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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Many parents seem have forgotten that kids are supposed to get top education instead of getting into "top" schools. As a results, we see kids take 15+ APs in high school, even though they leetcode into a FAANG after graduation (ye
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Travis Kalanick expands ‘dark kitchens’ venture across Latin America(ft.com)
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It seems China had a solution, but no more. When I grew up in China, cities had dedicated bike lanes. Each lane was at least 2-car wide, and was separated from car lanes by a green belt, so bicyclists were safe. The bike lanes disappeared o
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
The challenge of "living close to the office" is that people change jobs every few years, especially in the bay area. Unfortunately we don't change our addresses as often.
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Labor Day(profgalloway.com)
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> “Students fell four months behind in school, and reading and math scores sank by the sharpest margin in three decades.” The past three years of Covid was kinda like an equity experiment in education: many families lost access to tutori
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Uber acquired a startup around 2015. It was that startup that was using shadow-matching and particle filtering to address the problems mentioned in the blog. The startup was founded by a bunch of UCLA PhDs who studied the problems, so I gue
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I saw a list of acceptance rate here: https://github.com/lixin4ever/Conference-Acceptance-Rate . Is 18% or so acceptance rate really low, though? Almost 2 in 10 submissions are accepted, and I thought "the top&quot
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> Get a job at smaller to medium sized non-tech company. I do the first part: finding smaller to medium company. Smaller companies have better visibility, more work than people can finish so everyone gets to work on big whales. There&#x
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Sounds we should really build walkable city with convenient mass transit in the US and Europe. It's a shame that building anything infrastructure in the US is prohibitively expensive.
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Speaking of language learning, I wish Duolingo could come with leveled readers. We build our intuition on languages only when we see words and phrases used in different context. Somehow it's hard to find good Spanish readers, compared
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Not really. Use whatever technology that you know best, but hide unnecessary complexity through the right tools. I'm not sure about the OP, but I had extremely good experience when I was in Netflix. A single engineer, Joe Sondow, creat
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
My point is that the author needs to make it clear what exactly DOP can do better for. OOP, whatever how that is defined, is just an example of what people discussed under the OP.
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Reading the discussion here, I can't help but thinking that people are defending their own philosophies: OOP vs FP vs DOP vs etc. I wish the author had killer applications or killer examples in different categories, like can I code an
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I forgot who, but someone influential said more than 10 years ago that browsing internet is like having intellectual squirt, which keeps us wanting more. I guess a phone with Instagram/TikTok/Twitter just make it worse. My counter
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Yeah, leetcode type of test got popular because hugely successful Microsoft and Google used to use them to pick the smartest geeks for amazing technical challenges for their times. Now that leetcode is being abused by both companies and c
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
My wife went to a CC before going to a 4-year university. The challenge of studying in a CC, at least to some students, is that CC's courses are not rigorous enough. The courses are on par with those AP courses. For instance, their Cal
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by g9yuayon 5y ago
> Further, though Mr. Kail complained of problems with Sumologic (as one would see with any new startup), the product itself was “useful,” according to Ashi Sheth. (R.T. Vol. 8, p. 1670-71). As described below, at the time, Sumologic sav
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by g9yuayon 5y ago
It could be because you noticed only elite foreign students, while US education is accessible to a much wider range of American students.
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by g9yuayon 5y ago
I used to think that the K12 math education was really bad, but now I have a different perspective. Many public schools in China and Russia are essentially like magnet schools in the US because students need to compete for entrance. So, tho
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by g9yuayon 5y ago
This got me thinking about the recent school policies for equity. Schools reduce difficulty of courses, lower standards for graduation, and cancel gift programs, all in the name of equity. I think in the long term such policy changes will h
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by g9yuayon 5y ago
I was wondering if the effect of valuing education is subject to survivorship bias. Take China for example, on average 50% of the grade-9 students have to enter vocational training schools instead of high schools (grade-10 to grade 12). The
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
In the world of OSS, code speaks. A small team may not help the cause of Open Search. This article nails how code influences leadership in an OSS project: http://hypercritical.co/2013/04/12/code-hard-or-go-hom
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
A key reason for Netflix to have an easy-to-operate infrastructure is that Netflix prioritizes productivity and scalability. They specifically did three things: 1. No fixed deadline, with a few exceptions of course, for platform-related p
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
The OP seemed to be talking about implicit bias in the framework of critical race theory, hence the quote "According to media and social media, if I deny that I'm a racist, then I'm just not aware of my implicit bias". T
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
They don't have high teacher to student ratios. Usually schools have 1:50+ teacher-to-students. Teachers do grade students' homework and exam carefully. Teacher's quality and dedication overweights the ratio, by far.
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
Yet in the mean time we see this: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/07/12/28112238-8296195-... Nearly 50% of students in junior high schools will not be able to enter high schools in China. They
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
I wonder if this has to do with the overall decline of manufacturing in the US. Supply chains have been moving out of the US so iteration will be slower and more costly. Fewer talents would like to go to manufacturing. Fewer university prof
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
I'm not sure I get the logic of the article. Google AI Research is going to implode because we know what the current models can't do? I thought we do research precisely because we wanted to expand our boundary of out knowledge. Th
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by g9yuayon 6y ago
I'm not sure if the calculation is correct. 2000 people winning lotteries out of at least millions of people, right? Yet in the startup word, it is thousands of people out a few hundreds of thousands? Another factor to consider is that

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