TimPC

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by TimPC 9y ago
If you’re far above (outside the range of most positions) it can be useful to disclose but only from a time saving perspective. It’s generally a poor tactic for optimizing salary.
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by TimPC 9y ago
How about start-ups? If employers have access to your salary history in terms of a taxable compensation number but no access to information on what your options were this seems to suggest that employers will discriminate against start-up wo
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by TimPC 9y ago
I'm not sure we have a glut of PhD's at all. At least not in fields where there is actual research in industry. I work in industry on a team where almost everyone has a PhD and those that don't have a Master's degree (or
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by TimPC 9y ago
I should point out in this case it's almost certainly a genuine call to research the foundations underlying the working techniques more as Duvenaud publishes research using mostly the techniques that work well on applications.
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by TimPC 9y ago
Present day AI on the Deep Learning side is a lot like what you describe. We haven't really had the Newtonian foundations yet. The theoretical foundations are quite limited because they are hard to figure out. But the techniques with
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by TimPC 9y ago
Last I checked bridges came before Newtonian Mechanics and it seems strange to argue this wasn't a good thing. Admittedly paper writing wasn't the main mechanism of transmitting knowledge but it's fairly common for human engi
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by TimPC 9y ago
We know the brain and associated sensor behaviours are too large for us to fully simulate in a reasonable way on anything resembling current hardware (We also can't fully model it but as we approached the size of hardware to do so we&#
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by TimPC 9y ago
Unless you think money is being spent in a way that is anti-correlated with engineering quality the places providing the most savings are going to attract more of the best engineers. I think that is still the Bay Area as most analyses of sa
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by TimPC 9y ago
A good measure of where the best engineers are is where the best engineers migrate to. In the smaller communities I’ve been in over time I’ve seen the top engineers in the community migrate away. Engineers that come back from effectively u
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by TimPC 9y ago
I got a $160K base in Canada at a good opportunity and $140K base without too much effort. But I had a great pedigree, a ML + software background and my Resume had a 90+% follow-up rate. Admittedly this was Toronto which outside of Vancouve
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think starting a company in Canada has a first addressable market problem which leads to a revenue problem which leads to a VC investment problem which leads to a talent problem. I want this to be fixed because I like living in Canada bet
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by TimPC 9y ago
The idea is that $60k CDN in a market where $300K CDN buys a semi-detached and $500k CDN buys a detached house is a good rate. To me I say if you really want to live there consider doing a 3-year tour on a TN in SV on a frugal budget and mo
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by TimPC 9y ago
As a Canadian in the US to me this feels like a different kind of horror show. I play bridge and as a result I've been exposed to quite a lot of the elderly dying as a result of chronic conditions given the demographics of the game&#x
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by TimPC 9y ago
Often there is a part you don't see here where the lower valuation has a lower amount of money you can take. Would you rather sell 10% of the company for 80M on an 800M post-money valuation or 12.5% of the company for $125M at a 1B po
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by TimPC 9y ago
Not all hours are created equal. If you're doing simple enough tasks perhaps your output is relatively stable. When I work on hard problems I've had single hours that can outperform a day or two. Getting rid of most/all of
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by TimPC 9y ago
When I worked in Canada, I started a consulting company because high salaries were very hard to find. Now Trudeau is making it harder to make money in consulting by going after corporations aggressively. There is a severe salary shortage p
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by TimPC 9y ago
Delaware doesn't have unusually friendly for business courts. It mostly just has a lot of established case law. It's cheaper for businesses when they know where the lines are on most laws because of previous cases and rulings. Amb
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think if you measure random unrelated data sets against each other you're quite likely to find spurious correlations. If you design an experiment between potentially related variables with a potential hypothesis on how they are relat
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by TimPC 9y ago
So maybe audio engineers have the lowest divorce rates because they make good money and are quite concerned about fidelity? (This is my bad pun for the day).
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think assuming correlation is causal is bad as well. But it's a good sniff test. Usually something interesting is going on: sometimes it's A causes B, sometimes its B causes A, sometimes A and B have a common related cause. Som
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by TimPC 9y ago
I find it amusing that the correlation vs causation point has morphed into arguing correlation is anti-causal (which is worse). I think if someone goes from being a doctor to being a bartender their divorce rate might be affected. I saw an
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by TimPC 9y ago
I think if a loophole exists for a collectible asset class wealth will accumulate there as part of tax planning. This can easily lead to bubbles and unfairness through asymmetric tax avoidance. I think it does pose deep foundational chall
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by TimPC 9y ago
But how do you make a wealth tax fair if there is no need to prepare a reasonably accurate balance sheet? If it's a yearly tax the loopholes allowed without an accurate balance sheet are so extraordinary that it's reasonable to as
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by TimPC 9y ago
Not once per year. The ongoing balance sheet is highly problematic. Any assets that don't need to be updated would represent giant loopholes and potentially areas where bubbles would be inflated as capital moves into assets that grow
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by TimPC 9y ago
Taxing wealth is a deeply invasive bureaucratic nightmare. Having individuals be legally required to produce a balance sheet of all their assets for the government every year seems quite problematic. This would get into issues of having pe
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by TimPC 9y ago
The frameworks can abstract away much of the math. You won't have to actually take the derivatives yourself, but understanding how they work actually matters to network design. It's much harder to get meaningful insights out of p
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by TimPC 9y ago
The article recognizes this and mentions specific regulations to cut in order to reduce administration (at least for the UK).
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by TimPC 9y ago
Binding arbitration is also the safest way to screw people since arbiters tend to be far more easy to corrupt and there has been a long history of harmful rulings in the space in the US. The problem is the side with power gets to pick the
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by TimPC 9y ago
If people want to start this fund in the US, I think the bigger question is it's not completely clear what the taxes are and how they work for cryptocurrencies, etc. In this case while Cayman tax rates are highly favorable, it's
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by TimPC 9y ago
The problem as a whole isn't new, but it's ramped up to a new level and applied more broadly. If your estate doesn't have provisions for handling your Facebook account in it, it will get left up on the Interwebs. And some o

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