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by jstx1 4y ago
That specific journey is much faster now that the Elizabeth Line is running.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> chances are I'll be able to reach my destination on foot faster than by bus This is only true in extreme cases - very short distances, very heavy traffic, being able to take shortcuts on foot. The majority of bus journeys would be
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by jstx1 4y ago
With plain venv it’s hard to maintain multiple different Python versions on the same machine; conda makes this much easier. Also on M1/M2 Macs some libraries (especially for ML) are only available through conda-forge.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Just saw on your profile that you were a senior research engineer at DeepMind. That might be why you’re getting showered with offers and not necessarily the state of the job market for ML.
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by jstx1 4y ago
So you're looking to hire people you know and people you don't know don't have a chance to be hired? I don't know how to distinguish this from nepotism.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Are your offers mostly from startups? I want to move away from ML but this might be a bad time for it.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Also because they aren't nearly as common. Just because this exists in some form outside of the US doesnt mean that it happens at the same scale.
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by jstx1 4y ago
What does cheap mean when you're picking between different free languages and frameworks?
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by jstx1 4y ago
It hasn't been relevant for a while, it's a tiny percentage of the job market and only getting smaller over time.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Strategically should a job seeker emphasize experience in one of the packages for roles in one ecosystem If you're on the data science job market, you should know Python because that's basically all the jobs right now (the Py
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by jstx1 4y ago
I'd love to work in big tech or finance but it's hard because even if I can make up for skills (on the job skills and interviewing skills), it's hard to fake the necessary background to get an interview (having good education
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Better in some vague notion of engineering goodness? Eh probably not. On average we're all about average. This doesn't make sense. You're picking people from the top end of the income distribution, assuming they are aver
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by jstx1 4y ago
> but the large bank, or more "settled" company, or a large consultancy (big4) won't. This is definitely not the case for applied roles (data scientist, applied scientist, ML engineer), I know many data scientists in large
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Debate. About things we don’t even know exist, or what they are if they do exist? There’s better ways to spend a Friday.
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by jstx1 4y ago
This is nothing like 2000 so don’t expect things to play out the same way.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Definitely don't regret it because I'm more interested in the engineering problems around ML rather than research and I don't want to spend that long working on ML anyway. It gets boring after a few years. If you want to do r
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by jstx1 4y ago
Personally I don't feel happy or excited anywhere so I would gladly not feel happy and excited at a company where I get paid a lot.
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by jstx1 4y ago
When people tell me that Rust is nice to write it feels like gaslighting. I want a smooth path from not having code to having running code and Rust doesn't offer this at all.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Async Python is still confusing af - when do I need it, what happens under the hood, does it actually help with performance, sometimes the GIL comes into play and sometimes it doesn't, why do we ever use threads at all if there's
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by jstx1 4y ago
Teach them how to be good at online search first. It's a bit too early to say that teaching them how to use ChatGPT is essential.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't think anything has gone wrong. Progress is ruthless and doesn't care whether you've spent your whole life on mastering some skill - if you can be replaced by something better, eventually you will be. It's still k
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by jstx1 4y ago
Still missing a proper blue and a green.
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by jstx1 4y ago
lichess.org > chess.com or any other paid chess platform
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by jstx1 4y ago
You're only looking at it on one dimension though - Covid and economies opening up aren't all the factors to consider here. Meta need to think about investor sentiment, interest rates, any changes in the advertising space, the soc
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by jstx1 4y ago
I know, that’s why I mentioned the other companies that won’t interview me either.
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by jstx1 4y ago
How common is this? Even breaking £150k seems really challenging - FAANGs aren't hiring in London right now, finance seems to require previous finance experience and/or prestigious education even for experienced candidates (I don&
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by jstx1 4y ago
London really sticks out with lowest salaries (compared to US and Canada, not to the rest of the UK/Europe) and lowest % of remote positions.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's not the same thing. In the book "fast" and "slow" refer to two distinct modes of thinking, it's not about speed in the way the author of the post is describing.
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by jstx1 4y ago
I think it is, especially for higher level software. People are rewriting I/O bound applications from garbage collected languages and the top two reasons they cite are performance and memory safety - it's just peak stupidity. Rust
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by jstx1 4y ago
After 3 years at the same job (especially your first job), you'll likely be able to get a higher salary elsewhere.

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