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by govg 4y ago
Global video game revenue (including mobile gaming) is more than the top 4 sports in the US + Hollywood + music industry. Getting a hand into that pie is going to be very lucrative, especially as gaming has nowhere near the cultural mindsha
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by govg 4y ago
Indian salaries at the top firms ( FANG ) are more like 3x-4x lower now, and rising.
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by govg 4y ago
Do you know what UPI is?
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by govg 4y ago
Yes, who are famous in large part for Dead Cells. One of the developers even went on to lead Shiro Games, which has done stuff like Dune and Northgard.
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by govg 4y ago
In computer science, or more specifically in deep learning, there is a high correlation between resources you can spend / use and progress you can make. This is why all the major tech firms have a leg up, they have internal computing p
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by govg 4y ago
Tangentially related is the movement of Effective Altruism, which is basically espousing taking a high paying job and then using the rewards to make a change.
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by govg 4y ago
These are figured that Twitter has been filing with the SEC for ages. How does it make sense if the purchase was agreed upon when all this was public information?
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by govg 4y ago
Do you mean 1000$ / mo? Because at 100$ / mo, your calculations seem to be off by 10?
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by govg 4y ago
Do you mean Ito's Lemma? As far as I know, Black-Scholes itself had nothing to do with rocket guidance.
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by govg 4y ago
You might want to check out the Time Odyssey series. It was written by Arthur C Clarke (along with Stephen Baxter) and deals with similar themes.
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by govg 4y ago
College loans aren't that far from mortgages, and plenty of students will make money one way or the other during college that can be invested.
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by govg 5y ago
You could say that about practically anything in academia, especially sciences and engineering. Not to mention, most code of big organizations would look like gibberish to an amateur programmer, the Linux kernel would look meaningless to so
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by govg 5y ago
It's also used (at the very least) by the Indian Medical education system to denote a higher degree in surgery, called the M. Ch.
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by govg 5y ago
Based on linguistics. People have studied the grammar and vocabulary of languages all over the world and classified them into families based on common origins / evolution and characteristics. You can check it out here https:/&#x2
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by govg 5y ago
What do you mean by "there's nothing that separates North Indian languages from southern ones"? They're from two distinct language families, aren't they?
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by govg 5y ago
Asking genuinely, what are these AAA games that require Steamworks? None of the big publishers require use of Steam (EA / Ubisoft / Activision), most of them have their own launchers that get launched anyway when you open their ga
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by govg 5y ago
You could also take a look at Dorfromantik. It's a similar game with actual goals and difficulty, but still with similar zen and calm aesthetics.
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by govg 5y ago
I'm not sure if there are any issues on Google Fi, since they're an MVNO, so identical to any other cellular network.
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by govg 5y ago
For some context (as an ex-Goldman employee myself), "Armen" in the quote is most probably https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/outlook/bios/armen-ava... , who has quite a legendary reputation with
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by govg 5y ago
Yup, you're right. Nowadays a "hedge" fund is simply some entity that manages money and dabbles in the dark arts to generate outlandish returns (or collapses in a spectacular fashion). I was just refuting the initial assertio
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by govg 5y ago
Hedge funds aren't really private investments, you're probably thinking of Private Equity firms. Hedge funds more often than not invest in the public markets and hold large positions, the difference between a mutual fund and a hed
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by govg 5y ago
For what it's worth, their recruitment tests for fresh graduates in India is similar in that it doesn't allow usage of any STL. At least, that was the case 3 years or so ago.
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by govg 5y ago
If you liked those, might want to give One Step From Eden a try. It's a mix of deck building combat + real time action, quite fast paced and is technically well done.
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by govg 6y ago
In many ways, the current explosion in deep learning and its applications to different fields are similar - we don't quite have a fundamental understanding of why things work, and theory is still catching up to how it is being applied.
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by govg 6y ago
"The ubiquity of zero-commission and fractional-share trading means that diversification and customization is easier than ever" I think what they are relying on is the fact that nowadays you can own fractional shares (so you don&#
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by govg 6y ago
Wouldn't languages like COBOL rank pretty highly because a lot of legacy banking systems are written in that?
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by govg 6y ago
I mean, there are two things here a) even Softbank doesn't assume indefinite losses/ unknown profitability, they have an exit horizon in mind that just happens to be larger than that of most other funds, and b) a lot of tech start
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by govg 6y ago
It's a "gigantic win" for everyone in the same manner that Uber paying drivers and customers (via bonuses / free rides) to use their service was one for everyone involved . Sooner or later, Epic will have to stop doing t
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by govg 6y ago
To be honest, there is probably a power law graph in play here when it comes to how many people are infective and infect others. If we can vaccinate / prevent spread in the demographics that are prone to mixing a lot / threaten sp
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by govg 6y ago
The Nvidia 2xxx series are optimized for ray tracing though, so not sure if comparing with their 1xxx cards make sense.

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