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by itissid 8y ago
Thanks for the summary. The root cause of the problem is not so far from what is happening in the US. Many in the hinterland have tried to attribute their misfortune to various forces like immigration or other countries(China, Canada, Mex
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> the others are just angry - and I mean really angry. Out of curiosity, how has "EU is telling us what to do" affected these people to make them so angry?
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When ever you concentrate a large enough wad of cash(i.e. the incentive) to a simple metric. Sooner or later that metric will be gamed. Metrics should be more nuanced and well studied and flexible to change and behavioral study needs to be
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by itissid 8y ago
> Because you just can’t start reading the source code of a code base from top to bottom. This is obviously not what one should do. Read the test cases first is what I do. It makes for much quicker iteration.
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by itissid 8y ago
Playing the devil's advocate for a sec here. But If you paid out of pocket and later got reimbursed by the insurance company, I think, you would have to deal with the insurance company later. The system in the US is quite different an
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by itissid 8y ago
This development has parallels to tuning parameters in the Montecarlo world, specifically using HCMC+NUTS one does not have to worry about finding the complete distribution and you get warned when the distribution is misbehaved[0]. HCMC+NUT
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by itissid 8y ago
The economic incentives here are a tough nut to crack. Here they are: 1. Most first time H1B Visas are taken up by an employee that are paid(typically) less that the college educated US worker. Pay amortized over the lifetime of this emp
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Biases and most negative behaviors are not built in[1], they are part of experiential memory and hence learnt(and can be erased[0]). Racial profiling, gender roles and biases in general are established when we are young(or at least open to
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Person 1: Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network. Person 2: What is Google+?
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Also it seems there is a "standard" form of german since 1996: https://www.fluentin3months.com/german-hard-to-learn/
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Learning Engineering: Putting cognitive science to work at Kaplan(youtube.com)
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Can't one solve the problem of tracking food contamination with a simple key value store that tracks supplier id and the food batch information? Whats the advantage of using blockchain here?
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So ship shakes. The aluminum ore, bauxite, turns to liquid due to pressure increasing (or friction decreasing). Ore moves to one side of the ship. Pressure drops as shaking subsides. Ship becomes side heavy and lists and sinks. This is as w
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There incompetence is shocking[1] [1] https://www.propublica.org/article/us-immigration-agency-wil...
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by itissid 8y ago
Agriculture Scientists are really heroes of the 20th century. 1. In statistics max likelihood method was developed and used to great effect and continues to this day, was developed by Fisher[1] 2. Norman Borlaug saved India and Pakistan fro
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by itissid 8y ago
If you are in the US you may want to go through Vettery/Hired especially if you are a fresher or you don't have contacts to get your foot in the door. If you do have some contacts working at companies, ask then to tell you how it
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by itissid 8y ago
Would blockchain be a good solution to the authentication problem? For example never disclose any PII to the Bank, but tell them that this is the person who he claims to be and is authorized to do X(i.e. a True/False answer for everyt
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by itissid 8y ago
I have had a terrible experience when dealing with banks in India. To open accounts for non resident customers(NRE), one has to scan and send ID proofs and Account Opening Forms over email. And they ask for all your details SSN, DoB, Addres
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by itissid 8y ago
Equifax is one of those companies that had a shitty solution to a really important problem. Its like a parasite sucking up money and from its host and not giving any thing to it except a headache. Somehow people in multinational consumer c
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by itissid 8y ago
Speaking about a few cons from an H1B perspective from countries like India. 1. The nature of H1B Visa makes it inherent for people to not take the risk of working at a startup. Part of the problem is the short time between layoffs and find
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by itissid 8y ago
Will our institutions be incompetent under this administration? Maybe. Can they be incompetent, period? Sure, its like swinging a dead cat and hitting the target. Checkout exhibit A: https://www.propublica.org/article&#x2F
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by itissid 8y ago
The 1900's called they want their trade policies back. Throughout the history of countries when has this pattern not repeated itself. People suffer->People elect a person with an ability to corrupt social discourse and/or the l
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by itissid 8y ago
Can't they ask the top K teams for their solutions. Offer some smaller prize to them. I believe Kaggle supports that. Even if you have 10 top teams of 5 people each and gave them a sum of 300K total its damn cheap than hiring 4 or 5 fu
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by itissid 9y ago
Reminds me of the time a TSA person at the airport asked a programmer at the port of entry to answer some canned CS questions from wikipedia and expected the exact answers...
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by itissid 9y ago
Extreme economic incentives perpetuate odd socio-economic behaviour. Look at the Japanese greying population renting everything from fake family to a complete fake wedding with the whole 9 yards[1](Yes Virginia there is a Netflix documentar
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by itissid 9y ago
Trying things out in many tech fields is still expensive and often impossible. Like you can't go try your hand at micro(forget nano) lithography at a hack-lab. Up until 6 or 7 years ago trying things in electrical design was hard beca
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by itissid 9y ago
Here is a thought, for those who have insurance. The insurance company can just give you an all expenses paid 12 business class trips (one per week @~3000$ a pop on the web and much cheaper if purchased in bulk) to go to Malaysia and get th
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by itissid 9y ago
Youtube "recommended" videos, if you open it in incognito mode are very revolting to me. This is why. The quality is so atrocious. The video recommendation in my google profile are not as bad, but every now and then it will recomm
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by itissid 9y ago
> a) could not reliably capture a one minute flame graph covering the issue, as the onset of it kept fluctuating; b) capturing a two or three minute flamegraph didn’t help either, and the issue was “drowned” in the normal workload profi
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by itissid 9y ago
How can anyone justify in a P/E ratio of > 250 is beyond me. Math and logic seem both out the window. For investors who want to invest on the scale of decades - like you and I- this will become either a cautionary tale or the greate

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