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by sosilkj 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't X-rays generally much more dangerous than an MRI? I would think that things like 7 tesla MRI technology would be the future of medical imaging, not X-rays, if only for the fact that X-rays are c
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by sosilkj 7y ago
can anyone recommend an alternative to amazon for such a device? i don't want to take the chance of buying one that's a fake...
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Is Notion affiliated with Somalia in some way? Or are companies just picking TLDs out of a hat at this point?
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Sounds like right now banks want people who can code but also have "quant skills". What's the best way to go about learning/acquiring quant skills?
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Possibly useful: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/
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by sosilkj 7y ago
This is an important question I think, and it's too bad that it's not getting more traction here. If you are doubting your capability ... don't. You are capable of this, period. You know the drill: study Sedgewick/whomev
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Ask HN: Is SQL a primary tool of choice for doing ETL pipelines in 2019?
33 points by sosilkj 7y ago|15 comments
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by sosilkj 7y ago
One aspect that stuck out to me: OP states that he/she is more or less coerced by HR to conduct such interviews. Great example of the lunatics taking over the asylum, in my opinion.
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How to conduct interviews with candidates you already know will be rejected?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
3 points by sosilkj 7y ago|1 comments
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by sosilkj 7y ago
"I can still turn this boat around" -- my limited perspective here is if you're getting 'feedback' regarding your tone on emails, then maybe you are being warned that people don't want to steer the boat in the
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by sosilkj 7y ago
agree w/ another comment that suggested going through an algorithms textbook first. (MIT 6.006 online is also good.) i speak from experience: in some cases there might be tools missing from your algo toolbox and it could be worth more
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by sosilkj 7y ago
"We are extremely confident that nicotine isn't carcinogenic" I would not say that's the case. This article is a good place to start: https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cellular-evidence-how-nicotine-and-...
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Some great comments here. If you are focusing on Python, here are a couple other suggestions that you might find useful: Functional Programming In Python free O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free&
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by sosilkj 7y ago
> "Ah, the ever present fear of non-ionizing radiation." On the cdc.gov resource you provided, I clicked on the link about "NIEHS research on possible health risks from cell phones". There I read this: The NTP studie
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by sosilkj 7y ago
i think everything you do include on the resume is good (in broad terms), but the challenge you have is figuring out the most appealing way of ordering it and laying it out. - you don't include a bachelor's and that could be a red
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Thanks!
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Not OP but I would be interested in other reading you would recommend on this topic.
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by sosilkj 7y ago
Wow. The two year employment term, and the low pay, are both complete bullshit. Surprised that no one here has called this out explicitly. The 'bootcamp' racket is getting worse and worse apparently. Harvard, MIT OCW, etc., have t
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Candidate's job offer retracted after HackerRank algorithm decides they cheated(reddit.com)
8 points by sosilkj 7y ago|0 comments
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by sosilkj 8y ago
Thanks. I have better understanding of where you're coming from now.
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by sosilkj 8y ago
"fashionable moral panic" Would you be able to share some scientific research that supports the idea that the proposed antennas are completely, without-a-doubt safe? (I assume that's what you're implying by your statment
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by sosilkj 8y ago
Actually, as research continues we are beginning to understand the role nicotine can have with cancer. The link I've shared elsewhere in this thread is a good place to start.
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by sosilkj 8y ago
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/cellular-evidence-how-nicotine-and-...
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by sosilkj 8y ago
"if e-cigs turn out to be safe, or can be made safe, what is the problem?" This is weasle-wording. "Just a bunch of puritan's with their underwear in a knot." Reframing the debate in moralistic terms is not useful h
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by sosilkj 8y ago
I assume the motivation was to compel UC Berkeley to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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by sosilkj 8y ago
"10% per year raises should be the norm" do you mean even while staying with one employer, or by jumping to a new employer?
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by sosilkj 8y ago
Could you please share a link to research that supports this claim?
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by sosilkj 8y ago
actually, nicotine and caffeine are completely different, there is no comparison in terms of health risk profiles of each.
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by sosilkj 8y ago
I agree with the above post. The rejection and subsequent reaching out should be viewed by you as though the conversation/process continued unabated. I'll make an additional comment. From your description, it does not appear that
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by sosilkj 8y ago
My takeaway, based on observations over the past few years, is that for many knowledge-work professions today, particular software engineering, there's a rather steep discount curve applied to one's experience. In many cases, your

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