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by cornel_io 6y ago
Yes, that's a thing if you have good relationships with coworkers who have hiring power in later jobs. Since I switched to being a founder I've firmly disabused most previous coworkers of the notion that I'd ever come to work
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by cornel_io 6y ago
You could of course argue that environment in the womb is largely genetic (and has a 50% correlation with the kid's genes, which is damn influential). But once we open that door we're going down an extended phenotype rabbithole
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by cornel_io 6y ago
That's not quite fair to evolution: crossover is vastly more important to real world evolution than mutation (even as mutation is critical to create the raw material that's crossed). I don't think I ever have seen a GA applic
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by cornel_io 6y ago
Having had similar issues, "forgetting to breathe" usually gets diagnosed as central sleep apnea, which is usually associated with heroin abuse or heart failure. In my case neither was true, so docs generally threw their hands up
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by cornel_io 6y ago
It also almost certainly applies to whatever every person here works on, no matter what industry you're in or how close to pure tech it is. In fact, I'm not sure I can think of a single field where even the most brutally difficu
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by cornel_io 6y ago
Chinese researcher is full of shit and fabricates results, news at 11. For the haters, this is not racism but nationalism, China super incentivizes bullshit research at a high level these days, and it's gotten bad enough that we'r
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by cornel_io 6y ago
They're actually more common than engineers with understanding of project management or the concerns that they quite reasonably have. And they're way more valuable than a zug-zug eng. I say this as a pure engineer who has been a l