nxmehta

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by nxmehta 8y ago
> Yes, I am indeed arguing for free speech that's also free from consequences I don't often see someone actually owning up to this view - good for you. I'm not sure how it's possible to enforce speech that is free fro
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by nxmehta 8y ago
Altera took many of the employees (although quite a few are now at AWS) and it's rumored they also bought the IP. A lot of the core ideas will live on in Stratix, hopefully.
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by nxmehta 8y ago
Prop 13 is perhaps the biggest reason for the lack of supply. The other reasons you mention (zoning, NIMBYism, etc.) are also big contributors. But tech is where the demand comes from. The median home price in Santa Clara county is almost
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by nxmehta 9y ago
FYI, the toolchain is shit because: 1. The optimization problems that EDA tools have to solve are about as hard as it gets - NP-hard and sigma 2p problems at a massive scale. I'd argue that these are among the hardest optimization pro
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> And as has come out, the author of this memo has a PhD in Biology. No, he doesn't; he lied about it on his linkedin page: http://www.businessinsider.com/james-damore-removes-phd-stud...
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> Those are actual falsifiable statements. They can be either true or false. The whole idea of considering them as "viewpoints" is ridiculous and it's precisely what's the problem with the whole environment surroundin
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> Unconscious bias retraining does not work. Interesting assertion without a citation! Unfortunately, you are wrong. A good meta analysis reference: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji/research/publicat
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by nxmehta 9y ago
Did you read what those scientists say? While there is consensus on the memo's statements about biological differences (which again - I agree with), there is hardly consensus on the conclusions drawn: "But it is not clear to me h
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by nxmehta 9y ago
Actually, you can absolutely use social science methods to attempt to demonstrate (or in this case, disprove) these kinds of links. But let's put that aside for a moment, and discuss what is objectionable about the memo. What are the
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by nxmehta 9y ago
Nice catch ;) The "implied contract" at-will exception in CA in recent years can be avoided by specific language and precautions in your contract. So yes, theoretically a former employee can sue and win for unjust termination, b
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by nxmehta 9y ago
They are? That's news to me. Several of the studies he cites on biological differences in genders are well accepted, so far as I know the field. But the key conclusions that he draws from those studies (and really, the entire point o
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> So, stating true, scientifically verified facts that challenge Google's official political ideology is now a fireable offence. Did you read the memo? I don't think you did. Let me help you distinguish fact from speculation.
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> (wait what??) That's exactly what I was thinking when I read your comment! What about my comment are you replying to? Did you perhaps reply to the wrong comment?
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> the author of the memo is completely correct and, as others have said, his memo is drastically misrepresented in the coverage it has received. he simply points out that women could have less desire to go into fields such as cs because
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by nxmehta 9y ago
I don't think you actually read this doc. Quote: "Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing)" That is accompanied with citati
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by nxmehta 9y ago
Exactly. It's indisputable that there are biological differences between men and women. How those differences are relevant to the disparities in the gender ratio in tech is pure speculation on the author's part. To quote the do
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by nxmehta 9y ago
Apparently you are unfamiliar with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment I guess you don't work in the United States? Because it's certainly fine for him to be fired for this.
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by nxmehta 9y ago
> But this guy might lose his job. His career. All for voicing his opinion. Perhaps you aren't employed in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment If you are in fact aware of this co
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by nxmehta 10y ago
And "patent holding company" is not what their investors spent over a billion dollars on.
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by nxmehta 10y ago
1. Shor's algorithm 2. Grover's algorithm 3. Quantum simulation If you're not doing those three things, throw it in the trash, more or less.
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by nxmehta 11y ago
Actually, the design constraints are quite different. 1. FPGAs have between 1-2 orders of magnitude higher on-chip memory bandwidth. Imagine lighting up all of the block RAMs on your chip. That blows away the memory performance of a CPU.