marcinzm

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by marcinzm 7y ago
>GrubHub and some others operate on a flat rate service fee GrubHub charges the restaurant a percentage, it just hides that in the cost of the food on it's platform rather than making it explicit.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>there is still no physical escape key Yes there is, it's clearly there in every picture of the keyboard.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Larger companies will pay that much salary for ML talent especially with experience and a PhD. I've seen $400+k salaries for people with a few years experience and no PhD. Contractors will generally charge twice the amount per hour as
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>Small companies have no choice but to be highly efficient and that's why they have lower levels of pay inequality. Only if you discount equity, small companies are very unequal because the owners/founders will make orders of m
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Location: New York, NY Remote: Either Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Big data (Spark, Hadoop, Redshift, Kafka, Cassandra), machine learning (scikit-learn, pytorch, mxnet, dl4j), devops (kubernetes, terraform, AWS), assorted languages
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Zoom has been popular for corporate meetings for a while now and I've seen multiple companies use it pre-covid. So when you had to find a video conferencing solution ASAP you we more likely to go with the one you used successfully with
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Companies do not care about "fair" unless it provides them an economic benefit or is contractually required.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days. That assumes China is finding almost all cases and is able to track almost all cases. If they only repor
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Screw-ups will happen no matter how much wishful thinking and effort is spent preventing them. If you assume perfection in things then you will be sorely disappointed by most everything.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Top schools (MIT, Stanford, etc.) have generous financial aid packages if you can get in. They'll provide you a well rounded technical education which sometimes is hard to achieve/force one-self to do when self-teaching. Networkin
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Given that probably the biggest by far factor for success in most anything is connections and networking the later is a lot less useful than the former.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>What's the downside to going to a community college? Where I grew up the credits were transferable. Depends on the quality of the school. If it's a top school then transferring can be difficult, you lose on networking opportun
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by marcinzm 7y ago
There’s some interest in there as well which adds up over 7+ years. Plus how much his wife makes depends on her specialty and the potential salary in tech is also wide. You can make $400+k at a large tech company faster than a doctor can ev
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by marcinzm 7y ago
They did random anti-body testing in a small town if I remember correctly and found it to be 0.5% or so.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>For example why not pursue a policy such as: kids can go to school unless they live with someone who is at risk (since we know that children are at very low risk for complications). Similar to how we managed chickenpox before there was
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by marcinzm 7y ago
The death rate is 0.5% IF there's really good medical treatment. If there isn't then not only does the death rate from the covid go up but so do death rates for every other condition requiring medical treatment. And not only durin
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by marcinzm 7y ago
First of all, I used the word Agile in my response zero times. I used the words formal project management for a reason. Agile tends to be assumed but if someone asks then either you can infer what they actually want or you're going to
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by marcinzm 7y ago
It's more that you can't lump all developers into one category and make blanked statement like you did. Some developers in some markets aren't in demand. Some developers in some markets are absurdly in demand.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Pre-pandemic I've found that in many markets there is a shortage of good senior developers. Good defined by those who can interview well in whatever the current in-vogue interview style is. Or more specifically those that could get job
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by marcinzm 7y ago
I mean based on that answer I'd say you're obsessive and likely hard to work with in an environment that requires compromise (ie: a startup like in this context). So I'd consider that a rather bad answer personally. edit: Giv
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by marcinzm 7y ago
The context is companies with 30+ engineers. At that point you're going to want some form of formal project methodology that allows everyone to co-exist somewhat peacefully. Generally, the results otherwise are varying level of dysfunc
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by marcinzm 7y ago
PR matters because without PR people forget things exist or are worth spending money on. Without manned space flight I suspect you get roughly 36 hours before the first Senator proposes slashing NASA's budget.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
There is a distinction between what is AI and what is state of the art AI. Simple approaches are AI but not state of the art AI. At one point massive rule based systems were considered state of the art for example and those were nothing but
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by marcinzm 7y ago
No, the point of AI is to have agents achieve goals based on observing an environment. Nothing says they have to be complicated agents or not explicitly programmed. Any book on Computer Science AI will be largely filled with agents that use
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. This does exactly that.
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by marcinzm 7y ago
AI does not mean ML, it is a broad field that is a superset and not a subset of ML. Or as Wikipedia describes it: >In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Yes, as the infection spreads testing becomes overwhelmed and the apparent fatality rate goes up. A recent trial found that in one German town the actual fatality rate was 0.37%. They did antibody testing so they knew everyone who had been
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by marcinzm 7y ago
There is a difference between short term and long term impact. Short term regulation costs money and a large player doesn't want that since it'd hurt their stock price. Long term they probably benefit from it but wall street doesn
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by marcinzm 7y ago
>the law generally accounts for scale. Not in a useful way I've noticed because a small company can service hundreds of thousand easily thanks to the power of the internet. CCPA, for example, essentially sets the cutoff at 50000 use
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by marcinzm 7y ago
Regulation of this sort generally just helps the incumbent players create a better moat around themselves. They can pay for the AI and humans to moderate things while newcomers can't. So it's question of trading of user benefit ag

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