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by moandcompany 2y ago
I feel that people like Russell Ackhoff should be mentioned when exploring the topic of asking the right questions and understanding the right problems to solve (at Bell Labs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._A
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Computer Science curriculum is often different from the practice of software development or "software engineering," in practice, which academic-learning departments may consider too-vocational and to the detriment of their student
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Someone will be promoted for the launch.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The phrasing, possibly due to French->English translation, may cause a misleading reading. It appears the author/poster is using LLMs (OpenAI and Claude, specifically) to extract entity and relationship data to create a knowledge gr
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Very cool work. It's worth mentionion that the Graph browser using "Retina" is a project from Ouestware ( https://www.ouestware.com/en/ ) which is also contributor to the GraphCommons and GephiLite project
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The US Space Force was part of the US Air Force until just a few years ago, and a around 75 years ago the US Air Force was the US Army Air Corps.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The _Ops team needs an _Ops' team. The game here is defining parts of the job away to be someone else's job or responsibility.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Rewarding "engineers" for perceived "impact" :)
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Russell Ackoff's lectures are always a great listen, and worth relistening to each year. If I recall correctly he used to work at Bell Labs... A starting point: https://youtu.be/yGN5DBpW93g
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by moandcompany 2y ago
"What is your AI strategy?" -> "We're hiring a Head of AI"
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by moandcompany 2y ago
A lot of organizations simply renamed the functional area of "systems administration" or "systems engineering" to "DevOps," and at many of these places, "DevOps" is the new name for the group that sof
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by moandcompany 2y ago
My opinion: the high-prevalence of implementations using Spark, Pandas, etc. are mostly driven by (1) people's tendency to work with tools that use APIs they are already familiar with, (2) resume driven development, and/or to a m
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by moandcompany 2y ago
It's been a long time since I've paid attention to that world, but AFAIK, PEPs are still used and essential equipment for internet-style communication (i.e. TCP over IP) via GEO satellites. It looks like in this 2022 blog post eva
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by moandcompany 2y ago
This is an "old" problem that has historically been addressed through things like "Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs)" that are defined in RFC 3135 and RFC 3449. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perf
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by moandcompany 2y ago
"This repo has all the resources you need to become an amazing data engineer!" That's a bold claim. Is this a marketing post for selling courses?
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by moandcompany 2y ago
>That’s why I was asking, the jammer would have to be very strong to overwhelm a "real“ signal which is located in the main lobe when the jammer is outside. The mobile jammer in the article's scenario is transmitting toward the
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Communication satellites generally need to have multiple antennas to provide spanning coverage over large geographic areas, which are divided up into coverage cells; some of the antennas may be phased array antennas; antennas and their asso
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I'm wondering if the intended assignments for these reserve officers would be for operational roles or in acquisitions/program management. Historically there are a lot of revolving door style career moves, but usually from the dir
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Taking dogfooding to a new level.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The H1B workers have to comply.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
SEV 1's don't care if you're at home!
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I heard Amazon employees were told 9 out of 10 Amazonians were looking forward to returning to the office. I guess they asked ten employees this question. Nine were on H1B visas, and the tenth was already on Focus/PIP.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
They should be bold and make it six days a week.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The concept you are describing at Google is the "terminal level" for Software Engineers. At Google, the vast majority of new college hires would begin as Software Engineers at Tech Level 3 (L3), where Tech Level 5 is "Senior
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by moandcompany 2y ago
At some places, the title used to simply be: "Member of Technical Staff"
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by moandcompany 2y ago
Open Farenheit 451B will be in charge of detecting unauthorized books and streaming media, as well as unauthorized popcorn or bread.
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by moandcompany 2y ago
I'm looking forward to the dystopian sci-fi film "Minority Book Report"
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by moandcompany 2y ago
It might be useful to mention that Arvados appears to be meant for biomedical data. It doesn't appear to point this out on the homepage, and you have to read the About page for context: "Arvados is a modern open source platform fo
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The second order costs of automation should consider time spent diagnosing and repairing said automation, and consequences of automation failure. For example, should an automation fail, will manual processes still work? Does execution of a
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by moandcompany 2y ago
The Coral Edge TPU has approximately 8MB of SRAM for model weights/parameters. https://coral.ai/docs/accelerator/datasheet/ It does not have VRAM as it is not a graphics card :) There are examples and in

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