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by codingslave 7y ago
Most of the reason for immigrant children doing so well is the fact that immigrants are often more driven, ambitious, and at the top of their peer group. So the USA gets a biased sample of immigrants from countries like Nigeria. None of thi
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by codingslave 7y ago
Get a job at FAANG, then switch to an interesting position after. People go by brand name, so if you have a brand name, then they will hire you for something you may have no experience in.
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by codingslave 7y ago
You're saying that like pointing out that the Hillary people ran the development for this app is similar to anti vaccine arguments. They arent similar.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Calling something a conspiracy theory is a new way to shame people who hold opinions that are different than your own.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Give him a harvard degree, wipe away his past, and throw him in front of an audience. He would be signing off on drone strikes in no time
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by codingslave 7y ago
Politicians in the United States are more similar to actors than to statesmen. The only difference between them and Hollywood is the necessity of academic credentials and perceived morality.
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by codingslave 7y ago
I noticed this as well. Censorship...
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by codingslave 7y ago
This lab theory has been systematically censored across the internet for the last week or so. For me it has been fascinating to watch content on it pop up and then disappear.
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by codingslave 7y ago
I know that specifically on reddit, most posts related to the lab theory are deleted on the main pages and subreddits for this virus. For me it's been fascinating to watch the curation and deletion of content that has been evolving ove
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by codingslave 7y ago
This would be a really scary outcome. As has been commented elsewhere, there's confirmed events of at least four virus leaks from labs in Beijing. Evidence/article on it here: https://thebulletin.org/2014/03&#
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by codingslave 7y ago
this is the complete opposite of true. I work in the industry, too busy to write up a response. But basically, the top five hedge funds are making most of the returns and are attracting most of the capital. the industry is consolidating
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by codingslave 7y ago
Most HFT players are barely making money, theres a few that are actually highly profitable People in this thread are confusing beta and alpha, alpha is limited and competed for
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areas like HFT are
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by codingslave 7y ago
Investing is like tech, its winner take all. This is like being surprised that Google dominates search
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by codingslave 7y ago
Yeah exactly, getting stuff done at work, getting in at the same time every day, etc can be your life line. Multiple failing areas of your life is what really knocks people out, one is manageable.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Maybe, but I think people underestimate the degree to which having a job keeps their lives in order. Self regulation in the sense of no job, daily schedule, and responsibilities when coupled with depression and burnout, is very difficult to
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by codingslave 7y ago
Why is it sad? 450k is reaching the top of our field, but is nowhere near the top of finance, law, and business. Engineers at the top of their game should be unsatisfied with this type of compensation.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Here's what I would advise. Do not under any circumstances quit your job. I've lived through a similar scenario, and while I had a ton of savings, quitting my job resulted in chaos. Poor sleep schedule, dropping motivation, etc. I
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by codingslave 7y ago
was wondering this as well
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by codingslave 7y ago
Just assume the higher ups value whatever this guy has, so either become like him or go work somewhere else
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by codingslave 7y ago
Sure but atleast Quora did the hard work of building the website, getting the users, etc. They own that. I think we need to increase awareness and outcry about google stealing content from websites. They should be required to pay part of th
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by codingslave 7y ago
Yeah I think the downfall of quora is partly due to their product managers decision making and the machine learning recommendation engine. Both of which are abysmal even with all that Harvard and Stanford talent they have
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by codingslave 7y ago
I think they panicked a bit and went with high growth strategies that ruined the integrity of the platform
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by codingslave 7y ago
The extracted content on their search page is just the beginning. They are spending huge efforts to get better at it. Specifically, extracting information from multiple pages at the same time. Eventually it will mostly be a query interface
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by codingslave 7y ago
This is the best analysis I have seen yet. Thanks for your comment. So then we should be even more concerned? If CCP quarantines so soon after learning of the virus, clearly they saw something ugly.
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by codingslave 7y ago
The newest research out of the Google AI labs is all centered around extractive summarazation. Led by a researcher from CMU named William Cohen. Their next big business is content extraction.
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by codingslave 7y ago
yeah I also think their machine learning is terrible. Their recommendation engine was so bad that I unsubscribed, it was completely overfit.
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by codingslave 7y ago
I have no affiliation to those businesses, just that as someone interested in websites and internet businesses, its clear that its much harder to build a consumer facing content based website now.
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by codingslave 7y ago
Any company that relies on SEO content is basically going to disapear. Google search and their new NLP technology is just extracting the question and answers from content like that on Quora, significantly reducing their page hit volumes. No
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by codingslave 7y ago
Here is a patent from the lab in Wuhan: https://jvi.asm.org/content/jvi/90/6/3253.full.pdf "Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Bat Coronavirus Closely Related to the Direct Progenitor of Seve

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