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by codingslave 7y ago
Failing European economies where the workers look down on technical work will continue to look for ways to tax US corporations. Apple may have some monopolistic practices, but a larger problem in Europe is as I stated, a work force not incl
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by codingslave 7y ago
I personally believe that there is a genetic susceptibility to the virus, but unfortunately, any kind of academic study regarding this is mostly suppressed/shamed. But if you go back an read studies of SARS, many will straight out say
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by codingslave 7y ago
No he just dampens his returns by protecting against extreme downside black swan events
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by codingslave 7y ago
All those leetcode engineers RobinHood hired came back to bite them. This isnt web development
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by codingslave 7y ago
Yup, they did this to themselves. They put metrics above the quality of the product
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by codingslave 7y ago
Why does it matter that hes Indian?
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by codingslave 7y ago
This is often a lie. It's common for revenue generators to make as low as the company will pay them, and management who is producing little value to extract the wealth
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by codingslave 7y ago
This is a really good article. One company that I always think of when I think machine learning is the computer vision "startup" Clarifai. At one point in time they were cutting edge, filling the need for large scale image classif
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by codingslave 7y ago
True, I was more so referencing first implementation to see wide scale adoption. But maybes there some holes in my narrative...
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by codingslave 7y ago
Word is that internally at Google, among a few teams, and then also externally, Trax/Jax are putting up real competition to Tensorflow. Some teams have moved off of tensorflow entirely. Combined with the better research capabilities of
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by codingslave 7y ago
People are completing 500+ problems on leetcode before heading into interviews at google. Don't believe me? Go read the teamblind forums. People might spend six months studying, after which they pass a bunch of interviews and get good
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by codingslave 7y ago
I think the cushy salaries come from the fact that programming done right is extremely profitable. So the capitalists toss a chunk of money to the engineers.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Interviews are so bad because there are too many capable programmers. If there really was a market shortage, companies would not interview like this.
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by codingslave 7y ago
unfortunately im serious
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by codingslave 7y ago
Sure, but a truly world class programmer writes better code in a rush than a mediocre one does in a slow enterprise environment. Programming skill doenst work like that, some people are just better.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Yeah they did. But its a small fraction of engineers that wrote those libraries. Not only that, most of the engineers doing foundational work at those companies are not getting hired through standard interviews. When Google wants to hire pe
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by codingslave 7y ago
The only thing that matters is data structures and algorithms. If you cant master those, you wont get far/your pay is forever capped and should move into management or another career entirely.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Honestly this seems like an effort to create a clever alternative theory just for the sake of novelty. This blog has an incentive to produce "hidden" information. This specific example is really contrived.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Elite startups and hedge funds have the best software quality. There are funds in NYC where every programmer makes more than 500k a year, some in the millions. They have people on those teams who have been programming since they were in mid
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by codingslave 7y ago
I think there's a ton of interesting cross over between machine learning, statistics, linear algebra, real analysis, topology etc. In the sense that there exists theorems and methods in different areas of math that are essentially the
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by codingslave 7y ago
This is my point exactly, they arent. They just have monopolies.
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by codingslave 7y ago
The competency of FAANG is completely overblown. Mostly they enjoy massive profits by being monopolies. Because they're monopolies, they can afford to waste a ton of money on software. Facebook is not even known for high software quali
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by codingslave 7y ago
I'm not saying this will spawn AI. Just that, like computer vision was essentially solved by CNNs, NLP will be solved by transformer models.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Yes, but duplex doesn't work and was too early.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Replying from my laptop. I agree, there needs to be a way to represent relationships between information. I personally don't think knowledge graphs will be the ones to do it, not because they dont work, but because of how imperfect the
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by codingslave 7y ago
Replying on my laptop. Basically, transformer models are the best for NLP. They use something called attention based mechanisms, which allows the model to draw correlations between pieces of text/tokens that are far apart. The issue is
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by codingslave 7y ago
This made me laugh, because everyone I know does exactly this for the boards off of craigslist.
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by codingslave 7y ago
He's in his late 30s, been surfing his whole life, it is his life. He still does well for himself very well for himself, but I think he just wishes the industry could grow and innovate, but instead sees it stagnate. Sure the vibe and l
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by codingslave 7y ago
"Surfers, for the most part, don’t need more stuff, don’t want more surfers, don’t care about grabbing attention, etc." This is actually completely true. I'm friends with a guy who owns a surf shop in one of the highest gross
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by codingslave 7y ago
This sounds like some great advice for real life...

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