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by mswen 10y ago
I interviewed [1] Łukasz Kidzinski and Michał Warchoł who started deepart.io. Your situation in academia and interest in possibly building something more commercial mirrors their situation in certain respects. Maybe their story will prove
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I live in a major metro area in the Midwest US. I do freelancing because I want the freedom to pursue varied other interests including building SaaS type products to potentially hit it bigger one day. My specialties are roughly in the space
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I have a scholar/hermit/coder persona and a leader/teacher/social persona. I feel like I can switch pretty easily from one into the other depending on the situation. If I spend too many months pretty exclusively within o
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I ran a named entity extractor on the following URL http://computationalimagination.com/article_empirical_questi... The opening of this article has several entities that are easy for a human to parse out and the Summarizer
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Recently had a friend who moved from the Midwest to the Bay area to work for a well known established tech company. He was back for a visit recently and said he had referred me for a data science position in the company. But he said the fir
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I picked up a Masters on the way to getting a PhD but ultimately dropped out because I felt like I had quit learning and was just slogging and I found I wasn't all that passionate about the particular domain. Furthermore one day sittin
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IanCal - I upvoted you but let me comment for extra emphasis. I remember coming out of PhD level quantitative social science studies in academia back in the late 90s where I was using K-means clustering, Factor analysis, multiple linear reg
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It partly depends on scale. At the individual freelancer level it is hard to think about or justify paying a salesperson to sell your services. It often becomes clear when you have grown your freelance business into a small consultancy with
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Interesting juxtaposition - this morning I read [1] an interview at Vox.com about how IQ researchers push back that what really consistently correlates with a great diversity of what we label as success is in fact G the general intelligence
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In part your VP has already provided you the solution "allocated headcount for a large team". Question is can you keep all the balls in the air successfully while you go through the hiring cycle. I have talked with many CIO's
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I know one of my clients - that does a lot of web scraping uses a proxy service - I think maybe 30 or so different proxies and breaks up the jobs manually. So if those ever get blocked they would need to go through the code and update to a
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Just had an interesting conversation with a former co-worker at a mid size corporation. She stuck to the standard corporate ladder while I jumped to start-up within the corporation - experienced lot of growth but then laid off in the midst
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You have started the process already. And, you have already hit your first roadblock. The question is how to interpret their lack of enthusiasm. > Do they not share the 'difficulty' that bugs you enough to create a solution? &g
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Minnesota. It is called PSEO. If a student scores above some threshold on standardized testing and is in the top third of their class in high school they qualify to enter college as a Junior in high school. Some students just take a handf
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She is working in an Engineering department for a company that does sensors and cloud monitoring in a specific vertical industry. She does a combination of QA for devices and related software plus has been migrating their documentation fro
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Here is my observation: based on oldest kid graduating 1.5 years ago from a Big 10 University with a degree in Scientific & Technical Communication. It was substantially harder to get a job than we expected. With my network - I finally
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Nice articulation of asymmetries in luck potential based on different activities. At any given moment though it can be difficult to balance the allocation of time and effort because activities like being an employee or even consulting (stil
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It might just be a ploy to try to forgo any negotiation. I wouldn't worry about the fact that they arrived together. Don't sign it yet, reach out to your contact within the company and see if they seem open to negotiation through
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You could certainly think of the offer letter as their opening offer in the negotiation process. It feels like it is there attempt to communicate "This is what we pay for this position" and hope that you aren't in a position
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Getting a technical/scientific undergraduate degree teaches you to think more logically and gives you the tools to understand the technical underpinnings of the modern world. I have a friend with a BS and MS in Software Engineering and
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put vibration sensors on cars and use vibration analysis to get a measure of how rough various sections of road for most needed road repairs and resurfacing. run air particulate sensors and create daily maps of particulate counts in the air
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I have recently got involved with a client building a reporting web app on top of legacy applications. I ended up telling them that there were too many uncertainties and we would need to do this on an hourly rate. Just about wrapped up but
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So this resonates with me. In general I don't have a particularly detailed memory of my early childhood. However, I do recall one day when I was 4 years old sitting at the end of the driveway waiting for my dad to get home from work.
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The integration issues will clearly be very different if the engineering/programming teams will be co-mingled and working on the same product. If they will be combined to work on a single unified product then you are right there will b
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Interviewer here. In this Profile in Computational Imagination I interview Jonah Gabry a statistician and developer on the Stan team at Columbia. One fun twist is that Jonah was a humanities guy; music, history, languages and literature who
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Romanced by the Mathematics of Uncertainty(computationalimagination.com)
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I up-voted your comment but to add a little more. Not only is the title very misleading, even the first paragraph is somewhat misleading. It isn't until well into the article that you actually get the details of the study result that t
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> work out - weights and running > write > read fiction occasionally > read non-fiction various topics - including HN and Reddit > help with cooking > transport kids > help with homework > visit elderly paren
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Consider the following approach. Talk to the founders of the consulting agency again. Say something like the following. I am currently in a high risk, potentially high reward situation with a start-up. I love the technologies and the crea
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Not buying that Perl book at the college bookstore in 1994 and not really digging in deep when I first encountered RDBMs at about the same time. At the time I was learning grad level social science with a quantitative focus - lots of statis

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