Re:Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013
by refulgentis on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:46PM
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You're 100% right. Gave me a big, big smile after 7 years at Google feeling like an alien, I was as a college dropout from nowhere with nothing and nobody, but a successful barely-6-figure exit at 27 years old.
Big reason why the FAANGs get dysfunctional too. You either have to be very, very, very, fast to fire, almost arbitrarily (Amazon) or you end up with a bunch of people who feel safe enough to be trying to advance.
The "rich kids" w/o anything but college and FAANG were taught Being Visible and Discussing Things and Writing Papers is what "hard work" is, so you end up with a bunch of people building ivory towers to their own intellect (i.e. endless bikeshedding and arguing and design docs and asking for design docs) and afraid of anyone around them who looks like they are.
Big reason why the FAANGs get dysfunctional too. You either have to be very, very, very, fast to fire, almost arbitrarily (Amazon) or you end up with a bunch of people who feel safe enough to be trying to advance.
The "rich kids" w/o anything but college and FAANG were taught Being Visible and Discussing Things and Writing Papers is what "hard work" is, so you end up with a bunch of people building ivory towers to their own intellect (i.e. endless bikeshedding and arguing and design docs and asking for design docs) and afraid of anyone around them who looks like they are.