sumitgt

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by sumitgt 9y ago
You do realize, even in the EB system, there are per-country caps based on the country of birth? Which means, if you are from India and are waiting in the EB2 queue, you have to painfully maintain H1-B status for 15-20 years.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I don't think you understand. EB2 actually has per-country caps. Once you are in the Eb2 queue, you have to wait 15-20 years if you were born in India. That is what needs to be fixed. The process should be completely merit based.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Yeah, but why not make it merit based? Currently it uses an arbitrary value of where you are born. This forces people from India to stay on H1-B for 15-20 years, and prevents them from easily changing jobs or opening a business.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
One important thing that Canada gets right is the process to get PR. If you are well qualified, its dead simple to get a Green Card. As opposed to the US where if you are born from India, you have to wait 15-20 years for a Green Card due to
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Out of curiosity, has anyone who paid the $1000 to get in line for a Model 3 actually heard back from Tesla? I've never received any communication about timelines at all.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Google Seattle-Kirkland is the third largest Google office. I wouldn't classify it as "satellite".
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by sumitgt 9y ago
> Especially in places like Seattle if I was to relocate with the family, I'd be an indentured servant, with obligations to pay high rent/mortgage, I'd probably have nowhere to change jobs to, if Amazon didn't work ou
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by sumitgt 9y ago
The 20 minute quiet reading in the beginning is kinda different. At the other companies I've worked for, you were expected to come to the meeting having read the docs sent over email.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
The way Amazon does one-pagers is sort of unique.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
The pressure from consumers is in the favor of slimmer, sleeker gadgets. This causes manufacturers to use production techniques that make repairing impossible. So even if companies made every little detail about the internals of the product
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Unlike others on this thread, I love where this is headed. I'd love to have a really smart bike. However, once I have that much tech on a bike, it would be impossible to park it anywhere without the risk of being stolen.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
It's almost like someone came up with a solution, then tried really hard to find a set of problems.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I prefer how Google Play Music does suggestions and wish Spotify could adopt some elements of the same. Eg. GPM does suggests things like: 1) Looks like you are at work, here's some music without lyrics for concentration. 2) Looks like
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Yeah, I had similar experience. The person who came to deliver did not know how to get packages into the package locker of the building.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Actually, why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I let you stream content for free and you let me mine cryto-coins with your spare CPU cycles while you watch. Isn't that better for people who don't like all the tra
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Given that git has such a distributed nature, couldn't you simply move over your code to Gitlab if and when Github actually is on the verge of shutting down? I'm glad that Gitlab exists, however the lazy person in me sees no immed
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I want to use Kami, but I am worried by the fact that it asks for permission to your entire Google Drive. Why doesn't Kami use the " https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file permission" scope that gives
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Yeah, also machine learning cannot be added in the skills section. Not sure what happened here. Stack Overflow generally puts out better analysis and posts.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I'm not an AI expert either, but let me give this a try. I assume you are vaguely familiar with gradient descent. In gradient descent, we are basically trying to find the sweet spot where the value of a function is minimized. We do thi
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I won't really comment about ML/AI in general. But, if you specifically care about getting into Deep Learning, I would say only bother looking into: - Basic linear algebra and matrix algebra. Since you would rely on frameworks lik
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Just a datapoint: I recently transferred while premium processing was suspended, and it took only about a month for me to get the approval.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
> Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must. Nope, personally know a lot of people who work in Machine Learning roles at the big 5 companies without a PhD. Although specifically they did not have any of these courses on
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Yes, it really distracted away from the core lessons of that course.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
He left Baidu to start deeplearning.ai.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
I like this pricing model compared to udacity's new nanodegrees. This works better for people who want to rush through the course as quickly as possible. It essentially encourages faster completion. You pay $49 per month and finish at
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by sumitgt 9y ago
My apartment uses LuxerOne ( https://app.luxerone.com ), and it is the best amenity IMO. One problem of Amazon Hub v/s LuxerOne is that I don't think Amazon Hub will work with packages from other retailers.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Well, even if you don't work remotely, you routinely need to access corp resources from outside office.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
Can you add some more details?
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by sumitgt 9y ago
No, I meant US permanent residency which takes 10+ years in EB2. For Canada, one can easily get a PR via Express Entry. Which is why many people like me are strongly considering Canada irrespective of salary.
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by sumitgt 9y ago
One reason that is often over-looked is the green card backlog issue in the US that affects tech workers from India/China. I'd easily make the choice to move to Canada where I can get a green card right away rather than wait 10 ye

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