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by g9yuayon 8y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/16/google-... Okay, let's say you don't trust Google's number, then think about this: how many web pages are about politics that are sensi
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Just because you don't like be censored, you'd rather deprive every Chinese's access to information of much much better quality. Yes, a few percent of searches will be censored, but the other 90+% of them are still miles be
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I just finished reading Bill Kilday's Never Lost Again. It was amazing that four engineers produced the ground-breaking Google Maps in 16 months. Algorithm/Math questions used to be really effective at finding engineerings like th
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Middle majority among those who pursue STEM in college. Not everyone is or should be in STEM, after all.
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Did you read the book What Is Mathematics? It is certainly not "an exaggerated biography for some of the scientists". And the mentioned books, at least some of them, serve different purposes: they aim to inspire, to motivate, and
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Easy, just tell everyone that anyone can study STEM as long as they work hard. Do you know Noether, Marie Curie, Grace Hopper, Chien-Shiung Wu, and many more female scientists and engineers are household names? They are featured in mass med
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Unnatural in the sense of "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them". Or in the general sense of science, you work hard to get intuition that is against what you get from your daily exp
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I highly doubt that education reform will come by any time soon. Studying STEM is not natural to many kids, yet the reality is that people in the US have been living comfortably for so long that they would rather give up teaching tough subj
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I'm pretty sure that no one has a opening to research how to find the area under a simple curve.
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Yet many parents still think that nerds are boring. Many students still bully those who focus on academic excellence. Teachers still think that students should learn easy peasy stuff because, well, "everyone is f king unique", or
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Even though Google's search engine will censor some content in China, it will still be miles better than Baidu. People who use Google will find highly relevant results quickly when searching about health, academic research, and a milli
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True for liberal arts. The K-12 education in the U.S puts a lot of emphasis on critical writing and research in liberal arts. I see much less rote learning there. And China's education on liberal arts, especially history and economics,
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One thing important that many people ignored about China is its K-12 education system. It is much better than the US in a number of ways, especially for the ordinary students, which accounts for the majority of the student body, myself in
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That beats me. If I have to guess, I'd venture to say dealing with ambiguity is truly hard. As a production manager, you need to have unique insights on the market you're interested; you need to capture future trend; you need to u
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Supply and demand? My assumption is the less challenging a technical project becomes, the more supply of engineering talents can work on the project. There should be more generalists after all. And dynamics of supply and demand will determi
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This hardly comes as a surprise. How many companies, especially startups, really need to tackle tough technical challenges? On the other hand, how many companies desperately need product talents to figure out what is valuable to produce? In
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Personally I used David Lay's Linear Algebra and Its Applications as my first linear algebra book. It's more formal than Gilbert Strang's famous text book, but less formal than Linear Algebra Done Right. It's emphasis on
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I'm kinda curious why so many people think that Linear Algebra Done Right is an introductory book for beginners who have math anxiety. Don't get me wrong, the book is great and I enjoyed working it through. It was a magical experi
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People tend to forget the historical context of a policy. Google was small in the early 2000s, but it was one of the hottest companies in the valley. Therefore, it could afford being picky. It was solving really tough computer science probl
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by g9yuayon 9y ago
This article may as well be used to describe my employer or many other companies that have more people than the quantity of work. My suggestion: join a company that figures out how to manage visibility, such as Netflix. Or join a company th
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> In practice, though, H1-B becomes indentured servitude, since they cannot freely move between companies. Not true. An H1-B can change job. I did it a number of times without any problem. In addition, good companies do not take advantag
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I wonder where American-born geeks are? Is there any stats on how many techies that American education system produces year by year?
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Hot startups in Silicon Valleys should take notice. You know who hired hundreds to thousands of engineers in a year or two, when there were really not that many significant engineering challenges. Productivity and morale dropped after cert
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Assuming employees have the same productivity in two different locations, shouldn't a company even pay more to the employees in the location that has lower operational cost, because the company will end up having a higher margin anyway
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Most of the comments here focus on the business aspects of US/China retailing. I'd like to remind techies here that Alibaba has become a tech powerhouse as they learned how to deal with ever increasing traffic. Their work on infra
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I took an AP math in Canada and later graduated from CS department of U of Toronto. The schools in Toronto did at least one thing right: they didn't dumb down their courses. I did well in my AP calculus, 98/100 or something like t
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Changing jobs every two years is not necessarily a good strategy for techies who want to gain deep experience. When joining a new company, it will take time for one to become productive by learning the dynamics of the company as well as the
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As I often told my friends, go to a company like Netflix. Netflix actually tries very hard to make money not a concern to its employees, and they do hell of a great job.
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Is this a US thing? Why would people still think that math is about numbers? Math is about patterns, which got drilled into us by our teachers in primary school. I really don't understand how US education system can fuck up so badly on
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Coding interviews make sense for great companies like FB and Google. Such companies receive probably tens of thousands of applications every week, and all the candidates who can get an onsite interview have impressive resumes. How do they p

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