j7ake

8 ms·

61.
by j7ake 1y ago
Switzerland is not a good place for working moms. It is a very conservative country, for example working moms are systematically discriminated. The society, police, insurance, and banks enforce a conformity to a conservative, male-dominated
62.
by j7ake 1y ago
Didn’t say guaranteed, I said more likely. To succeed, you have to execute many things well and avoid bad luck. Add to this an extra constraint that one also needs integrity or morals and it will drastically reduce your success rate. My sta
63.
by j7ake 1y ago
Also suggests 100% WFH is not as good as some weekly face to face time if part of the goal is to keep people motivated and disciplined
64.
by j7ake 1y ago
It’s also survivorship bias. Given that a start up has explosive growth, it way more likely that they are amoral. The ones who play the game with integrity and morals never have the type of growth that makes headlines. But I’m sure they exi
65.
by j7ake 1y ago
Please name a few such places
66.
by j7ake 1y ago
Why simulate? We can already do it experimentally
67.
by j7ake 1y ago
This summarizes what irks me about the community. They use technical terms (eg expected value, KL divergence) in their verbal reasoning only to sound rational, but don’t ever mean to use those terms technically.
68.
by j7ake 1y ago
The core is that hyper rationalists mistaken their model of the world with the world itself. They then lecture with confidence their opinions in the real world, ignoring the hairy details and unknown unknowns in the real world.
69.
Michael I. Jordan – scaling excellence in A.I., statistics and beyond [video](youtube.com)
2 points by j7ake 1y ago|0 comments
70.
by j7ake 1y ago
Does 20k really make a difference in quality of hire?
71.
by j7ake 1y ago
It starts early : closed source software offers discounted or free licenses to schools to hook kids in early. This is how matlab continues to have a hold in engineering fields.
72.
by j7ake 1y ago
Isn’t “write everyday” a goal? The author seems to be distinguishing goals that are externally motivated (eg win award) vs internal (eg practice every day)
73.
by j7ake 1y ago
Honestly even if a prediction comes an experiment, and they know exactly how the experiment was done, it takes month to years to follow up and verify. Generative AI is basically going to flood the field with more predictions, but with littl
74.
by j7ake 1y ago
Also predictions in biology take months or years to validate, so they lack the fast feedback loop of the vision and NLP world where the feedback is almost instant. Combine this with the fact that In vivo data in biology is extremely limited
75.
by j7ake 1y ago
There is a typo: it’s a nature communications paper not nature. Difference is vast
76.
by j7ake 1y ago
Yes the standards are different. Also true for restaurants and sanitation.
77.
by j7ake 1y ago
Must be an article for westerners because the average Asian household would have 4+ different soy sauces in their kitchen eg light, dark, steamed fish, raw fish, meat marinades. Use Lee kum Lee for cooked stuff, Japanese ones for sashimi. F
78.
by j7ake 1y ago
Guido van Rossum is 69, he would be an excellent colleague at any tech company
79.
by j7ake 1y ago
It’s funny because there are people in USA who actually believe health and quality of life are irrelevant because they’re not measured by GDP.
80.
by j7ake 1y ago
It’s a faster Google search
81.
by j7ake 1y ago
On paper? Oral exams are mush better in my opinion
82.
by j7ake 1y ago
1000 scientists is a lot. The entire Microsoft research department is about 1000 scientists, and they are a productive bunch
83.
by j7ake 1y ago
Two people affiliated with Google won Nobel prize last year.
84.
by j7ake 1y ago
Great article. I am surprised at how close cooper became with the stampf family. There were others that found Bills body but only cooper stayed close.
85.
by j7ake 1y ago
Interesting that they don’t consider any eastern cultures to have produced any books worth studying.
86.
by j7ake 1y ago
It’s essentially the pvalue hacking we see in social and biological sciences applied to machine learning field. Once you set an evaluation metric it ceases to become a useful metric.
87.
by j7ake 1y ago
The only paper they cite was the bat virus paper in cell, which isn’t evidence for lab leak. The review paper I mentioned shows dozens of papers showing evidence of market as initial spread.
88.
by j7ake 1y ago
The evidence favors spread from market: Here is a review paper of all the evidence so far: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...
89.
by j7ake 1y ago
Sorry but translated works do not mean compromised work. Don’t disrespect translators like that. Second, Learning a language is not a binary variable. It takes decades to master a language. Finally, Your ability to appreciate a book is both
90.
by j7ake 1y ago
Euro truck simulator memories

More ›