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I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]

engineering.nyu.edu
3 points·by johntiger1·6 months ago·0 comments

The Demise of Symantec (2020)

forbes.com
3 points·by johntiger1·7 months ago·0 comments

What I vibe coded in a week (laid off MLE at Meta)

hermitian3.substack.com
1 points·by johntiger1·8 months ago·1 comments

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johntiger1
·26 days ago·discuss
Yeah i'm no fan of Elon but starlink is actually quite useful. It solves a real problem - I need network access anywhere on the globe, for any reason, at any time. they can easily charge what they wish for that (military, air travel, desert tourists etc.)
johntiger1
·last month·discuss
LLMs are creatures of statistics and probability - hard to enforce hard boundaries with them
johntiger1
·5 months ago·discuss
Google's only focus isn't on Gemini. Anthropic is do-or-die
johntiger1
·7 months ago·discuss
https://bobalearn.org/

Site where you can read and generate graded Chinese stories, in order to learn Chinese. What's a graded story? It's one written with the vocab of a {X} year old. Words are often repeated, so that you can learn from the left-and-right context. I normally pay for book versions of these, so I thought, why not make one that's online and free?
johntiger1
·11 months ago·discuss
Yeah principal EM is confusing here. Wouldn't EM I report to EM II? At Meta it's typically M1 -> M2
johntiger1
·6 years ago·discuss
Does this signal the start of something like a recession in tech?
johntiger1
·6 years ago·discuss
Dropbox cancelled its internship program, so not sure if they're doing "fine"
johntiger1
·6 years ago·discuss
Not sure why this is downvoted; Japan isn't significantly different from any of the places you mentioned
johntiger1
·6 years ago·discuss
You're confusing wealth with income
johntiger1
·6 years ago·discuss
Below market rate compared to other Big Ns. But Google is willing to play ball if you can get other offers/get a good recruiter
johntiger1
·7 years ago·discuss
For someone wondering "how is this different from screen?/ what problem does it solve?", this article was actually quite nice:

https://medium.com/@grassfedcode/what-could-be-better-than-s...