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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Part of the scientific process is being skeptical and considering cases and asking probing questions. He didn’t make a blog post that said “lol racial bias is fake.” He discusses it with respect to research on the matter. It seems you don’t
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
1. The idea that someone’s political views are not backed by science is a pretty bold claim. Who decides what political views are acceptably scientific? 2. Strong grounds? Is it possible to quickly present strong grounds in a twitter thread
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
He’s doing research using newer high dimensional ML methods on the human genome to understand potential correlations with genetic information and other attributes, like general intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.22
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
My salary has doubled in the last 4 years at my Big tech job through raises/promotions.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Yeah. Pick up a book by James Baldwin, or read an essay by Frederick Douglas. Read anything by black authors on the experience of their lives. I believe strongly these are more valuable than non-black corporate anti-racist consultants...
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Yes and no. I worked stupid, which was the worst of both worlds. While I did have fun the few years I lived in SF, I spent a few too many weekend afternoons trying to study or work on something, rather than exploring, or hiking, or making n
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Just learn to think for yourself by reading the classics and fundamentals. Read Karl Popper, study stats, read blogs like Andrew Gelman’s.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
It was a sincere question. It’s a model of the world they put forward. I want to know why they think it’s well estimated.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Yes, as shown from the viral and exceptional video during widespread looting, we can make population level inferences about subjects we otherwise don't personally study or pay attention to.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Why do you think your naive intuition as to the correct proportion to fight crime is so well calibrated?
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Which is particularly sad, as our lower income essential workers suffered through this the most, and we deprive them of a chance to at least get a payout...
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
The people who scream at me in a schizophrenic drug addled haze aren’t going to go away because cheap 1br housing pops up in an affordable neighborhood. They do need help though. They need homeless institutions.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Are you... aware of SDE salaries?
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Well, obviously it depends, people can be successful from both camps based on other attributes. But I will say when we interview we often try to weed out people who just took a handful of courses that focus on TensorFlow, but lack general s
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
If you would consider yourself a Senior level, which you probably should, given you built an acquired product, you can look up the paybands online. 250-500, to throw out a range.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
Companies set prices in accordance to labor market supply and the marginal salary they need to offer to get someone. Not some specific idea of egalitarian fairness.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
That's neat -- since it's pretty much the same way I think of self-learning. Sometimes you need to just go read up on discrete math, or theoretical stats, or algorithms in order to level up your fundamentals. Then you get to go &#
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
> The Kong’s conclusion wasn’t causal with any statistical certainty (which is what the above is arguing). It was anecdotal. There ain't no such thing as statistical certainty my friend.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
> I bogged down in the second chapter or so. I know if I really focused, I could get through it. But would anyone care? Yes they would. But you have to be able to use it to solve real problems. Alternatively, you could be a dev who suppo
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
The former. That’s why I still hire our local horse-drawn-buggy service. Car purchasers have destroyed their industry and eliminated jobs.
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by natalyarostova 6y ago
It's not particularly interesting or productive to compare the best of one set to the worst of another.
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm not a physicist, so I'll defer to you on this. Do you think Wolfram's strange style is worth trying, as a moon-shot? (Ignoring for a second his personality).
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
It's super sad. I don't know much about Physics at all. But I suspect any huge breakthrough will come when 1000s of people, like Wolfram, spend their life's effort to solve an incredibly hard problem. Almost all will fail, bu
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
“Panic buying AMZN” is my new favorite quote to highlight how financially nonsensical HN can be.
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Load times might not effect conversion linearly. People deal with 3 second loads until one day a competitor does .3 second loads and gives a better experience, then in a matter of months you lose your customer base.
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Well Bezos said this publicly as well. I’m not interested in giving a whole sale defense of everything amazon does. It’s a huge company. But there is a world shortage of PPE as you’ve probably noticed, so if we diverted supply to ourselves
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
If we took PPE we're receiving and gave it to Whole Foods employees and warehouse workers, that means taking it from the hospitals that are running out. Do you think that Amazon is making the wrong choice, and should prioritize its war
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Statistical Inference by Casella & Berger, is the canonical first year phd stats textbook. I like it.
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Maybe we can just lock things down when we sport extremely dangerous new viruses. It doesn’t seem that tricky to me. I was following this from late December, and it was clear it was a potentially huge risk.
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by natalyarostova 7y ago
Well, consider if we reacted late January when he wrote that article it would have been very cheap to contain...

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