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CinchWrench

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    >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 ord…

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    I mostly go to /fit/ for lifting advice. I'll have to check out /big/ because i really just want to get cow-huge in 2021.

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    Comment #25394214

    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 sl…

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    Comment #25394181

    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.

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    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…

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    Comment #25391478

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

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    Comment #25391316

    NY -> Miami California -> Austin I think you could probably chalk a lot of this up to where company leadership has their vacation homes.

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    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.

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    I wish it were harsh to say that.

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    Comment #25174058

    It's no joke, pal.

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    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. :-)

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    Comment #25173959

    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.

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    Comment #25167456

    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 C…

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    Comment #25145107

    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 CN…

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    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 collea…

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    >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 …

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    Comment #25088945

    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 …

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    Comment #24971190

    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.

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    Comment #24815112

    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 dissemin…

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

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    Comment #24740135

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

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    Comment #24740129

    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 t…

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    Comment #24740067

    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 lis…