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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Lambda School shows it doesn't work for software engineering. A so-called "apprenticeship" model for something like mechanical engineering would basically be the exact same set of (difficult) math and physics courses but with
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More likely, hire private tutors while you go to a Title 1 school in Santa Ana or some other impoverished area, then mark yourself as part-Native American and non-binary on your college application. If you can't afford private tutors,
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I literally just said that you cannot label the cultural contributions of a group of people with the same skin color as a single unit and you go ahead and dismiss all that because you've "lived and traveled in many parts of Asia&q
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That's the point. UC wants to implement affirmative action but can't because voters rejected Prop 16. So they do this to make it easier to justify that their target demographics are "qualified" because now there's n
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Engineering is critical, going to a top engineering school is not. Society does not need more engineers going to MIT and then taking a job at Google. Society does need more genius researchers pushing the boundaries of science, but I find it
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> have a representative cross section of the population engaged in critical aspects of society I didn't realize making people click on ads was a critical aspect of society (FAANG firms use DEI tactics to preference URMs). Getting an
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Manhattan is the worst example to compare to. You can now, in literally any suburb, get a ride on demand in 10 minutes or less. I used to have to book a taxi or figure out how to chain multiple buses to get to where I wanted if I was going
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Sounds like I need to move to the East Coast because that's the experience I get half the time I get on a bus or BART in the Bay.
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Not sure what your meaning of disruptive is but I would define "ruins the entire ride" as making the entire car smell like urine and feces. I've also gotten on buses where it is plainly apparent someone peed on the bus floor.
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Retrieval practice and attempting to solve problems before you know the solution to them _does_ improve retention [1]. At least in my high school, those drills definitely exercised these two ideas. In college I copied half my homeworks from
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
But some level of work ethic is certainly important. You don't need to work 80 hour weeks but you need to actually get your work done within a ballpark of when you said you'd get it done.
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I would definitely ding someone and think less of them if they claimed to be a senior engineer but couldn't remember how to write a switch statement in Java/C++. If you have to look things up you work slower and you don't und
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If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not represent in any way the makeup of the American population. I posit the reason thi
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The "academic meatgrinder" ignores the fact that a plurality of top PhD and MS programs' students are international, usually from Europe, India or China. There are deeper issues at play - like the fact that American K-12 scho
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If you vote "completely" anything you are part of the problem. I vote for issues, not candidates or parties or political ideologies.
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This needs more emphasis on the "correlation is NOT necessarily causation" part. In my experience trying to use SHAP and other "interpretable ML" techniques for data science analysis, trying to identify relevant drivers
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"we're not there just yet" is a political decision, not a scientific one.
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Unfortunately people are very conflict averse and will avoid giving that sort of feedback if it means an uncomfortable conversation (particularly if whoever came up with the process is still employed). Even anonymous surveys are not really
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As soon as COVID is over immigration will restart and wages will start flatlining again (unfortunately).
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It's not money that's the problem, otherwise San Francisco would've solved everything by now. It's NIMBY legislation that limits buildings to 4-6 floors instead of 50. We could literally have 10x density if zoning laws a
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The problem is that DEI efforts are paying those reparations by fucking over other minorities (namely, Asians). Add to that the fact that prestige is zero-sum so you will never get "enough seats" and DEI is trying to solve an unso
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The correct comparison is to Harvard's discrimination against Jews during the early 20th century, using "personal traits" to label them as less competitive applicants than they otherwise were. Oh, would you look at that, Harv
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Quest 2 is outselling past VR headsets by leaps and bounds according to news reports. The decision to make a standalone headset and build their own app platform was absolutely the right one from a growth standpoint, even if the hardcore VR
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The idea that parents are not responsible for their children's education is why American education is a failure despite spending the most per capita. We should look to Asia for a good model. The culture promotes parents taking an activ
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Try working 30 hours a week in a top research lab and then come back and say that. Research is one of the least code monkey things you can do (requires the most creativity) yet everyone is working 80-100 hour weeks. 4 day work weeks causing
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by b9a2cab5 5y ago
Computational docking (figuring out what drug molecules bind strongly to) is still not solved. In order to find drugs that 1. work well and 2. aren't toxic we need robust docking estimators that work well over a wide variety of protein
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Refusing to put thieves in jail leads to thieves not caring if they get caught. Which leads us back to modern day SF. There is a big difference between petty theft as you'd think petty would mean (<$30 of small stuff) and what the l
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Clearly it wasn't the "right" opinion, so it must be dismissed!
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Ah, clearly petty theft is no bother and correcting the injustices of oppressive society! I hope you experience your things being stolen one day and not being able to afford to replace them and change your mind.
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It's easy to blame the system instead of making people take personal responsibility for their actions.

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