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by borroka 5y ago
I am quite baffled by the vibe of the comment section here. The author explains why they do not feel like writing a technical blog, and those are (1) they have nothing interesting/new to say, (2) they are not a good programmer, and (3)
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by borroka 5y ago
Very few of ML is "principled" (e.g., taking account the probability distributions, priors, bounds on the value of parameters etc,), actually it is most of the time a brute-force approach that makes modelers avoid "thinking&q
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by borroka 5y ago
What you described seems to me pretty standard in ML and even more in statistical modeling. Maybe because I am coming from applied math and statistics.
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by borroka 5y ago
But the OP was asking something different, that is why someone should excessively focus on theory, when, by the way, DL theory is very far from being solid and trial and error in ML and AI is the common way of operating. The "model is
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by borroka 5y ago
Disclaimer. I don't like DHH, I find him insufferable, obnoxious, he has the "I am right, you are wrong" attitude that one would think it should finish with middle school. It looks like he is always ready not to teach, but to
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by borroka 5y ago
As someone who has traveled to quite a few places in the world, is not from the US, and has dated in plenty of places, I can say with great confidence that the Bay Area is terrible for dating. There are many worse places for dating in the w
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by borroka 5y ago
I don't like working. I don't hate it, but if I had the opportunity to stop working forever (say 1/3 of my annual current tech salary, but with no work), I will take it immediately. Now, it does not mean I would stare at the
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by borroka 5y ago
It is a bit naive to think that life was harder (it is generally true of course) 100 years ago, and thus the most common emotional and physical conditions were fatigue, despair, and darkness. The pressures of life 50-70-100 years ago were v
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by borroka 5y ago
Which (taking the peer-review but not giving it) is what is done by most established scientists. Thoughtful reviews are much more likely to be delivered by early-career scientists (post-doc, mostly, since Assistant Professors are very time-
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by borroka 5y ago
[I read the book years ago] Anyone who has been able to do anything measurable at a high level knows that talent is underrated. But "Talent is Underrated" would sell very few copies: who wants to have their hopes buried under a to
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by borroka 5y ago
These are good points. I've been working remotely since the start of the pandemic (the office was closed down, so it was mandatory) and have no interest in going back to the office. I wake up and instead of mentally preparing myself fo
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by borroka 5y ago
Salty-ish (autocorrection got it wrong). I am a bit salty because I was rejected and my tone may reflect that, although it is true that people at Google are in my experience (that is, the one I met professionally or outside work, or saw at
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by borroka 5y ago
There are definitely some advantages in working for Google, like 25% more money and Google on the resume (I already had another FAANG), which can open other lucrative doors down the road. I am not a hardcore tech guy, in the sense that I co
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by borroka 5y ago
A few days ago I got the usual call from the Google recruiter, after being rejected a year ago with feedback of 2 sure hire, one lean, two no hire. A strange collection, isn't it? Well, I would have “fired" two of them plus the r
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by borroka 5y ago
Quite the opposite, in fact. I am listening and disagreeing. I don't want you to agree with me, you do. I listen and form my opinion. It is exactly what I was talking about. To you, listening means the listener agreeing with you. To me
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by borroka 5y ago
The nervous smile indicated that was the case, but him being a younger fellow, it was harder for him than for me to tell the other guy to be polite.
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by borroka 5y ago
Walking is easy for the vast majority of people who work, let's try not to complicate things for the sake of it. Listening is easy too, what is more complicate is, "listen and do exactly as I say", which one may or may not do
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by borroka 5y ago
Those are some good points. I think there is also a delayed gratification that is coming from listening, while the gratification that comes with talking or expressing oneself is immediate. There is also in the "manager should listen&qu
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by borroka 5y ago
Just for the sake of example, I consider solving partial differential equations challenging. Listening is not challenging. One may not do it for a variety of reason, but we call can do it no exception, the act is as easy as it gets. A bit l
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by borroka 5y ago
"Are they listening? When you have a conversation with them, are they paying close attention to what you have to say, or are they busy delivering a message? You want listening :)" - This is common advice anytime one talks about re
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by borroka 5y ago
One day I saw a colleague-to-be with their bare feet on the the desk, I looked at them and I said, "that's a no". He apologized and we moved on. But I also told the guy sitting next to them, "why didn't you say anyt
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by borroka 5y ago
That is not a weakness that can be scored on a 0-10 scale (say, I am a 9 Python programmers and a 2 Java programmer, that's an either/or, a "threshold" weakness, or an attractor (of evil!).
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by borroka 5y ago
Competition time is 10 years max at the very high level with the usual few exceptions, and sometimes what was working stops to work, either due to injury, changes in weight or power, or competitors "figuring you out". For example,
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by borroka 5y ago
What about, and I say this as a long-term martial arts practitioner, the man who has practiced 3 kicks 3300 times each (with one rep to spare)? And I am not saying it provocatively, the one-10000, 10000-one is a straw-man of course, but how
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by borroka 5y ago
"it's a reflection on themselves or their skills when that's often not the case." - it is often not the case, but often considered the case. Successfully climbing the corporate ladder requires a set of skills, observatio
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by borroka 5y ago
Back in the day, the most dangerous man in the world was Otto Skorzeny.
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by borroka 5y ago
The analogy does not work. Athletes are seen perform, but not ICs at a company: nobody pays tickets to see John Smith, the TensorFlow master, at work at Google (and when they pay, like for "webinars", is to become like them, not t
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by borroka 5y ago
This way of thinking, which is very legitimate, largely comes from the mythical idea of "sports teaching life" or "the English army came from the fields of Eton". But I have to say that apart from the extremes of the dis
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by borroka 5y ago
Also the title of the underrated Arthur Jones' autobiography.
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by borroka 5y ago
I certainly have a direction, for example I want (yes, want, not "would like", or, "it would be nice to have") to get a certain work position and I work to put myself, through visibility and persuasion, in the best spot

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