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by danbrooks 5y ago
It's also important for slay the spire fanatics to understand the underlying game mechanics. - The first three fights of act 1 come from an "easier" fight pool. There's a similar mechanic for acts 2 and 3. - The odds of
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by danbrooks 6y ago
Insight is good for PhDs.
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by danbrooks 6y ago
Job candidates could die to biters during an interview! This needs to be tried once (and posted to youtube)! Preferably on max difficulty.
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by danbrooks 6y ago
I would guess that it's a reaction to job title hype. There's a huge variety in DS responsibility and background between companies.
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by danbrooks 6y ago
I'm starting at Facebook in two weeks. I was looking forward to the branded swag too...
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by danbrooks 6y ago
It's standard practice to check in with stakeholders before submitting a paper. The important issue in the paper seems to be that the paper villainized large language models, which Google has a vested interest in. The paper was likely
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by danbrooks 6y ago
Admission is fairly selective and focuses on interest, ability, and accomplishment in math and science. There certainly are significant differences between individuals, but nearly everyone is smart and scientifically motivated.
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by danbrooks 6y ago
Exams are generally take home. Students are expected to follow the exam instructions on the honor system. It's a refreshing change of pace to take exams when and where it's convenient.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
That sounds a lot like working at a startup!
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by danbrooks 7y ago
I work in the AV space. There's a lot of ambiguity in labeling. How should a crowd of people be annotated? A line of parked cars? A photograph of a car? Examine the training set!
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by danbrooks 7y ago
Karpathy is building the NN backend in PyTorch, for which C++ is the most popular deployment language.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
This reads like a list of complaints about Django. There's much, much more to python than Django!
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by danbrooks 7y ago
Yes, Schwab does allow fractional shares.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
"I have no desire to become a professor/researcher. After I acquire my PhD, I surmise that I would go to industry." Go for industry!
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by danbrooks 7y ago
I am doing OK, thank you for asking. I recently graduated from a PhD program and am learning more about ML applications in industry.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
Nice work! One comment - the plots show the fraction (not percentage) of postings for interns and remote workers.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
A strong letter of recommendation with a few publications is definitely strongest.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
Black is my favorite auto formatter. I use it for python scripts and blackcellmagic for jupyter notebooks.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
My sense is that Riot executive are supportive of making a change. Legal, on the other hand, might not want to restart arbitrations and rewrite contracts.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
You will get there. Keep interviewing and learn what companies look for in a candidate. It's a bit of a numbers game to land a full time job and it can take some perseverance.
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by danbrooks 7y ago
It's nice to see a civil protest. Both sides seemed interested in compromise and moving the company forward.
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by danbrooks 8y ago
PhD in Applied Physics, 2018 Working on data science/ML now. Started undergrad in 2008 and had to decide between CS and engineering physics. Went with the latter because the school had a particularly strong program. Applied for PhD pr
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by danbrooks 8y ago
Best part of my day!
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by danbrooks 8y ago
Nice article. On TripleByte - they should make it clearer that the platform is only for the Bay Area and Software Engineering.
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by danbrooks 8y ago
Web scraping is a good project. LinuxAcademy has some good content on AWS and Hadoop ($50/month).
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by danbrooks 8y ago
Musk is only, what, 50 billion short of buying the company? Looks like another PR stunt.