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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
I can attest. while doing research in a T1 university, all the professors were mildly disgusted by the hype pushed out by startups, and even Google's own internal marketing department. Nonetheless they too are minting the same nonsense
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
what kind of personality types?
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
what's the median age (in your estimation) of a level I director at FB? and what's "absurd amount of money" for good engineers? Something like 400 - 600K?
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
From your experience what does "trying to stay on top of the latest trends" entails? I assume it's not just reading the news/twitter correct? How does one get primary resources (as in talking to people in the know). And
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
Im in a lab with people who go on to work at Google Research, deepmind, MSR, etc. I asked them about fb and they do not remotely care what fb does. Most Ph.D. graduates want to collaborate with specific individuals who are at the top of the
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
do you guys think there's room for another big social mobile app, maybe unbundling some of facebook/instagram's features?
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782394
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by xiaolingxiao 7y ago
a friend of mine work(ed) there, we're both PennRobotics. They were very ambitious with all the things they were trying to build. It seems like they just ran out of money and couldn't sell enough (no offense) robotics toys. It&#x2
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
can confirm. It took me a long time to confront my own suspicion that the so called tenured faculty around me are not as technically inclined as you'd think. Most of the line work is done by the grad students. Meanwhile the faculty pla
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
"Thats when you locate a master bullshitter and invite him into the room with all the best and the brightest present and hand him all power. It shakes everyone up. And sooner or later someone will step up" Could you explain the so
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Universities are highly incentivized to keep any word of sexual harassment on the down low. Reputation is everything and if every year one or two students is known to be assuaulted, then very soon no one would want to pay to sent their kids
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Past NLP researcher chiming in here. Google Home and Alexa use pretty sophisticated speech to text software to decouple your voice from background noise, and then translate our speech to text, and then from text to program triggers that ie
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Interesting, it looks a lot like Haskell. And Edward Kmett used to work there right? Could someone comment on its relationship with Haskell and the ML languages? Which I assume is the ML in DAML
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
could you elaborate on your outlook on startups? specifically "darker and more cynical"?
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Are you looking at page 192? Logan Green(1) 1,180,329 John Zimmer(11) 1,180,329 Ben Horowitz(5) 15,040,924 So the last line is 15million common stock held by A16Z
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
If I apply for the NY interview, can I apply again for the March deadline again? Or is it one application only for the summer 2019 cycle.
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Serious question, is someone bombing facebook in the press for some reason. I have seen no less four discussions bashing facebook on HN in the last day. Not defending or attacking FB in anyway, but the sheer coincidence warrants suspision.
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
It can be used to inspect off shore oil rigs. They are full of stairs and something like this could be ideal. Oil companies are also less price sensitive. I wouldn't be surprised if the Spot Mini costs as much as a luxury sedan, unless
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by xiaolingxiao 8y ago
Agreed! I taught myself programming, and Haskell was my second language. I was at Penn so I emailed Brent out of the blue, and he responded and was so helpful with understanding helping me understand Monoids, not at all judgmental, and so d
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by xiaolingxiao 9y ago
what's your background and what is the general compensation of those around you?
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by xiaolingxiao 9y ago
rwalker could I get in touch with you about the machine learning role directly?
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by xiaolingxiao 9y ago
I do not think you can do a computer science Ph.D. without a strong quantitative undergraduate degree, ie computer science, math, physics. The Ph.D. application is a very clubby process, and it is more or less who you know, who you have wor
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by xiaolingxiao 9y ago
I can give you one data point. I have worked on computer vision (implementing, training, and running convolutional neural nets), and have also applied machine learning methods on natural language processing. I have never taken analysis and