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Advertising and media? Robots bid on the ads that billions see every day, and decide what videos billions of people watch.

I'm guessing low expertise programmers whose main contribution was googling stackoverflow will get less valuable, while high expertise programmers with real design skill will becom…

What you're saying is consistent with my hypothesis. Ie that casual public transmission on subways and in restaurants is low. Rather, it's "behind closed doors", at extended privat…

According to a study in PNAS, shelter-in-place policies in the US did not work: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2019706118 Another study in Eur J Clin Inv had similar findings…

I think there is a proper level of conviviality/cordiality and fun that you can bring to work without getting too personally invested. A lot of first-time employees may have troubl…

Is there any reason to use a 3rd party recruiter? The listings are all public, just submit a resume. All my offers came from applying direct. Always got the runaround from recruite…

Or they believe (possibly correctly) that you don't have as strong a negotiating position because there are fewer options for you based on location.

> The reason excess deaths are only 3x higher is because of our precautions. It's a hard case to make. Sweden for example has had less excess death than harsher lockdown countries …

> We also outlaw speeding because speeding increases the odds that you kill someone else. We could go further and outlaw cars that don't have speed governors. That would save lives…

It's not selfish to be out and about if you are young and healthy. The recovery rate for 20-30 YO is 99.99%+, and if you are healthy it's likely higher[1]. It's on the same order o…

California and SF are doomed, but the recent news of HPE and ORCL moving are not a big deal. IMO these are stationary phase companies trying to cut cost. They are not growing reven…

> The bottom is still decently high even in Midwest cities Yes, and I also see the push for remote work also affecting the demand side of the software labor market as well as the s…

Yeah, that is mentioned as "one of the downsides of renewables". That is like saying, "one of the downsides of using a cooked noodle as a fork is that it doesn't hold its shape". I…

IMO, this is huge. One of the biggest applications of ML to science that I know of for sure. People used to manually crystallize proteins at great effort to solve for structures. O…

All I can say is, good luck. I discourage everyone from doing a PhD, but it sounds like you've made your mind up. Be very careful with your choice of advisor and department, and if…

I was pleasantly surprised by this recently. Just worked using my touchscreen laptop. So rare on Windows.

Thanks! And yes, I agree. The ability to write ad hoc SQL is a great skill.

Pardon my ignorance--is inspections some concept that relates to database management, or are you referring to a query like "select * from inspections where status = 'open';". Hones…

Most people don't care about climate change. They may say they do but the majority wouldn't do anything if it meant a sacrifice, even a very small one. 68% wouldn't pay even $10 pe…

> it's in the keywords This assumes that the source and target listings definitely have accurate keywords. There would be plenty of value in a model that can use either keywords OR…

Generating the vector representation is surely the hard part here, or at least the differentiator. The search algorithm, as you point out, is pretty much commoditized at this point…

I guess I was thinking of initial webpage load, which might include a bunch of network calls (DNS, CSS, JS resources). Each individual network call is faster tho, good point.

The latency is only reduced from tower to phone right? The tower still has to ping the rest of the network to find the service you were requesting to in the first place. If total l…

Myself and many people I know bootstrapped technical PhD (earning potential in postdoc = $45k) into data science/ML jobs (100k+) using Coursera, textbooks etc.

On paper, of course they can do whatever they want. This just gives them more cover to do it, shielding them (at least partly) from internal blowback.