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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
"Blank is Beautiful!" - same episode Ahead of its time apparently...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
When a company wants to hire a specific person and they have already found that specific person, to comply with employment law, they have to write up a job description so other people can apply for that job. By making that job description
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I'm actually more interested in if there was ever some sort of extraterrestrial outpost on this planet in the past 1 billion years or so. At that time scale, exploring the entire galaxy seems reasonably practical. And stopping here to
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It's 2019 and 1979's Star Raiders is still an amazing game.
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The only thing I see wrong with all the new housing in Seattle is that it all looks depressingly alike, especially around the new Facebook building. It's like someone fed a bunch of pictures of apartment complexes into a generative adv
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Faster autoplay ads to "serve you better" so to speak, no?
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
So then what are you proposing here, a straight head tax? That seems catastrophic to me but maybe you can tell me what I'm missing. I believe in economics but I also believe we are living in a deranged Markov process with selfish acto
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Oh but there is an incentive here: the higher the median wage, the higher the deduction everyone gets. And for those below the median wage, they can just keep making all the money they want all the way up to that median wage and pay $0 in t
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I would extend this sort of simplification to individuals as well. I'd give them a huge upfront deduction all the way up to the median income and then flat tax the remainder.
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I think the latest expression of this concept came out when a friend of mine was up for a senior role at Google and they ended consideration when they suddenly decided that he switched jobs too often to be a leader, but they were happy to c
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
Also: https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn/page/n... With my personal favorite BASIC game: Star Traders
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
CUDA delivered a 10x to 100x performance boost on legacy code for real. The hardware had been capable of doing this for at least a generations previously but it lacked a few operations to make it accessible and efficient. What I think made
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
I've used one 30-inch monitor for the past decade. if I try to use more than one monitor, I get vertigo when the mouse crosses from one monitor to the other and is in the least bit out of alignment. And I am someone who did a lot of c
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
What this and many other similar situations argue for IMO are better blood screens for cancer biomarkers. For it turns out even with early detection, metastasis has already happened. It's just that those metastasized cancer cells take
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I'm going to disagree somewhat. I've seen too many people work inside FAANG and perceive what they're missing and then leave to build it for them and get acquihired back in a year or two after their departure. This does not
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
Speaking from multiple direct experiences, simply living in the future and building what you perceive as missing does not necessarily end well. I have lived this multiple times and I have delivered working products (why one of them is in pr
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
My all-time best PhD moment, as the holder of one of those much-vaunted doctorate thingies, was last year when GlaxoSmithKline told me that too much time had passed since I obtained my PhD therefore it was no longer considered valuable. So
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
There's definitely a model for selling MVPs for fifty to a hundred million dollars, especially in AI right now. If you can stay small and take away 5 to 25% of that you win. The best way to approach this is to work at a bigco and the
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
Not all homeless people are alike. The left only seems to see victims and the right only sees cheaters looking for a free ride. The truth IMO is a continuous distribution between those two extremes. And as long as the proposed solutions on
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
When I'm studying a subject intensely, the subject matter tends to invade my dreams, often when I'm confused by some detail I need to resolve for myself before proceeding further.
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I'm far more worried about the long-term consequences of raging inequality and climate change myself. I suspect I'm going to see both of those in my lifetime. I'm not so confident that I'll see an AGI in my lifetime, bu
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
Yes, compared to someone who insists on doing all of their computation from python alone, I have a unique (and in my opinion absurd) advantage. Because I think that's insane. It's one thing if you don't care about speed and
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
Amazon's cloud service has plenty of competition. No need to antitrust that part in my opinion. What's hard to disrupt is their amazing logistics network for delivering impulse purchases on the cheap and fast. But while I have no
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At a previous gig we tried to do this: port a computational graph that wasn't a neural network to tensorflow. It was a disaster. Tensorflow is very tightly optimized for the things Google think are important. if you fall off of thos
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
May I suggest listening to "National Brotherhood Week" by Tom Lehrer? https://youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY
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Agreed. At what point do people own their own decisions? I get these ridiculous YouTube conspiracy recommendations all the time. Sometimes they're hilariously entertaining. Most of the time they're so off the mark that I don&#x
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I would be great with corporations deducting all the business losses they wish if only I had similar freedom deducting all of my business losses rather than an elaborate tax code that forces me to resort to tricks like tax-loss harvesting.
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What I found to be the biggest problem at Amazon beyond the issue here was not so much inflated expectations but rather top-down technologically backwards micromanagement of how to get things done. The most flagrant example of this in my ex
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by scottlegrand2 8y ago
As much as I'm no fan of Google for the way they treated me when I briefly worked there, along with DeepMind, IMO Waymo is acting as the adult in the room when it comes to self driving cars.
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I imagine the burgeoning blossoming of tent cities across the United States is our expression of this phenomena. I also think it's a horrible way to address the problem that will eventually bite us in the ass if it isn't already

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