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Looks like the site has some resources for helping to get started.

I've also got a separate resource from a Meetup talk I went to a while back. The speaker is an ML engineer who looked into some LHC datasets and posted a writeup of her talk here: https://lavanya.ai/2019/05/31/searching-for-dark-matter/

That's a very tough question to answer because the two topics aren't as rigorously researched. Quick google searches seem to say around 0.5% of the population for intersex and 0.3% of the population for transgender. But again, those figures are probably problematic and shouldn't be taken as fact.

All I'll say to this is that there is a lot of information on this topic that a large part of the population isn't aware of. For example, the concepts of gender expression, identity, and body. There's plenty more to think about and learn, like how this statement above might breakdown when you start talking about someone who is intersex.

I'd say some great places to start might be:

- Understanding Gender: https://www.genderspectrum.org/quick-links/understanding-gen...

- Gender Revolution (Netflix documentary w/ Katie Couric): https://www.netflix.com/title/80186731

Mine would be Cassidy William's newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/cassidoo. It's free, but there was a few newsletters where she linked her Venmo/Paypal in case people wanted to support, and I contributed during that time. She's since removed those from the letters for whatever reason. This newsletter is great on a Monday morning because it's light and has some interesting/cool links in it.

Another great one would be Kent C Dodds' newsletters: https://buttondown.email/kentcdodds. Kent is highly active in the React/JS/OS community and he's a super great guy. Same deal here, its free but you can choose to support, which I do from time to time. His newsletters are focused on JS/React and are a bit more dense, but they're interesting.

Multiamory (ep.147) - Relationship R.A.D.A.R (I actually use this at work now too. There's also ep.97 which is their first iteration of the idea)

Tim Ferris Show (Oct 8 2017) - Interview with Esther Perel

Reply All (ep.102-103) - Long Distance (Investigating a telephone scammer)

How I Built This (Feb 13 2017) - Lyft: John Zimmer

The Greater Good Podcast (Mar 30 2011) - Srikumar Rao on Happiness at work

Its really hard to try to recall specific episodes, but these are the ones that came to mind and that I could track down the info for ️

Definitely not too old. We recently just hired an engineer who had a degree in Biology, got accepted into medical school, realized he loved tech way more, and then went back to school for engineering. If anything, this was a plus for us, because we knew that this was something he was passionate about. I also personally respect people who are willing to take the scarier path because they want to do something they love. Also worth noting that his engineering degree was only 2 years rather than four, since he already had GEs covered and all of that. So your 5 year estimation might be shorter than you think

As ocdtrekkie mentions, the CommaAI is an option that offers a little hand holding in the sense that instructions are available. I actually went through the process of building one and hooking it up to my car and deciphering my cars CAN bus messages. It's pretty interesting and would definitely recommend it.

As for making your own, it depends on how good you want it to be. For example, the CommaAI is simple to do even from scratch but not super cutting edge. On the other hand theres companys out there using additional radars and Lidar which increases the cost and complexity. But in theory you'd just need to mount a machine in the trunk of your car, hook it up to your cars computer (have a car capable of being controlled solely via computer), hook up any additional sensors. Then write the software that can fuse all of the incoming data and use it to send messages to the car.

If this is something you're interested in learning about you can check out Udacity's SDC Nanodegree

So all of the questions had some kind of context/primer that I'd talk about before asking them, but the actual questions were:

Priority Setting - Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the work you've been given? How do you manage the work so that it gets done on time?

Self Development - How do go about seeking feedback from those around you to facilitate your personal growth? What is something that you've learned about yourself recently that you found helpful?

Compassion - Tell me about a time where you worked with someone who was struggling, for whatever reason. What were some of the challenges? How did you go about helping them deal with their struggle?

So we just went through the process of interviewing candidates for summer internships. Our interview process is far less technical than most and is almost all about determining how the candidate will fit into the team.

I believe it's called Behavior Based Interviews. But basically the interviewing team looks at a list of qualities and picks a few (~3 per person) that they think are valuable for someone joining the team. For example, I chose to look for: Priority Setting, Compassion, and Self Development. Once we have some qualities chosen, we develop questions that are specifically meant to test for those qualities.

Overall I really enjoy this kind of interview process. I feel like these qualities are more important than technical ability, so it's nice to put more emphasis on them during the interview process (We still do assess technical ability of course). And for us, it results in new team members that I'm excited to work with!

replays are available to people who purchased tickets, I dont think they were posted publicly anywhere. But you should keep your eye on them to see if they have another conference. It is suuuper cheap and online so its convenient (maybe not the highest quality talks, but still good).

What sort of things do you put in them? I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly running experiments. Do you have a format that differs from purpose, procedure, results?

From a developers perspective, if I'm not actively looking for a job I almost never want to talk to companies that are trying to recruit. The one time where I actually went out of my way to talk to a company was when they held their own event. They rented a space with an open bar and brought their engineers with them. You could just go hang out and talk with the engineers and see what kind of stuff they worked on what not and it was a great way for us to vet the company and decide whether or not we could see ourselves on the team.

I opt for dedicated workout sessions. I got into bodybuilding style workouts a few months ago (while being ~50lbs over weight) and started eating sensibly and it's done wonders for me. I currently workout 6 days a week: 2 days purely weights, 3 days are weights+cardio after, and 1 day of pure cardio.

It depends on the quality of the course and how close it aligns with my goals.

Ex: Udacity's SDC Nanodegree amounts to $2400, but was worth every penny for me. On the other hand, there are numerous machine learning courses on Udemy, and most of them I wouldn't pay for at all (even at $5-$10).

In the latter case, most of the content is either non valuable (its stuff that's repeated all over the internet) or non practical (can talk a lot about theory or math but if I don't actually build anything it doesn't help me).

