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Tens of thousands?

For those interested in his work, I really recommend viewing the recent documentary Jodorowsky's Dune, a failed film project Giger and several other proto-luminaries worked on (ins…

Had a set theory professor who taught us that for the non-negative integers, m^n was just the number of unique mappings from a set of cardinality n to one of cardinality m. Ergo, f…

Fascinating story, but I don't see how the town's larger economic forces drove the actions of either Rosa or Cantrelli. Mind elaborating?

https://github.com/facebook/folly

Is this a disco-pants selling company? That's pretty sexy.

Why sell the data when you can sell targeted ads to the desired demographic? Why give away the cash cow of actual people-to-properties key-value maps?

Me too. Forty minute drive from Oakland to Menlo Park.

I've adopted a similar attitude as you here when it comes to past machine learning jobs, and discussion of detail. What ends up being your bright shiny line that you don't cross? I…

Is "unlimited PTO" ever not window dressing for a more predatory policy? Anywhere I've worked with this policy had implemented it so that ever taking vacation was a negotiation wit…

I bounced from one to a liberal arts college to Columbia. Also an anomaly, but it was a fantastic learning experience (and quite the redemption from terrible high school performanc…

The four-weeks-vacation-but-feel-bad-about-that-and-occasionally-working-from-home thing does seem archaic and counterproductive for knowledge workers who are best when they're cre…

If Facebook/Google were in SF, I reckon many of its workers would still live in San Jose, Fremont and Oakland, due to affordability concerns and a lack of density in the city prope…

Pragmatic question: I'm a mathematician by training, and currently a machine learning engineer at a large Silicon Valley company. How does one in their late twenties jump into real…

Touché. :)

There's a functional and chemical different between the amphetamine salts in popular ADD drugs and methamphetamine (namely, a methyl group.)

Not Nebraska.

Employ rolling averages above historical inflation?

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A friend was let go, as was an acquaintance who was hired in senior management of the group (Todd Beaupré). Investigating his LinkedIn page, he had circular recommendations with fi…

Surprised I've heard nothing about the bloodbath at Dr. Dre's Beats Music/MOG online service. They hired up a huge data scientist contingent, then fired them all. Strange consideri…

That's sort of the basis of Plato's Republic, no?

How much has Facebook's open-source contributions to PHP (say, the HHVM) helped the development and adoption of the language?

Yeah. It's long seemed to me that the empirical argument against socialism/communism was the flawed implementation of central planning for price-setting in the last century. This s…

My goto recommendation for a fresh installation: http://fonnesbeck.github.io/ScipySuperpack/