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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I report to a CTO and manage a large team. You probably need to delegate your planning and budget activities and serve as mostly an approver for those things. Managing people is hard and it’s unlikely you will learn how to manage people fr
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Nicely written article. A few minor nits: * As such, the development lifecycle is incredibly long. It starts with prototyping in an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), in which chip designers can program their required functionality and c
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Sounds like Strasburg railroad.
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Did you have BS in CS or something else?
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I had these at my university (not Caltech). These take home exams are much, much harder than anything they can give you in a timed in-person exam. It’s not even close. This is simply because the set of problems a person can solve in 3hrs
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Sort of off-topic but I recall the first time I ran a scan on an atomic force microscope back in the early 90’s. I was totally blown away by the ability to “see” individual atoms. The whole system was so high tech for its day; including th
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I love that English is messy. The messiness is what gives richness and new words and allows for richness and diversity of expression. There are some people who are truly masterful with their choices of words and word ordering. If English
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
The US system is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. We should not be ok with denying a person’s freedom while they are presumed innocent. Additionally the conviction rate has nothing to do with actual guilt. Many people plea to
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I agree. I think if you went to prison, you served your debt to society and are square with the house. Your punishment should stop. This includes inability to find work etc... with some sensible limits for certain high-trust related posi
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I agree. Imagine the big brains at work here and what those brains could be doing elsewhere. Honestly at this point the FAANG are starting to seem like a black hole for brains. I’m starting to wonder if these companies are starting to ho
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
The impact of the Great Depression on food in the US cannot be overstated. The Depression followed by the war was a relatively long period of time and for an entire generation the food of this time became what they were used to. Additional
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
California has more people than Canada yet Canada has more public Universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Canada
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Monte-Carlo can and should be deterministic and repeatable. It’s a matter of correctly initializing you random number generators and providing a known/same random seed from run to run. If you aren’t doing that, you aren’t running your
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Blue Brown is really a great resource. His visualization library looks really nice too. He clearly spends a lot of time thinking about how to explain things. A lot of colleges could learn a lot about how to teach from people like him.
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Not sure that this is an apples to apples comparison. The US average includes many driving scenarios that Tesla’s autopilot cannot navigate. ~52% of accidents happen within 5 miles of home. At least where I live, Tesla’s autopilot couldn’
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
By your logic you could say all goods are being produced for taxpayers, therefore shouldn’t it follow that every company should get a taxpayer funded loan? I’m not generally a fan of of taxpayer funding for the private sector. This includ
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
If they have that much of an advantage it’s not at all obvious why they need a $765M taxpayer investment. They should have been able to raise funds from capital markets. I’m not a crazy free market ideologist but I tend to think if privat
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
This decision to give a tax payer funded loan to a company that’s basically been unable to adapt to changing market conditions for 30 years really puzzles me. Why does Kodak think they can pivot into an entirely new industry? Wouldn’t the
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Not trying to dazzle anyone with anything. Just trying to understand the problem And have discussion. I’m not a cable engineer but these are very practical considerations. I did a quick calculation with a simple assumption and admitted th
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I’m not sure what the diameter is of these cables but I found a data sheet that shows MV (33kV) cables are <50mm in diameter. If that’s true then, the bend radius is <25mm. If the winding is sparse, let’s say 1 turn every 1m on a 38m
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Overall, it’s an interesting project and I hope they can solve all issues for a real deployment. They don’t mention the length penalty that comes from wrapping around the cable or any impact of loss to fiber itself. Given the helical patte
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Actually the events themselves are only part of the outage. There has to be time for the link to come back up (not instantaneous). If the disruption is minor this might be a few hundred ms. However this is still long enough on OTN networ
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
From the link I provided it shows the time scales. When the fiber transmission rate is 10-25Tb/s, these timescales represent non-trivial service disruptions. From the page 4 of the link below you can see that Africa has the highest de
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
A big issue with aerial fiber is that the fiber experiences fairly large changes based on the environment. In areas where there is a lot of lightning, lightning strikes will cause outages. These outages are not caused by physical damage t
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I work in an industry that always wants multi-source for everything. So it’s funny to me that there’s no market pressure to have a competitive 2nd source search engine. Obviously Bing, DDG exist but not sure how much share they have. I
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
I too would love to be able to work on something like this.
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Agreed on the management. Regarding Intel’s CEO, Bob Swan is a finance guy with no history or background in semiconductors. It remains to be seen whether someone with no real background in technology or in the semiconductor industry can
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
It's awfully cold at 30,000'. I wonder is how birds are able to keep themselves warm at those altitudes.
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Agreed. Here are some of his recent comments: Americans systematically avoid hard discussions, to preserve that "everyone is happy" feeling Just look at a typical city council video in the United States. Everyone who is there i
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by mmmBacon 6y ago
Here’s a companion video where Prof Dally discusses some of aspects found in the paper. https://vimeo.com/423287458

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