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by fnbr 5y ago
I got a 4x raise moving to big tech. My salary then increased by another 50% in the 4 years since. So you’re completely right.
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by fnbr 5y ago
I think an end-to-end RL approach will eventually work- but _eventually_ could be in a really long time. It’s also a question of scale: even if Comma’s approach is fundamentally better, how much better is it? If Tesla has 1000x more cars, a
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by fnbr 5y ago
Right, but that’s not a counterexample. The bitter lesson suggests that, eventually, it’ll be difficult to outperform a learning system manually. It doesn’t say that this is always true. DeepBlue _was_ better than all other chess players at
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by fnbr 5y ago
There's always a tradeoff between making it easy for legitimate customers to try out the product, and making it hard to abuse. If you bias for preventing fraud, you have less customers, and vice versa. This was written about a bunch in
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by fnbr 5y ago
I agree with the conclusion. This is totally unsurprising to me as a ML engineer. If you put garbage data into the model, you get garbage predictions. That doesn’t strike me as particularly novel. The same is true for cooking, after all. Ho
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Searching for Outliers(benkuhn.net)
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by fnbr 5y ago
I have a bunch of friends who work for an EA studio (or who used to work for an EA studio) and they all _hate_ Frostbite. With a passion.
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by fnbr 5y ago
I’m also quite interested in hearing about this. I used to only hear good things about Stripe, but over the last year, there’s been quite a few negative posts. I’d be interested in more details.
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by fnbr 5y ago
I could see this. Patrick has a really strong brand among engineers. So if he’s willing to lend his personal credibility to Stripe, that’s a strong signal that it’s a good place to work.
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by fnbr 5y ago
I think it’s easy to get sucked into it accidentally if the only source of tech news you read is your employer’s internal newsletters.
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by fnbr 5y ago
Stratechery (& Dithering) is the only paid newsletter I subscribe to. It’s so worth it. I think that everyone working in tech should subscribe to maintain an objective view of the overall tech landscape. Otherwise, you get sucked into t
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by fnbr 5y ago
I think you’re right. I’d do stuff like that if I was a billionaire. You have the ability to shift resources to what you think is important; this probably costs a comparable amount to a single SWE. Having said that- Stripe does have a credi
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by fnbr 5y ago
Have you tried JAX? How does it compare?
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by fnbr 5y ago
(I'm an engineer at DeepMind, and I work with JAX daily) It's a somewhat fair comparison; in my experience, highly optimized JAX matches highly optimized Tensorflow. However, non-optimized (but JITted) JAX beats non-optimized Tens
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by fnbr 5y ago
I like clubs. I’m an avid mountain biker, so I joined a club with group rides twice a week. I’m signing up for master’s ski racing. I chose these because they’re as far from computers as you can get, and we have something to bond over (bike
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by fnbr 5y ago
I think it’s more likely that we’ll see carbon taxes make it prohibitively expensive than the cost of production itself. In Canada, we’ve got a tax going up to $170/ton by 2030. If most homes go fully electric, I bet that goes up even
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by fnbr 5y ago
I mountain bike and ski (backcountry + resort). I find these really fun and exciting and find it hard to _not_ do them.
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by fnbr 5y ago
This is exactly my experience. I booked a small sedan and was given a Jeep Wrangler. I can’t drive it! I’m used to driving a smal hatchback. I’m sure I was a terror on the road to all around me.
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by fnbr 5y ago
I agree. If OP can consistently get interviews at FAANGs, then that’s all that’s needed for the job.
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by fnbr 6y ago
Especially London, which has to be one of the world’s great cities to walk in.
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by fnbr 6y ago
Yup. I work at a non-Apple FAANG and there are many rooms/buildings I don’t have access to (and many chats I don’t have access to- it’s all need to know).
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by fnbr 6y ago
I think the question is also, “good in what sense?” The really valuable skill (from a dollars & cents perspective) is to be able to provide business value to _the business you’re employed at_. That might not transfer anywhere else. Eg I
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by fnbr 6y ago
They probably have a wild EUA that lets them do whatever they want. Probably also an arbitration clause so users can’t sue.
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by fnbr 6y ago
Canada has appointments that last until the judge turns 75. Seems like a better system to me.
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by fnbr 6y ago
Yeah, absolutely. My FAANG offers were ~2x what my startup offers were.
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by fnbr 6y ago
I’m surprised to hear this- my startup offers (YC companies) were typically half of what my FAANG offers were.
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by fnbr 6y ago
Why did you stop showing up?
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by fnbr 6y ago
Maybe that’s what caused the crash...
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by fnbr 6y ago
Yes, because no investors will invest with this looming over the company. I suspect this is actually a Hail Mary, where they’re hoping that someone will step forward and invest. Best of luck to them, it seems like a great idea.
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by fnbr 6y ago
I bet it’s due to a weird corporate structure that Facebook has.

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