lucidbee

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by lucidbee 4y ago
I have realized when browsing some twitter culture war exchanges that people almost never respond to the opposing party's arguments. They imagine a set of arguments that uses some of the same words and then argue with that. This type o
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by lucidbee 4y ago
I have to admit I occasionally have crackpot physics ideas floating around in my head and I actually have seen that Dr Hossenfelder has this service and thought of contacting her. But my tech job took too much time to even clarify my though
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by lucidbee 4y ago
I worked as a principal engineer in an AI company until a year ago and I was impressed at how hard it is to get models robustly trained. They are fragile in real world contexts (in the field) and training is full of pitfalls. I have heard s
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by lucidbee 5y ago
If I were you I wouldn't apply right away to a 4 year college. Do community college in your chosen field and then transfer. In California if can do 2 years in a community college you are guaranteed a spot in a school in the UC system.
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by lucidbee 5y ago
I was a crappy student in HS and the only good thing about me was my SAT scores. They got me into a good school. I ended up as a highly ranked engineer at Microsoft. My heart sank when people started not using the SAT. I hope this becomes a
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by lucidbee 5y ago
I looked at the "mildly pornographic app" you wrote and my reaction was, I would not choose to hire you. Basically I don't want to be exposed to people's sexual fantasies as a part of my job. It's obnoxious and way,
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by lucidbee 5y ago
Awesome tip. Thank you.
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by lucidbee 5y ago
This is one of my absolute favorite podcasts. If you listen to the first you will want to listen to all. Great production values, fascinating stories.
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by lucidbee 5y ago
I think there is a structural problem here that we are avoiding. The reason some higher ups don't see the merit of particular individual developers is that their pay does not reflect their contribution. Pay is the simple metric that sh
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by lucidbee 5y ago
The timing of this is so rich in irony I can't help but wonder if there is an element of internal sabotage. How many FB employees hate FB right now? The latest expose of FB is both effective and truly awful. I can't imagine feelin
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by lucidbee 11y ago
This seemed like a blurb for start ups rather than an analysis. One thing that is missing is a quantitative analysis in the factors underlying inequality, and whether / how they relate to startups at all. Also missing is an analysis of