sam Altman: Find a Paul Graham
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by tomcat27 4y ago
is gemini on similar situation?
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I'm glad an insider is thinking about this. But why do I have a feeling that it's written with an idea to make faculty life easy, not necessarily for a great student learning outcome, although that's what they say. Alan Kay (
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I'm cautiously optimistic about these style of interpretability works. They seem to tell us something without actually telling us. The ones in the past did not inspire to build better models. Translating a neural net into a decision tr
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by tomcat27 4y ago
The goal of people doing basic research in math and science is not producing more economic value. They really do it just for fun. If what they do happen to be useful for others outside their club, great, but that's never the goal. They
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by tomcat27 4y ago
The problem at heart is research pace. Slowing the pace should help. i.e., it should be ok for faculty to produce half the papers they now produce and still retain their hopes on tenure, or whatever grants and glory. I cannot get creative u
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I can't speak for others, but I find scientific literature is not written general audience to understand, for a variety of reasons such as (a) publisher limitation on number of pages (b) to communicate core message right without distra
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by tomcat27 4y ago
sounds like a good plan to get tenure. lol
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by tomcat27 4y ago
I'm probably in the same boat as those people, but in AI. Some of the problems I find interesting are just out of my depth. I don't know exactly what's required and from where to catch up to attempt a particular question in m
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by tomcat27 4y ago
How’s that solving leetcode att 30mins pace in 5 of 7 45mins rounds can get a candidate know about company. No wonder Blind is more vivid than interviews.
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by tomcat27 4y ago
https://poop.is/composed Google.com
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by tomcat27 4y ago
server crashed. lol.

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