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by jebarker 3y ago
~220 sunny days per year apparently. Plus there's plenty of space for wind energy. NCAR has a supercomputing center there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAR-Wyoming_Supercomputing_...
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by jebarker 3y ago
I bought and returned a Remarkable 2. I primarily wanted it for note taking but I found it actually felt worse to write on than the iPad with Apple Pencil and a matte screen protector. The iPad is also much more responsive and versatile whe
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by jebarker 3y ago
Even if emacs can handle the remote editing side I doubt the remote debugging experience comes close to what vscode can offer with very little effort. I do all my development on remote supercomputers and the ability to remotely debug multi-
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by jebarker 3y ago
Wyoming seems like a good place to build such a thing.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I understand why you say this, but there is some base amount of learning and practice that you need to do if you want to get a job as a SWE.
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by jebarker 3y ago
In theory yes, in practice it depends on the implementation.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Commutes are also a stress and danger. I used to commute ~1.5hours in and out of DC and had to stop after getting home one day and realizing I couldn't remember anything from the drive I just did.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> There is a very large embedded industry if you want that. Learn about basic electronics as well if you are interested. What is the hiring process typically like for inexperienced embedded software positions? Is a portfolio of personal
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by jebarker 3y ago
I would caution against _just_ learning to code without also getting a reasonable grounding in an area of industry you want to work in. I am a math PhD too, I currently work in an industry research lab doing ML work. I transitioned via a de
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by jebarker 3y ago
Why are people weird for wanting to "focus on their family and other things they care about."?
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by jebarker 3y ago
Perhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?
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by jebarker 3y ago
The costs listed in the BI article don't seem to actually match those in the report as far as I can see. e.g. they say charging a Rivian at home for 100 miles would cost over $17 but in the report they list the cost of home charging a
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by jebarker 3y ago
> Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking. Is there evidence for that statement?
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by jebarker 3y ago
Also sounds like: https://whitebox.systems/
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by jebarker 3y ago
Interesting. I wonder is some other less toxic solvent could serve the same purpose?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm not a chemist, so this may be false, but I've heard it's almost impossible to make NA drinks that are very similar to the real thing. The reason I heard is that whilst ethanol has no flavor itself it does enable/carr
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, the average NA beer appears to have the equivalent of about 3 teaspoons of sugar. So about the same as regular beer.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I really like the Guinness NA too. But I heard someone say it had a hint of BBQ sauce to it and now I can't help but taste that when I drink it!
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by jebarker 3y ago
So hard to do!
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by jebarker 3y ago
I take this as an argument for staying off the internet as much as possible. Avoid the temptation to continually see what everyone else is doing and give yourself space to think.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yes! Never in my career have I seen an organization do a good job of organizing institutional knowledge and making it easily available to employees. It'd be a huge benefit to many organizations to be able to ask questions of the collec
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by jebarker 3y ago
Casey Muratori's Computer Enhance: https://www.computerenhance.com/
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by jebarker 3y ago
Ben Eater's 8-bit and 6502 based computer series: https://eater.net/
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by jebarker 3y ago
Didn't Google Brain start as an X project? EDIT: It did, it's listed on that page. "Attention is all you need" was published by Brain and was a key contributor to the current AI boom.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I agree. It took me lots of therapy to understand that I felt a constant need to justify my existence through achievement and it was ruining my life.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Thanks - this is a great suggestion
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by jebarker 3y ago
Ton of money is ill-defined, but it's quite possible to work a salaried job in tech in the US and achieve financial independence and an extremely high standard of living.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> ML is the most natural application of dod principles, no? Yes, the principles are helpful and natural in implementing the code that will execute the ML model pass with no unnecessary overhead. But in terms of writing the code that conf
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by jebarker 3y ago
I agree that often people choose to use the object versions unnecessary, but many operations (including relu) have functional versions: https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functiona...
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by jebarker 3y ago
Why can't we do both? i.e. give an honest account of the pros and cons of different approaches rather than treating them like dogma

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