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by chillacy 6y ago
I suspect that even though you have a lot of experience programming, recruiters aren't counting it as applicable experience to the jobs you want. You essentially have even less experience with cloud/ML than most college grads who
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by chillacy 6y ago
Good architects know a thing or two about material science, good electricians know a thing or two about physics, why programmers programmers be averse to understanding algorithms (i.e. the nature of computation)?
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by chillacy 6y ago
At larger companies I've worked at without central hiring committees it was common to get re-interviewed unless you were vouched for by someone pretty senior.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Arguably China is emulating mainly Singapore but also its neighbors. It certainly was not building HSR pre 1980. There’s an interesting story with Deng Xiaoping and Lee Kwan Yew behind this.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm sympathetic to that as an issue, but most people aren't rigorously combing over all evidence, they're making snap decisions with the availability heuristic. So in practice the 1% of evidence against something really obvio
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by chillacy 6y ago
ESP (extra sensory perception for predicting the future) has been peer reviewed. Stripped of all the political connotations it's actually kind of an interesting debate for scientists to have. https://www.nytimes.com/201
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by chillacy 6y ago
Does it actually perform addition or is the model so big that it can store 3 digit additions in a lookup table?
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don’t want to stand up for PE too much but if their whole thing is explicitly targeting weak or underperforming businesses, they’re just another symptom. It’s like saying “people who recently spoke to a doctor are more likely to die” (wit
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by chillacy 6y ago
Makes sense, as I was typing that out I suspected the answer was yes, given what I've seen in various labs I've worked at, but just wanted to frame the question in terms of skill cap.
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by chillacy 6y ago
It seems to me that a million conventionally armed soldiers today is like a legion of horse mounted soldiers in WW1. Technology has advanced so much since the last total war that any future war would look completely different (reference is
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don’t think the tool is as important as the what you’re doing with it. QA is done with a keyboard but is considered less skilled. Sculpting statues may use a water jet but would be considered more skilled. So the question seems to me: wha
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by chillacy 6y ago
After heavy fees, taxes on profits, and the betting limit, you end up not actually making that much: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c3iQryHA4tnAvPZEv/limits-of-...
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> not yet gone back and read it though I feel the same way with photos I take on my phone! More time taking than consuming.
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This is how podcasts work today at least, the ads are targeted towards interests based on the audience of the podcaster. I don’t know how effective this is though.
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That was an awesome article, I really wish I read it sooner. So many of today’s problems are predicted within. My favorite parts: 1. Designing Social software is as different from UX design as UX is from bare functionality. 2. Tech groups a
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by chillacy 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio With an extra caveat: > Recent research indicates that, in non-human primates, whole brain size is a better measure of cognitive abilities than brain-to-body ma
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Not only that but he probably has a small legion of full time developers working on his projects now that no normal FIRE savings would be able to afford.
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I recall OK cupid did an event called "love is blind" and this basically happened. As soon as the event ended a lot of conversations just stopped.
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Yea as someone who lives in a non swing state it occurred to me that being polled would probably give my options the more influence than my actual vote.
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I recall receiving a nudge from dang to be more charitable years ago. I'd like to think it set me in a better direction since. A small change in slope leads to a big change in y-intercept down the line, to use a math analogy. I've
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don't see how a blockchain mechanism could prevent some of the fraud being alleged today (all on extremely shaky grounds) like bribing voters or people voting for others. Wouldn't national identity cards with 2fa be a requiremen
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by chillacy 6y ago
My statement was a general observation, going personal about it and then insulting me is not very charitable.
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Do you also worry about Boeing flight control software, nuclear reactor software, or XRay machine software?
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People are probably harder on him because it was an explicit campaign promise that he would be less corrupt as a non politician. That doesn’t seem to have panned out imo.
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Most progressives are actually not too happy about these things but voting in a two party system is a compromise for most people, not a purity test..
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That’s a normative assumption. A lot of people pick presidents based on different merits like personality traits or demeanor.
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There are a few good subreddits for this, one is changemyview: https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/01/23/reddits-model-... It's sort of interesting too as a meta point how changing the incentive
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I think there is an important point that people miss too often about how systems can still be coercive even if there is an illusion of choice. E.g. prisoner's dilemma type situations. But this is also the same sort of logic that leads
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I noticed this happens within the US too in mainstream politics. You can sometimes just tell who is writing a piece based on their word choice, let alone any deep framing of the world.
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Last I checked we’re partly growing our population with immigration, the birth rate is 1.7, below a replacement level of 2.1.

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