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How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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Ah yes, the four foundational criteria to rate a hackathon application: passionAndInterest, projectAndPracticalExp, techSkillsAndExp, diversity

In Stalinist and Maoist countries you’d get extra points for uni when coming from a worker or farmer family. Times change, ideologies change, but some things don’t.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

#83
post #69

Nice catch. I remember the days when one could just show up to a hackathon and do cool hacks. Now it feels like they only exist for serious reasons.

The hackathons I have been forced to participate in always seemed like a cheap shot at labor and ideas from some corporate overlord And for the record.... PIZZA is not an appropriate compensation. Especially if someone is lactose intolerant!

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Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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O-1

Ok looks like people are not getting my comment. Being a judge in a hackathon is one of the criterion for O-1 visa. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-o-1-visa-easier-than-...

Ah now it makes sense why some of my colleagues were judging hackathons like crazy. TBH the number of O-1s being handed out is a joke. People 2 years out of college are getting O-1s for being able to call chatgpt APIs. I mean given the number of reviews I do on a regular basis for academic journals I guess I would qualify.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

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post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hackathons I have been forced to participate in always seemed like a cheap shot at labor and ideas from some corporate overlord And for the record.... PIZZA is not an appropriate compensation. Especially if someone is lactose intolerant!

It’s always Little Caesars too. At that point, I’d rather just have the $5 that the pizza cost.

The box it came in probably tastes better.

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

#88

cool wanna give me a reference so I can get in, do I have to phyiscally show up?

oh no applications are closed, bummer I was working on some ai stuff last week and on the weekend, its a shame that people that are working on AI stuff are too busy to notice events like this where some publicity or peer review or criticism might come handy

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

#89

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O-1

Ok looks like people are not getting my comment. Being a judge in a hackathon is one of the criterion for O-1 visa. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-o-1-visa-easier-than-...

wait what I didnt know this I mentored and judged at various hackathons in the USA, do people really care about what type of visa they get? Is this a thing in 2025?

Re: How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon

#90
post #55

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What would this realistically be rated on? If anything it seems like racial profiling

Pretty obvious— "Guys, this year we need a few people of color and especially women on the hackathon, I don't want another white wiener party!" So they artificially skew the participants by granting bonus points for any minority groups.

I like how your imagined DEI HR bureaucrat[1] engages in Asian erasure. 100% credible.

[1]in soul if not title

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