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They missed an opportunity to call it Texas Fold 'Em.
Instead of giving people the bird, they take the bird away from people.
Also known as going to graduate school.
This is the result of Elon Musk playing too much Harvest Moon.
That is a bit overkill and lacking in energy efficiency and sustainability, though. A more environmentally conscious solution would be for western nations to bring back some French innovations from the centuries ago such as the bidet followed by the trebuchet.
Better yet, be a force multiplier who is willing to relocate. Then when times get tough you have your abelian group to lean on.
Location: Dublin, OH
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Lots (~24 years experience), heavy on the applied math and R&D stuff. Lean, Python, Scala (ZIO), Haskell, Java, C#, SQL, Terraform, CI pipeline stuff.
Résumé/CV: See my LinkedIn profile, although details from my two most recent positions are omitted. Please feel free to request a CV from me with more detail. https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-harvey-5944b662/
GitHub: https://github.com/miiohio
Email: [email protected]
Hey there! I am an experienced research scientist, software engineer, and applied mathematician. I enjoy R&D, applied math, and problem solving. I'm in central Ohio but would be up for relocating for the right opportunity.
Maybe a dumb question: Shouldn't these be called immersions instead of embeddings?
LeCuna (noun): An empty space in a list of citations where the works of Jürgen Schmidhuber should appear.
1. Read this great "Surviving A Layoff" essay [1] and build a plan for yourself.
2. Take the time to level up on one or two foundational skills whose barriers to entry are combinations of tenacity and intelligence, or tech stacks that are very close to a foundational skill. Something like "Fart App Framework" is not a foundational skill because it becomes obsolete in a very short amount of time. Things like mathematics, statistics, hard sciences, cryptography, security, etc. will carry you through the rest of your career and create a moat.
3. Network, network, network.
4. Remind yourself that nothing lasts forever, that you're not in control of everything, that feelings of safety/security are merely feelings, and that the root of all suffering is attachment. If something's making you feel anxious or vulnerable, ask yourself why until you get to the bottom of it.
5. If you're consistently having negative thoughts, frame this experience in terms of gaining something (resilience, experience, wisdom) rather than losing something.
Good luck, and hang in there.
[1] https://oursoc.io/f/surviving-a-layoff
Location: Dublin, OH
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Lean 4, Python, Scala, ZIO, Haskell, Java, C#, SQL (Postgres/MSSQL/SQLite/etc.), Terraform, GitHub Actions.
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-harvey-5944b662/
Email: [email protected]
The real problem with previous efforts for finding extraterrestrial life wasn't the technology, it was the lack of competition plus the open ended and uncertain goal. A seed rounds of $50M should be given out to two groups of competing researchers: One group tries to find evidence of extraterrestrial life, and the other group tries to find evidence of the abominable snowman in the Tibetan mountain ranges. The first group to make a discovery takes home the remaining $100M and settles the SETI vs. Yeti debate once and for all.
>Over the past year, we’ve meticulously scraped all Worldcat records. At first, we hit a lucky break. Worldcat was just rolling out their complete website redesign (in Aug 2022). This included a substantial overhaul of their backend systems, introducing many security flaws. We immediately seized the opportunity, and were able scrape hundreds of millions (!) of records in mere days.
>After that, security flaws were slowly fixed one by one, until the final one we found was patched about a month ago. By that time we had pretty much all records, and were only going for slightly higher quality records.
OCLC carelessly fiddlefarted around with their moat and lost it. Poof!
Awesome! Where did the "split_ifs" tactic come from though? Mathlib? In your opinion does it make sense to do program verification without using Mathlib, or would you recommend just using it pretty much all the time?
Not to be pedantic but there is nuance: A frictionless tunnel is better for getting shit done. Know the difference.
"A new era of facial computing."
DishBrain's elevator pitch: Neural networks meet fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Sweat bullets? You may be confusing Tim Cook with Tim Gunn.
All this time I thought that gravity creates heavy, not light.
It is as if "Crime and Punishment" were written for this exact purpose.
The fundamental question is whether the law distributes over addition.
You might say that article is, in many ways, a puff piece.
Meta will probably soon release a competing technology. It will be called "DALL-E LLaMA".