golemarms

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by golemarms 3y ago
Cool. Now try writing a Python compiler in 500 lines of C.
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by golemarms 4y ago
Not really symbolic reasoning. I'm thinking more along the line of classic ML techniques like Random Forest/GLMs have long been successfully applied to business problems.
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by golemarms 4y ago
> I'd also add, maybe controversially, that anyone using "AI" to make some kind of basic prediction (say for personalization, demand planning, medical decisions, really most tabular data) is not going to have a business th
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by golemarms 4y ago
Yes, backend engineers do get paid more in general. I was just wondering why this runs contrary to OP's explanation that "closeness" to user triumphs job difficulty (when it comes to leverage/salaries).
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by golemarms 4y ago
Interesting. I wonder if this distinction applies within software as well. For example, systems programmers getting paid less than application programmers because the latter makes software "closer" to the user, and backend program
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by golemarms 4y ago
> If costs get too high Asian companies win Wouldn't this apply to software companies as well? Yet we see higher pay, rather than imports/outsourcing.
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by golemarms 4y ago
According to the youtube description, that video was originally aired in 2007.
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by golemarms 4y ago
> If the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns and gets rates up, and keeps them there, it will be unsurprising to see "hard" engineering jobs be valuable again, while all the CSS people suddenly can't find two pennies to rub
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by golemarms 4y ago
>It's strictly a viewer only, so it doesn't even have rudimentary annotations like highlights or underlines SumatraPDF supports basic annotations as of version 3.3 https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Edit
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by golemarms 5y ago
> For instance building some state control engine for rockets etc. Just out of curiosity: are there companies actually writing mission-critical code in a Haskell? My impression is that those normally tend to get written in C++ and the li
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Haskell.com(haskell.com)
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Turning cockroaches into life-saving cyborg bugs at disaster sites(straitstimes.com)
4 points by golemarms 5y ago|0 comments
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Unix.sg(unix.sg)
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by golemarms 5y ago
Agree with your points. However, parent commenter could have specified they were referring to software tech, not technology in general.
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by golemarms 5y ago
isn't biotech a kind of "tech"?
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by golemarms 5y ago
Imperial College actually used to offer a BSc Physics and Music Performance course[1] (it was suspended recently). This is notable because dual majors, even between similar/adjacent academic fields, are rare for UK undergraduate degree
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by golemarms 5y ago
Most common non-STEM degree maybe. I'm sure there are a lot more EE/ physics/ math grads working as programmers than music grads.
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by golemarms 6y ago
Links to all chapters on one page: https://golemarms.github.io/accidental_empires/
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Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely(cringely.com)
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New work pass in Singapore for top-tier foreign tech professionals(straitstimes.com)
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Richard Feynman on Computer Science(youtube.com)
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