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by oneshot908 9y ago
Interesting, either times have changed, or, much like Google, you're in a big company and your experience all comes down to the team you join. Either way, great info, thanks!
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by oneshot908 9y ago
There are all sorts of wonderful shop classes and related perks at FB. Older and senior talent in my experience is discouraged from attending these classes. Maybe they weren't always that way or maybe someone smacked them with a clue
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Sadly, the US tax code rewards not getting married, doubly so if both partners are high earners (see the marriage penalty). If you don't like this, don't concern troll, instead, ask your representatives why this continues to exis
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by oneshot908 9y ago
See also senior and older FB engineers being discouraged from participating in perks and events intended for younger and junior employees because FB can multitask at sucking.
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by oneshot908 9y ago
I would love it if you licensed this technology to the other cloud providers. IMO it would be an awesome embrace and extend play both in terms of HW and in making TensorFlow faster than its competing frameworks. Otherwise, you guys seem lo
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by oneshot908 9y ago
So GTFO of Silicon Valley then? The place is feeding on itself at this point IMO and I'm just about ready to leave myself because happiness > $$$$$$$ past a point. See also my libertarian friends who live in SF, constantly kvetchi
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by oneshot908 9y ago
IMO breaking up Google or Amazon makes as much sense as breaking up a tumor in the body without removing any of its cells and declaring victory. Go ahead, make some arbitrary cuts between Amazon, Lab 126 and AWS. Or go split Google into A
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by oneshot908 9y ago
How to schedule saving for retirement, annual fees, ETFs vs index Funds, index allocations, optimal portfolios based on personal temperament, and when to (very seldomly) change allocations (if ever)?
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by oneshot908 9y ago
I think brand new shiny mac laptops are status symbols these days (says the guy who lugs around an 8 pound GPU laptop to do machine learning on it, oh excuse me, I mean "Edge Computing").
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by oneshot908 9y ago
My chief problem with both iOS and Android is far less the OS versions and far more the app update treadmill of despair that has eventually effectively bricked every single smartphone and tablet I've owned. For if one opts out of updat
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Some perspective: a beautiful 1964 V8 Mustang goes from 0-60 in 7.8 seconds. I'd say both these cars are pretty fast and that you're nitpicking. http://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1964/829160/for
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Love it to death! And I've driven both the current Challenger (didn't like) and the Mustang (more practical, but not as fun). I actively chose the Camaro over a Cayman because of the price difference and over a Corvette because
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by oneshot908 9y ago
All IMO... Broadly, there are two mistakes I see people make: 1. Not taking enough chances in the first place 2. Taking a chance, but riding a loser all the way down or swearing off startups altogether after a single bad experience which le
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by oneshot908 9y ago
I remember when one of Craig Venter's startups offered me little more than post-doc money. When I turned them down, most of the people I interviewed with emailed me privately to ask for a referral to my new employer.
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Over ~2 decades... Join a lot of startups that ultimately fail, but which were doing the right sort of things... Some of them didn't fail... Repeat with ever-increasing ability to detect bozos...
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Um as someone with a Ph.D. in the life sciences: I can make close to 7-figures (amortized over a decade or so) pushing/enabling the AI/Cloud Computing agenda... or... I can make close to 6-figures (and stably so) working as a staf
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by oneshot908 9y ago
My 1999 Camaro Z28: 320 HP and ~3,400 pounds My 2016 Camaro 2SS: 457 HP and ~3,700 pounds Well, half-right at least... That said, IMO that 2016 car drives like a budget Porsche Cayman while the 1999 car was a glorious tire-smoking muscle ca
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by oneshot908 9y ago
I would love love love if my Android phone would occasionally provide me a summary of which apps are making use of the camera, the GPS, and the microphone and allow me to disable them. Sure, I can hunt for this on my own. That's not t
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Between this and the recent research paper I read about using the front-facing camera on mobile phones to track where I'm looking on web pages, I just want to unplug.
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Ars Technica then? That said, Cyberpunk to me would be more deep dives on brain-computer interfaces, signs of the robot apocalypse or not (probably mostly not), and weird but not quite fringe science like DIY Life Extension. But like anoth
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by oneshot908 9y ago
Well, since the Internet was once described as a series of tubes(tm), the Boring company is just extending this metaphor to create the Mole People Highway of The Future. That said, it seems like a great experiment to run somewhere in the m
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by oneshot908 10y ago
There's no benefit to me in outing the professor at this point so I'm not going to do so. If you feel that undermines my credibility, I'm OK with that. I don't need a lawsuit. But the reason my own research was never p
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by oneshot908 10y ago
Sounds to me like they want to replace the current grant process with something that resembles Google's peer bonus system. Popular sorts will get the lion's share, renegades will get peanuts. And this would compound existing prob
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by oneshot908 10y ago
As a longtime GPU programmer, agreed 100%! There's still room for more parallel-friendly algorithms and higher memory bandwidth before the party is truly over IMO. But... One has to embrace parallel languages instead of single-threade
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by oneshot908 10y ago
TRX workout sets are notoriously counterfeit on Amazon. Example: https://www.amazon.com/TRX-PRO-Suspension-Training-Kit/produ... More recently, I got a counterfeit fitbit charger that flat out didn't work. It got
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by oneshot908 10y ago
For now at least, NVIDIA is too busy harassing customers and vendors who build servers based on GeForce instead of Tesla GPUs. Because while they've been hopping up and down with faux outrage, AMD embarked on just such an effort: htt
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by oneshot908 10y ago
Sure, but nothing's stopping AMD and Intel from enabling CUDA on their processors. I personally think NVIDIA has vastly overinvested in Deep Learning at the expense of starving existing and potential other markets, but that doesn&#x27
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by oneshot908 10y ago
Absolutely, the increase in productivity away from an open office is intangible and uncertain. In contrast, the decrease in office space expense from switching to open office is very tangible. Also, some people cough mostly millennials
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by oneshot908 10y ago
I think Microsoft's low-level HW engineering skills are underappreciated. Sure, IOS and Android rule the world, but the responsiveness of a Surface tablet kills them both on that one axis. That said, IMO the problem is not so much tha
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by oneshot908 10y ago
In my experience, the success rate is a lot higher than 0.01%, I'd guess it to be more in the 5-10% range with a little due diligence applied to the idea and its founders. That's a pretty good bet/gamble for three-letter-tit

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