jmeister

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   by jmeister 6y ago

   L1B is a dead-end, how do you plan to leave amazon and still stay in the US?
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   It’s their policies and actions that matter. Looking at everything from an identity lens is a disease that has corrupted discourse in this country.
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   Animal Form is not a textbook in any way whatsoever. Downvoted.
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   Haskell Cosmos: Haskell in Production(haskellcosm.com)

   6 points by jmeister 6y ago|0 comments
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   A PhD is supposed to train you to formulate, grapple with, and solve novel problems that contribute to the progress of the chosen field. As well as prepare to train students in the future. It’s a skill that cannot be learnt from books or le
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   And these days, he’s increasingly popular among both the radical left and right
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   If you want more such elegant Haskell/math check out Conal Eliott( conal.net )
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   Trump is a world-class salesman. And this skill is more about instinct than cerebral/deep thinking, which is why nerds “just don’t get it”. Check Scott Adams’ writing on Trump’s persuasion abilities.
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   by jmeister 6y ago

   Do any birds flying around have engines?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Did you get good severance? Hope you did. If you can afford it, I’d suggest taking a break.
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    US pulled ahead of the rest of the world in STEM during the wars. The brain drain of scientists fleeing Europe - exemplified by Einstein and Von Neumann joining IAS in Princeton - set up US in a dominant position that has only gotten strong
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    This is nonsense. GS has always had among the best talent on Wall St. In modeling and software they’ve been a step ahead of everyone else. An extreme example: Fisher Black, a Nobel winning economist, used to work there in the early 90s. And
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Those days are long gone. Technologists are highly respected now. Also the backgrounds of traders have changed slowly. More cerebral, less jocky. So the cultural and pay gap has reduced
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    You’re happily married. You’d be even happier if you cheated on your spouse(without getting caught). Why shouldn’t you?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Goldman Sachs quants, Jane Street
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    This comment is just “Id in a meltdown of nationalistic rage”, to use a phrase from the parent comment. What has China done to the US that makes you so angry? Is it just that Americans need a punching bag to vent their anger at this moment?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    The way China governs its people is an issue separate from why US is becoming hostile to China. The parent’s question was, what is China’s fault? That merits this warmongering-like talk?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Interesting. Would you mind sharing what industry you work in now please? Also, how’d you feel about working with colleagues who are far younger, say early 20s, just graduated from college? (No snark, genuine curiosity)
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Parent is talking about outsourcing in general. You are talking about risk from concentrating supply chains in a single (foreign) country.
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    “Artisanal” is very broad here: the opposite of anything mass-manufactured, impersonal, “soulless”. Artisanal beer, cheese are already part of big-city hipster culture. It can apply to clothes, food, restored/modded/customized veh
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Rich people can never do anything good, right? Purity-testing Bernie fanatic, right?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Insiders who turn against their companies or industries are extremely valuable, because they can suggest respectable solutions. Your opinion reminds me of purity-testing Bernie fanatics I stumble upon on Twitter.
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Alternatively, this out-of-work group becomes artisans, creating hand-crafted work with a human touch (think Etsy) that commands a premium over the factory-produced stuff. Tyler Cowen has some good articles on this.
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    This is what I thought too, but I’ve been told that there’s a lot of fantastic manufacturing expertise in the defense industry? Boeing, Lockheed Martin etc.?
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    Thanks! OpenAI has made some progress on this problem too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259765 Looks like these two places are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in RL/robotics!
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    by jmeister 6y ago

    This will also have the beneficial effect of drastically reducing immature America-bashing among the young.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Thanks, looks very useful. Since you seem to be industry practitioners: I moved away from RL 10 yrs back disillusioned with lack of real-world applicability. Has that changed significantly? The only major name I’ve heard of is Vowpal Wabbit
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    PG’s Viaweb was a “no-code” startup for making web stores, that eventually became Yahoo Stores, before “no-code” was a thing, in the late 90s
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    In popular usage of the term, anything above linear is “exponential” unfortunately.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Same thing happened this time in the US, with Trump/GOP and Bernie