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by LPisGood 1y ago
Yeah cryptography mostly (but certainly not all) math but it accounts for a negligible (pun intended) portion of interesting security work. AI is a lot of math, especially if you hang out with the quasiconvex optimization crowd, but a vast
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I could not disagree with you more. It would be easy for me to agree with you. I hold a graduate degree in computer science and I’m named for my contributions proofreading/correcting a graduate text about algorithms in computability t
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Python has come along way. It’s never gonna win for something like high-frequency trading, but it will be super competitive in areas you wouldn’t expect.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I have never felt that way, and I’ve worked on a variety of projects at a variety of companies. Everyone has a bespoke mishmash of nonsense pipelines, build tools, side cars, load balancers, Terragrunt, Terraform, Tofu, Serverless, Helm cha
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by LPisGood 1y ago
CSCI 4812: The Career Lab Watch as peers increasingly overpromise and accept unethical product requests and deadlines and leave you high, mighty, and picking up the scraps as they move on to the next thing.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
People don’t get this up in arms when there is a math course about using math tools or math history or how math is used to solve actual problems, but for some reason they do about computer science.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
It is interesting that no software engineering or computer science course I’ve seen has ever spent any time on CI/CD. Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, none of these sorts of things - and I don’t even mean these specific technologies, but m
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by LPisGood 1y ago
TFA is about game theory and the prisoner’s dilemma is one of the most basic examples of game theory, so this makes sense.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Maybe I’m not understanding, but why is that wild? Is it just the fact that those people lost jobs? If it were a justification for a re-org I wouldn’t find it objectionable at all
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I’m confused, are your kids major Bitcoin miners?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Why didn’t the USSR point this fakery out?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Would you ever need to talk about a specific emoji?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Manager deactivating jargon is a great phrase - it’s broadly applicable and also specific.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I feel like this is a sort of evidence that even for the most serious of engineers email lists are not an ideal way to communicate.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Metastasizing is such an excellent way to describe this phenomenon. They grow on top of each other.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
It really feels quite divorced. Workers in those roles don’t always even know what the exploits will be used for, and the technical aspects are really interesting.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I briefly worked in offensive security at somewhere you may consider to fit the bill of “places like this” - people do it because it’s fun interesting and rewarding work. The pay is good too, but the fact that you just develop the exploits
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I’ve never understood the attempt to draw a difference between threat and a vulnerability. I’ve done offensive security work and worked on defensive security systems professionally. It seems to me like there’s a certain less technical side
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by LPisGood 1y ago
It’s weird to think that just a few years ago your phone number and address were shared with tens of thousands of people in a massive book. I feel like if you have someone’s name, it’s not hard at all to find their birthday
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Gain on productivity, maybe nothing. I didn’t mean to comment on the broader scope, just an actionable suggestion for GP.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> Having multiple countries becoming successful instead of the US simply monopolizing talent would benefit the world In particular, it is a marginal detriment to the US. That’s why my original comment said this loss is a shame for USA.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
If you’re a bright kid, it’s way easier to get really good at Java then to get really good at boot strapping infrastructure with limited resources
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The problem can probably almost certainly be solved to provable optimality using HiGHS or even CBC - the open source Python package PuLP comes with CBC. If you want to be seen as the hero who solves things instead of the realist who says wh
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Fritos are highly refined, industrially manufactured, and have plenty of processed additives. I think they are plainly ultra processed
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by LPisGood 1y ago
What you described would be processed. Ultra processed foods are very difficult to make outside of an industrial setting. Pringles and dinosaur chicken nuggets are a perfect example. They make an almost recognizable paste and shape it.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
One thing that is not in doubt is that many UPFs are hyper-palatable. It’s much harder to overeat if the food in question is potatoes, carrots, and fish than if the meal is Pringles, Ice cream, and deep fried fish sticks.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that’s not what I’m saying.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Being okay is a lot different from maintaining academic, innovative, and cultural dominance which provides a standard of living many have grown used to.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The path of least resistance is obviously to go where the infrastructure is. Also, smarts needed to bootstrap modern infrastructure from scratch with limited resources are different than smarts needed to design a popular app, for example.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Look at any tier 1 research university in USA and I’ll find you distinguished professors who were once international students at US universities. Go look at a current list of people at Princeton’s IAS and count how many are former internati

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