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by eshvk 14y ago
StumbleUpon, San Francisco, CA. I have been working in the Applied Research team here @ StumbleUpon for the past 3 weeks and it has been a fun ride so far. They are hiring folks in three different areas (Search and Recommendation, Analytics
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by eshvk 14y ago
2. Erm..because I interviewed there and found out the next day that the question I had been asked was an exercise problem in Skiena? 4. Well, I am not suggesting interviewing if you are happily married to your current job. I thought OP was
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by eshvk 14y ago
Just as the parent post said: Interviews are hard because there is extremely low correlation between what is asked in Interviews and actual job work. I firmly believe the system of asking stupid algorithmic trivia is hackable and should be
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by eshvk 14y ago
He would be able to do only part time CPT from the get go. This is capped at a max of 20 hours per week. Once 9 months have passed, he can do full time CPT of 40 hours.
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by eshvk 14y ago
Your reasoning makes complete sense to me from a UX perspective. However, how does a company get any sort of demographic information if they can't track the user reliably? Apart from all the evil reasons to do that, there must be some criti
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by eshvk 14y ago
Avalon is brand new and freaking expensive. It depends on your comfort level. For me $3K odd for a 1 bedroom apartment was deeply discomforting. If you are open to living a little far away, take a look at the Castro, Noe Valley, Haight-Ashb
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am male. No siblings. So your Indian stereotypes are both correct and incorrect. Depending on what part of the nation you are from, there are places where boys are preferred to girls. I came from a middle class expat family with a rather
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by eshvk 14y ago
Let me give you a South Asian one then. I was a pampered little brat who was waited on hand and foot. The only requirement be that I maintain good grades. This of course came to bite me hard when I had to live alone at the age of 16 in a to
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by eshvk 14y ago
While what you say might be true for first time customers, I would think the complexity of IRL dating would transfer to the world of online dating. Meaning that most simplistic sort by distance type measures should fail once people actually
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by eshvk 14y ago
Is Diaspora still around? If so, I figure that one could build one as a thin layer on top of that. I think the harder problem in dating services is search/recommendations which would involve a good deal of custom ML to get good results for
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by eshvk 14y ago
I think she is merely recounting a story from the early days of Google and relating it to the larger problem of employee burnout. I know quite a few current Googlers and as far as I understand nothing so ridiculous happens there now. Of cou
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by eshvk 14y ago
>> Yeah but that still sucks, because people rarely know which neighborhood they are in. "rarely" is a tough word. I have found the city to be pretty well demarcated unless you are talking about people confused about minor issues su
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by eshvk 14y ago
On a more serious note, I used to puzzle about this when I was in Grad. School. There used to be people whose research I personally (at that time) thought to be trivial and used to think it was unfair that they were publishing papers and st
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by eshvk 14y ago
I studied in a school that uses the Moore method along with the Professor's notes. This meant that any analysis textbooks were kind of banned. Rudin however is supposed to be fine (a bit harder but that is what you probably need). Also, Spi
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by eshvk 14y ago
Personally, I feel that ear plugs make me look rude. So I get the next best thing, in-ear headphones. A good pair should cost anywhere from $100 - $400 (Good as in last for years, and you can get stuff that doesn't hurt your ears and fits w
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by eshvk 14y ago
Since you have done math previously, the best way to ramp up rapidly is not through fluff material geared towards beginners and to focus on stuff that will actually force you to learn. You might have noticed that the only way to acquire mat
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by eshvk 14y ago
I had a 2 page resume and I was fresh out of school, you will be fine. The market is so choked at the moment that if you are from a decent school, with decent grades and nice internships, a recruiter will take the time to give it the look o
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by eshvk 14y ago
Yeah, I was uncomfortable with that too. There are two sets of people I know: Folks of the kind that you mentioned who are incredibly good programmers but who have other interests outside life. In fact one of the smartest coworkers I knew s
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is exactly what happens to people who come out fresh out of school. Something like $60K - $70K in the bay area looks like a mind boggling sum (when in reality most people who come out of top schools make $80K - $1XX K) compared to sala
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by eshvk 14y ago
Yeah, I noticed that: Sometimes success is not the only aim for starting a startup. There is also the sheer joy of working on something that you conceptualized and thought about. Irrespective of whether it succeeds or not, that feeling is p
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by eshvk 14y ago
> The only way I can mentally justify something like an ipad falling under the law would be if the point was to keep the Iranian government from legally buying 10000 of them to make some kind of supercomputer. Which seems pretty unlikel
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by eshvk 14y ago
If that does apply to electronics like the iPad/iPhone, it is pretty retarded. It requires a significant degree of knowledge of citizenship law on the part of the sales personnel. Also, it is pretty hard to verify citizenship without gettin
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am confused: Is the act of selling something that has export controls to an alien national in American soil equivalent to an export?
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by eshvk 14y ago
I use org-mode as a Getting Things Done utility + a replacement for Evernote. (Synced up via Dropbox, it works swimmingly well!)
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by eshvk 14y ago
Nice, I should have spent some time doing this instead of working through Axler and Feller through my undergrad and grad school. </sarcasm>
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would be interested in hearing more as to why you think Austin has a better quality of life than San Francisco. Having moved to SF after three years in Austin, I definitely think my quality of life has improved. Reasons: 1. Austin has one
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by eshvk 14y ago
I work in this field and I have to agree with you. I think most serious engineers and statisticians would too. It's just that decision makers are nervous that they are not doing "big data" or need a "data scientist" (which from their descri
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would disagree..On occasions where I have been asked to pair program with one of their developers, it is definitely more optimal to use your own machine (E.g. my mac has natural sense scrolling turned off, caps lock and ctrl swapped etc).
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by eshvk 14y ago
1. Do you actually expect his managers not to try to put a positive spin on it for the media? A celebrity trial is not exactly in the same league as an everyday misdemeanor case. He has a brand and he should (just like Dropbox or Path or wh
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by eshvk 14y ago
So analyzing the time complexity of an algorithm is the easiest part of designing algorithms. There are two harder parts: 1) Figuring out how to prove whether your algorithm works. 2) Learning how to build new algorithms. The two parts are

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