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by ford 5y ago
I see - I misunderstood the parent comment. I believe you are saying that the best adversary would attempt to maximize the depth of the tree. For example a branch with "{L, B, C, R, ..}ake" requires more guesses than a balanced tr
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by ford 5y ago
Related (because I do believe in brainstorming) - I've found brainstorming works best when A) Individuals brainstorm on their own before a group session. Group sessions should be for sharing the best ideas, identifying common themes, a
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by ford 5y ago
Google does something similar and really this is sensible for any organization of sufficient size. When I was there (I believe) they had a security team review any new third party library, and once reviewed they would copy the entire source
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by ford 5y ago
There is a wordle parody (absurdle) [0] that does exactly this. [0] https://qntm.org/files/wordle/
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by ford 5y ago
IMO years of experience is not the right way to determine who belongs at a level. I've seen an effective L5 with 2 "years of experience" (AKA 2 years out of school) and with 10 years of experience. People develop at different
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by ford 5y ago
I really enjoy research like this and I can't put my finger on why. I don't think I'd have the same interest in a study about a particular decision - like whether people are happier or not after they've had children. The
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by ford 5y ago
> Besides laws, norms & regulatory structure, what's the difference between a DAU and a joint stock company? This might have been a rhetorical question but I'll give an answer anyway - this article [0] makes the same compar
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by ford 5y ago
DeepMind also released this paper/system [0] last year, which had a lot of hype around it [0] https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
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by ford 5y ago
At my company our questions are based on a set of ~7 things (technical design, code quality, communication etc.), not just algorithmic efficiency. New interviewers are required to calibrate their expectations for the question by practicing
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by ford 5y ago
4/5 developers could (and maybe should be mentors) - assuming they are all competent and all have different skill levels, you could have L5 mentors L4 who mentors L3 and so on. Related, more cynical take - being a mentor is often a fac
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by ford 5y ago
> Like a lot of soft skills, we’re rarely taught how to mentor ^ This is one of the first lines in the article. If I had to guess I'd say most people here spend a relatively small amount of time learning about how to do their job
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by ford 5y ago
Reminds me of a similar Henry David Thoreau quote - "Men have become the tools of their tools"
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by ford 5y ago
Also potentially interesting is how YC changed the VC market. [0] is an essay from PG that talks about how VC funding used to work. [1] is a short essay that starts to get at why YC is different. (These should be read with a grain of salt,
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by ford 5y ago
This is similar to the idea that it doesn't matter where you go to college - because the things that get you into top X schools are the same traits that correlate with success afterward. This paper is a study that makes that argument:
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by ford 5y ago
> "It risks biasing product development in a particular way." I'd agree that it's biased, but I still think it's valuable. Being intimately familiar with all possible personas would be nice, however I'd hope
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by ford 5y ago
Metrics are great as an objective measure of feature releases/goals/success, but they don't provide the whole picture in terms of product success or direction. Years ago I interned on a messaging team at a FAANG company where
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by ford 5y ago
I believe the RoI on best practices is generally correlated to the scale of the application and engineering team you are working on. A large number of best practices come from Big Corp engineers or organizations. Big corps have thousands of
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by ford 5y ago
For people who are interested - [0] is a relatively engaging video that walks through the facilities & process of a film developer called Indie Film Lab. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxoZlFqzwA
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by ford 5y ago
I'm assuming by architecture engineering you mean the process of choosing the model + hyperparameters that perform best. I think of feature vs architecture engineering as two not-quite perpendicular axes that you can do work on. Featu
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by ford 16y ago
The best (but not the only) example of a corporation acting immorally to maximize shareholder value is Ford. Prior to the release of the Ford Pinto, Ford's managers were fully aware of a design flaw in the Ford Pinto. As most people know,