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by NumberSix 9y ago
Regarding privacy, when human beings meet a new person, they do not need tons of data about that person to understand their spoken language. We learn English or any other language once and then rarely need to adapt to new people, unless th
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by NumberSix 9y ago
The article makes the following statement: Whiteboard interviews have a very high false negative rate (rejecting people who are good), but they also have a low false positive rate (hiring people who are not good). On what basis is this stat
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Bah Humbug! Many academic fields, notably including astronomy and physics, have been doing heavy duty software development and data analysis for many decades, long before the current "data science" hype. Chuck Moore developed FORT
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Deep learning/neural networks -- as well as a number of other "machine learning" methods -- is fitting a mathematical model with a huge number of fitted (tunable) parameters and component functions to data. It has been known
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by NumberSix 9y ago
iPhones are not cheap. Like almost all Apple products, they are expensive compared to comparable competing products. Several studies have shown that iPhones cost 2-3 times the cost of the components from which they are assembled. Apple c
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by NumberSix 9y ago
The article does not discuss the impact of the open office movement. I've worked from home, in actual offices, in cubicles both cramped and spacious, and open offices. It can be quite difficult to focus at home due to various distrac
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by NumberSix 9y ago
In general, the way to objectively determine if software works is to give it to those pesky end users, have them use it, and tell you if it works or not, and how well it works. Lacking end users, have testers and QA folks who play the role
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by NumberSix 9y ago
Conspicuous by its absence is: Does your software work? These criteria are all rituals and processes, rather than the end result.
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by NumberSix 10y ago
A follow up as a point of reference: The median home price in Plano, TX is $317,800 according to Zillow (March 12, 2017 https://www.zillow.com/plano-tx/home-values/ ) One bedroom apartments in Plano rent for $956
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Urban areas in California, where most of the people live, such as the Silicon Valley have extremely high home ownership and apartment rental costs. The article notes this briefly and somewhat obliquely, but it is worth emphasizing. The med
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Someone who is genuinely good at writing code should be able to produce code that has no or very few bugs. Similarly, they should be pretty good at inferring what is wrong in the rare case of bugs by simply running the program. Therefore,
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by NumberSix 10y ago
One issue that the article overlooks is how many jobs the Microsofts, Googles, Apples, Facebooks, etc. outsource to the H1-B outsourcing companies such as WiPro, Cognizant etc. I have met many consultants in the Silicon Valley who work for
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The Nightmare of Algorithm Interviews(math-blog.com)
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This is the opening paragraph of the BLS press release on employment from Feb. 28, 2017. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/srgune.nr0.htm For release 10:00 a.m. (EST) Tuesday, February 28, 2017 USDL-17-0286 Techni
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by NumberSix 10y ago
I use "massages" to cover two factors. First, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has redefined the way it measures unemployment and employment several times over the decades. In addition, there are a range of seasonal adjustments an
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The explanation is that the government massages unemployment figures to make the economy look better than it is. The government has been doing this for decades, under Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. Unemployment is
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There is a question regarding the definition of "data science jobs." The author explains his methodology in a lengthy report http://r4stats.com/articles/how-to-search-for-data-science-j... The issue is what
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How long have the onsite interviews been? An in-person interview with at least three people and at least three hours total duration is what I call "a serious interview." At least for software engineers, there seems to be a rough
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A few points regarding CS 101/201 data structures and algorithm coding interviews. The coding interview is a new phenomenon. In the 1990’s and early 00’s, these type of interviews were rare. Typical interviews were more well rounded
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The United States has a total resident population (as of January 23, 2017) of 324,420,000 people (about 324 million). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta... Thus, $4.1 trillion in cons
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A number of points in the post/article are questionable. First, it assumes the developers had substantial control over the schedule for the project ("Giving excessive importance to estimates"). Certainly in my experience thi
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Google is highly non-representative of businesses and technology businesses in particular. It has a near monopoly on the search business and has enormous amounts of money from a single source -- advertising. Google Fiscal Year 2015 Revenue
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The finger pointing at the graduate student Heather Ames reminds me of the concept of gas lighting, derived from the 1944 movie Gaslight: gas·light ˈɡaslīt/ verb gerund or present participle: gaslighting manipulate (someone) by psychol
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Book Review: Peak – Secrets from the New Science of Expertise(math-blog.com)
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"Legacy" is a very loaded term -- generally used in a derogatory way. There is an old engineering truism: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" When Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis, th
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Programming has not changed much since the 1960's and 1970's when Unix and C were developed. Modern computer programming languages simply mix and match different features from the "Cambrian explosion" of experimental an
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USC Dornsife picked the winner. Other polls did not. Trump got 46.1 percent of the popular vote: http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-... That is almost the same as the 46.8 perce
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by NumberSix 10y ago
The USC Dornsife/LA Times Daybreak Election Poll http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-usc-latimes-poll-2... did a significantly better job than Nate Silver and 538 in estimating the level of Donald Trump supp
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by NumberSix 10y ago
I worked at Apple from 2014 to 2016 and the iPhone, iPad, etc. teams I was working with were in offices, one or two to an office, up until a big move to an open office in early 2016. They appeared to have been in offices for years. Apple i
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by NumberSix 10y ago
Apple has only very recently begun to adopt open offices -- meaning in 2016. At the time the iPhone was created and soared to market dominance Apple workers were in actual offices with locks due in part to Apple's obsession with secre

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