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Authenticity is important. Praising effort because you read it improves outcomes, even if you internally don’t think it’s praiseworthy, would be inauthentic and eventually degrade …

Cali EDD is a joke. I never received my paid family leave money after my daughter was born last year. Their phone lines are always full, and they don’t respond to email.

Yes the go version takes way longer materialize our configs compared at my work compared to sJsonnet (from Databricks). The first time you switch it adds (or removes? I forget) a b…

I do agree with you that the bank will likely not collapse with help from the big banks. But business wise it is not in a great position with lots of low interest rate loans. Still…

No one wants to pay full airfare for an infant: > Hoffman recognizes the drawbacks of requiring parents to purchase airplane tickets for their youngsters. The main concern is that …

I thought propublica was for hard hitting investigations on big issues of public importance? Who cares about fake badges on social media?

And some people trust it without a second thought. This past New Years there was a huge snow storm in the Tahoe area, many roads were closed, and clueless Bay Area people were foll…

My wife was using fetus as her first guess throughout most of her pregnancy, in honor of the fetus. Baby is 1 month old now, and the first guess preference has changed. Too bad thi…

You should finish the masters, and meanwhile get an internship for the real world experience you crave.

At least half of them are Indian, in my experience.

I’m similar to you in this aspect. Some of my friends have taken advantage of remote work to go travel and work at the same time. I hate that idea. Would much rather be productive …

Thanks for the tip! At our hospital the standard of care is delayed cord clamping, although it sounds like they wait only a few minutes, not 15+ minutes. It used to be done in ~<1 …

I get that it is very tempting. We all want to do anything that could help our kids. However, there are also an endless number of things people are selling to new parents that prey…

I know some people keep the cord blood in a private bank. In my opinion it only makes sense if you have family history of or current relative with a disease that could be treated w…

My wife is 33 weeks pregnant with our first. We plan to donate our baby’s cord blood to research. Cool to think it could help researchers develop treatments like this in some small…

That quote reminds me of the Bo Burnham song “That Funny Feeling.” It would fit nicely alongside lines like “stunning 8k resolution meditation app.”

You missed my favorite iteration: Silicon Shire.

I agree, no problems in the real world are solved. I guess that’s where all the meta verse nonsense comes into play.

The problem is we train way more PhDs than there are tenure track positions available. Most PhDs won’t be lucky enough to get one of those academic positions, and a postdoc is just…

I’m sure they’re working on it. Databricks, however, also has Delta Live Tables coming out soon I believe.

Anyone remember StumbleUpon? You could easily edit your interests and get different types of content. It was the pinnacle.

Basic game theory dictates that if automated driving is seen as too safe, pedestrians will feel comfortable walking anywhere, anytime. Dense downtowns will become completely gridlo…

One of my favorite things to do is explore a foreign city with a recent Lonely Plant book to guide me. I think there’s something fantastic about that experience that can’t be repli…

Revenge against the finance nerds. If the finance nerds bought companies made by tech nerds they’d be fine.

I studied these a bit during my PhD. The focus of my research was gravitational wave (GW) astronomy which involves incredibly sensitive instrumentation. The history of GWs before 2…