dkarapetyan

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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
If you were purely logical and rational you would seek to diversify your information sources but people actually do the exact opposite. They go out of their way to not be exposed to out-group information sources and will often violently opp
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Yes. Your experience is atypical. Most people like being in groups. I don't think religion works if people don't have a strong drive for conformance.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
HN is one giant non-comformance conformance party. You're more unaware than you thought.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Studies show people in groups are more relaxed than loners. This is not a ding against loners but there are pretty significant evolutionary drivers for conformance. It stands to reason we'd be biased.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Even basic biological research has this problem. Anyone remember CRISPR? The press ran with all sorts of analogies about laser-like precision to reprogram genomes. Turns out it's not as laser-like as the press made it out to be. Really
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
So then you're advocating for an appeasement ritual? Most interviewers would rather feel smart than talk to another person as an equal. More than a few times I've seen candidates disqualified because they made the interviewer feel
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
There are blackboards as well. Color or ethnicity of the board is not the problem.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Better ways to do that than spend 5 hours in front of a whiteboard. Never gone through a whiteboard interview and then thought to myself that was time well spent, neither on the interviewer nor interviewee side. I've written integer pr
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Much better to go through triplebyte or interviewing.io. Pretty sure the signal from them is much higher than whiteboard interviews.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Because they are complicit. Saying they're just doing their job is not an excuse for propagating exclusionary and low signal interview practices.
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New in Libguestfs: Rewriting Bits of the Daemon in OCaml(rwmj.wordpress.com)
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Scott seems upset.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Went to community college then went to university for upper division classes. I'd say it was worthwhile investment and was pretty cheap.
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Social Media Upstart Mastodon Is Like Twitter, Except Way More Civil(wired.com)
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
But you see how you are making my point. Mathematicians as a bunch are very creative and precise at the same time. Going back to my point about the article setting up a false dichotomy. Mathematicians study formal systems which are as preci
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Gotta disagree on basically all counts. Mathematics is a very precise and yet creative game. And going back to Feynman, one of his most famous quotes is The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest perso
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Image Rectification and Correction in Cuis Smalltalk and OpenCL(cuis-smalltalk.org)
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Weird conclusion. This kind of activity should just be deemed illegal instead of treating it as an arms race between the manufacturers and regulators. Have 3rd party code auditors look through the code and flag any shenanigans. Instead of
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to make `point` a factory method on instances of curves?
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
clear lines. confusion.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Mathematicians have a long history of being concerned about computational efficiency. Two examples that come to mind are FFT and Euclidean algorithm. I'm certain there are many others.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
We are all complicit. It's not just smart engineers.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
This is not true. They munge through the posts. In fact, that is one big reason they can target people so well.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
How would you finance and support this endeavor? Also, why wouldn't Facebook ban all such users? Facebook is a private platform and they make the rules on how you get to play with it.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
I have to disagree with you on language and cognition. If you went around asking famous mathematicians how they think the last thing they would tell you would be "words". Creative and inventive thought is very picturesque and non-
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Data science involves a lot of statistics and graduate level mathematics. I don't think skilled developers can fill the gap.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Quit. Given what you've described 2-5 more years of this is not going to be good for your mental health.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
> Gouda notes that there is a tendency within a Stand Alone Complex for the masses to unconsciously project their inadequacies and common desires onto a leader. Sounds very familiar.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Data scientists would disagree. Specialization is alive and well.
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by dkarapetyan 9y ago
Problem with "culture" is everyone has their own variation of it.

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