capitalsigma

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by capitalsigma 4y ago
> Two days of actually trying allowed me to accomplish more on this particular goal than 7 previous months of cowardice had, and (maybe) about as much as a full semester college course would have. The article then goes on to explain that
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I mean, yes, of course OP should be aware that they are on the clock during the day. I just feel like you are really misrepresenting the scale of the worry here. A senior candidate has a serious, revenue-generating side business, maybe in a
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I mean, the NY transit system will take you pretty much anywhere in an area with a population of 8M. For scale, note that New York State alone is about 4x larger than Taiwan. I agree that having walkable cities is a good thing but it's
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I really don't think this is an issue for an intern candidate, imo having a serious project under your belt would significantly outweigh any concerns I have for an intern, it's not like they're going to be responsible for mis
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Believe it or not, Amazon is not a charity. I don't know why you expect them to hold on to employees who are evidently a loss to their bottom line.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Gold also loses value due to dilution, when more gold is mined.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Tesla should have logs that show the driver is responsible for the braking, if so
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
A model takes a fixed length input and returns a fixed length output in finite time, it's not Turing complete
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
The idea of working with a distributed data pipeline implemented via makefiles is nightmare fuel
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Neither did I.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
> generate regexes in seconds that take seasoned developers hours Who on earth is spending hours writing a single regex?
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
C++ has a much more complicated (Turing complete) type system than C# and Java.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
The year of the decentralized social network is right around the corner, just past the year of the Linux desktop
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Not super clear to me how useful computer vision algorithms are to the military. The important thing in the private sector is replacing (say) the lab tech who would otherwise be paid minimum wage to look through your data. If you have plent
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Understaffing doesn't justify crime. You probably understaff your home security, leaving it empty all day while you're at work. Do you deserve to be robbed?
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
< 7% of Americans work in retail: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/profile-of-th...
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Why would I want to replace ls of all things? What if I need to use another machine, ever?
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Do you think subsistence farmers had better work life balance?
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Enough developers want to hack on their own tools that the market is smaller than you would naively expect, counting the number of developers and how many tools they each use. It's a bit like asking "how come we're having so
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Because developers want to be able to hack on their own tools: fix bugs, add features, whatever. Graphics designers do not have the skills to hack on their own tools, so there isn't a huge population of them sitting around going "
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Would you say that it's also ableist to ask people to "just resist fascism"? After all, many people are indeed conditioned to accommodate fascism. Or pick another -ism you prefer.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I'm confident that this is not secretly a way to find the high performers, because it's just jerking people around. You enable the high performers by trusting them and giving them latitude, not by repeatedly, publicly demanding th
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
There's no way this stuff like "office closed lol nevermind 3 hour deadline to get to the office" is anything other than him either: (a) throwing a tantrum because something has pissed him off in this process and he wants to
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Also, like, it's plausible that working long hours and pushing hard for progress kind of makes sense when you're doing cutting edge stuff, pushing the boundary of what's possible, etc. It's unclear why you would need tha
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I think the point was actually to demo self supervised learning techniques (which is LeCun's schtick) in a way that was a bit flashy and accessible to the public. Fun, easily shareable on social media, generates some buzz about FB AI,
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Packages don't deliver on time if they don't hire enough people to work on AWS? Hard to imagine that day to day performance of their core business is really related to headcount.
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
> Even languages with rich type systems like Haskell do require some types - even implicitly - to infer everything else. If the Haskell compiler is spitting out "ambiguous instance of +" or whatever that error message is, it&#x
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Type inference really doesn't require ML (and is probably better done without it in order to be robust). I think the Kolmogorov complexity of serious production codebases is very high -- in order to convey what the codebase does, you h
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
Yes, it matters. The quality of education is better. Lower ranked schools don't dole out the same kind of punishingly hard material that higher ranked schools do. The content of the degree is meaningfully different (based on my experie
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by capitalsigma 4y ago
I've taken classes at a number of institutions of varying rigor. My experience is that less well ranked schools just do not expect the same quantity and quality of academic work as more prestigious schools, and the students at these sc

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