rakejake

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by rakejake 4y ago
As a traditional physician, I imagine your value add would still be your domain expertise. The physicians I worked with were purely consumers of AI tech and had a say in the design of the software. But AI and more generally software is beco
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by rakejake 4y ago
The fact that it is possible to jump from MLE to a research role in Deep Learning means that this pathway is accessible to anyone who is a decent SWE and has some math skills. But there are much fewer research positions. So there is an elem
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by rakejake 4y ago
I used to work in the healthcare vertical. While there are regulatory hurdles, they are there for good reason. Move fast and break things does not work in this industry and will get you fired. You will have better luck working with one of t
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by rakejake 4y ago
Probably a combination of 1, 3 and 4. There are tons of talented people even at the top but the stars have to align to achieve more than your expected value. PhD -> low-level dev -> FAANG mid-level is nothing to scoff at so you'r
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by rakejake 4y ago
Yep, at that level, there is a ton of competition. The self-driving industry is almost like the video game industry and actually has a ton of employees who previously worked in video games. They are definitely much better compensated in ADA
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by rakejake 5y ago
My gut feel says there may be a small correlation but not much. I myself credit this leetcode nonsense for being able to land a job in the SW industry despite not having a CS background or any relevant experience at the time. But I found ou
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by rakejake 5y ago
Good luck on convincing people about that. When there are more qualified people than slots, the tried, tested and fair method of selection is a lottery. It has its own set of cons though (imagine repeatedly getting shafted in the lottery, w
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by rakejake 5y ago
The problem with community is everyone (or at least most people in the sample space) has to buy-in for it to work. Sometime in the last 15 years, it slowly started shifting online and then beyond a critical threshold, it began to snowball.
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by rakejake 5y ago
Being an outsider gives you a different perspective, however at the end of the day you should have a "home culture" to go back to, and more importantly a home that will accept you. It is possible that you will end up neither here
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by rakejake 5y ago
I didn't grow up here and have only spent a few years in the states but I have this exact "empty" feeling that you described here.
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by rakejake 5y ago
Maybe a close friend is someone who you can confide in about an icky physical or mental condition, like a genital wart or clinical depression? With material comfort and at the stage of life I am in, it is less likely to need your friend&#x2
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by rakejake 5y ago
Maybe hundreds is too much but 100 billion spent over years is not necessarily an exaggeration. Google and Cruise together have spent like 20B to get to where we are right now (easily googled) which IMHO is not the 95% mark where the return
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by rakejake 5y ago
Sure, but that is more of "reassignment of ownership of capital" and that makes it less likely and not more likely that such an endeavor will be funded (for political reasons). Unlike say nuclear fusion (safe and practically unlim
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by rakejake 5y ago
I think you countered your own counter argument there. Embedded in your argument is this tidbit: "A future where Canada is pro-Russia is unthinkable, not ever going to happen". Canada-US relations may freeze and thaw but even at t
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by rakejake 5y ago
If software is "stealing existing value from everyone", then what does that make self-driving software?
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by rakejake 5y ago
The courses and the math is the "fun part". Job will involve a lot of data cleaning and pipeline building. Not that it is not interesting (I personally find the infra building more interesting than building and tweaking models) bu
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by rakejake 5y ago
Knowing the data structures and algorithms is different from actually passing these interviews. Interviews are designed in a way that you are going to have to commit a lot of stuff to memory that you would have just looked up if you were ju
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by rakejake 5y ago
The system works "alright" if the end goal of the system is to whittle down candidates in a 100:1 ratio. As someone who has been through both the JEE nonsense and passed FAANG interviews, I really question if this is at all necess
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by rakejake 5y ago
Now why in the world would I do that?
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by rakejake 5y ago
I feel this is why leetcode rules the roost in the tech industry. Maybe it used to be more about the "approach to the problem and the way the candidate communicates his/her/their thought process", but even when I'm
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by rakejake 5y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do now?
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by rakejake 5y ago
It is simply much too hard to build connections when you are not face-to-face with someone. I have read countless articles and HN threads on introverts, extroverts, friendships, relationships, meetups etc, countless hours wasted on this top
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by rakejake 5y ago
I agree. I'm in the same boat and I don't like remote work at all. It feeds into my weaknesses and reduces my strengths. I'm tired of all the talk about "You should not rely on office for socializing". Forget social
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by rakejake 5y ago
Great idea. In the near future, it may be possible to type a message and have your persona actually get on a call and say it.
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by rakejake 5y ago
I do most of my reading (recreational) nowadays on an eReader, so much so I find reading an actual paperback a little weird. I still buy paperback textbooks though. I like the idea of having a wall full of books ,not for bragging, but glanc
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by rakejake 5y ago
This is the theme of a Greg Egan short (is there a scenario that guy hasn't come up with? Truly an SF beast). The body is grown at an accelerated rate with a relatively "dumb" brain. The brain has the capacity to carry out no
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by rakejake 5y ago
The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. 4 books with a fifth one on the way. Pretty big time investment but the books are mostly standalone. Beware, Caro's biographies will spoil most other biographies for you. His attention to det
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by rakejake 5y ago
Funnily enough, you could replace this article with a rock that said, "When people are confronted with a very skewed probability distribution, after a while they become complacent and default to the most probable outcome".
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by rakejake 5y ago
Unless the AI can fix the bug itself, a human is going to have to explore the AI-generated code. The AI cannot help you here and you are going to have to figure out the "why" all by yourself. It will become incredibly easy to gene
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by rakejake 5y ago
I agree that reviewing code is much much harder than writing something that works. Hasn't anyone here written what they thought was a smart, compact solution or feature, only to have it ripped to shreds during a code review? I have wor

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