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by s1t5 6y ago
The best indicator is a recommendation from someone whose opinion on movies is largely aligned with yours. I suppose you need a platform where the user is profiled and matched against reviewers/raters/critics with similar tastes.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> Especially now since MS programs are bleeding people due to remote learning. Can you elaborate on this? Are they just losing students? Why do you think it's happening?
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by s1t5 6y ago
> I believe that it was more a public health decision. That's a very generous interpretation.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Can they even do this? I mean legally, I understand that practically they'll get away with much more than what's allowed by law. I don't get why an enforcement agency should have any say with regards to what's legal and
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by s1t5 6y ago
Pick a project that you already use yourself. You'll have a lot more context and will be much less likely to just give up at the first problem you run across.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> By analogy to "power vacuum", it's tempting to call this pattern an "ownership vacuum". It doesn't work that well. Power vacuum is called that way because there's a tendency for the vacuum to be fille
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by s1t5 6y ago
There's a very real chance that it's mentioned in the article purely because it has the word "data" in the title.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Goodfellow's book is a poor learning experience. It only makes sense if you already know the material in the book.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Hopefully in the future we'll have more options rather than offices becoming completely obsolete. Personally I still need a good office environment to do my best work and an all-remote future looks pretty bleak.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> determine what an employee at a given level is worth to the company Nobody does this. It's not even possible apart from the most contrived cases. Salary is determined by a number of factors none of which have anything to do with t
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by s1t5 6y ago
> since GPT-3 has achieved the algorithmic part of the story Has it? From what I've seen it's just an autocomplete that looks natural.
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by s1t5 6y ago
You're esssentially suggesting gambling to someone with money concerns.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> GPT-3 demonstrates that if the model is big enough, it can produce intelligent answers You could make the same statement about a lookup table.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Hasn't GPT-3 been out for a while now? Why are there so many articles about it on the front page over the past few days?
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by s1t5 6y ago
Don't assume that something is completely useless just because it isn't targeted directly at you or because you have more experience or knowledge than the author.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Can you elaborate on what "bootstrapped technical PhD into data science/ML jobs" means? Because to me it sounds like you got a higher paying job because of your PhD, not because of the Coursera stuff.
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by s1t5 6y ago
I think they will become even less valuable than they are now. If the cost to entry and completion is so low and people are speedrunning the material, the certification becomes worthless over time.
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by s1t5 6y ago
There's more to it than that. If you're applying for a junior position with no experience and a 4-year CS degree, you will very likely get an interview. If you apply for the same position with an online course or two, you're
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by s1t5 6y ago
Something that I haven't seen discussed - all Twitter employees are currently working remotely. Do we know if that has influenced the feasibility of the hack in any way?
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by s1t5 6y ago
Macs come preinstalled with MacOS, anything else comes preinstalled with Windows. Very few people will even consider their OS as something they can choose, many have no idea what Linux is and the percentage of people who will take the time
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by s1t5 6y ago
The Tiobe ranking looks just plain wrong. It would be interesting to know how exactly they're calculating and interpreting search engine traffic.
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by s1t5 6y ago
Do you ever feel like all the noise influences the way you think about your own career? I work as a data scientist and sometimes find the hype so off-putting that I think that I should look for a role that's related to solving some opt
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by s1t5 6y ago
Another side of this that I've seen is people with PhDs in applied mathematics on a research team where a PhD is a hard requirement, spending all of their time passing dataframes around and convincing the sales team that the bar charts
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by s1t5 6y ago
> Much like "blockchain" 2 years ago. It's different. With the ML stuff there's a bunch of actually useful applications and interesting problems at the core with a lot of fluff and marketing piled on top of it. That&#
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by s1t5 6y ago
A PhD isn't even a requirement for doing the more advanced stuff. Obviously you need a lot of math and ML specific knowledge but there's no reason why you can't have that knowledge with an undergraduate math degree (for examp
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Ask HN: Why do this: “Please mention the word 'crane' in your application”?
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by s1t5 6y ago
Bulgaria sort of fits this - low cost of living, flat 10% income tax, fast internet, reasonable number of tech companies and startups.
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by s1t5 6y ago
> You can achieve the same weight loss by just eating fewer total calories, without cutting carbs as well. Achieve weight loss - yes, achieve the same weight loss - no. If you primarily want to lose fat rather than muscle, your insulin
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by s1t5 6y ago
You just need to decide whether you value being an individual contributor more than being in a leadership role. You state yourself that your goal is a larger leadership role. It doesn't make sense to make a move in the opposite directi
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by s1t5 6y ago
Genuine related question - what is learning TCP/IP good for? When is it useful to know?

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