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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Totally should have trademarked it along with "IGlasses" in the very same pitch. The patch was apparently rejected because our level design ideas were better than the actual episodes of the show upon which it was based: "Polt
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
20+ years ago I used to refer to this is as artificial artificial intelligence (AAI) specifically as part of a pitch to MGM for an MMORPG to run their non-player characters. Not surprisingly, it didn't catch on...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
So this quote isn't in the article or the person who wrote the article is a liar? Gotcha. "Even though the FDA had already made up its mind to ban IOLs, the directive came down from Congress that you can study IOLs, but you can&#x
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Got rid of mine too after using Fitbit devices since 2011. And I'm an ex-googler and a former Amazon employee. I don't want to supply extraneous information to Amazon, Google, or Facebook. No good would come of that. And I will ad
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
And the FDA had already decided to ban them until there was a public outcry that drove Congress to override the FDA. That's in the article too.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Reminds me of the time Ralph Nader tried to ban cataract surgery... https://www.eyeworld.org/article-marcus-welby--md--knew-best
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's generational. I grew up with Clarence Birdseye commercials so I immediately knew who they were talking about from the article title. Who says you can't learn anything from TV? https://youtu.be/HM65j-w0uYw
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I bought a Fitbit ionic two years ago. It was great for the first year. Then it started behaving oddly and now it doesn't work at all with Huawei phones (which I rely on now because they seem to be the first brand that doesn't eff
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I think the problem is that perfectly wonderful science has been put in the hands of marketing people. And those are the same marketing people that kept telling us L5 autonomy was right around the corner. Or more lately that we couldn'
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I think the turning point for him was his excellent presentation in the first youtube broadcast of cs231. If I remember correctly he was getting seven-figure offers before he even graduated from Stanford. I do not know him personally and I
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
That he turns out to be a scumbag seems orthogonal to his compensation. He would have gotten that money if he had delivered, no? That said, my exiting salary at some companies was dramatically higher than my salary when I joined because the
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Whatever you do don't look up what Uber offered him to leave waymo...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I think you are embodying the notion "You miss all the shots you don't take." You're right that most fresh PhDs cannot do this (I did say top 5%). But I think we disagree as to why. You seem to think these positions do n
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
What's amazing to me is the same people who write articles like this don't blink at the salaries in Hollywood. A top-tier performer can get over a hundred million dollars per movie. A bottom-tier character actor or below the line
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Then the people who come to your company could probably do better elsewhere if money is all they care about. You work at Cruise am I right? I know someone personally who worked at Cruise who was making 7 figures. That sort of compensation i
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
The first thing you need to do is convince yourself you're worth that kind of money. Then when they ask you how much money you want during a job interview start talking about your peers in the industry making that kind of money. Finall
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
7-figure salaries have been a thing for quite a while at Facebook, Google and definitely at hedge funds. Right now, you can make a half million a year or more if you're willing to optimize the low-level code in any of the major AI fra
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
As a nuclear physicist who left academia for Disney once told me: "Academia... The competition is so intense because the stakes are so low..."
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
IMO they need to come together and build the equivalent of Netflix for this content. I'm happy to pay $10 a month to eliminate all paywalls. I'm not happy with individual subscriptions to every newspaper and newsletter in existenc
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
A friend interviewed there and they dismissed him as overqualified for DS.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I think one of the subtle problems here is all the pay walls on the more reputable news sites. Yes I know they need to make money but by closing themselves off to people unwilling to pay for their material, that increases the chance that si
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's bigger than that IMO. I can switch managers at a big company. But if the entire division is inept, it's time to jump companies because it's a tell that the culture is decaying. For me, the only reason I will never go b
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
And at the end of that cycle job hop to get promoted and begin another round.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Not the person you're asking, but orthogonal to where I live, penny-pinching on open office floor plans ended my ability to do productive work in an office nearly a decade ago. And no I'm not going to put on headphones. IMO my wor
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Clearly all it needs is a blockchain component to succeed.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I download entire seasons of TV series with my Android Netflix client all the time. It's fantastic for travel.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
That's pretty much Santa Cruz California and it hasn't happened yet.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I get the appeal of the Bay area if you don't have to drive far. And I get the appeal of San Francisco if you never have to venture out of Pacific Heights and The Presidio so to speak. But damn, the sheer number of homeless people poop
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Reminds me a lot of the horror show that is Amazon chime, Amazon's alternative to slack. That said it had some half implemented good ideas, but whenever you found a bug in it, its AWS-based team pretty much told you where to shove that

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