houtanb

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   by houtanb 3mo ago

   Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) | Data Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time We're a ~20-person nonprofit doing forecasting research on high-stakes problems, including AI progress, biosecurity, and nuclear risk. We have dozens of active p
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   by houtanb 4mo ago

   Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) | Data Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time We're a ~20-person nonprofit doing forecasting research on high-stakes problems, including AI progress, biosecurity, and nuclear risk. We have dozens of active p
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   by houtanb 7mo ago

   FYI, ForecastBench [1] tests LLMs' out-of-sample forecasting accuracy. The ForecastBench Tournament Leaderboard [2] allows external participants to submit models, most of whom provide some sort of web search / news scaffolding to
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   by houtanb 3y ago

   Save the Children | PM, System Dev, DB Dev | Remote | https://www.savethechildren.net/ Save the Children is looking for three short-term (6 months-1 year, fully remote) programmers to help build a tool that will help us mon
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   by houtanb 4y ago

   A pdf explaining their hiring practice. I imagine the user liked the remunerated, take-home tests, done on your own time. https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf
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   by houtanb 4y ago

   Several years ago, I switched to products that are EWG verified [1], meaning a product's ingredients are safe for humans. Some of the EWG verified products are quite expensive, so it took a while to find a brand that was affordable and
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   by houtanb 4y ago

   When I was looking into that I remember having read (or watched a youtube video, I was deep in a rabbit hole) something good about these companies [1][2]. Take it for what it's worth. [1] https://www.pcbway.com/ [2] h
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   by houtanb 4y ago

   For anyone else who's potentially interested in this, I found https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ to be really useful in my foray into building keyboards. We spend so much time with keyboards, they mi
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   by houtanb 4y ago

   Here's a video of the Stokely touchdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPamV6LsV8