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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
I get it, this is supposed to more usable than Stack Overflow, where pedantic discussions can obstruct usability by occluding the simple Q&A. But right away I see the simplicity of "How to X with Y" yields solutions that are n
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Ask HN: Updates to “What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change”?
1 points by boltzmannbrain 6y ago|0 comments
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
https://www.joinef.com
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Doing the Hard Things: AI, Space, and Climate Science(forbes.com)
5 points by boltzmannbrain 6y ago|0 comments
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Fix my VCR / DVD / DVR / Netflix / whatever when I'm old.
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
What are the methods for security/defense for individual satellites?
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.- Sun Tzu
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Love this. A feature request: On mobile, have a shortcut for typing # and *. These are essential in markdown but unfortunately several clicks away on most mobile keyboards.
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
It doesn't.
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Minecraft's new music festival, Electric Blockaloo, with craziest lineup of 2020(downbeats.com)
2 points by boltzmannbrain 6y ago|0 comments
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
non-paywall: https://archive.vn/145aA Also note this article is from 2019.
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
It's non-trivial and often expensive to hire international employees (legally [0]). $Billion tech companies can afford to do this (staff HR teams and shell out visa-related fees), whereas lean, small startups cannot. [0] There's a
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
FWIW much of my class went on to Boeing, SpaceX, GE (wind turbines, not appliances), Shell, NASA, ...
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
From the Gen leads Marco and Alex: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-the-difference-betwe...
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Senior year of Mechanical Engineering undergrad, professors would legitimately get upset with students for taking jobs in finance and consulting. They wouldn't hold back, saying quite literally "this is a waste of your education.&
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
No. You're missing the added complexities of supporting human life in spaceflight.
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Keep going. More side projects, more interviews (with startups). If you get a "resident" offer to work your way into fulltime, take it. Maybe the pay isn't ideal for 6-12 months, but the gratification of building yourself int
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
They won't :( They'll retweet to get more follows. They'll +1 and forget about this. They'll brag about some lab-grown meat investment that is really 0.01% of their portfolio that's chock full of productivity apps a
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
Latent Sciences?? https://latentsci.com/
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
1. Many startups claiming AI are simply doing things with data; research shows two-fifths have no AI programs in their products [1]. 2. Round-closing announcements trail the actual closing by several months. Not to mention the actual raisin
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by boltzmannbrain 6y ago
1. If you can, come prepared with a notepad and several bullet points of your thoughts/questions. Just the simple act of writing it down crystallizes your thoughts and is a practice run at speaking aloud. 2. Don't speak just to sp
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Ask HN: Any tech companies use time tracking?
1 points by boltzmannbrain 7y ago|1 comments
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
> I wish the employees had a seat at the negotiating table for any of this Perspective from the other side of the table: I can't speak for every company, but we've worked day and night for weeks to figure out a plan that puts e
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
Do you have data sources?
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
Sooo where's the AI?
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
Yes, thank you. My thought experiments have been hand-wavy expected value calculations like this: P(failure) = P(infection) * P(critical) * (1-P(icu)) 0.1 * 0.8 * 0.9 = 0.072 and cost of failure is, well, infinite. That infection probabilit
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
So it's plot.ly, but costs money? Oh I see you have a dot-ai domain. Very cool.
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
"Write code that is easy to delete" https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co...
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
Bueller?... Bueller?...
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by boltzmannbrain 7y ago
1. The culture and processes should supersede the org chart. If that's not the case, go work somewhere better. 2. To some people levels matter for career growth and validation. Other people don't give two sh*ts. For all people loo

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