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by varelse 5y ago
Back in the day, the downvotes here would flow like a river at the suggestion that an engineering career behooved one to understand Calculus and Linear Algebra with Statistics and Differential Equations if possible thrown in for good measur
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by varelse 5y ago
Sci-fi authors get to do whatever sci-fi authors wants to do. If the author of this hit piece has a problem with that then maybe the author should be writing science fiction that exemplifies what is apparently now required of it according t
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by varelse 5y ago
Likely Qualcomm bales them out as they have offered to do so and eventually takes them over quietly by osmosis so no one notices until the deal is done. https://www.barrons.com/articles/qualcomm-offers-to-rescue-a...
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by varelse 5y ago
Not going to criticize you, I think it's a cool math problem, but I've experienced people throwing problems like this at me at job interviews in the past so it echoed. And in those cases, they weren't looking for an answer, t
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by varelse 5y ago
Which itself requires hours of listening to alternative influences in order to develop, no? The pressure to conform within 2 sigma is strong in almost any society IMO. What people don't seem to grasp is that most of the supposed altern
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by varelse 5y ago
Those models are surprisingly tractable. You're nowhere near as interesting and unique as you might think you are at scale. Evidence: actual work experience at building latent representations to characterize customer behavior at FAANG.
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by varelse 5y ago
And I admitted it's a cool pure math problem. The challenge in the tech industry is balancing the rigor of a pure but nearly intractable solution with using the theory to pump up an O(n) imperfect solution to acceptable reliability. I
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by varelse 5y ago
"red pilled" + "Glenn Greenwald" == bozo bit already. Add "Robert Malone" and we have the guy with a clever brainfart unwilling to do the gruntwork to ship that brainfart as a useful product so no, not changing
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by varelse 5y ago
Sure and there are a lot of simple ways to improve the accuracy of the simple approach before you go for the pure math sledgehammer here. It's all a question of how accurate the answer needs to be. For example, It's pretty easy to
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by varelse 5y ago
This problem is a perfect example of better is the enemy of good enough. What's striking here is that the simple FP64 solution is for the most part more than good enough for any practical application you would find working in Tech. Any
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by varelse 5y ago
In tech, engineers that aren't paying at least some attention to the compensation of their peers will not fare well IMO. No one wants you to undervalue yourself more than the org underpaying you to undervalue yourself. I'm for ope
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by varelse 5y ago
Raising the ceiling on compensation for exceptional talent seems like good business strategy to me. This is a great time to understand technology as we become a science-hating culture completely addicted to science and technology to survive
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by varelse 5y ago
You say we can't wire up America, but what's your source? I'm not personally seeing a problem with a TVA-level engagement to bring high-speed Internet to as many people as possible. Starlink looks like it will be half the pri
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by varelse 5y ago
Sure but between the current situation and the outskirts of Wyoming and Montana there's plenty of low-hanging fruit. For example, my neighborhood is 1.5 mi away from gigabit internet. Good luck with that last mile and a half so Starlin
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by varelse 5y ago
And yet countries like Vietnam have pulled exactly that off. If we have $1.7T for the f-35 fighter, we have the money to give everyone 100 Mb or better internet, it's just a matter of priority. I'm a satisfied Starlink customer bu
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by varelse 5y ago
From what I have heard the CEO is not only worse than you imagine, he is worse than you can imagine. But it's all scuttlebutt and hearsay for now. Rich aging VC got to reach for those stars... http://www.cafepharma.com/
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by varelse 5y ago
There's 6 years of free beer longevity just figuring out what the United States is doing incorrectly and what Hong Kong is doing right. I wonder what that's actually worth. https://www.worldometers.info/demographic
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by varelse 5y ago
It's a golden age to me and I don't know how long it will last. But I'm all there for the spin-off shows that would have once been fanfic on Usenet and little more. Have you seen Peacemaker? It's utterly amazing and I&#x
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by varelse 5y ago
Cue the emergence of "This taxpayer does not exist."
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by varelse 5y ago
To give your car a devil tempting you to do something stupid like let down your guard and trust it to do the right thing which it will usually do right up to the point it doesn't?
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by varelse 5y ago
Why is this trendy? I looked into this yesterday and I found this video because it's trendy but why is it trendy? https://youtu.be/4hCa0sEJl_4
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by varelse 5y ago
So there are a number of people on this site who are not at that level and they get resentful that someone might get a deal like that rather than try to find a path to getting a deal like that for themselves. That's crab mentality and
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by varelse 5y ago
There's a trade off between exploration and exploitation. And sometimes, because they put on their best face to recruit you, you can't figure out that a seemingly promising idea is actually nonsense and it will never work without
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by varelse 5y ago
You absolutely should publish the code and dump it on GitHub somewhere. I did that 20 years ago on sourceforge and it backs up a lot of claims that would otherwise get dismissed as me making s** up. Plan ahead and make sure you have the rec
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by varelse 5y ago
Yes you have figured out the secret (tm) in my opinion. Sturgeon's law applies to tech which is to say 90% of it is crap. Don't waste your time with that 90% and if you find yourself in one of those positions feel no guilt whatsoe
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by varelse 5y ago
RSUs happened IMO because Warren Buffett didn't understand tech. But they're fine, really, the same competitive pressures that led to compelling ISOs now lead to compelling RSUs. Not sure what problem that solved though but give m
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by varelse 5y ago
I once had to sign a non-compete that came with paying me my full salary during the noncompete period to do anything but what I was doing. I was great with that. And when I left, they chose not to enforce it anyway, but I felt like that was
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by varelse 5y ago
In the short term I agree with you that trades pay very well, $250,000 a year even at the higher end. Even more if you're willing to risk your life on power lines or windmills. But that's a starting wage in tech in Seattle or the
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by varelse 5y ago
If I have to sign an agreement that gives my employer permission to terminate me at any time for any reason with or without cause, they should not be surprised that it also grants me the right to quit at any time for any reason with or with
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by varelse 5y ago
And that's the thing, it's okay with me if I'm wrong. Or as I responded to a doctor who asked a similar question: "Do all your patients live?" It's not a question of being special to me, it's a challenge t

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