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by asxd 5y ago
I had this issue with my first software job right out of college. I was unproductive for weeks, just due to culture shock and (shamefully) malaise. The procrastination snowballed. Luckily a fellow engineer eventually noticed, sat down with
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by asxd 5y ago
Agreed. Ideally both parties want to form a symbiotic relationship.
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by asxd 5y ago
Yeah, it's not commonly necessary for real world engineering, but it's certainly good to know, at least as a mental exercise. There's a nice free algorithms textbook used at UC Berkeley that covers the concept pretty well: h
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by asxd 5y ago
I kind of agree, in that a good candidate should probably already be thinking "what data structure should I use here" no matter what the problem is. Just always think about what data structure to use. Every problem requires one. M
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by asxd 5y ago
I think this is on the right track. The best interviews I've been a part of involve the interviewer asking a question they don't fully know the answer to. Then the interview turns into a conversation where both parties are trying
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by asxd 5y ago
I understand the sentiment about honesty and finding a legitimate good fit. Neither interviewers or candidates are perfect. But there's something off about this, isn't there? If you ask a candidate a question, and they answer it w
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by asxd 5y ago
If you had honest experience with the question at hand, it seems a little weird, to go into an interview, and basically say "I already know I can answer that one. Give me a new one."
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by asxd 5y ago
I guess I should have emphasized that the operative phrase was > getting a feel for how it's naturally being used.
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by asxd 5y ago
It's also interesting how with most visual illusions, you can sort of convince your mind to interpret it one way or another if you try hard enough. I think the simplest example is the necker cube, where you can convince your brain it&#
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by asxd 5y ago
Very cool. I looked back at the 2020 finalists, and the first video from that list truly boggled me: https://youtu.be/5DYeAkx2IBo . At around 16s in, my vision of the stair case suddenly and completely changes to being upsid
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by asxd 5y ago
I get what you're saying, and agree. When I was in middle school I'd shamelessly use MS Word to replace words in my reports with fancy sounding synonyms that I had never heard of before. I kind of cringe at the memory. But on the
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by asxd 5y ago
> Notice, too, how much less certain the Webster definition seems about itself, even though it’s more complete — as if to remind you that the word came first, that the word isn’t defined by its definition here I like this. A dictionary w
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by asxd 5y ago
D'oh. Seems obvious in the morning. The perils of late-night posting.
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by asxd 5y ago
Thanks. I wasn't quite sure what "pick a random vertex of the triangle and find its midpoint with p" meant. What's the midpoint of a vertex?
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by asxd 5y ago
Yeah, honestly this makes me think that the warez scene may be increasingly important in the future.
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by asxd 5y ago
I guess I assumed the operative word was "good". The term "random number generator" almost always refers to a generator that intends to produce a uniform distribution.
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by asxd 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think having a good random number generator is problematic? It seems like it's easy enough to access one in most situations.
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by asxd 5y ago
It's amazing how helpful it can be to have a sounding board. This is a very nice gesture.
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by asxd 5y ago
Ideally, countries would just not do this. “Everybody does it” is not a convincing argument to move the conversation elsewhere and let it slide. FB/twitter is trying to mitigate this to some extent, but it’s a weird notion that compani
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by asxd 5y ago
Thanks so much for that analogy and explanation! It certainly made things a bit clearer. edit: I'm still a bit unclear on what it means to form a field. Texts around this topic seem pretty dense and encyclopedic. Is there a straightfor
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by asxd 5y ago
"Field" is a term I've heard come up again and again since college, in engineering-adjacent math. Over the years, I've occasionally looked it up and tried to understand the importance, but I've never found any liter
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by asxd 5y ago
I appreciate you're able to see the quandary. I think the crux of what you said is in your first sentence: > "Quantum theory based on real numbers" means a specific thing -- quantum mechanics with real amplitudes (and real
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by asxd 5y ago
This was my first thought on seeing the title. Complex numbers are just vectors with special behavior for some operations, right? I haven't read through the paper, but this statement from the abstract confuses me: > Here we investig
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by asxd 5y ago
> If so, then you logically also must agree with this (which equates): "I don’t agree with condemning the research because it involves myself" It certainly does not equate. I think the point you're getting at is that it is
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by asxd 5y ago
I don’t agree with condemning the research because it involves animals, but you don’t even need to assume they’ll be involved in experiments. That’s what this article is about right?
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by asxd 5y ago
The voice of the latest podcast sounds much nicer. It's a fairly convincing nonsense podcast.
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by asxd 5y ago
Just anecdotally, I had a pet rat as a kid. They're pretty friendly creatures who seem to enjoy company and playtime. Not sure what constitutes "bad for the rats", but I personally think a situation where they're getting
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by asxd 5y ago
Reading the article, it seems like this was exactly their situation. It seemed like it was in the author's best interest to keep them comfortable and friendly since this was an operant conditioning task. He also mentions the only negat
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by asxd 5y ago
To folks saying this is heartless, I'd urge you to scroll down to the "Experiment" section of the article: > I received three 8-week-old male Long Evans rats, Romero, Carmack and Tom. Romero was fearless (more like thrill-
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by asxd 5y ago
Yeah seems like this would be a simple workaround if companies did start adopting this practice

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