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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I work in Tech at Walmart and the funny thing is that of all the places I've worked they do the least in terms of surveying employee satisfaction. If they just asked, I and many of my colleagues would be happy to tell them which people
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
There are a lot of posts claiming that advances in technology over the past decade or two have been leading to "productivity gains". But the economic data simply doesn't support these claims. Productivity growth has stalled i
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
Thank you for writing this! I often feel the same way. My relationship with Slack kind of summarizes things neatly. I enjoy using Slack and it is far and away my preferred method of communication with work colleagues and even work friends.
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
yes! i agree with you 110%. there have been a lot of little prizes and awards to collect at some places i've worked. sometimes people had to interview for those awards. and i always wondered how much unnecessary damage we did to the mo
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
sorry, you lost me at: "Reason 1: You Reward The Right People The Right Amount" if that were true, i too would say that Performance Reviews matter. i'm 45 and it's literally never been true at any place i've worked
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I bought a V60, one of the few remaining station wagons for sale in the US. And it is great for those with 1 or 2 kids, but, like the author implies, doesn't really work for those with 3 car seats. The only thing that has grown faste
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
It's called multimac and I wish they sold it in the US: https://www.multimac.com/home
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I'm a bit lost in this terminology. But coming from the Operations Research perspective that gave Dynamic Programming its name, Dijkstra's Algorithm is very clearly Dynamic Programming. It's Forward Dynamic Programming as o
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
What are you talking about? She has no qualifications and her publications are juvenile. Her h-index is 8. She has no background in CS and has a few publication in Foreign Affairs. If she is the leading academic, then AI safety is not a se
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
Right place, right time. She was one of very few people "working" on AI Safety. I made another comment about this elsewhere on this post, but to me this debacle is a function of the fact that there is no there there when it comes
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
It seems to me as if Toner was just in the right place at the right time in order to get a seat on the board of Open AI. She has an undergrad degree in chemical engineering and a master's in "security studies." Her work on AI
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
You task a bunch of people with reducing congestion and put them to work at a cash-strapped government agency and this is what you get. The one and only way we know which will reduce congestion which also generates revenue for the agency. P
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I get it! I am an introvert and have often been called shy. I am also now happily married. But I strangely miss first dates. I miss meeting new people who lead very different lives, and having both of us try to present the best version
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
is it just me or is the entire Amazon interview panel like this? "leadership principles." makes my skin crawl.
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In the US, you probably wouldn’t collect enough from the first class passengers to pay for their trips let alone subsidize the trips of others. BART and the DC Metro famously serve lots of wealthy people, with a pretty mediocre standard of
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I grew up loving GTI's. Last year I finally had the money to buy one and was in the market for a new car. I couldn't bring myself to buy a GTI because it was just full of touch screens and piano black. VW was unusual in just how f
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I don't think this is true. It's just that there aren't many optimization practitioners and the OR community has done a terrible job promoting itself. The value in scheduling and logistics is well established. So optimizer
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I like the Column Generation idea. Not a big fan of SA and LNS as you often can't really tell the relative quality of the solutions. I've often pushed for a different, simpler model form when the larger model isn't solvable
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I think you're on to something with regards to subways in urban environments moving a number of people that a highway expansion would struggle to match. Feels to me like movement of people should be the real metric and, given that, th
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
I agree that VMT is good because of why people make those trips. If you're saying spending all that money on public transit would be a better way to help more people make more of those trips, then you'd be unequivocally wrong in
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
But that's true of public transit projects too. They always promise to reduce congestion and never actually do. Congestion charging is probably the only way to really reduce congestion and in many ways the solution is worse than the
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
Well written and fairly convincing. Slightly off topic but the side point about highway capacity expansion projects interests me. I’m guessing it won’t be popular. But it’s true that more people are traveling and choosing to travel despite
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
Universities will often let admitted students visit, sometimes overnighting with a host who is a current student, before they enroll. You can also take your kids to visit, take a tour, etc. Visits are especially helpful if your kids'
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
He's wrong about Uber and, in my humble opinion, has been wrong about Uber for a long time. Albeit while making claims that are very interesting. For the longest time, he claimed Uber could never possibly be profitable. I almost believ
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by kj4211cash 3y ago
The author is absolutely correct that AI can't do physical labor or interact with other humans very well. It's also worth pointing out that there will be new job functions created by AI. There will always be productive ways for hu
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by kj4211cash 4y ago
Also check out the most recent episode of the Capitalisnt podcast. As per usual, Luigi Zingales is a little hard to take and a little too interested in his own first thought on the topic. But Walt Bogdanish does a decent job pushing back an
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by kj4211cash 4y ago
This is why it's important to shame Amazon and other workplaces with ludicrous cultures that damage their tech employees mental health.
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by kj4211cash 4y ago
> Tech workers have low levels of trust in leaders—even their own I found this interesting and particularly relevant to the question of how we organize collaborations between the DoD and Silicon Valley. Having gone from RAND to Silicon V
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Ask HN: I'm a DS, and I want to leave tech
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by kj4211cash 5y ago
I made this transition a few years ago. Prioritize studying Python. Leetcode. Make sure you're familiar with git. And then pick 2 or 3 sub-genres of Data Science and study those. Operations Research, experimentation and statistical tes

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