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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've applied to probably 100+ jobs in the past two years. I tried keeping track for a while and later felt it was not helpful. Occasionally I have to dig back through emails to verify things, like whether a recruiter submitted me for a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Cython supports type inference, in the form of `infer_types` which can be used either as a compiler directive or a decorator (which means you can pick and choose, and control, when and where type inference is allowed to occur).
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Trying to keep up with everyone - who came on the bus but is leaving early with their parents, who came with their parents but is riding back on the bus - especially with a large group. It may be difficult to keep track of kids, but ev
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I hear what you're saying, but for the kids who don't have active parents willing to fight these battles, they pretty much just don't do any activities. In the short term, their lives are actually arguably better. They have m
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This could just as well be "the unreasonableness of signing on for an activity then not wanting to do what's required to participate", and/or "the unreasonableness of signing up for more activities than one is
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> The key to succesful education is involved parents. It's really that simple. This is glib and easy to say, but I don't buy it. When parents try to intervene in their child's education, schools are increasingly hostile. T
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Factor analysis can sometimes help by removing human biases in the feature / covariate creation stage. If you can devise a statistical process that reliably identifies which features are important, most would tend to agree that is bett
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't think very many practitioners share your view that regressions are meant to be simplistic first steps on the path to more sophisticated analyses or experiments. If that were true, then I would definitely agree with you that we
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The trouble is that researchers and universities also act like marketers, and also even different factions within a single company will act like marketers to self-promote their work in order to compete for a better bonus or promotion or som
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
One of the must-read papers in this area is a very short, very readable piece by Chris Achen called "Let's Put Garbage-Can Regressions and Garbage-Can Probits Where They Belong." [0] The basic idea is that if your data experi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't feel your reply addresses any of my points. For example, you simply list the Itti/Baldi paper's abstract and say that, basically, because the word 'priming' doesn't appear in the abstract means the rese
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm baffled that you feel this way. I actually worked on some of the science behind it when I was in grad school. Here was one of the well-known projects in the field at that time: < http://ilab.usc.edu/publications&
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You're ignoring subconscious ad effects, which largely are the main effects that advertisers are seeking to use. You scan quickly over some innocuous-seeming ad for Product-X-that-of-course-you'd-never-ever-buy, and now you are ps
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It's a shame folks have downvoted this. It's a very useful and good point. Much of the free content is vastly better than paid content, and most of the free content also does not contain ads. There are remarkably few sources of pa
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> The fastest possible resolution for your fact pattern would have been "money withdrawn on Friday" unless one or both of your banks decided to covertly extend you credit. This is because ACH pulls are an overnight batch proces
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I wonder if there is any kind of selection effect in this. YC attracts a lot of attention and helps steer opinions about what are attractive investment opportunities. If YC (for whatever reason) tends not to like companies that pass through
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> In general, if calls require knowledge of type information at the call site, and the type needs to change for any reason (which becomes more likely as type annotation reaches further into program semantics) then all the call sites will
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continued ... > Static types are also anti-modular. You have some library that exports say a Person (name, age ..). Any code that uses that data needs to see the definition for Person. They’re now tightly coupled. I’m probably not explai
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This first slide is from a research paper where the researcher wrote his own language and make both a statically typed and dynamically typed version then got a bunch of people to solve programming problems in it. The results were that
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think this advice is OK as long we make a heavy emphasis on the need for some probability distribution over possible exit values. Such a distribution has to account for growth of the company, ability to succeed against competitors, potent
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In most start-ups, you do not get much autonomy and you are also heavily prevented from influencing the product. In the rare cases where you can "influence" the product, you're still expected to simply implement the ideas of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is a great way of putting it! It's true that many middle managers and business/sales people do not respect this line of reasoning, but that is their mistake rather than a genuine or well thought out business decision -- which
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Paul Graham Might Be Wrong About Income Inequality(suitdummy.blogspot.com)
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> I need (any) job in the tech field as a recent CS grad Would you take a job that offered you $1/year of wage, or a job that offered literally zero vacation days? No? Well then it means you don't need any job, but rather you
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And by buying the lines of bullshit that make you feel this way you are causing the very problem, and it hurts not only you but also your peers.
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And only by insisting on this stuff, confidently and for very rational reasons, together as a community of engineers and developers, during employment negotiations, will we ever start achieving wider spread adoption of healthy, employee-aff
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Some practical ways that readers can implement this advice: 1. Don't work for a start-up, since they don't impart salary-winning experience to you, they don't pay you or provide reasonable benefits, and they also don't a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It might not be hasty at all -- if the claims are true. In that case it would be a thoughtful public service.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
By this definition I would argue that most SF start-ups are more similar to cults than CFAR is -- though as I said in my comment above, I do agree that CFAR hasn't conclusively proved yet that this is more than just a sort of Space C
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is a bit disingenuous but not completely. I think a comparable service would be outdoor wilderness survival training, like BOSS in Boulder. Part of what makes it effective is that you are dislodged from an environment in which you can

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