stevenwu

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by stevenwu 9y ago
Right. The author finds 100% of the time for his current dataset but makes a statement that implies some certainty or inference on future cases. Like taking 100 men, 100 women and finding that 100 randomly matched pairs had the man taller t
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by stevenwu 9y ago
Question to spark discussion and for me to fill potential gaps in my knowledge, not to criticize the article as I very much appreciate the transparency and build-up from the simple naive initial approach to the final approach used in produc
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by stevenwu 9y ago
This is probably a good place to start: https://stripe.com/blog/teaching-employees-to-code Blog was posted early enough to have a high likelihood of response if you ping the author with follow up questions
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by stevenwu 9y ago
Sort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they're rolling out a new search by (the end of?) this summer. P
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by stevenwu 9y ago
The honesty in this post is really refreshing and insightful. There are a lot of people in tech who would kill to be in your position (see every monthly-ish thread about how to make passive income or how to make money off of an app). It&#x2
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by stevenwu 9y ago
On the topic of raising/burning $: I remember seeing that they had a position open for a software engineering role. If I remember the job description correctly, they've built out their own online store? I recently saw that you can
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by stevenwu 9y ago
It's now the end of my engineering and I am now occupied with the thoughts of what my life had been if I would have chosen the road not taken. Isn't it equally as likely that in the alternate universe where you pursued Physics t
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by stevenwu 9y ago
I'm OK with these kinds of quirky add-on allowances so long as the category for the add-on is positive, either for you as a person (e.g.: fitness, learning) or the local community (e.g.: paid time off volunteering, charity matching). W
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by stevenwu 9y ago
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Allowance Fresh, organic, local fruits and vegetables are great to have on-hand, so we'd also like to offer a CSA membership to you. Finding a local provider will be up to you, but you can expense
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by stevenwu 9y ago
I was in a similar spot. Studied Math/Stats, and my friends were not in tech. I've made some now, but still don't have many really good friends in tech. It seems studying CS can be a real group activity, where you work togeth
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by stevenwu 9y ago
You only mentioned Foursquare as one of the companies you've applied to, so without more info from you I'm going to take a shot in the dark here: are you only applying for those types of companies that are very well known? It&#x27
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by stevenwu 9y ago
You are right to think that there is a correlation between previous salaries and difficulty in finding jobs. In an ideal world, if your true worth is $X/year but you're willing to work for $(0.90X)/year, then you should be ab
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by stevenwu 10y ago
You are a programmer.
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by stevenwu 10y ago
Other than the mentioned advice of going to office hours with a purpose, I would say a golden way to get your professor's attention is to read their papers (select the top k most cited/interesting/whatever heuristic works for
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by stevenwu 10y ago
The answer to your question all depends on exactly what kind of jobs you are even remotely interested in? In general it's best to compound your current skills and not go in a completely perpendicular direction to where you are going
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by stevenwu 10y ago
I am only a mere MSc Statistics student in a Canadian university, but from my perspective, if you are succeeding as a physics PhD in a tough and respected program, then you are more than equipped to do anything you set your mind to in the t
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by stevenwu 10y ago
I don't agree with this article mainly because one's passion for anything in life is dynamic. It starts and stops at points in your life that you can't anticipate. I didn't know anything about programming until universit
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by stevenwu 10y ago
Tangentially related, does anyone here use their APIs? I started playing around with their Earth API ( https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#earth ) but ran into a bug that turns out to have been reported half a year ago. https:&#x2
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by stevenwu 10y ago
Hey, thanks for letting me know - I thought filling in the e-mail field made it visible to everyone on my profile. Sending you an e-mail now.
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Ask HN: Companies who want to outsource some analytics to a data science class?
8 points by stevenwu 10y ago|2 comments
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by stevenwu 11y ago
Anytime I find myself thinking like this, I use this reminder: the only thing separating myself from being one of those people is actually doing it (whatever "it" is). It's psychological: until you internally want to write
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Ask HN: Approach to pricing? Launching for the first time to targeted users
2 points by stevenwu 11y ago|0 comments
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by stevenwu 13y ago
not too long ago I attended a talk by Thomas Hales (proved the Honeycomb conjecture and the Kepler conjecture) where he talked in detail about his Flyspeck project, which he says has just a 400 line kernel that traces every line of a proof