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by east2west 10y ago
If you really believe H1B holders are paid at least the prevailing rates and are hired only because of genuine shortages, then I got beach-front property in Arizona for sale. Common sense says if someone cannot freely move between jobs, who
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by east2west 11y ago
>>The target audience for the code I write is not the compiler but my coworkers and the gals and guys who will maintain the stuff after I leave a project. If the compiler cannot understand the code you write, I doubt your "cowork
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by east2west 11y ago
Given academic salary and researcher publication rate, I am confident that it is far less than $1000 you pulled out of air. How much did your tax go up when NIH mandated free publication, after a 2-years period?
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by east2west 11y ago
Journals do minimal typesetting, and practically no editorial work. Paper reviews are done by academics, free. Editors are mostly academics, not depending a paycheck from publishers. There is cost, like marketing cost, but none that justifi
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by east2west 11y ago
You appear to have a view shaped by the Nationalist propaganda. The Flying Tigers were mercenaries recruited from US Naval aviation and Marine corps because the top commanders were more sympathetic to Chinese plight. They were in China befo
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Scientists Urge National Initiative on Microbiomes(nytimes.com)
1 points by east2west 11y ago|0 comments
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by east2west 11y ago
I submit computer science departments have enough expertise to operate a graduate data science program. Maybe not every CS department, but enough. It is interesting that the actual stats departments do not encompass all statistical knowledg
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Would You Let a Robot Manage Your Retirement Savings?(npr.org)
1 points by east2west 11y ago|0 comments
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by east2west 11y ago
I agree with you that NYTimes piece is largely anecdotal but I will give my reasons for not believing a SVP of Amazon PR. 1. Personal attach on a former employee as the head of public relation for a multi-billion corporation from a personal
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by east2west 11y ago
It is a familiar comment that Ph.D. holders cannot program. I have a Ph.D. and I dare say I can program. I was offered a position by Google recently so I am above some threshold. It is really unfair to paint a broad class of people with suc
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by east2west 11y ago
Since big-O and other asymptotic notations come from calculus I don't think it is a bad idea to know precise definition. For programmers it is questionable how useful they are in everyday job and I would just forgo asking them during i
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by east2west 11y ago
I don't use "quick-and-dirty" as a derogatory term, so mostly I mean no error checking for rare occurrences or not ensuring correct values are being passed through. An example would be in Python if I just write MatrixA * Matr
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by east2west 11y ago
I love Julia for its expressiveness but I am somewhat confused about its dynamic typing and its powerful type system. Are we to write mostly Python-like function and rely on multiple dispatch and JIT code generation for speed? Duck typing i
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by east2west 11y ago
Does Java have any way of auto vectorization? On modern CPUs SIMD can speed up numerical computation several times easily. However auto vectorization is hard in general, so compilers don't necessarily do a good job and manually optimiz
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by east2west 11y ago
Matrix is not a convenient way to write linear transformation; it is a good way to reason about linear transformation, because among other things matrix product is function composition. Loose definition and incoherent reasoning are not good
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by east2west 11y ago
I am considering converting a C++03 math library to C++14 as a side project to learn C++14 and I examined Eigen and Blaze. Eigen's code size seems to be a fraction of Blaze, even though their functionalities are similar. Eigen also has
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by east2west 11y ago
That sounds like standard affairs. I read your interview experience, it is almost funny. Amazon has a body-shop quality to it. Once someone told me he failed an interview, then changed his email address and phone number and got another inte
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by east2west 11y ago
I have heard repeatedly that potential workers are asked behavioral questions during their interviews about the leadership principles. I wouldn't call that "taken with a grain of salt." Anecdotally their turnover rate is high
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by east2west 11y ago
Amazon does just have stack ranking, the company basks in it.
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by east2west 11y ago
I have always suspected so since Google still does not open source its MapReduce, but I haven't found any actual evidence directly comparing Hadoop MapReduce and Google's. There could also be technical issues preventing Google fro
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by east2west 11y ago
Some clarifications. Explicitly computing matrix inversion is never a good idea, unless you require an inverted matrix. For solving the normal equation, indeed for solving any linear equation, use appropriate specific algorithms (variants o
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by east2west 11y ago
I know you are being rhetorical but even New York Times would agree the Greek government is more corrupt than the German government. Some level of corruption is inevitable in every ruling class; an old Chinese saying is that pure water has
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by east2west 11y ago
It may be because of your math education but I was introduced to trigonometry in junior high in China. I had, and my classmates had, no trouble understanding them as functions of angles coming from ratios. It is the glue that binds circles
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by east2west 11y ago
The list is not just skewed toward bioinformatics; a majority of them is bioinformatics software. I would not call BioPerl or HTSeq high-performance-computing software. Some of the software are written by academic programmers with all atten
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by east2west 12y ago
I totally agree that the programming model of Spark is the right direction. I dream of the day when compiler and OS cooperate to expose a simple interface to distributed memory and an optimal execution-communication system, kind of like Cil
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by east2west 12y ago
I am trying to get into distributed computing so this article is particularly interesting to me. I may be mistaken so please excuse my naivety if my points are off marks. I thought MPI was mainly geared towards communication-heavy tasks whe
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by east2west 12y ago
This topic periodically flares and provokes so much emotion it is almost unseemly. The two camps are so diametrically opposed that I think other factors are at play here. Programmers who cannot or don't want to understand some of more
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by east2west 12y ago
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by east2west 12y ago
I heard from my postdoc friends at Stanford a couple of years ago about the pay levels. It could have changed now but I doubt it. Do postdocs at Stanford still pay tuitions? My experience is that UCSF > UC Berkeley > Stanford as far a
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by east2west 12y ago
I know many biomedical faculty members in Stanfod pay their postdocs below NIH suggested levels, just because they can. I would caution people of survivor's bias. Only saints promote people with strong different options and who act on

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