InkCanon

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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   I have similar thoughts. I'd say one big upshot of working in tech was they formed very high talent densities during their peak in the 2010s, so you could learn a lot. But now I'm not so sure. Plus it's a circus getting hired
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   Weed out courses do have various problems. Some of it is regulatory - certain public or public funded universities don't let you eliminate large portions of your cohort. Graduation rate is a part of many college rankings, so there&#x27
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   I'm seeing many undergrads write LLM code that they don't even understand. It's a travesty. Can't remember the exact saying, but it went like: "AI creates short development times and super long debugging"
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   Thanks!
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   I never understood point 1. Your PhD thesis will almost definitely be on a very specific topic, you don't have the time or knowledge to cover multiple distinct fields.
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   I see. I think I definitely lean towards that.
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   That is the hope!
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   Good question. IMO 1) There's a kind of "hard" learning you're learning a fixed, structured way from a textbook. 2) There's a kind of "soft" learning which is transmission of knowledge, which happens a lot
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   by InkCanon 2y ago

   In my side of the world I think it's more similar to the USA where a masters is two years and a PhD is four. And it's fifty fifty whether a PhD has a masters or comes straight from undergrad. I'm leaning towards masters becau
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    >What matters is the outcome, not the effort >At certain companies the scale could be enormous The latter is true and I think the most legitimate reason for working at big companies. I should specify in the first they also accomplish
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    What do you mean by cannot stop doing research? I certainly haven't discovered anything new, but I love learning new things, reading about ideas, coming up with them.
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    >getting a job in academia is really hard In my side of the world its a little bit better, the CS department has plans to double headcount in the next few years. They've got whole new faculty apartment buildings set up and everythin
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    >impact is ambiguous This is the core of the issue (most replies usually involve some slightly different definitions). I take many definitions of impact, including societal use, contributing to knowledge, etc. But it's much clearer
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    >advisor might push to publish That's fair. I'm just cautiously eyeing the likelihood of coming up with something publishable that's not a going through the motions kind of thing.
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    There are several assumptions here tangled together here 1) Use is sufficient, but not necessary for impact. Theory of relativity, a lot of QM, etc has had only uses in real world edge cases, but have enormous value. The value function for
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    >people would pay millions over a career without you generating at least that value back Some of it is empirical observation. I've seen many friends at big/elite tech firms get paid to do very little. Many claims online to that
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Thanks for the reply! >A PhD is an apprenticeship to become a researcher That's a good way to look at it. I suspect one of the biggest possible benefits of a PhD is that you're put in an environment structured to and pressurin
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I'm considering getting a masters or PhD (in PL) under a professor I work with now for my undergrad thesis. It has been my observation that the standard path of getting a standard corporate job tends to nullify all impact you could hav
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I have a contrary opinion: most important things are started by apparently small things, but there is a huge amount of training, effort and persistence behind getting to that small thing. Zuckerberg was a serial entrepreneur who already mad
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Classic solution in search of a problem thinking. "It's not that our solution isn't wanted, our customers just need to get it!"
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I find Bezos' statement to be a bit oversimplified. For example Temu (and virtually every other Chinese E commerce) wipes the floor with price and selection. Costco is cheaper than Walmart. Yet Amazon is vastly larger than both.
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Did you build this? Wondering how you got access to the reports. Did you scrape them already, or do they have an api?
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    This. Real multidisciplinary is bottom up, where a person with multiple fields of expertise makes them work together. A singing number of these organizational versions are top down, where some leadership decided interdisciplinary studies ar
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I also think there's some exaggeration. Annotating files with a feature tag system is both manual and not scabale. Custom prompting for each commit or feature a lot more so. You do a decent bit of specialized work here. And I think he
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    One valuation method for startups is price to revenue, given that their costs are heavily fixed/low cost of replicating the goods you're selling. I think it's much more appropriate especially for early stage startups because
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Fair? That's a valuation of ~120k when you have annual revenue of ~400k.
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I somewhat dislike the SISP saying because it describes an attitude, not an actual product. Many successful companies have started from a "solution" (more accurately a technology) like Google and Akamai, and it is perfectly legiti
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Found this: an Instagram account made by Meta AI https://www.instagram.com/himamaliv
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    I too am surprised by the number of ads these firms put out. Reddit, YouTube, even advent of code. I can't imagine in a world where even underpaid entry level roles at small startups get hundreds of applicants that these firms have a s
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    by InkCanon 2y ago

    Very cool! Don't meet the requirements but exciting work nonetheless!