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by aix1 2y ago
> That's wildly incompatible with my experience there in the previous decade Yes, there have been some very signficant changes over the last few years. Promos are decided in-org. Managers play a much more important role. There ar
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I assume when you say "politically" you include the ongoing war in Ukraine. I think it's a huge factor in this context, given its impact and the risks it presents to folks (especially young men) who choose to remain in Russi
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by aix1 2y ago
Amazon and Google :) https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/10/31/google-invests-i...
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A variant I've seen (at a couple of European investment banks): Analyst -> Associate -> Assistant VP -> VP -> Director -> Managing Director
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These days it's the manager who writes the next-level assessment (NLA) and it's the NLA that forms the main body of the packet that the promo committee looks at. They're also the one soliciting and summarizing peer feedback
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by aix1 2y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, it would take some pretty extraordinary circumstances for one to get promoted without their manager's support. For starters, even if it is the candidate themselves who self-nominate, it is still the manage
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I'd say that's a rather narrow way to look at it. I know more than a handful of folks who are very happy with their level of responsibility and comp, and don't want higher expectations and more stress even if it would bring i
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by aix1 2y ago
Right, while there was a "growth" expectation for L4s written into the SWE job ladder, there were no fixed timelines. Enforcement varied from org to org: at least one of my previous orgs periodically conducted talent reviews, spe
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by aix1 2y ago
> embedding a pre-trained KGE model into a transformer model Do you have any good pointers (literature, code etc) on the mechanics of this?
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> The problem for BBC is that it's government-funded. That's not factually accurate. The BBC is principally funded through the licence fee (i.e. directly by the viewers).
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by aix1 2y ago
Over time I've been converting lots of my equipment to USB-C. Having tried various PD sinks, I've settled on CH224K. It works very well (in fact, I'm typing this on an old HP laptop that's powered from USB-C using a CH
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by aix1 2y ago
This? https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/fine-for-network-rail-fol...
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I can't tell if it's a reference to this but thought I'd mention as it's a fun story! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...
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by aix1 2y ago
And here's Steve Jobs thanking someone for an amazing "proyect": https://www.ebay.com/itm/285775420457 (same seller.) P.S. The seller is located in Spain. :)
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by aix1 3y ago
> 80% losing one of the earbuds Given that Fairbuds would sell you a single earbud, that's already an improvement over buying a new set, right?
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by aix1 3y ago
I'm neither of the earlier posters but can relate since I have both aphantasia and SDAM (severely deficient autobiographical memory). In the current literature these are thought of as distinct things that often co-occur. > Is losin
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by aix1 3y ago
In Belarusian it's indeed "амерыканскі бізон" and "еўрапейскі зубр" (American bison and European zubr). In everyday speech these are shortened to "bison" and "zubr". And buffalo (like African an
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by aix1 3y ago
I'm guessing you mean the bison. (At least that's what Belovezhskaya Pushcha is known for, other than being the largest area of primeval forest in Europe.)
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Relevant: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/07/12/regarding-your-dam-comp...
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Operations Research: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research
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by aix1 3y ago
Wait, you're saying that 25-30% of the US population have a criminal conviction? That seems extremely high, no?
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by aix1 3y ago
It's by no means the whole story, but Google's very significant aversion to brand risk is definitely part of why they move slowly. (Speaking as someone who's worked on launching several somewhat risky technologies at Google.)
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There are downsides to that. For example, this is how me, my parents and my siblings ended up with different surnames on our passports. They all started as the same surname, but then got mangled independently during translation...
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It's fascinating that these models aren't aligned to produce the best possible answer they can out of the box. I wonder what might be the underlying reason for that.
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In fairness to the GP, there's another comment from them from about an hour ago explaining how the answer was produced. tl;dr Claude drafting + manual checking and cleanup.
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Did you see section 6.5 Contamination Analysis?
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It's also highly manual (at least for local backups). One can only set up backups for six months at a time, plus downloading the files involves waiting for an email notification and using download links in that email. If anyone has fi
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> I don't see how Google continues to let them publish core research at this point From what I hear from Google DeepMind researchers, the current policies are making it very difficult to publish NLP research. The barrier to disclosi
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Like what?
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> I also like OSMAnd a lot (I use both for different use-cases). This is the first come I come across Organic Maps but I do use OSMAnd. I'm wondering how the two compare and would love to hear more about the use cases you have for

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