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by borroka 4y ago
The ones I talk to all complain about the poor pay, relative to how much people make in industry. A few make the jump, especially those whose discipline allow them to transition easily to industry. But try to be a tenure-track professor in
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by borroka 4y ago
He is a brilliant, genius technologist. I don't find him a brilliant intellectual. Einstein was a brilliant physicist. Otherwise he was not a paragon of human virtues. Maradona was a brilliant soccer player. As a coach he was a disaste
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by borroka 4y ago
Mine was in Spain, where I am from. And I also had kids at the time, which made the lack of life planning even more dangerous.
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by borroka 4y ago
He is a smart person, but not as brilliant as I thought he was (and I am not getting this impression just from this interview, I have been following him for a long time). And the same is true for many other VC types, who, if it were not for
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by borroka 4y ago
That's alluring. It is true that you can change companies and rapidly leave behind all the problems and conflicts and issues you had in your previous jobs. In academia, first, it is very challenging to move to another institution after
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by borroka 4y ago
I did my last postdoc in another European country more or less 8 years ago and my salary was 1700 euros per month (after taxes). Very limited funds for traveling or going to conferences. That was barely livable, considering it is temporary
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by borroka 4y ago
Very understandable. I worked as a post doc for 8 years, with a paltry salary, I must say I had excellent advisors, so the experience was professionally enjoyable and I had the opportunity to sharpen my skills, travel the world for work, an
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by borroka 4y ago
The alluring premise of any pg's essay is that if you are smart, the execution can be challenging, but the idea comes easy. Which is attractive to his audience, because it is mostly made up of self-considered "smart people".
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by borroka 4y ago
Managing and dealing with issues, among those we can find the many people who want everything and—better—if—right—now that any elected public official has to deal with, is much different from having a "point of view", "my two
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by borroka 4y ago
Don't we also recognize a horse by "gut instinct" or intuition? It is not that the jot down notes to make up our mind between a horse and a zebra. What we instantaneously identify does not come from nowhere, it is that our pa
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by borroka 4y ago
I work for a big US corporation. Every job or project is slow to get approved and staffed, and often of little importance. They pay me well and as far as I understand, the company does not fire people and is unlikely to lay people/depa
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by borroka 4y ago
That is a true difference and I should have been clearer. I should have specified that I don't believe they used any test data, the "study" had probably been done with no test data set and simply using all data for the estima
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by borroka 4y ago
I first read about 10-20 observations per feature in a statistical model (not ML), including interactions between features, in Frank Harrell's "Regression Modeling Strategies," an excellent book that many coming from the CS s
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by borroka 4y ago
An example I have used a few times to highlight the difference between "understanding how a model gives predictions" and "model uses predictors/features in a way that makes sense" is a linear regression model that B
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by borroka 4y ago
There is little material in English, while much more is available in German, Italian, and Spanish. In English, I recommend "Autogenic Training. A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Syndrome," by M
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by borroka 4y ago
I have practiced Autogenic Training for years on and off; for the past two years I have been practicing it regularly. I have observed very positive effects on my life, particularly a growing sense of confidence and enjoyment in and for life
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by borroka 4y ago
This is what has been done historically (and I think still today) to "treat" Achilles tendinosis, which is a surgical technique called scarification. The surgeon makes small cuts in the tendon to promote inflammation and blood flo
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by borroka 4y ago
It may not be trivial to replace the current system. But the current system is certainly not a local maximum. As a former academic who has been doing research for more than 15 years, it's hard to reconcile the idea of a local maximum,
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by borroka 4y ago
Our Head of AI for an org of more than 700 people, had: - never done any AI work whatsoever in their life, nor software, nor, apparently, any kind of tech/technical work in their lives - blatantly lied on their Linkedin profile about p
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by borroka 5y ago
The question you should be asking yourself is: do I want to have good/exceptional/fantastic fun? If the answer is "meh", "whatever", "I guess", you will inevitably be miserable. I was reading Vaclav S
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by borroka 5y ago
I don't understand the obsession with therapy, and I don't understand it to the point that, outside of a real trauma (suicide, abuse, death, etc.), I wouldn't be in a relationship with someone who is seeing a therapist. And t
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by borroka 5y ago
He is very smart and incredibly successful. He comes across, at least to me and online, as terribly obnoxious. But he's not talking to me with his tweets, he's talking to his peers, who are other VCs, CEOs, founders, younger and e
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by borroka 5y ago
That's why I wrote my comment, I had a very different experience than the one reported in the previous comment. Mine is genuinely a single data point though, but it was a curious difference.
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by borroka 5y ago
Assuming you're not showing up in something undeniably "dressy," like a dark-colored suit with a white shirt with French cuffs, being "casual" is more about your attitude with your clothes, how you wear them, than t
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by borroka 5y ago
I go with a " spezzato", which is pants and blazer of different fabric and/or color. Less formal than a suit and allows for more creativity. Neapolitan blazers look especially good on fit people. If tailored or made to measur
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by borroka 5y ago
I share a similar fascination/interest in unusual books. I am currently in the process of collecting all the books on Autogenic Training written in my native language. There is a formidable wealth of knowledge that would otherwise not
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by borroka 5y ago
I was in NYC a year ago and as I was walking down the subway stairs, I saw a woman - black, maybe 60 years old - struggling to get up the stairs with what looked like a heavy bag. I moved out of the way, then said, "nah," went bac
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by borroka 5y ago
It's really hard to get a black belt, it took me 10 years of consistent training in the art and a year after getting it I still don't feel like I'm good enough. That's okay, because it keeps me on my toes: when I feel li
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by borroka 5y ago
For my previous career as mathematical biologist: "The Ecological Detective" by Hilborn and Mangel, and "Introduction to Quantitative Genetics" by Falconer and Mackay. The first is a fascinating, exciting, and readable
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by borroka 5y ago
I did a specific training that took me a few months (3 to 5, difficult to remember, I had bought the program online, we are talking 2002), with plenty of negatives included that worked very well. I also had to file down a gripper to make th

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