I have realized when browsing some twitter culture war exchanges that people almost never respond to the opposing party's arguments. They imagine a set of arguments that uses some of the same words and then argue with…
I have to admit I occasionally have crackpot physics ideas floating around in my head and I actually have seen that Dr Hossenfelder has this service and thought of contacting her. But my tech job took too much time to…
I worked as a principal engineer in an AI company until a year ago and I was impressed at how hard it is to get models robustly trained. They are fragile in real world contexts (in the field) and training is full of…
If I were you I wouldn't apply right away to a 4 year college. Do community college in your chosen field and then transfer. In California if can do 2 years in a community college you are guaranteed a spot in a school in…
I was a crappy student in HS and the only good thing about me was my SAT scores. They got me into a good school. I ended up as a highly ranked engineer at Microsoft. My heart sank when people started not using the SAT.…
I think there is a structural problem here that we are avoiding. The reason some higher ups don't see the merit of particular individual developers is that their pay does not reflect their contribution. Pay is the…
The timing of this is so rich in irony I can't help but wonder if there is an element of internal sabotage. How many FB employees hate FB right now? The latest expose of FB is both effective and truly awful. I can't…
I have realized when browsing some twitter culture war exchanges that people almost never respond to the opposing party's arguments. They imagine a set of arguments that uses some of the same words and then argue with…
I have to admit I occasionally have crackpot physics ideas floating around in my head and I actually have seen that Dr Hossenfelder has this service and thought of contacting her. But my tech job took too much time to…
I worked as a principal engineer in an AI company until a year ago and I was impressed at how hard it is to get models robustly trained. They are fragile in real world contexts (in the field) and training is full of…
If I were you I wouldn't apply right away to a 4 year college. Do community college in your chosen field and then transfer. In California if can do 2 years in a community college you are guaranteed a spot in a school in…
I was a crappy student in HS and the only good thing about me was my SAT scores. They got me into a good school. I ended up as a highly ranked engineer at Microsoft. My heart sank when people started not using the SAT.…
I think there is a structural problem here that we are avoiding. The reason some higher ups don't see the merit of particular individual developers is that their pay does not reflect their contribution. Pay is the…
The timing of this is so rich in irony I can't help but wonder if there is an element of internal sabotage. How many FB employees hate FB right now? The latest expose of FB is both effective and truly awful. I can't…