brobdingnagian

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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I find it very interesting that I'm being downvoted based on the difference between my self-concept and whoever is doing the downvoting (they don't think they are a neural network). I'm pretty sure that's not what downvo
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Perhaps - it's not a bad analogy. But calling myself a neural network is not an analogy - it's literal.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I am a neural network, and I can round.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Comments from anyone who has seen this?
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The dog has low precision and high recall. The dogs are capable of high precision and high recall, but aren't being trained to do that because other incentives are at play. I found it impressive that the dog that alerts 93% of the time
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The ability to search your own gists!
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Scholarpedia is another good and authoritative source. The articles are typically written by the person who created the concept, or an active authority: http://www.scholarpedia.org
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This. All these people commenting on the premise that usenet is dead, don't realize it is alive and kicking. As is IRC:)
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
There is no good rationalization for not hiring someone, because you cannot empirically connect your hiring process to more objective measures of success.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Guillaume, I do not think you are autistic, I think you are probably an ISTP. Rodney Mullen, also an ISTP, thinks he is autistic. No - that's just normal human variability. There's no use in unnecessarily psychopathologizing yours
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Take home interviews are common in data science, and they are deeply exploitative. I have been asked to spend anywhere between an hour to a week on a project, and in most cases they simply decline to hire you without giving you any feedback
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
If meta-discussions were fundamentally off-topic, homo sapiens wouldn't exist. Says something about HN right there.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Can someone in the know please explain the importance of this?
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is a non-issue - the probability of someone dying because they crash into a tiny drone is miniscule. They are just being hyper-cautious and raising a stink about it. They should get on with their lives and drop the water on the fire.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Release the spreadsheet.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Look you at you, Mr. Destroyer of Hopes and Dreams.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is not an implausible basis with which to start a new list on Wikipedia. It is original research, but it will likely be let in.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This sounds like unsubstantiated BS. This whole thread is full of hubris.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
This is also known as 'language'.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I've been reading slashdot for over a decade and I just wasn't feeling this... honestly not sure if Slashdot can be rescued at this point. SourceForge is in the same boat.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
He's talking about groupthink.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Let's just unravel what it means to not want to work with someone: you are chipping away at them as a person who is trying to survive. You are an agent of natural selection in action. If that's part of your identity, I think you&#
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
We need to work together to make culture-fit a bad word. "Culture fit" means discrimination along dimensions that shall not be named, for were they to be named they would be illegal.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
It's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I understand the paradigm paralysis - we have been led to believe that having the best CS zombies in the world is what makes success, but it's just not true. Meanwhile, jobs aren't filled and the people who need them are suffering
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
The evidence simply does not support present hiring methodologies as predictive of successful business outcomes. Therefore, you should hire and invest in people who need jobs. The reason the increasingly widely accepted status quo of interv
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
I have also done it. None of the things you mentioned predict success. In fact, very little aside from basic hygiene is likely to predict success, which is what renders these purportedly meritocratic hiring processes so out of touch with re
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Remember - all TripleByte is doing is reinforcing the bad hiring practices that companies already have.
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
Why would you stop reading there? That's when it gets interesting. It's OK to think for yourself :)
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by brobdingnagian 11y ago
There is a lot of narcissism in academia.

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