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by kitsune_ 6y ago
Podcasts: Coaching for Leaders (Gold mine with hundreds of great episodes, as an example https://coachingforleaders.com/podcast/maximize-team-perform... ) Manager Tools (They even have a section for new managers: https
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Ultimately there are no good automated metrics with regards to summarization in my opinion, human evaluation alone is also no silver bullet since it is very labor intensive and what constitutes a good summary is highly dependent on the doma
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This and AMP, I mean, it's clear what Google is up to.
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No it is not. This is not the innocent, pristine untouched garden of eden before Adam and Eve ate the apple. This is a society where the ancestors of one group of people auctioned off the ancestors of another group of people like cattle. Th
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Ellen K. Pao was right all along. Also if the replies in here are representative of Silicon Valley as a whole, damn. It just reminds me of the stereotypical too-smart-for-their-own-good hacker who is prone to making sweeping generalisations
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Your implied reverse-racism argument just doesn't hold. Are you telling me that there are no capable African-Americans who could fill that board position? If not, the what are you arguing? That increasing the representation of historic
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Same here in Switzerland. Beer: 16. Wine and spirits: 18. Tobacco: No age limit to 18 (depending on canton). Driving (car): 18. Driving (tractor): 14. Voting: 18. Mandatory army service: 18.
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But Radford is just pretraining the decoder and qualitatively different from a seq2seq approach such as MASS. If we just look at the original paper from Vaswani, than "pretraining a transformer" imho should always only have meant
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by kitsune_ 7y ago
No mention of MASS by Microsoft? It was afaik one of the first pretraining schemes for a full transformer outside of XLM. Imho a bit unfortunate, as is calling the decoder or the encoder of a transformer "a transformer", as it has
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Contrary to popular opinion, most of Switzerland's population does not live in the mountains.
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Keycloak
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Same here. I wonder whether the backtracking is just due to the criticism or whether they have measured an actual impact on their numbers.
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" Lanham, Md. (Jan. 8, 2019)— The message is clear. Treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), along with the related health risks it poses, has the possibility of adding an average of nine to 13 years to the l
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I think as awful this sounds, it is also why often adhd people can synthesize a lot of information very quickly because their brains have this rapid association chain which can lead to absolutely lucid insights, downside is that it's h
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Cool! I actually work at a company that adopted Holacracy roughly 3 years ago. In many ways it's probably much less loose and more formal than most people think (I mean there is a written constitution written in Legalese). There are st
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by kitsune_ 7y ago
Congrats on the book. Have you ever explored alternative forms of management and organizational forms? Stuff like Sociocracy, Teal (from Reinventing Organizations) or management as envisioned by Deming. I wonder whether the engineering mana
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Yeah, selling TO law firms is very lucrative, I know a story (second-hand) where some lawyers had learned word / excel macro programming to organize their own case work (esp. with regard to appeals, deadlines and reference management e
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The same most definitely happens with real apprenticeships. In countries like Switzerland, apprenticeships start after the 9th school year and take around 3 to 4 years. During the apprenticeship, the apprentices still have to visit school a
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Focusing on the customer is the only thing a company should be doing, I'm astonished how often people seem to forget this.
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Haha, what a cynical, bleak and fascinating read.
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Deming
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Google is an international company and in places like Switzerland (where Google has a large engineering presence), under applicable law, trade unions have the right to visit employees at their place of work and to inform them. Be it in offi
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You have these options as an admin when using GSuite: > No sharing — Calendars aren't shared unless users share their own calendars. Note: If you choose No sharing, your mobile app users can't use the Find a time feature. >
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What is more likely, an algorithm (or their statistical model) rewarding an illusive category occupied by 0.0001% of the population or penalizing the fact that she is a 'homemaker' and a woman, categories occupied by millions and
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Warning, that link is not for the faint of heart.
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From the end of 2000 to the start of 2002 I did a stint at a web agency right out of high school in order to save up some money for college. Roughly a month or so after 9/11 150 out of the 300 employees were laid off.
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This very post is about targeted advertising to keep women and older people from seeing job ads. You then went off a tangent about employer-prospect matching in general. What other reasons are there that lead women and older people to be ex
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I'm not disagreeing with the idea that there is variability in developer productivity. However, quantifying the most productive engineers by throwing around a specific random factor such as "10x" is rather idiotic. You have e
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Except for the 10x myth a fairly good article.
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Why would they? You need a pretty convincing story to justify protests that disrupt 'normal' life, especially to mainlanders who saw a miraculous improvement of their living standards in their life time. It's pretty easy to e

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