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This sounds like useful advice. Thank you.

I just can't think well on interesting problems while someone's talking to someone behind, someone at my face at the cubicle trying to hit a conversation. Hence, WFH. Don't like te…

Don't like to be a contractor.

> What companies want is team players who are often fun, light and friendly, actively work to build trust with a team through socialization, promote good practices and patterns and…

What do I do? I prefer crafting projects myself with a staff engineer's approval. I want to reach out for support when I think is needed. I don't like standups, sync up meetings. I…

Firing over this very un-googly

I think it's fair to expect interviewee to solve 2 LC mediums in 45 mins given by the candidate. That's the current FAANG expectation. If a bad candidate is too costly for a compan…

People on internet seek engagement else why eve write a blog. Twitter is indisputably better for engagement.

They are not banks. They are forex traders.

It's not in the spirit of decentralization to stop withdrawals

I just don't understand why Apple Music search is so bad. Sometimes only exact match returns albums. It's so bad that appending "Apple Music" in google works better.

The problem is magic doesn't happen when people put jury duty on their CV

Not sure how that slipped. Sorry.

> You might mean 4 "doublings" Rate of change: Enrollment increased by 4 times. Population increased by 100 times. > How do you double elite universities? Doubling elite universiti…

The US population increased 100 times since 1800s from 5M to 500M. Harvard enrollment increased 4 times since 1800s from 1.5K to 20K. The number of universities in the US did grew …

Low barrier of entry is actually a good way to increase readers. I bet they are now not as influential as they were in 80s and 90s

It makes sense to write three versions on a topic. 1. A PPT Deck. A 2 mins elevator pitch, A 10 mins potty reading 2. A Blog post. Ok you got my attention, why should I care? 3. A …

> However, I think it's extremely unprofessional to write a blog post saying that your supervisor is superficial or your research group is performative art. lol. You don't know the…

How to be a Sam Altman: Find a Paul Graham

is gemini on similar situation?

I'm glad an insider is thinking about this. But why do I have a feeling that it's written with an idea to make faculty life easy, not necessarily for a great student learning outco…

I'm cautiously optimistic about these style of interpretability works. They seem to tell us something without actually telling us. The ones in the past did not inspire to build bet…

The goal of people doing basic research in math and science is not producing more economic value. They really do it just for fun. If what they do happen to be useful for others out…

The problem at heart is research pace. Slowing the pace should help. i.e., it should be ok for faculty to produce half the papers they now produce and still retain their hopes on t…