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by cdavid 6y ago
I should have explained a bit better what I meant by accountability in that context: reduced direct oversight from general management, almost kinda "chinese wall" style. Besides the reasons given by OP, an issue w/ skunkworks
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by cdavid 6y ago
What's interesting about skunkworks is much it gets invoked by people vs how much it actually happens in practice. We engineers love skunkworks: working on cool stuff, without accountability and a lot of freedom ? Who would not want th
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by cdavid 6y ago
> The role of "Management" is supposed be the oversight and allocation of human resources and other assets towards the completion of the org's stated goals. Not really. In theory, management should be about growing your t
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by cdavid 6y ago
Regarding the installation of self-contained tools, this is a problem already solved by pipx, which is very simple to use. I wished such a system was included as part of official python installers.
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by cdavid 6y ago
Compiled dependencies is indeed one of the main reasons. Another one is lack of enforced, static metadata because python started before most other languages.
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by cdavid 6y ago
I wonder if this will become a watershed moment for the EU. I've always been an ardent believer in the European program, both for historical reasons (I have French and German grand parents), but also because for all its warts, I believ
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by cdavid 6y ago
I have seen it in many cases, especially working on financial data. My most recent example was working with real time feeds of trades, which we used ML models on top of. Inference was based on accumulated volume per fixed amount of time (sa
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by cdavid 6y ago
Wow, asking a new manager to do this is terrible. You certainly did the right thing to get out as soon as you could. That situation (team that refuses to 'get with the program') is actually one of the typical setup experienced man
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by cdavid 6y ago
Indeed. Some teams I took over complained to me I was micro managing them, because I was reviewing code and asking on a regular basis them when things would be done. The regular basis was once, max 2 a week, and I was not reviewing more tha
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by cdavid 6y ago
Yes, there is a lot of variance in consulting. It also often involves a lot of travel, which I personally really hate.
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by cdavid 6y ago
If you're not very close to the money, that's very hard. You can measure the team's productivity, but going down to the individual level is difficult. The process is also fundamentally political in the sense that it is a zero
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by cdavid 6y ago
Engineers tend to conflate politics with toxic politics, and that's a source of a lot of confusion. Toxic politics are everywhere, but the ability to negotiate, navigate the organization, find what make people w/ authority tick, i
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by cdavid 6y ago
So you're right about the CV assumption. But if you grow as an EM and beyond, it helps growing your network faster, and resume stop being as relevant. To be fair, it does help I am in an area (AI/ML) where even as a manager, you&#
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by cdavid 6y ago
It is usually easier to become a manager within your existing company, compared to starting with an EM role. If that has not happened to you even after being clear, it can mean different things. It could be that you are within a group that
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by cdavid 6y ago
> Whatever you do, don't seek to join a management track because you think it's the "next logical step" or some reward for being good at coding. It's not that. It's a different job. It is certainly a differe
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by cdavid 6y ago
2 and 3 are true, 1 is more debatable. Gini coefficient of Japan is quite higher than most European countries, though it measures income not wealth. US are at 0.39, Japan at 0.34, most Western European countries below 0.3. A lot of people h
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by cdavid 6y ago
I don't think that's true, though I am not a player (only played very casually as a kid w/ my grand parents): https://www.fisf.net/scrabble/decouverte-du-scrabble/r%C3%A8... (French, sorry) I don&#x
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by cdavid 6y ago
I was loose w/ words, but I maintain there is inherent compression aspect to Fourier transform, because for a large class of signals, most of the energy is contained in the first few coefficients. See also the similarity between fourie
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by cdavid 6y ago
Yes. I think you can bypass the idea of "frequency domain", and focus on regular / fast changing. I think a smart 12 year old would understand the intuition that fast changing and high frequencies are somehow related, I mean
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by cdavid 6y ago
I should add that the OT does not really explain DCT as much as the inherent compressing effect of Fourier transform by removing high frequencies (== what changes quickly, intuitively). That's why the compressed images get blurrier, an
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by cdavid 6y ago
I am not convinced it is eli5. I am too lazy to write a blog post w/ illustration, but for audio signals, which I am more familiar with, the intuition behind DCT (and MDCT, used e.g. for mp3) is straightforward. Assuming you understand
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by cdavid 6y ago
I forgot to mention specifically in schools, which is where until last year every girl had to dye their hair black: https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-school...
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by cdavid 6y ago
There is a culture of doing things very well up to perfection, at least in certain domains. I don't think it has anything to do with tourism. One folk story is that this is linked with the perpetual destruction of things in Japan, beca
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by cdavid 6y ago
The list is decent, but not exactly original. For people w/ a physics background, I would still recommend https://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf . Some of it is a bit obsolete, but then DL made a lot of stuff
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by cdavid 6y ago
I am curious about your perspective. I work in a large-ish company (few 1000s people), I am managing ~25 people and this is the first organization where I used OKRs. I found them pretty worthless myself, and for similar reasons as the OT. F
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by cdavid 6y ago
I have seen behavior that would be guaranteed to get a sexual harassment suit in the US in pretty much every company I worked at, big and small, public and private. That starts to date now but I have been at karaoke parties where some guys
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by cdavid 6y ago
I don't anything about smalltalk, but one issue that was highlighted at that time was the inability to scale the number of "objects" to the required numbers (I can't remember exact typology, sorry). They used one of the
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by cdavid 6y ago
I worked on that project 10 years ago as a consultant, and it was certainly strategic at that time. It was fairly well known that one of the main stakeholder was pushing for those system and making a career out of it by jumping bank every f
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by cdavid 6y ago
Indeed. It is particularly depressing to handle as a manager, because unless you have top notch HR, your only recourse to deal with somebody who does not perform is passive agressiveness, or at best plain ignorance. Imagine the effect on th
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by cdavid 6y ago
>If you spent so much time at the workplace like the Japanese you end up with a low producivity on paper pretty much by definition, because it's simply output divided by amount of time worked. It is not as simple as that: in general

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