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by 2sk21 7y ago
Excellent advice. I would also suggest reading the book "Your money or your life" by Vicki Robbin about achieving financial independence as early as possible.
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by 2sk21 7y ago
The level of power that Facebook has over global discourse is just chilling.
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Very impressed how the author was able to bootstrap your way into a good job.
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Agreed. I should mention that reading Gary Marcus' new book really drives home your point.
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Google of today sounds a lot like the IBM of the early 90s. There were many clock watchers who came in, read the newspapers and left for the day - with a long lunch break in-between. A big chunk of these people were kicked out by the crisis
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Gary Marcus has articulated it much better than I could in his new book with Ernie Davis: https://www.amazon.com/Rebooting-AI-Building-Artificial-Inte... I really dislike the single minded focus on deep learning to the excl
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by 2sk21 7y ago
> Most software developers are paid shit (outside the USA and Silicon Valley) and are barely equivalent to other engineers or university educated folks. Agree - and to add to this, a big chunk of "software" jobs does not seem t
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by 2sk21 7y ago
I have a PhD in machine learning and have had a fairly productive career now spanning almost thirty years. Even a few years ago, I used think that I would keep at it indefinitely. Lately however, I'm finding that the field simply just
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Actually, thanks to Weka, I knew about Waikato University :-)
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Your approach is right - you need to save for your own retirement as the highest priority.
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Indeed, if you can achieve financial independence before striking out on your own, you will be able to do it with less stress. There is a lot of available information about the FIRE movement (Financial Independence Retire Early) that worth
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Does Google follow the practice of setting annual goals? At IBM where I worked for many years, we had to create something called a PBC (Personal Business Commitment). The idea was that you would be judged on how well you did with respect to
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Indeed, I think $130k might go a lot further in Salt Lake City than $500k elsewhere
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by 2sk21 7y ago
You have nothing to worry about :-) I would recommend that you read the book by Gary Marcus and Ernie Davis for a country viewpoint.
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Same here - YouTube premium is actually a very reasonable priced offering. Its quite enjoyable without ads.
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I think you have summarized my thoughts exactly on this. In their quest for increasing "engagement", they have unleashed a monster.
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Loved the video and subscribed to the channel. I really appreciate efforts to keep old computers systems alive.
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Given their monopoly power, this is beginning to sound increasingly like a tax on businesses.
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I agree with the author - given the sense of entitlement among users, this is the only real option for a sole maintainer like him.
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This is an example of an important piece of knowledge that typically only programmers with a formal education in computer science are taught. This theorem is taught in all formal language courses.
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by 2sk21 7y ago
It is well known that tit-for-tat is the best strategy for iterated prisoners' dilemma. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Looks exactly like a mesh of Inmos Transputers except on a single chip! Back in the late 80s, I spent months trying to get backpropagation to work on a Meiko computing surface - but no real speedups were possible.
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by 2sk21 7y ago
You may be right but I went ahead and signed up for wt.social and paid for a year's subscription. Who knows - maybe something interesting will come from this.
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Exactly - I have to work with _everyone_ in the company regardless of their beliefs. Its a lot easier to get my job done if I can remain in blissful ignorance of their possibly strong beliefs.
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Completely agree - the workplace is not a family and (mostly) not a group of friends.
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I think the model will be the way Kosher certification works. There are multiple certification authorities and observant Jews can select which certifier they agree with.
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Only if there is money to be made in filtering out fakes. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that most people will not pay for news in general.
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I wish I could upvote this a hundred fold! University rankings have utterly corrupted an already bad system.
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This was in the book Anathem and I agree that it was one of the most intriguing ideas (and there were many in Anathem!). An earlier comment I made about this very point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592
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by 2sk21 7y ago
Just a couple days ago there was a big discussion about an article that said that early retirement will lead to cognitive decline. Work and burn out or retire and vegetate? Surely there are some better alternatives?

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