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by cottonseed 8y ago
I feel like when people post on Ask HN, they should describe what they've already done to answer the question. Many posts seem like the height of laziness and the SN is terrible.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Have you ever been to a library?
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by cottonseed 8y ago
You might find some of these references useful: Resources for Getting Started with Distributed Systems https://caitiem.com/2017/09/07/getting-started-with-distribu... Distributed systems theory for the distri
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Can I ask more about the structure of the data and what you'd like to do with it? My email is in my profile.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Linear regression makes a lot of sense since it can be done streaming in a single pass. We have it as an aggregator in Hail: https://hail.is/docs/devel/aggregators.html#hail.expr.aggreg... I wonder how they'
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by cottonseed 8y ago
There are plenty of open-source projects where there are WAY more than 4 contributors/team members. The Python language implementation. LLVM. Linux. Firefox. Have a look. Google has written a bit about their monorepo culture. Her
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by cottonseed 8y ago
> After that I mainly use Amazon for small household consumables. I got fake Dove soap from Amazon.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
I keep making the same posting but I've hired ~4 people and I'm still growing. One posting equals one job is a bad assumption.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
At least three Broad teams post on HN, mine included (I'm not the poster). They're all growing and from what I can tell, the churn is very low.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
> with the possible exception of Lattice stuff > For Xilinx chips, where exactly nothing is publicly documented at the lower levels of the stack, they have to spend mountains of time re-discovering everything. The situation with Lat
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by cottonseed 8y ago
> Compiling a library of available open source tools is part of the project. Compiling? What's that even mean? What about funding? I wrote arachne-pnr, the place and route tool for the icestorm stack. My situation changed, I did
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by cottonseed 8y ago
They should have given 1% of it to Clifford Wolf.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Yes. Read books and do ALL the problems. Books with answers are nice, but learning to double-check your work and convince yourself you are correct is also useful. Find others who are also learning and study with them. Find others who al
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by cottonseed 8y ago
The Broad Institute. HHMI. CZI Science? They're pretty new.
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by cottonseed 8y ago
Although it sounds less structured than this, I'm reminded of the Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Hail @ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Software Engineer / Senior / Principal | Boston, MA | ONSITE, https://hail.is , SALARY:$80k-200k The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to improve human h
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by cottonseed 9y ago
> ... 100's of terabytes of biological data. When working with this kind of data, Pandas is often the most preferred tool "biological data" is a bit vague, but for the data I know to be that big, sequence and array data,
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by cottonseed 9y ago
No. That's a common misconception about how quantum computation works. Read this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Think about how private study is going to translate to your application. Talk to professors to see what you'll need to get admitted. I had roughly the same plan, but luckily had dropped out of my undergrad so I was able to go back an
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by cottonseed 9y ago
After 15 years of software engineering, I started a math PhD at 36. Consider the opportunity cost, those can be productive years. When considering programs, see how the other students like it. Your experience is likely to be similar. I
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Screening resumes is handled by HR. Can I ask, what was your expectation? If you feel you didn't get due consideration, forward the rejection to the above address with your resume and I'll take another l
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by cottonseed 9y ago
> I find it incredibly difficult to stand behind a manager who does not believe they are responsible for their team’s successes and failures. They're responsible for the failures. The team is responsible for the successes.
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by cottonseed 9y ago
For management: Manager's Path by Camille Fournier: https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Or sketch routing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIi13gI9xEA
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Fair, and thanks for clarifying the moderation.
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by cottonseed 9y ago
I lead the software team in the Neale lab that develops Hail, the software that enabled this analysis: https://hail.is . If you're excited about about applying CS and engineering to enable scientific discovery of massive, f
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by cottonseed 9y ago
I found this to be an interesting discussion on the question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gidnJyGZA
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by cottonseed 9y ago
> Time spent not doing our own designs (and instead spent memorizing how to use magical frameworks) is time not spent advancing our technical understanding. I can't upvote this enough. I used to do mathematics, and there was the s
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by cottonseed 9y ago
I also like to ask myself, "Do I want to become an expert at working with external software X, or do I want to become the kind of person who can build software like X?"
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by cottonseed 9y ago
Hail @ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | Software Engineer / Senior / Principal | Boston, MA | ONSITE, https://hail.is , SALARY:$80k-200k The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was launched in 2004 to improve human h

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