sriram_sun

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by sriram_sun 4y ago
There aren't too many variables here to work with. One of the predictions is bound to be "spot on."
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
As a pretty senior engineer, I can tell you that Advent of Code or not, Google-Fu is a big part of your effectiveness in picking up new stuff and delivering code. Adding "Prompt-Fu" that equation seems to be the next logical thin
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
Lambda/Bloom: "X% were placed" People: "X% found jobs." A lot of folks seem to be asking if Lambda's claims of "X% placed" mapped to "X% found a job at a software company." Yes or no? edit:
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
I'm interested in using it as a personal tutor for say something like probability or signal processing. Has anyone tried along those lines? I don't have access to it yet.
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
tl;dr: The word "placement" was sometimes used to refer to students who graduated without a job offer.
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
Something that's worked for me is to pay for a group fitness/yoga class. The first couple of months are easy. You'll see enough results and you're also motivated. By then you'll make enough connections that you don&
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
He is also a US citizen. That means he took an oath to uphold the US constitution with a straight face.
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
Tokyo seems to have solved this by building houses and transportation right? What's preventing other governments from duplicating this? Politics? If so what was unique about Tokyo?
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
If you're moonlighting Fortune 500 companies will rarely talk to you directly. So my guess is that you are contracting with a company that is either directly contracting with the Fortune 500 company or is itself a subcontractor. The $1
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by sriram_sun 4y ago
Create lists, but don't follow those folks. You'll probably miss timely rebuttals, but only click on "politics" or whatever when you want to waste (additional) time!
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
How do you design for and validate "rugged"-ness? Are there standardized tests?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
QNX is able to do this because QNX doesn't understand shared memory. Everything is a message/channel.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
...or please don't convert an asynchronous protocol to sync.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
It can be a wellspring of knowledge too. It works for me. I follow knowledge generators in fields I'm interested in.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Did you ask your lawyers, "despite the advice that all users don't have to be notified, what if we did anyway?"
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Do virtual adapters on VMs for communication between host and guest stand to benefit from this? For e.g. scp between host and guest. Current max mtu size on VirtualBox is 9000 right?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Remember the time not too long ago when Google was gobbling up Robotics companies?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
From https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37334713/heres-the-diffe... "Tsunami Advisory Alert color: Orange When a Tsunami Advisory is posted, tsunami conditions in or near the water are expected. Under an adv
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
"They pretended to pay us and we pretended to work." - From my ~68 yo ex-colleague from USSR who lived through the times. Despite that wry comment, he was brilliant and had a Phd. in optics from Moscow University and for whatever
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Is this like comparing downloads for "growth" apps against apps that everyone else has already installed on their phone?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
All embedded/low power medical devices I've worked on since 2010 have moved over to ARM. Especially new development. Beaglebones like chips are great for PoC, prototyping etc. as you can install Linux and easily control gpio pins
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
A relative who is a recent grad. from IIT Chennai/Madras has lots of monkey stories. They rule the dorms. No food in rooms, don't make eye contact. It's not like don't make eye contact if you ever see one. The monkeys ar
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
For the past couple of weeks, I've been a beginner-intermediate mechanic trying to breathe life into an aging car. Sometime in the next few months, I've to troubleshoot and fix the broken 2 yr. old refrigerator. Someone came and f
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
"Founded in 2020"... ". This dedicated team leverages the latest in game engines, NFTs, blockchain authentication and augmented reality to create one of a kind virtual products and experiences." Wow! That's a lot of
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
So the author actually made Liquamen?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
location => zip code. Twin studies are not what you look at to prove (or disprove) this hypothesis. You have a much richer data set. All the kids that grew up in a zip code. A lot of twin studies have no control groups! With a richer d
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
In America, paid off or not, the location of your house pretty much guarantees a lower bound on your kid's future in the richer neighborhoods and unfortunately an upper bound in many poorer ones.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
I had a couple of questions: Are 100% of tusked females giving birth to 32% of the newborns without a tusk? What % of tuskless females give birth to tusked females?
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
The larger question is how would you collect money from any settlement? The same rules apply.
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by sriram_sun 5y ago
Depends on the contract. I consult for a surgical robotics company and the contract bars me from working for competitors for 1 year. Apparently the clause is more applicable to consultants than full-time employees. I have to look deeper int

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