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by SamvitJ 4y ago
"Every single person I know working in AI these days (in both the academy and industry) has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment." This does not ring true to me at all. Anecdotally, it feels the rush to get into AI (in both industry
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
> Winning Competitions > In the presentation, Stripe said it generated $14.3 billion in revenue as it processed $816 billion in payments volume last year. The company’s so-called transaction margin before losses — a measure of net rev
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Confirmed: search for "don't be evil" in the Code of Conduct here: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ . It's there at the end.
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Most of these are great. Disagree on "read the news" though.
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
The pay in consulting is not typically the main draw. Finance and tech are almost always more lucrative. Even within finance, most jobs do not pay particularly high salaries for entry-level positions, if seen through the lens of hourly rate
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
And pg's Twitter account has been suspended. Crazy times.
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Could there be a confirmation bias to this observation? You distinctly remember the times you had an outlier belief which you ignored to your detriment, but tend to forget all the foolish-seeming ideas you had which were indeed very much fo
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
What does AI STE refer to? (AI software engineer?)
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Amazon Raises Hourly Wages at Cost of Almost $1B a Year(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by SamvitJ 4y ago|3 comments
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Meta apologizes for harmful Instagram posts seen by Molly Russell(ft.com)
3 points by SamvitJ 4y ago|1 comments
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
In my experience, what happened is that young people eventually stopped posting personal updates (this was a multi-year process), either because the novelty of it declined or because they entered a life phase change (e.g. leaving college) t
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Actually, Jeff Bezos worked at a startup, Fitel, for two years, as his first job out of college. (Maybe 1990 D.E. Shaw would be considered a startup, too, actually.) But good points regardless. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
"According to Krys Hines, a Washington, D.C.-based workplace wellness and ergonomics educator at KH Ergo and Wellness, the recent shift to remote work has aged our bodies by about 10 to 15 years." Not surprising that a seller of e
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Just a note that neither Pichai nor Zuckerberg actually said the words: "Too many employees, but few work". This is just recycled from another news site [1] which chose to summarize their comments that way. [1] https://
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
Hard disagree. ML is hard to break into, even with strong credentials. (Source: ML engineer)
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
I'm surprised this article had no mention of Elon Musk, because he's a great example. Perhaps if this article was written today, it would. Elon's antics, if nothing else, raise brand awareness of his companies.
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
One added piece of context: the author now runs a consultancy on the "important, but often non-urgent, work of culture-building" ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/brie-wolfson-17758724 ). So that (at least partiall
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
"Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code" is the crux of this article, and stated like a fact. IMO this is not as obvious as the author believes, and needs a solid defense.
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by SamvitJ 4y ago
I love this take on regret, and it really resonates with how I reason about it. I wrote a short blog post on the idea of judging your past self based on your current values: https://www.samvitjain.com/blog/regret/
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
Note: this data is from https://www.sequoia.com/ , which is a company unrelated to Sequoia Capital.
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Don't forget Microsoft(luttig.substack.com)
429 points by SamvitJ 5y ago|453 comments
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
Is this the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia ? Seems he omitted a major factor in his kids' success, which is his own educational pedigree :)
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
He worked in quant finance, which is pretty cushy from what I hear (though not as cushy as tech).
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
The one counterexample that comes to mind is Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Jeff spent eight years working before starting Amazon (albeit in finance), and yet Amazon is not particularly known for being employee-friendly.
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
I was really worried about this person reading through this post (felt like a lot of negativity and short-sightedness) until I came upon the fact he had a full-time job offer at Facebook. Still worried, but not as much.
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
Why is the URL amazonaws.com for this? Just because something is hosted on S3 doesn't mean the content originated from AWS...
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
Do you mean that a "college degree is a waste of time and money unless you want to go into academia"? If you had to decide between dropping $X for a computer science degree, and $X for e.g. some liberal arts degree, are you sugges
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The trouble with regret minimization(samvitjain.com)
76 points by SamvitJ 5y ago|40 comments
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A Machine Learning Syllabus(samvitjain.com)
5 points by SamvitJ 5y ago|0 comments
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by SamvitJ 5y ago
Looking at their about page, they were a senior director of product management at a major company (GitHub/Microsoft). The number of meetings is not surprising for that role.

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