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by grigjd3 8y ago
So my take away from this is not that readers are biased or that news is biased, but that we can't give up our own responsibility in identifying the truth. I am aware that news outlets are biased, but knowing that does not mean I can&#
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The problem I see with a trust model like this is that too often, people treat trust as a binary option rather than a scale. Like, "do I trust my android phone?" is not a yes/no proposition. I trust that it likely reports the
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That's backwards. People are found to assign a bias based on the source irregardless of the content. Do I trust articles from FoxNews less just because they are from FoxNews? If so, that's a bias on my part.
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This feels a bit like a strawman. I've interviewed with FAANG companies and I run interviews and I don't see these puzzle questions. I see people looking for basics and looking into problem solving and hints that candidates have d
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Physics has all the same hackery as anything else, often times in a less robust fashion. I saw plenty of dirty behaviour in the physics world.
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Manually triggered stop watches are a terrible way to measure gravity. Human error is going to dominate the result.
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A big part of the problem is there are too many PhDs chasing too little funding. There's no room for negative results when the competition is that big.
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Promotes falling to phishing attacks
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I'm sure that some people go way overboard on social justice issues, but my reading of the CoC is that you keep your work professional. Generally, if you are polite and veer away from using racial slurs or sexist statements, you'l
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Hard to ditch Java if you run hdfs and anything built on top of that.
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This is absolutely a problem we thought about, but we never found a good solution. Try getting the general public to use two-factor auth. Just try and see how that works out.
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I would not use the same language you use, but certainly one should see a job for what it really is: an agreement to do work for money that will be kept up as long as it is in both parties best interest, aka a business arangement.
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Oath attempts to be competitive in pay. The problem you're hearing is that no job is going to be perfect. Working at Google isn't all it's made out to be because of course it's not. They'd have you believe that the
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Severance is "keep your mouth shut" money. If the company is tanking, there's no reason for it.
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by grigjd3 8y ago
So this article is being blown out of proportion. Pichai's letter is just saying that Google employees should act in a professional manner, not that they shouldn't have political views or be involved in politics.
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The commit log in the repo.
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Not an intro to QM. Just reviews some of the math used in it.
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Damore wasn't fired for having certain views. He was fired for making his feelings about his views in relationship to his company a national issue. I think many negative things about my employer, all not ideological, but I fully expect
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The headline is by far the least concerning part of this.
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Be patient with yourself. You have talents that are quite useful, but good code design and architecture are rarely thought about in academics. Realize that while you spent 4-6 years getting your PhD, your coworkers were becoming better engi
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After a while, I can guess where bad code comes from. Code that is hastily written by someone experienced is very different than code assembled by the inexperienced and without good guidance. Feature creep also has an obvious quality. Tryin
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It may not be a universal result. It's an ml algorithm optimizing for engagement. If ten users watches mild entertainment for 30 minutes and one user watches conspiracy theories for five hours straight, the algorithm hones in on that c
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by grigjd3 8y ago
If there is a slack channel that I use to coordinate with my PM and other stakeholders, if I am nearing an important deadline, I just leave regular updates there. Make sure everyone who cares has all relevant information.
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Trying to make one took behave like another is often a silly practice. If there was any design intention at all in a given tool, you'd just be wasting effort trying to sidestep that.
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I have a PhD, worked as a post doc and found I never had the freedom at work to explore full time what truly interests me. I had to spend a significant portion of my time seeking funding or jobs. I had to work on what my advisor wanted me w
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by grigjd3 8y ago
Super PACs can buy attack ads. In binary elections, that as good as supporting the other guy.
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I remember the Arther Anderson case finishing up in 2002 because of the way some people I was working with that summer reacted.
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Agreeing with you but they're already incentivized to chase low hanging fruit.
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Settlements are the result, not the cause. The problem most people face with the criminal justice system is how expensive it is to have competent representation. Not a dig at people who work as public defenders, they're just way overwo
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I'm willing to believe this was a typo.

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