kyleschiller

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Pixel 4XL Falls Off Flat Surfaces Unprompted(youtube.com)
30 points by kyleschiller 6y ago|9 comments
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by kyleschiller 8y ago
Software Engineer | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF, NYC, Paris | Onsite, Fulltime Zenysis is building analysis products humanitarian and global development challenges. Our projects are embedded in health systems that provide services for over 100 mi
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Coloring Pascal's Triangle(kyleschiller.com)
2 points by kyleschiller 8y ago|0 comments
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by kyleschiller 8y ago
Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, PM | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF, NYC | Onsite, Fulltime Zenysis is building a data analysis product for governments of developing countries. Our current projects focus on healthcare and affect over 10
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
What determines a "path"? "Philosophy" is connected to "Ethiopia" through "Sexism", but I couldn't find that phrase on either page. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=P
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
You mean all articles that are 6 degrees away? That would be most if not all articles.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It's worth noting that Atrium's Series A had a mind-boggling 92 investors [0]. Read the article out of curiosity, but understand that this was in no way a normal process. [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_roun
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah this is absolutely a large chunk of it. Especially when you consider how many jobs are filled through referrals [0]. At my last company, I only worked with male engineers, and so when I got a new job, I could only think of male enginee
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Is it possible that your dating pool is subject to sampling bias? Empirically speaking, about 1/4 of people in STEM are women, so if you've met 0 women interested in STEM, it seems like your experience simply aren't an accura
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, you're absolutely right that by not taking into account things like STEM participating, the metric ignores exactly this kind of thing. Having said that, if you just want to know how it was literally defined here, I found this com
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Here are three possible explanations for the observed behavior that don't require a belief in inherent biological differences: 1. Since countries with lower gender equality also tend to be poorer, STEM could be seen as a rare opportuni
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I don't know, I get how the whole survivalism might seem eccentric and even paranoid, but if I had a billion dollars I would absolutely be willing to spend a few million on preparing for worst case scenarios. I know wealth doesn't
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It's not just a piece of land, he went through a fairly extensive process to gain citizenship as well. I think Sam's original statement on this was from the New Yorker piece a while back [0], where Peter describes him as "not
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It's literally called "The long read", you can't really be surprised.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Software Engineer | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF | Onsite, Fulltime We build software for governments and international organizations to fight epidemics, combat food shortage, and allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare spending. We
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Since this entire "product" launch is a partnership + landing page, I'm guessing 0 engineers were involved. Building a form isn't hard, but recruiting an engineer, convincing them that building a form is a good use of th
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Also possible that bikes are more likely to survive a post-SDC world.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
"once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you’ll have a 95% chance of relapse." Unless you plan on spending the rest of your life severely sleep deprived, this doesn't seem like a great solution.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Totally anecdotally, I've had friends with undergraduate degrees in Math go straight into consulting and software engineering out of college with limited work experience.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but from what I've read it sounds like derivatives (i.e futures) might help. https://qz.com/1144262/the-cftcs-green-light-for-bitcoin-fut...
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
2018: Is my career doomed if I don't become an blockchain/crypto developer? No.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Students who pay their own tuition (i.e. are not on financial aid) are almost by definition wealthy. That's why they don't have the "luxury" of lower taxes.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Original tweet from Dale: "I am questioning who she really is. Naomi is a persona, not a real person. She is several or many people. [0] [0] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Hey sorry for the delay! We're open to NYC applicants.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Sr. Software Engineer | Zenysis (YC W16) | SF, NYC | Onsite, Fulltime We build software for governments and international organizations to fight epidemics, combat food shortage, and allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare spe
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Okay sure, Facebook was built by nerds, and historically nerds in America have been bullied. Does that mean there can't be a legitimate criticism?
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Poe's Law
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Neural Networks are really good at identifying patterns in data. As a classic example, if you wanted to predict housing prices, you could build a data set that maps features about houses (square feet, location, proximity to Caltrain, etc) o
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
When actually hiring, you also have benchmarks that aren't purely relative, and past experience to fall back on.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
"Y Combinator’s goal is to cause there to be more startups, by helping founders to start them." Also interesting that they goal doesn't include helping startups be more of a good thing. To be clear, I generally believe that Y

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