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Careful, they might go after you next! Obviously sarcastic, but drives home just how insane the scenario even is. Also, how do senior executives even find the time?
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Education design is a decent area she can potentially pursue from a non-tech skills standpoint (interviews probably contingent on a masters degree). Plenty of tech companies hiring in that area. For a complete career switch, recruiters are
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“I feel uncomfortable interacting with people of lower social classes.” Jeez. I’m very fortunate to have grown up with lifelong hobbies (surfing, skateboarding) filled with people who are about as far from the typical high-paid tech worker
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Yes. As someone with a chronic health condition living in America, I agree completely. Leaders of this country really do not care about the healthcare of its citizens (just look how long people with diabetes have been screwed, how long peop
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This experience is a massive far cry from anything I’ve seen.
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https://www.jwilber.me/ I work on a machine learning team at Amazon, but my site includes mostly dataviz related stuff I enjoy creating, sometimes about statistics and ml (go figure), and sometimes other stuff (lots of art
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In case you wanted another, I wrote a similar visual explanation (though different visuals/narrative) covering the closely related Bias Variance Tradeoff! https://mlu-explain.github.io/bias-variance/
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Do also check out the other cool roughjs creations ( https://github.com/rough-stuff ), such as annotations (rough-notation: https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough-notation ) and html elements (wired-element
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How do you know it’s a deep fake? The same thing happened to someone I know, but they were basically forced to post the requested videos as ransom. It also happened to a skateboarder, and many people claimed deep fake when it wasn’t. [0] No
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Can you describe some of these possible changes?
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That plus the fact that he asked the story to link to his Twitter account, I’m guessing he’s doing this more for publicity than any real concern.
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This is more generally known as a “leaky” vaccine, (in case you want a keyword to search for related stuff).
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Loved that game mode and the many little versions of it.
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“ This is only proving that a college degree is not enough to qualify most graduates for any job. Better to hire from 2nd tier schools instead and even to consider HS grads on some cases.” How many students from Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley
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As a Cal grad this is an easy reason to point to the next time I reject an alumni donation call. If the goal is to accept more students on merit, this is a big failure in my opinion: rich kids can just game the “holistic” admissions with op
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Can finally cancel my nytimes subscription- literally the hardest thing to cancel.
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“… and according to the lawsuit she was hired at a lower tier than she felt she qualified for.” I can’t speak to her personal experiences, but down-leveling is pretty common at every tech company and something someone with 30YOE should have
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Related quote from op’s link: “ That they’re delivering partial products intentionally and not informing buyers prior to payment nearly feels like fraud. I guess it is actually. All they need to do is inform buyers before the sign and make
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Most Gen Zs in your network.
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I can’t think of a single example where a piece of open-source software was announced like this before it was available in some form.
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I flew twice a week for years and it really just depends on the route (ie airports, day of week, and time of day) that you’re flying. Popular business routes will always have full overhead bins, so you either check your luggage, bring a wee
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“Pull back the covers on large scale deep learning models and this is one reason overfitting creates miraculous accuracy. Large scale models have a primitive understanding of the deformations leading to a degree of generalization. The more
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Amazon’s MLU-Explain: Visual, Interactive Article on the Bias Variance Tradeoff(mlu-explain.github.io)
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I had open heart surgery in the US and the doctors refused to give me opiates to take home in the few days after. They gave me opiates while I was in the hospital, quite generously, which was for four or five days, but they would not let me
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Jaywalking isn’t super black and white, though. Someone jaywalking at night directly in front of a car is not the same as someone jaywalking in an empty town and getting hit by a speeding drunk driver. It also involves another party causing
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“ Monkeys had parts of their brains destroyed with acid in order to increase their capacity for terror, and were then tormented with simulated spiders, snakes and other things they instinctively fear. These experiments have been ongoing for
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“Hang the DJ” - named after the song played in the bar scene. Great episode.
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As part of my undergrad statistics course on experimental design I tested this very hypothesis among about 60 students and found no significant difference in preference between cola poured from plastic, canned, or glass bottles. Still, ther
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The random inclusion of heroin addiction, while interesting, seems out of place. Aside from it not being a sport, how do you compare it to, say, Grand Prix? One injection = one race?
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One can just as easily flip this massive generalization: are people still supposed to face consequences these days? They’re adults. They’re more than capable of knowing the consequences and acting accordingly. I’ve been on over 100 flights.

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