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by varelse 11y ago
Given that a seasoned and in-demand engineer can make anywhere from $250K to $500K annually working for a big co, without a 3-letter title and 3-letter title equity, there seems little incentive to accept $150K or less and ~0.5% or less equ
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by varelse 11y ago
Two decades in the valley has taught me that you can't decide anything in a half hour conversation beyond recognizing an absolute bozo incarnate. You need to meet the whole team and preferably have lunch with them and figure out wheth
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by varelse 11y ago
A consulting company that hired me to develop PS2 tools and then yanked the rug out from under me on day one and told me I had to write a fast MPEG-2 codec from the ground up in the next 60 days despite zero zip nada null knowledge of MPEG-
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by varelse 11y ago
I spent Xmas break reviewing the most recent TopCoder problems, C++ and STL, and read Sedgewick's algorithms book cover to cover. I drank two quad espressos right before the interview. The interview was a straightforward process and I
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by varelse 11y ago
If you're a new college grad or just new to the industry, Google rocks. But, if you have "a very particular set of skills. Skills I^Hyou have acquired over a very long career" then Google will most likely arbitrarily assign
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by varelse 11y ago
If Google didn't apply the equivalent of the Hogwarts Hat to placing its employees, I'd agree with you. But in doing so, they remove the ability of the potential Googler to meet their potential teammates and decide whether it&#x2
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by varelse 11y ago
Pick the team with the lowest attrition rate. The team to which I was assigned was losing someone every month and I was allocated as cannon fodder to stop the bleeding. It didn't end well.
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by varelse 11y ago
Former Googler here: After an epic blind allocation fail, my attempt to switch to a project that made use of my talents enraged my manager and he reported me to HR. I left for greener pastures shortly thereafter and HR has apparently banne
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by varelse 11y ago
You misunderstand. They're using repeated attempts on the test set to improve their network. That is equivalent to training on the test set and that is unequivocably cheating.
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by varelse 11y ago
Nothing you can't work around if you're willing to roll your own code. That said, I agree 100% if you're dependent on someone else's framework...
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by varelse 11y ago
I want my 8x8 cube back... The current 5x5 feet of open office space I have has led me to mostly work from home.
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by varelse 11y ago
Not really, there are clearly epigenetic changes to neuron DNA w/r to memory formation and I don't think anyone has estimated what kind of computational firepower that represents. Second, the 3D topology of a neuron is IMO more co
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by varelse 11y ago
There's a huge degree of data re-use in the weights. This should be exploited. Second, one could envision paging the hidden units back to system memory on a coprocessor-based implementation (GPUs/FPGAs/not Xeon Phi, gag me).
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by varelse 11y ago
Well he does have a fancy degree in chemistry and that makes him a scientist !!!
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by varelse 11y ago
I so wish DuckDuckGo were a viable replacement for Google's search results because I love the concept, and you're right that it is for simple queries, but my main use case for google these days is naively pasting long error messag
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by varelse 11y ago
Gmail is an atrocity of a once great service, possibly the easiest component of Google to disrupt (all IMO of course) I am on a 6 Mbps connection and I regularly have to kill my Gmail window or else it hogs the bandwidth, memory leaks until
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by varelse 11y ago
Yet another sign that Scott Locklin was dead-on about Google having become Fat Elvis: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/google-as-fat-... And yet, none of the contenders for the throne can deliver
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by varelse 12y ago
What good is all that money if you don't live to spend/change the world with it?
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by varelse 12y ago
Right now, FPGAs deliver slightly better perf/W than GPUs, but significantly inferior FP32 performance. That said, they do shine for simple embarrassingly parallel tasks assuming the task does not require FP32 operations. A good exam
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by varelse 12y ago
And I might I say that a lot of this overwork in the open office culture of today is catalyzed by constant interruptions, pointless context thrashing, and endless meetings cough Agile: you're doing it wrong(tm) cough .
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by varelse 12y ago
In corporate America, companies do not do illegal things, illegal things do companies.
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by varelse 12y ago
As someone who is currently getting screwed over for helping someone out, by the person I helped out, because the thing I let him do was done improperly and it has caused ~$50K in damages I will likely end up footing, I agree 100% (I'm
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by varelse 12y ago
I refer to it as "Hellacrazy" myself...
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by varelse 12y ago
That's why more Americans need to take at least a month off between jobs, no?
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by varelse 12y ago
Windows XP wasn't broken. I can't say that of its "fix."
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by varelse 12y ago
Because I am a workaholic who doesn't trust management to look out for me, I want a formal vacation policy that accrues vacation days so there's no chance for misunderstanding either way. If you can solve the problem of finding a
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by varelse 12y ago
I'll go even further and state that without an understanding of calculus, linear algebra, and statistics, an engineer or even a data scientist is little more than a glorified script kiddy.
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by varelse 12y ago
Sure, in an ideal black spherical world, I'd agree with you. But this is reality, no? And sucky people suck and they leave big stinky turds in every punchbowl they squat over. For it's not like Vic Gundotra and Rod Chavez are ne
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by varelse 12y ago
You're right in one sense, a cop usually becomes a cop by choice and the cop ought to own his outlook. In Ms. Ellis's case however, her douchebag superiors made the decision for her. So what's your point other than (I'
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by varelse 12y ago
If I were female and I had two superiors in my chain of command treat me the way Vic Gundotra and Rod Chavez allegedly (and IMO probably) did, I'm pretty sure I'd start to see all men as potential harassers in the same way cops st

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