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by PNWChris 6y ago
I recently got a new job in a Midwestern city and made extensive use of levels.fyi (and Blind) during the process. It helps a ton with setting expectations and understanding what wages and equity to aim for (or a bit above even). There’s a
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by PNWChris 6y ago
I generally agree with you here, the sun is shining and we software engineers can make some hay! But...I have words of caution. I grew up in Southeastern Michigan. My dad is a Stanford grad mechanical engineer who worked for a Big 3 auto ma
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by PNWChris 6y ago
I dispute this assessment, it’s a drastic simplification and the comparison only starts in 1994, which is after a heavy swing in America to the right throughout the 80s and 90s. If anything, what the article shows is a regression to the lon
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by PNWChris 6y ago
56. Sometimes unsolvable questions like “what is my purpose?” and “why should I exist?” lose their force upon lifestyle fixes. In other words, seeing friends regularly and getting enough sleep can go a long way to solving existentialism.
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Context for my comment: I am not an academic, my focus here is to share books that helped form my personal philosophy. I am certainly not an expert on philosophy, but I found Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" (especial
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by PNWChris 6y ago
They’re much narrower in scope than a full curriculum (or even a course, for that matter), but Better Explained [0] has some very good overviews of math topics. They are a useful supplement I’ve come across repeatedly while searching topics
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Oh man, upon looking closer, I now realize you and this thread’s OP are right. That data is really messy. I agree, it’s not a good look.
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Ah, the repeated companies had me confused for a moment, too! The list is partitioned by { company, founder } (note the different ownership percentages), which is why some companies appear multiple times.
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Disclosure (since Colab is a Google product): I work at Google, but everything I say is my personal opinion and experience. I really dig the overall idea of cloud notebooks. Back when I did fast.ai part 1, I used Paperspace Gradient. It was
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Same situation for me, luckily it looks like archive.org snagged a backup while it was up! https://web.archive.org/web/20200907164516/https://timdettme... This post looks very thorough, and came just in
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Some quick additional info, since I wasn’t familiar with all the context. I am glad I looked deeper, I am ashamed to admit I assumed some wrongdoing given he had resigned! Wikipedia notes that he “...resigned from his position[19] as direct
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Agreed with the above. Harper’s recently ran a pretty good piece on the matter, if anyone is interested in a longer-form skeptical perspective on charter schools and their lack of accountability: https://harpers.org/archive&
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Agreed, that’s 4 round trips to Google from my main box at home! You can round-trip ping nearly halfway across the U.S. in that kind of time.
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by PNWChris 6y ago
+1 from me. I really liked Fast.ai part 1 and can't speak highly enough of it! I plan to do part 2 in the near future once I have a bit more time on my hands. The course is project oriented and quite concrete (focusing on practical&#x2
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Frankly, I think that implicit assumption by workers is totally fair! The way COL adjustments are done results in a strong incentive to live wherever costs the most. Some time ago I made a comment on this concept that I'll re-post here
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by PNWChris 6y ago
Totally fair! Frankly, I only know the distinction from a high school computers teacher who was adamant about the distinction. I guess the easiest way to get the name is to see the “Web” as a “web” of hyper text documents, where hyperlinks
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by PNWChris 6y ago
I believe they’re referring to the web as port 80/443 http(s) traffic. It’s the old World Wide Web vs internet distinction, if you will. Email really is just a protocol for message sending, and it lives on it’s own port with its own se
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by PNWChris 6y ago
At my employer they withhold taxes from the RSUs themselves as they vest (taxes are withheld at the bonus tax rate using integer multiplication, I believe). E.g.: you'll get Math.floor(x * (1-bonus_tax_rate)) shares and will owe no inc
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by PNWChris 6y ago
I have no wisdom to share, and certainly no opinion on higher power that I would consider profound. What you describe is an unbelievably trying experience. If you are hoping to make some sense of it all, I found Man's Search for Meanin
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by PNWChris 7y ago
Hi HN, ## This is a re-post I want to give a heads-up, this is a re-post of a previous Show HN that didn't get traction [0]. I normally would not post the same project without substantial changes, but because the previous post didn&#x2
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Show HN: Rebalance Calc (a rebalancing and tax optimization calculator)(github.com)
1 points by PNWChris 7y ago|0 comments
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by PNWChris 7y ago
Does such a rule only apply to SaaS with a contract term? If it applies to all SaaS/subscriptions, I feel that's not an appropriate characterization. There's value in having options. If a company had to wind-down some operati
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by PNWChris 7y ago
Edit: I misread the parent comment, apologies for that! After re-reading, I still agree with them, but with some nuance. This article describes "somewhat" volatile state, and I think there are interesting use-cases for temporary s
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by PNWChris 7y ago
OP Here: I just wanted to give some context to how I found this page, and why I thought it would be good to post. I may be putting myself on the spot here: I never took a linear algebra course in undergrad. It was a heavily encouraged optio
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An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (2012)(betterexplained.com)
709 points by PNWChris 7y ago|102 comments
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by PNWChris 7y ago
I gained some great intuition from http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/ and (of all things) a paper named "An Introduction to Quantum Computing"[0]. Page 3 of that paper lays out matrix multiplication (e.g.: applying
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by PNWChris 7y ago
Hi HN, I just finished a major refactor of a tool I made (and shared here) some time ago! Feel free to give it a try: https://www.rebalancecalc.com/ ## What this is: This tool helps you align investments (across multiple ac
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Show HN: Rebalance Calc v2(github.com)
1 points by PNWChris 7y ago|0 comments
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by PNWChris 7y ago
Alas, not in a way that I'm capable of, I'm still working through part 1 of Fast.ai's course. I looked over my folder of spectrograms, and there are definitely patterns, but I don't know exactly what features the model d
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by PNWChris 7y ago
I've added some example data to the demo page, now folks can give the classifier a try without the hassle of making a file and uploading! A direct link to the demo: https://ml-hot-or-cold.projects.chrisjeakle.com/

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