The whole event can be found here (with slides): http://videolectures.net/deeplearning2017_montreal/

never. Sleep is important physically and mentally and I've never had a legitimate reason to skip on sleep. (There are some cases where it would be unavoidable, they're just rare) There are times where I'd like to stay up all night to work on something I'm enjoying, but I force myself to stop and go to bed.

Not sure if you have access to the creators of OSCoin but their formspree is not set up properly yet. They never confirmed their email so anyone who tries to subscribe gets sent to the wrong page. They detail the process on the github

https://github.com/formspree/formspree

Yes, mainly because CV just isn't there yet. Also because Lidar is better suited for the task than a camera+sufficient CV would be. The cost of Lidar is almost inconsequential anyways when compared with the total amount of building, developing, and testing an autonomous vehicle.

So normally the idea of doing an ICO isn't really an issue for me. I care more about the product and the tech behind it. If it's something I believe in then I could care less about whether or not they decide to do an ICO.

However in this case, the phrasing of:

> considering implementing part of the product using blockchain tech just to get potential of rising founds with ICO

would have me worried. The idea of trying to go for a cash grab just because they can doesn't sound like a good idea. If the product isn't directly related to blockchain tech/decentralization then trying to incorporate it just for an ICO is a bad move, imo.

we would need so much more info than this to give you helpful information.

For instance, when you move do you already know where you'll be working? What kind of work do you do? (I assume engineer, but could be wrong) What kind of things do you enjoy doing (outdoors, drinking, museums, nerd-core, fancy food, sports, etc)

General Tips:

- North Beach has some nice bars and restaurants for a chill night. (I would avoid the touristy parts near the piers though)

- Mission district has some world famous burritos and you may want to check Dolores Park

- Polk st has decent night life if you want to drink/party

- If you're gonna work in tech you'll likely be in SOMA or Financial District so take a stroll around market street and then down the embarcadero to the stadium

- A lot of people tend to go to the piers in the north of the city for seafood. If you want to do that, I'd advise going to Hog Island in the ferry building instead.

- Checkout Meetup.com and look for any meetups happening that weekend so you can perhaps meet some locals and get a feel for the community you'd want to be involved in

the Tim Ferris Show is one that I just found that I really enjoy. Its basically Tim interviewing people who are experts/high achieving in their field to gain domain knowledge but also knowledge on practices/habits/mindsets of successful people.

I suggest checking out "#244 The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency - Nick Szabo" first if you're particularly interested in tech.

I know literally next to nothing about this, so beware my comment. However, I'm pretty sure that " tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate" is not a thing for bills.

It's typically a small group of people who create the bill. (Like a Senator and their staff) It gets proposed to a subcommittee who reads it (I believe they also give feedback) and then accept/reject it. If accepted it then gets passed to the entire Senate/House for people to read and accept/reject.

If you're curious about how the actual writing occurs, I'm sure its nothing special. Just like writing a group paper in school.

- Utilize your mentor if you have one, try to schedule 1:1 meetings with them so you can discuss what you're working on, how you're doing, what you could try to improve.

- Set yourself some goals for the summer. Break them down into actionable steps. Plan a roadmap. Schedule self check-ins once or twice a week to keep up with the goals.

- If you're in a big city, take advantage of the meetups around you. Network and work on interesting stuff on the side.

- Try to work on an interesting project. This one depends on the company you're working for/how they manage interns. But they sometimes give you the opportunity to come up with your own project idea and execute it (ideal). Sometimes they'll pair you up with someone and you basically help them on whatever they work on (not ideal, but not bad). Sometimes you just get fed small bugs and remedial tasks (Don't intern here).

This link is for only the owner of the video. Not a public link

> "drive less succinct answers"

Not really, mainly because there's very clearly two kinds of students. The ones who don't talk to their mentors at all outside of the weekly check-in (a single message) and the ones who utilize the mentor to the fullest. So if someone is asking you a question you generally don't have to worry about getting to 10 messages with them because it'll just happen.

I would recommend getting involved with Udacity as a classroom mentor/forum mentor/project reviewer. All you have to do is demonstrate enough domain experience for whichever course you want to help out in. You can do that by either completeing the course in stellar fashion or demonstrating your skills via a stellar personal project. For more info on it, you can check out my other comment from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14472353

How data retrieval and storage with DBs works.

How an API works

What tech stack the company uses and why (what benefits are you utilizing)

Yea the link the other guy provided works, I happened to go through their slack community though and asked them directly. (which I think would be a higher rate of success)

That route required paying for their course (Self Driving Car course) And completing some projects for it. Then PMed and became a mentor for SDC and AI courses.

Yup if you have any questions, just lemme know.

So I have experience working with Udacity (MOOCs for various coding related fields)

I work as a mentor for a few of their courses. You're connected to X number of students (you set x yourself). Then as they progress through the course they have the option to send you a message to ask a question or whatever. You also do a weekly check-in with them to see where they're at, if they have any blockers, what their goals are for the next week.

You then get paid (via PayPal) based on how your student interactions went on a per week basis. 0$ for every student who didn't message you, 5$ for 1-9 messages, 15$ for 10+ messages. You get bonuses for them completing major sections as well.

You interact via a mentor dashboard on web or via a mobile app. If you use mobile, you're basically being paid to text some students a few times a week. Pay will obviously vary depending on how many students you have and how good you are at interacting with them. (The better your mentor rating the more students you're allowed to take on). I had 40 students and made 1.4K a month. The work didn't feel stressful or anything. It's pretty easy to land (no formal interviews or anything), you just have to get involved in their slack and PM one of the Udacity staffers. Was pretty easy, plus I enjoy teaching/mentoring.

You can also be a project reviewer rather than a mentor, but not sure how that works.