electricslpnsld

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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Eh, Bay Area isn’t that left wing. It’s more neo-liberal than anything else, just look at the area’s reps in congress.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Perk of the Ferry: donuts and beer...
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I worked for New Relic, although, no joke, probably 90% of the people on my block worked at Intel or Nike!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Back in my Portland days I got the DL on some of Nike’s soon to be announced Jordan’s when an obviously high ranking Nike designer popped open his MacBook and proceeded to have a design review at a local coffee shop! Maybe not the most acti
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
The FAANGs are starting new grads at these levels now. 150K base salary, 100K+ RSUs vesting per year, 30K+ bonus targets per year will get you there and then some.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Excellent chocolates and cheese as well. Great pommes frites, but those are harder to export.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as I did at Columbia!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> The only other companies paying that to IC hires that I know of are in the financial industry and that interview process is even worse. OpenAI is paying way more than 420K for ICs [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018&#
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
When I was an undergrad Prof. Joe Traub (famous for applying Quasi Monte Carlo to derivatives) passed away and they had a whole lecture series in memorium. David Shaw showed up and, having bailed on Columbia CS because they didn’t want to f
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> No, what I really feel is that at work I am not actually treated like a servant any more but like a person. My experience in FAANG research, outside of the pay > 100x multiplier, has been very different! In grad school we could work
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Spak Brothers is such delicious divey pizza!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
This just brought a big ass smile to my face! Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my dad rolling out of the local library with a six foot tall stack of hardcovers... if I recall the library had a checked out limit of a dozen titles
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> 300k for a new grad is not something I've heard of, that's a tad high even for phds. 300K-ish total comp is a typical starting package at the big tech companies now. 150-160K base salary, 30K bonus target, and 100K stock gran
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> All dating apps target millennials Millennials are almost in their 40s now! The prime dating app market (low to mid 20s) is now Gen Z.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
How does this help AI and machine learning?
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I don’t think Autodesk cares! Pixar bailed on Maya and Autodesk still put Maya on life support (and laid off the Maya R&D team). If arguably the biggest actor in the animation game doesn’t get Autodesk’s attention, why would Ubisoft?
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> either you have to call both AI or neither FWIW having worked with some serious ML heads at Google and Facebook in the past, none of them referred to ML as AI.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
The Steelcase Leap is my personal favorite office chair of all time, but it retails for around $1,000.00. You can sometimes find them for cheaper if a company gets liquidated and is offloading their old equipment.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
The triangle tends to be pricey. Good public schools, both primary and Uni level, lots of tech work, nice weather 10 months of the year, close to the coast and the mountains. Apex and Cary tend to get lots of Yankee expats (compared to Long
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Even in rich major cities (read: NYC), where the city itself does a reasonable job monitoring water quality and updating delivery systems, buildings will often have ancient decaying lead pipes for the last 'mile' of delivery to yo
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
What was the context? Where people still using 286s in 1999?
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I presume by keeping the time step small enough? If you go into the integrator settings in the demo and crank the time step, it does go unstable.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I worked at two movie studios (Pixar, Weta Digital) and they were both almost 100% Linux with a smattering of Windows machines here and there. Apple stuff was mainly iPads for story boarding and that kind of stuff.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
What is the use case of PMP over something like IGL [1]? IGL has a ridiculous number of implemented algorithms -- at this point the second a new paper comes out in the geometry processing community it gets implemented in IGL! [1] https:&#x
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Using Wikipedia leads to some weird results. I checked my hometown in NC and would have expected Michael Jordan to be listed as the most famous associated person, but he doesn’t appear on the main Wikipedia entry so we instead got James Tay
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Definitely regional. When I was in NYC I always got lower ratings when going from Manhattan to Queens, even while tipping well with cash. Bay Area? Went up to an almost perfect score (even going from San Francisco to Oakland frequently), pe
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Is there a reference or study for that? I thought GRE scores were mostly a proxy for cramming English vocabulary into your brain (verbal) and for knowledge of basic geometry facts and inferences from them (quantitative).
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
I love not being tethered. Beat saber on the Quest is, dare I say, a better experience than on the Rift!
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
> I see nothing wrong with naming names As he is pursuing legal options, I’m guessing his counsel told him not to.
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by electricslpnsld 7y ago
Measurements are a great motivator! When I was starting an exercise regime being able to track my progress with a WiFi scale was a huge help. Losing one or two pounds didn’t make a huge visual difference, but damned if I wanted to keep driv

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