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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This same wage-to-skill disparity for academic-related jobs occurs all over. 75k is actually higher than I would expect for this role in Houston -- some similar jobs in major cities along the East Coast offer about the same pay. Many of the
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Three questions about the role: May developers work in suitably private conditions, or is it an open-plan / trading-floor environment? Will these roles involve working with a non-standard Haskell compiler? What level of Haskell experie
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think this has more to do with the way you consume friendship than with the idea in general. For me personally, even if I live in the same town as my best friend, I will barely see him. Most communication that deeply matters to me happe
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In grad school I always heard Scott Aaronson harp on these issues too. He was fond of saying that quantum algorithms organize things so that amplitude here and amplitude there is arranged just so, to ensure that wrong answers experience can
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
While some fields have higher-end media outlets like TED talks or infotainment-style demoware, or like Richard Thaler's role in the recent movie The Big Short , other fields might have less sensationalist outlets like a Senate subcomm
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My personal belief is that it is a significant effect across all disciplines, but that the objective nature of some disciplines offers occasional ways to combat it. My own academia experiences were in machine learning and image processing,
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If the true purpose of academic hierarchy is for wealthy elites to compete through the status of affiliation, especially with whomever has the most fashionable, progressive opinions and presents them in the most esoteric and obfuscated way
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I said conditional upon the data passing statistical grokking, then believe the data and not your gut. I should have made this conditionality more clear. I didn't say blindly believe the data or blindly believe your gut. But many peopl
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
When I say short, I mean 1 week, maybe 2 weeks tops. Few places that want the scammy sort of contract-to-hire are going to bother with someone who expects to be paid their regular wage for a one-to-two-week time period. Anything longer than
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think a better response might be to say, depending on how strongly you evaluate the evidence, "Gee, my personal opinion about this might need to be revised or given less weight in light of broader trends and evidence." For examp
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I have experience as part of a hiring team that spent over a year searching for a single candidate, and I also have experience as a job seeker who has spent over a year searching for a minimally acceptable job. In my experience, the only le
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But offering to do a short working internship, which is paid at a competitive rate that would translate to the salary you are seeking, is reasonable. That way you are compensated for the effort you provide to assist the hiring company in fi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You do not come off as elitist in any way. Having your write-up available for your students makes perfect sense, though I don't know that posting it to Hacker News will result in much (but it doesn't seem like your target audience
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If an adversary made it and somehow got it in front of my eyeballs, that's natural enough for me.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Thank you, your comment along with the one further down by `Houshalter` helped me see something I was missing. I think it is still an interesting point to reflect on whether or not the adversarial examples "belong" in the populati
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I see what you mean now. This plus the comment from user `argonaut` helped me realize what I was missing. Not all of generalization error is because of overfitting, and even if none of it is because of overfitting, the idea you describe wou
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't mean to be too critical because there was clearly a lot of effort in this write-up, but as a serious question: what value does the post add that's not already found at the huge and very popular Stack Overflow page [0] (tha
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That is a very interesting post. My intuition is that it is precisely because there is generalization across models that it is an effect of overfitting. This is a different kind of generalization than the never-before-seen-data generaliza
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've only read the paper once just now, but if I understand correctly, this idea is essentially exploiting overfitting by the oracle. Think of it this way: if a model is not overfitting in the region near a certain example input, then
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If they are testing for quality X and the test says "yes" even though the person doesn't have quality X, then it's a false positive. I'm saying that they view the riddles, data structure hazing, etc., as tests for q
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It seems that you copy/pasted a different comment into this spot, < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153134 >. I replied to that other comment. But since you brought up the comparison with a lawyer ... have
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I am not sure how to approach this. I have worked in a variety of conditions and I have some idea of which things are merely just not my favorite, but easy to deal with, vs. which things are outright dealbreakers. For example, I remember th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I was in a Ph.D. program for 3 years and decided to leave early because I felt academia was not right for me. My personal feelings about academia are only tangential to this thread, and far too verbose to describe here. But my general concl
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If the managers or executives you work for often make choices that contradict the evidence, it does matter. Their unwillingness to follow the evidence could have a negative impact upon you as the employee. It drives many employees to switch
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think I see one point of confusion. In the cases where a company chose to prioritize speed of delivery, it was typically after an overwhelming number of engineers (not just me) had conducted research on the system, the business needs, and
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It would be very enjoyable to talk further about this. One reason I am hesitant to invest too much time into a prediction-focused side project is that I believe many organizations that purportedly use machine learning actually do not care a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I am not claiming that my communication is good. I am only saying that in all the jobs I have had and many interviews, my communication and explanatory skill has been praised and cited as a positive attribute by others. It has been a strong
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I am in the Fort Wayne area, but more than willing to relocate pretty much anywhere for a good fitting role. Unfortunately, many jobs simply will not provide relocation these days, even if you are willing. I would be happy to work more as a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I would love to learn Ruby -- it is a beautiful language. But I am unaware of the scientific and data-science world for Ruby. I am not seeking front-end work, and Ruby has a (perhaps undeserved?) reputation of mainly providing jobs of that
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I do work on communication skills and I will continue to do so. This is solid advice for all technical workers. But I would also like to add that I have often been complimented by my bosses on my ability to communicate technical concepts in

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