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by peripitea 7y ago
I'm not super familiar with AI/ML/RL at all, so I'm sure this is a naive question, but isn't it obvious that the answer is to just build in costs to the utility function for behaviors you want to avoid (what they se
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by peripitea 7y ago
You probably won't be able to hire nearly the same quality of engineers. At least not at the same scale.
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by peripitea 7y ago
Just watched this video and wanted to say thanks for sharing. That's insane.
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by peripitea 7y ago
But Dropbox's mission statement from their S-1, which is what this article is referring to, is an 8/10: "Our mission is to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working."
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by peripitea 7y ago
I suppose, but how many late-stage private companies (i.e. late enough that you're getting stocks instead of some kind of option or other you-aren't-technically-gaining-anything vehicle) are having wild downswings in stock price?
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by peripitea 7y ago
>It's even worse than that because you paid taxes on the stock at the vesting price and not the sell price How is this worse? You can always sell the stock as soon as it vests, with zero tax implication.
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by peripitea 7y ago
I'm not an expert on small business loans, but I would guess that incentives take care of most of this problem. The higher the loan you have, the more cash your business must have been generating in the first place, therefore the highe
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by peripitea 7y ago
Energy in/out, at least in the sense most people and your grandparent refer to, can be wrong without violating conservation of energy. E.g. if you poop out food from which not all calories have been used.
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by peripitea 7y ago
I'm not sure I even understand your argument. It's possible we're saying different things? What I'm saying is that if X people try a sport the records they set won't be nearly as good as if 100X people are trying it
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by peripitea 7y ago
I don't think it's quite that close -- there may be sample size/participation factors involved here. For example, the top US women seems to be competitive with the top ~10 US men, which in more testosterone-dominant sports wo
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by peripitea 7y ago
To be fair, the differences here seem to be smaller than in other sports, suggesting that while testosterone is a factor it may be less than it is in other sports. If 90% of the competitors in these races are male, that would further impac
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by peripitea 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this added information, but calling what parent said "cute" is unnecessarily condescending.
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by peripitea 7y ago
You have to explicitly write your code to prevent this from happening. You typically have an engine that is executing all of your logic (rendering, game logic, AI, etc.) in cycles. By default, it will execute these cycles as quickly as poss
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by peripitea 7y ago
I don't read his comment as intended to be demeaning, but more a statement of fact. And it reads true to me. I have no skin in the game, but I follow a lot of the bootcamp-related discussions online, and what he said sounds exactly rig
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by peripitea 7y ago
I feel like you could make 6 minutes of air last an hour or more if you breathed really slowly (like one breath every 30-60+ seconds). Maybe I'm misunderstanding the device he had, or maybe it already has that assumption built in, or m
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by peripitea 7y ago
If you really believe this then you can probably make a healthy amount of money buying put options.
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by peripitea 7y ago
It has local network effects.
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by peripitea 7y ago
Are you saying you are a consultant? I took a sabbatical while on H-1B.
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by peripitea 8y ago
I do the same but I use DND 24/7 but with calls from contacts as the only exception - those ring as normal. I get phone calls from people I know so rarely that it's not a significant hindrance.
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by peripitea 8y ago
Grinding leetcode or similar things would probably work if you have the right work ethic. You could also consider a coding bootcamp like Lambda School. Way cheaper/less time than a 4-year degree, and they have much better job placement
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by peripitea 8y ago
There are some US companies that will let you work remotely.
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by peripitea 8y ago
Without knowing your skills, there's a good chance you've just been working for the wrong companies. There are lots of companies in Canada that pay absolute garbage to software engineers. And if you don't have the skills that
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by peripitea 8y ago
Yes, this is baffling. "It's okay to say 99% of things" is like a mission statement for oppression.
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by peripitea 8y ago
Ah yeah good point
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by peripitea 8y ago
Furthermore, they are limiting the reaction time to 200ms, to match good humans (I suspect some pros are actually faster than that) and remove any advantage there. So it doesn't have a meaningful advantage over pros in any mechanical&#
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by peripitea 8y ago
As someone who works/hires in the field, the salary reports are all wrong. I have not seen a single one yet that was close to accurate. In software a 90th percentile engineer can easily make 2-3x what a 50th percentile engineer makes.
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by peripitea 9y ago
Dumb question: Why would YC get diluted so much more than DH? I've started to read up on venture financing and this doesn't match my mental model for any of the mechanisms I've learned about. (Like if anything I'd expect
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by peripitea 9y ago
Sexual harassment and power structures are intertwined. That's part of what this whole story is about. If they weren't so powerful, it would be much harder for them to get away with this, and they would probably be less likely to
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by peripitea 9y ago
"In my document, I committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment." If that is why Mr. Damore thinks he&#x2
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by peripitea 9y ago
It doesn't seem like the same size though? Possible I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but the diagonals appear to be disproportionately shorter in the top image. Even tried measuring the lines on my screen to make sure

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