CinchWrench

>It's typically used as legal bribes for the governments of those countries, who distributed it to all their cronies at the top

Wouldn't those be exactly the people you need in order to stop these scams?

Piazza (forums) and office hours (bluejeans--think youtube livestreams but on a proprietary platform.

For me, this semester, I finished a group project where we coordinated over slack/google hangouts. After that project, I didn't have anything left to finish the semester. I felt like I was done because the reinforcement loops I get from work (virtual back-clapping) were done and I had a hard time separating that from the "here's the next task. Also no one is talking to you about what needs to be done."

Uh, yeah they do. Just because the climate isn't as nice as the Bay Area doesn't mean people don't have homes there. For one, the culture/night life is incredible there.

I can think of two in my extended network just off the top of my head. One is a run-of-the-mill general practitioner and the other is a brilliant entrepreneur. And these are people I live near in out here in East BFE.

I was being downvoted. I kinda want the downvotes back. Makes me feel like a rebel.

NY -> Miami

California -> Austin

I think you could probably chalk a lot of this up to where company leadership has their vacation homes.

I've dropped out. It's a lot of work, but the hardest part for me was staying engaged with the process without in person interaction.

Pandemic has been hell for me, too.

I wish it were harsh to say that.

It's no joke, pal.

Lol. which people? The ones questioning why we should accept this or the ones foisting this on the population?

I could tell you but I'll be b& from commenting. :-)

Doesn't matter. They have access to unprecedented levels of free pornography so they're too pacified to be a threat to the ruling class.

Will not happen. The U.S. military industrial complex views these sorts of algorithms as a vital technology in fighting future wars, and also fears that it's at a disadvantage to China because 4x population means a strategic advantage purely from the size of data sets Chinese ML researchers have access to.

What are ya gonna do? MIC gets what it wants.

Those and SVR's get me through 99% of the algorithmic part of my job, though!

The rest is some unsupervised stuff like k-means and PCA.

What would you like to see instead? (INB4 CNNs/RNNs other deep learning topics)

Yup, I think I and that child are talking past each other. :-(

It's good though because they raise some really valid points about the importance of intuition. I joke with my colleagues that all we're doing is encoding data as a hilbert space and slapping an algorithm on it, but that elides the fact that intuition like the child is talking about is important for knowing how to build that hilbert space.

>the fundamental skills that you need are mathematics and software engineering

So much this. If I have to interview another junior-level DS who has a MNIST project in their github and still somehow can't manage fizzbuzz or a fibonacci function I'm probably going to take up religious asceticism.

EDIT: I said junior, but I meant Senior. We're talking people with PhD's who claim to have done extensive software engineering in previous roles.

I've worked extensively with MIP and never heard the phrase "tragedy of the integers."

Can you tell me where I can go to learn more about this outlook on issues associated with (i suppose) linear relaxations of integer problems?

So in spite of what Friedman and his Chicago goons would have had us believe, it turns out the world is in fact not, flat.

Huh.

You nailed this.

What all of these pearl-clutching arguments amount to is former gatekeepers kvetching about there no longer being a gate for them to keep.

The information dissemination landscape is evolving, and we are only being held back by those too cowardly to let go of their control and let us grow and ascend.

Sorry, not allowed to count for the compensation reported to us gov.

Rule is for base pay, contingent pay (bonus/incentives) is not allowed.

DHS gets rejection-happy for renewals, forces companies' HR people to do the RFE dance, rejects, candidate has to get on the next flight out.

Not fun to watch happen, but I blame the companies, not the government.

Bureau of labor statistics keeps and publishes salary info. The hard part is making the job titles line up.

https://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm

Somewhere on that site there's a listing for H1B levels as well. I saw it on Blind last night but I can't find the thread this morning.

EDIT: Check out this site: https://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx

Right. And you're not going to learn to use any of those in a sophomore-level course on MATLAB to earn your MechE degree.

I totally agree on the sophistication--I did a ton of HPC work for my masters thesis.

But a class where you had to write some code to do basic finite element analysis or solve linear systems doesn't make you qualified work on a distributed software system.

prejudice--against what? Genuinely curious.

Because the applicant wasn't qualified to do it. H1B is not a jobs training program, but they were trying to use it as one.

The US has a jobs training program for foreign workers/grads. It's called OPT.

That's abuse.

Want to know how I know you work for a good company?

Be grateful! Not all of us are so lucky!

I've seen this abused so badly though--our compliance person in HR was asking me to help write one a while back for a candidate that had a BS in mechanical engineering and no relevant work experience, claiming that a course the applicant had that taught MATLAB was sufficient experience for a role as an android dev.

I think you and the parent are just talking past each other and you really agree on the same thing.

I don't see this as a new wealth transfer though, I see it as the cessation of an ongoing wealth transfer. I think the parent does too.

did you know netflix's first CEO is Edward Bernays' great-nephew?[1]

Makes a lot of things make sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Randolph#Early_life_and_e...