zintinio5

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by zintinio5 9y ago
The job description is to-the-point and doesn't ask for anything out of the ordinary. Other than mentioning a CS degree, I give it two-thumbs up. Hiring is definitely a tough nut to crack. Personal referrals are by far the best source
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by zintinio5 9y ago
First, what does your careers page look like? Sometimes the job description is unclear or you might be filtering out qualified people. Second, mid-senior is really tough to hire for, I just experienced it first-hand while hiring for my last
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by zintinio5 9y ago
That's not the case everywhere. Some companies pay managers less than engineers. From the company's perspective, a manager deals with a larger chunk of the business, while an engineer solves just one small part. Not saying it&#x27
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by zintinio5 9y ago
We're pretty comfy here 9/12 months a year. The Spring and Fall are fantastic, and Winter is getting milder each year.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I would quit this team.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Coming from an under-represented demographic in technology, Hackernews has really been my insight into the industry and helped me immensely with figuring out how to get into it. Reading this website has honestly made me a ton of money and s
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Thanks! I was browsing a few days ago and applied to work on Telemetry in Firefox and ML Engineering at Pocket. A lot of the work being done with respect to the Quantam initiatives seems interesting, but I didn't really see anything re
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by zintinio5 9y ago
How does one end up in a position to do this work at Mozilla? I'm currently looking for a new SWE role, would absolutely love to work on Firefox.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Still the same situation, even for CS majors from less known schools. Somebody has to take a chance, few people want to take a risk on you.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I will keep this in mind when researching jobs.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I've seen at least one or two companies working on optimization at least here on HN. I'd take a guess that Gurobi is one option, and I saw SigOpt post a listing on the recent "Who's Hiring?" thread. Google seems to
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Any chance you know someone hiring for said scientific computing roles? I studied Applied Math / CS undergrad, have been gearing up to work in Autonomous Vehicles, but really any challenging numerical work would be interesting to me.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Like everything else, depends on your use-case. I have personally used TF-IDF vectors and token sets with Cosine and Jaccard distances in practice. Some examples of use-cases: are you searching for "semantically similar", or &quot
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by zintinio5 9y ago
This is really awesome, thanks for posting! I was not yet aware that random forests could be used as kernels, and the link to Davies and Ghahramani is especially useful, definitely will read through later.
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Ask HN: How to avoid being typecast as an engineer?
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by zintinio5 9y ago
The problem is distributed training, not inference.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
There might not be a need to do so at the moment. Otherwise, they might open that up at a later time.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I'm gonna go through it as well, that was a significant amount of work you put in.
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I certainly have in the past when something really grabbed my attention. My library has expanded in recent years partly because of the topics shared on Hackernews and mentioned in discussions. I would hazard a guess that most people don&#x2
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Immutability is absolutely fantastic as a default (especially for typical business logic). I'm not sure I want to go back to mutability except in constrained environments or time-sensitive software. Mutability should be harder to rea
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by zintinio5 9y ago
Neustar Research has a good article on this which may be of interest to you. However, I think the approach they took was still based on the inclusion-exclusion principle (still a good read though). * https://research.neustar.biz&
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by zintinio5 9y ago
If what you want is an approximate answer, take a look at * Counting Bloom Filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter#Counting_filters * Count-Min Sketch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%
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by zintinio5 9y ago
There can be problems with state management, which I've only seen with our web application. Sometimes a hard stop / start is what you need unless you designed the application for reload-ability. We're working towards that for
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I've wrapped C and C++ code via the JNI and called it from Clojure. There are a good number of projects wrapping C code in Clojure. It's a little awkward (Clojure -> Java -> JNI -> C), but works well enough. We get around
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by zintinio5 9y ago
I worked on this as part of a project with US Fish and Wildlife in 2015 for bats! We were monitoring local populations to track the spread of White Nose syndrome. It wasn't in 3D, but we linked the audio data / classifications wit
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by zintinio5 10y ago
Ah, fair enough.
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by zintinio5 10y ago
From my understanding the main benefit of RE2 is not speed, but linearly scaling execution time with respect to the input size, along with bounded memory usage. For certain inputs, it may outperform other engines, but the converse may also
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by zintinio5 10y ago
Several years ago a friend and I had a need to build a virtual file system that was portable between Linux and Windows. At the very least, we attempted to share as much code as possible. It proved to be pretty easy and we had a working prot
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by zintinio5 10y ago
It's consistent with what people are posting and the directions given. From the very top: > Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candi
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by zintinio5 10y ago
You need to account for ONSITE. That's specified at the top, but I don't see it anywhere in your spec.

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