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by shas3 10y ago
People in the software industry find it hard to comprehend the fact that many old-school companies actually don't require all their employees working at 150% thrust to remain super-profitable. Slow product life-cycles, manufacturing pr
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by shas3 10y ago
Uh ok. You can slice up 90% in many ways. But why choose to cut it such that you lose 100% of other industries? That sounds quite effed up.
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by shas3 10y ago
Yes, everyone wants to keep their costs low. Especially software companies because most of their expenditure is on personnel. However, in meat-space companies like pharma, chemicals, etc. plant, hard goods, etc. cost more than personnel. A
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by shas3 10y ago
"vast majority" still excludes tens of thousands of people. These are real people with real families and real jobs in real companies, not just some statistical data points.
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by shas3 10y ago
Yeah this fixation on Silicon Valley is dumb. The worst affected will really be other industries. Small wonder that Lofgren who is a Bay-Area Representative is the one sponsoring the auction system. Many Si valley jobs for which H1Bs are hi
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by shas3 10y ago
There also LightOn by Igor Carron and co. LightOn.io
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by shas3 10y ago
I'm reasonably well plugged into that community. All the applications there are 'academic' applications. There are efforts to build hardware based on this- startups, etc. However, the translation is still slow and nowhere nea
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by shas3 10y ago
This is a very good and timely compilation of all the important topics! I ask this earnest question because I have a deep interest in randomized linear algebra, random projections, 'sketching'/sampling, compressive sensing, e
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by shas3 10y ago
Wtf is "culture exists"? Like "culture of Indians"? You're digging yourself deeper in a hole. My comment about feathers and dots was ironic to highlight your dog-whistle. India is a country of 1.2 billion people wit
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by shas3 10y ago
Indian: feathers or dots? Seriously, what's the point of mentioning their ethnicity and gender, exactly? I'm thankful that I'm not your co-worker.
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by shas3 10y ago
John Urschel is a legit full-time mathematician. Stewart's coauthorship seems to have more to do with her skills as a director than computer scientist.
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by shas3 10y ago
Eh? Nothing precludes grooming skilled workers! Also, obviously, new hires can be highly skilled. Someone already skilled may fit better in one company than another, etc. etc.
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by shas3 10y ago
Bay Area is not just software. There are big pharma companies, financial firms, non-software roles in software companies, etc.
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by shas3 10y ago
"if the salary isn't really high..." How high? Why is 100k a magic number? 100k isn't even a big deal in SF or NYC. While a high skilled scientist working in say, Corning, NY at Corning Corp or Niskayuna, NY at GE's
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by shas3 10y ago
Let's assume that such a person passes a triage for O1 (there's no guarantee! Suppose there are two companies using some very specific technology, first company in the US poaches an employee from the Shanghai office of the second
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by shas3 10y ago
I'm not sure about the bidding war. I've been in situations where companies are looking for people with specific skills (e.g. working with specific microbiology techniques) but would never be able to outbid what Facebook or someon
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by shas3 10y ago
I think there's a big misconception here on this thread, thanks to the poorly written WSJ blog post. Rep. Issa's bill only applies to companies which have more than 15% of their workforce of 50 or more on visas. That number is cal
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by shas3 10y ago
The answer is right there in the article. Applied and numerical mathematicians at UCLA math department have for many years been helping out Hollywood with these problems. I'm sure their students, collaborators in other universities, et
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by shas3 10y ago
One thing we fail to consider when talking about automation is that, at the higher end, tasks are complex and (man+machine) is much much better than machine alone. Further, the time-growth of (man+machine) will asymptotically dominate (mach
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by shas3 10y ago
Many large company jobs are de facto jobs-for-life. But things sometimes get boring mid-way into careers.
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by shas3 10y ago
I am honestly shocked by the "today" in "today you can take..." I grew up in India. In the 1990s a very common career path for people who didn't major in CS/EE/math/etc. was to attend non-university t
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by shas3 10y ago
That's stretching it. I think I should have qualified domain specific expertise as quantitative-domain specific expertise. Afaik, MD is more about human biology and meant to help you become a practicing doctor. PhD-biomedicine, MPH&#x2
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by shas3 10y ago
But that does mean that you have pretty good C programming skills! I think your comment reinforces my claim about pairing MOOC-depth ML with other skills. (Edit: I'm not saying MOOC-depth derisively. Serious learners and autodidacts ca
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by shas3 10y ago
I loosely used the term to refer to computer vision, which overlaps a bit with vision science (especially color, perception, etc.). But yeah, computer vision.
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by shas3 10y ago
Frankly, MOOC-type machine learning- being able to do plain vanilla logistic regression or black-box deep learning techniques is not enough to get a job. This knowledge and experience has to be paired with one or more strengths: excellence
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by shas3 10y ago
I think the following interview questions can help screen candidates (not an exhaustive list): 1. Asking a candidate to cast a non-standard problem of classification or estimation into a tractable optimization problem. (this is a very valua
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by shas3 10y ago
Surely it would be guarded as a trade secret, as it usually happens in large companies.
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by shas3 10y ago
How exactly Nvidia and ARM are competitors of Intel is an interesting question in itself. Nvidia and ARM are fabless and compete against a subset of Intel's IP and products. Intel may take multiple routes to reacting against superior c
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by shas3 10y ago
This is the first time I'm hearing that computer scientists deride engineering as not-real-computing. Any references? It doesn't check out based on my background. In fact anecdotally, I've heard the reverse. I've heard E
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by shas3 10y ago
Totally on point, regarding multivariate relationships! The problem is not that they do T-test (and other Stat-101-jargon blackbox stuff), but that they stop at it. To many of them, even the existence of multivariate effects is beyond their

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