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by cashsterling 3y ago
The master carpenter guy I'm referring to is very intelligent and has worked very hard at his craft for tens of years. He didn't wake up at 18 years old knowing how to craft mantle pieces or build the perfect kitchen table. He s
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by cashsterling 3y ago
I think I read a lengthy technical proposal about 15 years ago about turning the outskirts of Yellowstone into a massive network of geothermal energy plants. I tried finding it real quick but no luck. I did work at JPL pre-2016 so I might
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by cashsterling 3y ago
Counter anecdote... A good friend of mine in HS did one semester of college, said "nope. not for me" and became an electrician. Fast forward ~30 years, he planning on retiring in a few years (could retire now if he wanted to). He
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by cashsterling 4y ago
There is some relief in learning that a homeless person didn't commit this crime. However, the overall crime situation in SF, and other parts of the Bay, is still crazy... and I think that is the genesis of the 2600+ comment thread on
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I'd say RL is an advanced robotics topic. There are some books out there that cover introductory or general RL aspects... after that you'll have to dive into papers and specific code bases. Might not be a bad idea to start with a
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by cashsterling 4y ago
The magnitude of wealth disparity is high throughout the country... it is not just the Bay Area. High wealth disparity doesn't justify, nor should it explain violent crime, or any crime for that matter. Umm... European cities do have
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Kevin Lynch's book is free and very good: http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/index.php/Modern_Robotics - someone already mentioned his course. The Robotics resources and texts by Peter Corke are good: https:&#x2F
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Overall, Rippling is a nice solution. There are some bugs with their authentication and IT hardware management software. Rippling routinely decided to not let employees into MS 365 at the worst times. I had to login to Rippling twice a da
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I would love someone to clearly explain what makes a workplace culture toxic. Asking for a friend who would love to know and understand all of the things that clearly contribute to workplace toxicity so that they can avoid them.
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by cashsterling 4y ago
This article and information cited doesn't seem realistic to me. I don't have time to do a deep dive into their calculations but the claim that EV's are 10x more energy efficient over their lifetime just doesn't hold wa
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I have a part 1 and part 2 reply. Part 1: My statement you quoted above was super 'hand wavy', but it is a mass & energy balance situation. Ethanol production from corn, corn stover, or whatever (you can tell I'm not a fa
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by cashsterling 4y ago
As others mentioned, this is not a new finding. There is a lot of academic and industrial/economic analysis on this subject. Ethanol from corn was never a good idea economically for anyone other than corn farmers. It is also bad env
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I'll go a step further and argue that residential zoned property should be owned by residents, i.e., actual people that live on that property. By allowing the wealthy, and especially investment firms, to buy residential property as an
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Graduate student compensation and treatment is a serious problem at many Universities across the country. I had a pretty good experience in grad school... great department... great advisor... a stipend on which I could actually live. But m
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Just FYI... Monsanto is now owned by Bayer. So the Monsanto arm of the company now has even larger international regulatory influence via the Bayer parent.
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by cashsterling 4y ago
This string of high-tech layoffs this feels like a wage-war to me. At some point engineers & scientists of various disciplines need to form country-wide unions. Imagine for a moment that CS & software engineers, electrical engineers
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by cashsterling 4y ago
A set of gymnastic rings for 50USD is a great investment if you can find a good place to use them. I have a set that I take with me to the gym. Ring dips and push-ups are awesome pushing exercises. Ring dips especially put a lot of load o
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Whether or not this goes through, I think a lot of folks on HN should consider refusing to sign non-compete agreements... especially if you are a subject matter expert in your field of work. If a employer wants you to sign a non-compete it
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by cashsterling 4y ago
From all that I have read and understood... seems like Holmes is a full-tilt narcissist. I worked at a startup for a narcissist CEO (direct report) and some of the things I learned are: (1) you can't trust anything they say... and the
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I want to say the same thing... this is a very generous severance package. At one startup... I got called into the HR office on Monday morning, laid off with no advanced notice, and was only offered two weeks severance provided I signed a n
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by cashsterling 4y ago
My 0.02... I'm not a neural network expert but have done a fair amount of nonlinear dynamic modeling and large-system optimization work in my career. I have always felt (and commented on HH) that neural network based approaches to co
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by cashsterling 4y ago
it reads "annual percentage change in labor output"... which I take to mean "rate of change of per capita productivity" over time, not actual measured productivity. So that graph does not say we've dropped below pre
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by cashsterling 4y ago
The article doesn't talk about how productivity is measured and the actual sensitivity and accuracy of the measurement(s). As others have pointed out, measuring productivity is a little hazy and probably is influenced by subjective
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Thank you... I'm going to check out your videos and slides.
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by cashsterling 4y ago
As others have said... company ownership perspectives are subjective. My opinion is that all C-level execs should have a piece of the company that vests over time. Ownership should be proportional to impact on the growth/bottom line of
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I worked at a company a few year ago that makes adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration (ADR) systems for milliKelvin temperature cooling. The magnetic cooling system cooled a small payload from sub 4K to mK temperatures... company sells a
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by cashsterling 4y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work in quantum computer hardware development until earlier this year. I didn't read the Financial Times article because it is pay-walled, but some of the things that Oxford Physicist said are not completely on th
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I got my PhD in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. - I was paid a stipend that actually covered all basic living expenses for my wife and I. - there was a 5 year limit for finishing PHD research, after which both the st
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by cashsterling 4y ago
No... it is subsidizing. Developing drugs is expensive and high risk... there has to be a monetary mechanism to incentivize drug development and, right now, that is the promise of high profits, which mostly happens in the US. Therefore, U
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by cashsterling 4y ago
I have worked in pharma drug development and manufacturing in the past (and am again as of a month ago) and I would say: "yes... it is moreorless true that the US is subsidizing the cost of pharmaceuticals in other markets." At on

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