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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Counter-point: Kobe(RIP) on having time for friends: “I have "like minds." You know, I've been fortunate to play in Los Angeles, where there are a lot of people like me. Actors. Musicians. Businessmen. Obsessives. People who
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   He said “has” not “should have”. It’s an observation. You can prove or disprove but not impose moral judgement.
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Not sure, but the best metaphor for your comment is: knocking down a straw man
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Thank you for making these comments. You get to the crux of the issue. Rest of the threads here are just about expressing outrage and virtue signalling
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Wow can we see a picture of this Adonis please?
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   This is all too complicated. Harvard has a simple objective function: To maximize the future positive “impact” on society its alumni have, and the resulting prestige reflected on their alma mater. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Just a word of encouragement from someone 12 yrs down the line from you: Northeastern PL is a great group. And you seem to have the mindset to get into research, atleast a PhD. PhD admissions are (mostly) purely meritocratic. Take the long-
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   What is “loop deformation”? Are you referring to a parent comment that has been deleted/flagged? Curious to know..
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   by jmeister 7y ago

   Yeah, I expect to see this evil rich conspiracy theorizing on reddit or Twitter not HN
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Do it. I’ve been in your situation before and wish I’d quit much earlier than I did. The scala job market is good and only getting better. If you’re good at the functional aspects you’ll be considered for clojure/Haskell jobs too.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    The Ghosn saga was an eye-opener for a lot of people: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/27/carlos-ghosn-warns-forei...
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Scheme + SICP https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... A classic time-tested route that will teach you the “spirit” of Lisp. Has made countless students across generations fal
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    He could be referring to Trump’s disbanding of the pandemic protection team within CDC two years back
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    A counterpoint and a reason for hope: After the 08 crisis, the big banks were required to keep aside a lot more money in reserves, agree to periodic stress tests by regulators, and forgo certain risky activities(proprietary trading). Now r
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    You can admire some aspects of the campaign/platform without agreeing with the people/policies.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Gates has been so active in medical initiatives that he likely has connections to every prominent public health official in the world
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Agreed. The left should learn from the Trump campaign, who put a positive, constructive spin on a fundamentally anti-establishment platform. Trump’s MAGA vs. Bernie’s angry finger-pointing
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    False equivalence. Credit scores measure failure to honor financial contracts. They’re not about honoring arbitrary social norms
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Thanks for the recommendation. And yes, the lisp book should be fun. Sussman is a legendary CS educator.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Thank you. This is an important point that deserves to be discussed more. Would you mind sharing what business domain you were working in? I’ve seen static FP being used/popular in finance but not much elsewhere. Also, do you have a fa
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    As someone looking to learn Haskell, I was pondering over this from another post on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22843181 Just out of curiosity, do you significant experience in a statically-typed FP
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Thanks for this info, very useful and exciting. I stopped using scala around 5 years back, want to get back to it. Would you recommend jumping straight to dotty? I’ve been doing a mostly python and a bit of Haskell in the meantime.
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Your comment shows up last and it’s the only one that is funny
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    I’ve been wanting to ask this a differential geometer - what do you think of Sussman and Wisdom’s book as a DE intro for an CS/applied math person? Thanks! https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Differential-Geometry-MIT-...
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Thanks!
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    To form a balanced opinion, wouldn’t you want to read CC critical literature too?
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    http://www.reddit.com/r/iwantout
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    That’s harsh, he has a multi-decade track record
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Similar story- I was trained as an Electrical Engineer, picked up programming/AI on the side. Now work as a data scientist. What kind of physics? Big banks on wall st hire(atleast used to) pure physics phds and train them to do quantit
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    by jmeister 7y ago

    Will add more in a bit, but mainly data scientist in Big Tech and Finance. At the right firms/teams your salary will grow much faster than linear in time