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by varelse 13y ago
I think he made the right call. It's hard for me to imagine him having trouble finding work with 4 years of Google on his resume. That's the tech industry equivalent of being a made man IMO.
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by varelse 13y ago
I have friends at Google at remote offices who are experiencing increasing pressure to move to Silicon Valley (which the cost of living rules out) as they consolidate distributed teams. Add in Google's disdain for telecommuting that I
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by varelse 13y ago
Brian Reid was kicked out of Google by Urs Holzle ahead of the IPO after helping to build the company (so much for don't be evil and all that). I don't think the issue here is age discrimination - Geoffrey Hinton is in his late 6
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by varelse 13y ago
So my first response was who the $^!% is Tim Bray? Then I read. TLDR: famous enough to merit an article about his departure but not famous enough for Google to give an inch to retain him (see Hinton, Geoffrey for a counterexample). No sur
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by varelse 13y ago
I think one of the next hot emerging careers will be connecting and interfacing traditional computational algorithms for the bits that are clearly orders of magnitude more efficient than using a multi-layer neural network to do them into ne
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by varelse 13y ago
In theory, nuclear power should have been a vital part of a comprehensive strategy to stop climate change in its tracks. In practice, human greed and stupidity makes them more dangerous and expensive than they should be as well as reflexive
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by varelse 13y ago
So what if a bomb goes off on the thing and manages to sever the cable? Look out below! Up to 62,000 miles of high-speed fun coming your way... Multiple SF authors have covered this unpleasant contingency. It seems more of an example of
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by varelse 13y ago
Route 17 should not be an issue. Santa Cruz should be filled to the brim with tech jobs incubated by the mere existence of UCSC and its top-notch CS department. It's a beautiful place with ugly problems. It's washed out hippy
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by varelse 13y ago
2025: That's the (%$&!ing ridiculous) year that BART is scheduled to open up in downtown San Jose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_San_Jose_%28BART_stati... In the meantime, downtown Oakland has many of
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by varelse 13y ago
Fortunately, one frequently transitions to management and/or dies before this happens because one's career is finite. Linux and other such runaway success stories are true Black Swans and Linus's subsequent embrace of source
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by varelse 13y ago
IMO it's all about working with smart, motivated people who can work independently without the raging ego to cross borders to expand their computational Lebensraum. I've run remote projects with old friends over 3-5 years and it&
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by varelse 13y ago
13% error rate in a self-driving car, hilarity ensues...
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by varelse 13y ago
Blind allocation for senior talent is just st00p1d. And I speak from personal experience. As Erich stated, all the cool work is taken at Google. Blind allocation will likely land you on a team doing work unrelated to the standout work that
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by varelse 13y ago
I also don't want to risk long-term hearing damage by cranking up music just to drown out ambient noise. No job is worth that. http://medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/surgery/blog/headphon... That said, I thi
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by varelse 13y ago
Not to mention young people are just smarter so just ignore all these old fogies telling you there's something wrong with open offices (except for yourself because, ya know, you're special). http://news.cnet.com/83
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by varelse 13y ago
This was from the best episode of that entire series in a rare instance of the writers not trying to shoehorn a helicopter dogfight into an otherwise mundane domestic misadventure (assuming you're willing to accept that a helicopter
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by varelse 13y ago
The problem IMO is believing that not completing the course is in any way actually a problem. Ala carte learning for fun and profit works for me. I'm saying what it's worth to me as well. Maybe such beliefs should be studied ac
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by varelse 13y ago
If I had to pay $150/course, that would end my usage of MOOCs. In contrast, I'd be happy to pay $5-$10/month for overall access to Coursera or Udacity (probably just Coursera actually given the quality issues I've seen o
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by varelse 13y ago
I enjoyed the Udacity AI course, but I was repeatedly frustrated by the many errors that were never corrected and especially Peter Norvig's nails on blackboard scribbling sounds with his felt tip. Am I the only one who could hear this
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by varelse 13y ago
Not if you had one of the pre-existing unlimited data plans... Just switched to T-Mobile last month: much better experience than what I had with Verizon so far.
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by varelse 13y ago
For many years, I've wanted to move from the South Bay to SF. Not anymore. It's too damned crowded now. So I predict it will just get more crowded and there will be no changes to the zoning to improve mass transit and housing to
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by varelse 13y ago
I agree 100% that you can't teach passion - that has to come from within. However, we certainly can do awfully better at encouraging that passion when it emerges rather than dutifully stuffing it back in the bottle and turning a promi
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by varelse 13y ago
Playing an unfortunate devil's advocate, all this ludicrous surveillance state gadgetry seems to be less of an attempt to be the United Stasi of America and more of a ridiculous over the top reaction in fear of being accused of going s
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by varelse 13y ago
Only the very darkest realm would deprive its wizards of the mighty printf spell! To what Silicon demon legion did you pledge fealty to summon this coding abomination upon an unsuspecting land? Winter is truly coming at last. (Otherwise p
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by varelse 13y ago
Dear Yogaglo, Go $!#@ yourself. Namaste...
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by varelse 13y ago
100% agree but I'll add one more idea. Goal-setting in a discipline where you're a novice is likely to end in disaster. Goal-setting in an area where you are an expert is when this approach really works. Unfortunately, much of t
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by varelse 13y ago
My hardest bug: Memory corruption in a video game that I was developing in the 1990s. It took 2-3 days of running attract mode to trigger it, whereupon the game would crash catastrophically. Solution: Videotaped attract mode for 2 days unt
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by varelse 13y ago
As someone who spent many years doing yoga to attempt to improve my 2 sigma godfawful flexibility (not very successfully alas), I saw all sorts of misbehavior going on. Some examples: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013&#x2F
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by varelse 13y ago
I think the answer is to have all the younger guys dealing with princess sickness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_sickness start dating the "leftover women" who are defined as anyone 25 or older. I ent
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by varelse 13y ago
Really? http://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Markets-Regulations/Dr-Red... Because at $75M to $250M a pop, they're way cheaper than developing a new Biologic ($1B-$2B) and that's because while none have been app

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