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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
There is this belief that in 2-3 years AI will be much better and all the gripes people have with AI use today will be solved. Honestly, personally, I think that optimism will age poorly. But to say it out loud at work or post publicly prob
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
Yea, fair enough. This is a great point. My experience has definitely been that company size is inversely correlated with ... functionality of engineering org.
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
Here's a bill that repealed a previous bill that slowed/delayed the project: https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/4653 I can't find the laws it's repealing immediately,
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
The tunneling in that area is done now so we can see what happened. It was slightly more expensive and slower to tunnel in that area due to the tar sands and methane. But what was really expensive and time consuming was the NIMBY lawsuits a
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
The per mile costs are definitely high in America, for a lot of reasons, often related to laws and policies, but that's not really the issue. At the end of 2025, nearly 20 years since California voters passed Prop 1A, we have spent und
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
As someone who works there, as a Data Scientist, I can't scroll past this without expressing my disagreement. I've never seen a worse eng org. Coming from Uber, it was and is shocking how dysfunctional Walmart tech is. Maybe my st
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by kj4211cash 6mo ago
Just wanted to say I really like this idea.
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by kj4211cash 7mo ago
You recognize that you haven't really needed strong mathematical (or coding) skills to create models for some time. Data Scientists add value by knowing how to translate business speak into XGBoost type model and interesting XGBoost mo
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
I've spent 20 years working and 8 in the industry. Definitely feel jaded and looking for an exit. The push to use AI whenever possible, the repetition of the work, the cluelessness of leadership, the rounds of layoffs, and the Return T
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
If they have said anything against the regime on social media, they would be wise not to visit. I personally know many Persian expats who meet family in Turkey and have been anxious about going back.
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
So interesting. I also found work in tech, as a DS, more gratifying than teaching. But part of that was finding remote work freeing. Office work is Kafkaesque. I can easily work 40 hours a week or produce more than the equivalent amount of
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
I didn't lie. Did you read the article? Apparently the point is to break you down, to see how strongly you challenge the interviewer, and assorted other things which are not about telling the truth.
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
This is so interesting. I guess I was a dipshit in this scenario? Because I just accepted that the reviewer thought I was lying. Began to question my own memory. And just gave up on the idea of working at that place. In hindsight, I should
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
This rings so true and I only ever took one polygraph test. I was a nerdy 21 year old and they told me I had failed on the marijuana use question and encouraged me to think about it and come back and retry. I remember being very confused. I
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
Bubble will have burst. Tech co stocks will be way down and job market will be rough but starting to improve. Overall employment in tech jobs will be down slightly but starting to improve. Employment in other job functions will be more or l
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
It sounds like you are an Operations Researcher. I am too friend. The talks I've seen on people using AI for Operations Research have been ... underwhelming. I wonder if the vast majority of us are just in niches narrow enough that AI
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by kj4211cash 8mo ago
Just commenting so I can come back in 12-18 months and laugh at this. Or, you know, reflect on why I didn't believe him in the unlikely event that he's correct.
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by kj4211cash 9mo ago
Wait. Do you really think that or are you being sarcastic?
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by kj4211cash 9mo ago
It's interesting how polarized this comments section is. Lots of people claiming a human driver would definitely have been driving slower. Lots of people claiming statistics show that human drivers do worse in this scenario aggregate.
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by kj4211cash 9mo ago
Please read this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-06/are-auton... Spoiler: we definitely don't know yet whether Waymo is statistically safer
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by kj4211cash 9mo ago
But we have no way of knowing whether robotaxis are safer. See, for example, the arguments raised here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-06/are-auton... We can't blindly trust Waymo's
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
I do it and recognize that the logic is flawed, but it's a habit and just looks and feels correct at this point.
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
But were there ever 100 "rowers"? In this case, the commenter would have developed the website him- or herself instead of using AI. And it would have taken a little longer but probably been higher quality. In my experience, most d
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
I had a 3 year appointment overseas and could only get similar offers for my next job and only in places I didn't really want to live. Also my father was a professor and, to be honest, it was hard not to notice how much worse the job h
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
Former transportation engineering prof here. This is exactly right. And for many transportation engineers, it's a reason to support toll lanes and to oppose adding (other) lanes. But I agree with some of the other commenters here, that
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
I started because I wanted to think about transportation policy but my work as a Data Scientist wouldn't let me. I continued because a colleague convinced me it could help position me as a thought leader and get me a new job or engagem
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
That was my first thought too. But they can say that this one was created by their administration. And is more AI. I'd love to hear from people who had experience with USDS before this administration. The chatter I see online is overwh
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by kj4211cash 10mo ago
Sadly almost no local governments would be equipped to process the data. This would probably benefit firms like Streetlight and Replica but not materially improve public transport. Written by someone turned cynical after years of working in
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
This looks a lot like my childhood. I would guess most of us were popular-group rejects, latch key kids. Pencil fighting, paper football, exploring nearby creeks, (poorly) playing guitar for one another, gossiping in each other's basem
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
we have used it at my last 2 companies for most geospatial data analyses. defining and visualizing catchment areas. making maps dividing up service areas. picking out high demand density areas. etc. before h3, both companies were using zipc

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