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by eshvk 14y ago
San Francisco (SoMa) StumbleUpon ( http://www.stumbleupon.com/jobs/ ) Hello all, My team, Applied Research, is rapidly growing. We are looking for people who have done work in search (Lucene etc) and also in recommendation systems. Any
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by eshvk 14y ago
I usually listen to Post Rock (e.g. Explosions in the sky) when I write code. It is mostly (99%) instrumental and that helps me avoid voices of any kind. Also, invest in really good headphones/earphones. That helps block out sound of any ki
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by eshvk 14y ago
>> Calculus is certainly not important for CS majors. Compared to, say, linear algebra. I dunno. I am trying hard to refrain from saying X is not important for C.S. because the nature of this site is that you are going to find a to
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by eshvk 14y ago
Oh, I am not disagreeing with the importance of Calculus for engineering. However, calculus as a core tool for say biology majors? While, I know that there are a ton of biological models (say in population dynamics) that require knowledge o
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by eshvk 14y ago
I think the problem itself comes from Math departments. Typical undergrad math curricula involves throwing a mix of math at students in the hope of training them to get mathematical literacy. From personal experience, I suspect it works bec
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I don't think she is talking about Math majors. She is talking about some requirements that other majors have to complete as part of finishing up their degree. Having said that, I know people in say computer science who struggled through Ca
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I remember interviewing at a start up where I was repeatedly clearly told through the interview process that if at any point they found me lacking, they would cut short the process. Although, I enjoyed their process (purely from a technical
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by eshvk 14y ago
The problem is that young people make stupid mistakes. While you selected a career which will be fruitful and possibly pay off your loan debt, a load of young people make career decisions based on flowery statements like "change the world"
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am curious how this would work legally. Once you have delivered the product, is killing it remotely equivalent to maliciously breaking in and destroying property?
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> I wasn't trying to make that impression. I just thought that most of Rwanda is still rather undeveloped and especially after the war/genocide a lot of people there still depend on the land for subsistence. Maybe I'm wrong, I've never
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by eshvk 14y ago
> I can't help but read this with a pinch of salt. Yes, it's fascinating that these gorillas have learned this new behavior and are passing it down. And I think almost everyone wants to see endangered species protected. Yet I can't help
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by eshvk 14y ago
You make an excellent point regarding diversity. Being a brown person in America is not easy (During the roughly 25 + flights I have done this year, I have been asked to do a "random" TSA extended check every single time). However, I can ea
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by eshvk 14y ago
Ahh..the good old "Let us step back and stare at the problem" trick that my learning theory professor used. Not sure what is particularly profound about it, external observation of it always (to me at least) made it sound somewhat mystical.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am sorry if I came off as disagreeing with your main points because I actually don't. Just to say a couple of things: At least from looking at such cross-functional bio/c.s. teams work here in Grad. school, I have seen two types: 1. Where
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by eshvk 14y ago
Assuming OP can program, finding a job in one of the code mines isn't going to be hard. What is going to be hard is: 1. Finding a place to live (The SF market is god awful. Living in the southbay without a car will limit any "networking" op
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I think there is this (from my limited experience rather naive) belief that if a bunch of smart computer people get together, they can solve problems that have flummoxed biologists for long. This is something pervasive which afflicts even t
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> It really feels like a little club of geeks trying to have an impact in the world and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It kind of is though. Also some of these "little club of geeks" have extraordinarily deep pockets and any Senator
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by eshvk 14y ago
I feel sad for the author if he actually believes this. Sure your environment does influence you a bit, there is something to be said for self determination and individual character. I have throughout my life enjoyed friendships with amazin
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Yep. I found most of my non-tech friends from Pub trivia when I moved to SF a few months back. Kind of refreshing to meet people who by the virtue of the fact are not in tech have different aspirations, perspectives on life.
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I am in two minds about this: One hand, it does preserve the historic beauty of the house. While personally, I wouldn't want to live in a Victorian/Edwardian house because I like central heating, tiled floors too much, they are beautiful an
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is so true: I remember in high school studying calculus from a random book which made me think that calculus was about was a bunch of tricks for doing integration and differentiation. A few years later when I first start working throug
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I use LaTeX to design my layout and it has worked pretty well for me. I have an education section, skills and a set of projects that I have worked on. Obviously the most emphasis is on the projects, languages I have used, team work etc. I h
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by eshvk 14y ago
I usually tell a recruiter/interviewer upfront which languages I use at the moment which I used say $n$ months back etc. I really need an elegant way of putting the time information in my resume though. I also mention specifically the langu
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 1) The best way I know of is if you're referred to a company by someone you know and can trust enough to tell you about the warts beforehand. Another issue of course, is that the other person's baseline estimate might be screwed up. F
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The Zappos (owned by Amazon) model is kind of interesting too. They actively encourage you to return shoes that you don't like for any arbitrary reason, thereby making it easier at least from the consumer's perspective of avoiding the situa
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The most depressing thing about this article is the top comment(s) on how this somehow is justification for an argument for intelligent design.
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Yeah but an undergrad class in algorithms is supposed to in most cases just give you a deeper view of traditional C.S algorithms. There are quite a few topics which are barely skimmed ( approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms). I be
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I would argue that the cross pollination is happening already. In my Convex Optimization grad course, three fourth of us were CS/EE majors (the majority being C.S.). The material is not that hard to pick up if you have a background in Linea
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by eshvk 14y ago
I will be the first one to admit that I don't know participate in the date aggregation point of the pipeline so my knowledge is rusty. Say one was designing a system where age, sex information was important. How do you keep track of this in
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From here: ( http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-... ) Refer the paragraph: "Practical training may be authorized to an F-1 student who has been lawfully enrolled on a full time basis, in a Service-approved college

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