Oh gosh, the good old army and it's effective measurements techniques. I remember wanting to be a military officer after undergrad and getting disqualified at MEPS for a nonsense issue (which I'll omit for privacy) and the guy next to be getting green lit to continue processing with the Marines with a ...wait for it... 11/100 on the ASVAB.
Readit News1differential commented on Decades-long bet on consciousness ends nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/mellosouls
I wouldn't be surprised if consciousness ~conscience~ is just an emergent phenomenon resulting from any sufficiently powerful cognitive system (either biological or artificial) with sufficient inputs of its environment and, crucially, of itself. So as to be able to develop a rich model of itself and its relationship with its environment, and that thing will resemble a whole lot what we call consciousness ~conscience~. Then, of course, we will push the goalposts on what conscience is, so as to protect our fragile human egos.
EDIT: fixed spelling of consciousness. Apologies from an english second language speaker.
you would enjoy this video - https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/112wa88/argumen...
The NPTEL videos are a major public good.
It is a shame that for the longest time, MIT OCW's CS & Math lectures were the only high-quality course-videos on the internet. Leveraging the IIT system to get 100% course coverage over every possible engineering course is genius. It has democratized education better and earlier than any unicorn. (Coursera, Udacity, etc.). Everything from assignments to
It is an indictment of American universities that despite having the funding, resources and technology to do this a lot earlier, it was eventually a 3rd world country that pulled it off. All without any profit motive. "Non-profit universities"?, yeah right. Just take a look at the courses on offer - https://nptel.ac.in/courses . Every imaginable engineering specialization is on offer, down to the most obscure.
University classrooms do not seem to have caught up to just how easy it is to access this information. Most professors do not have the same caliber or flair to do better than the best NPTEL video. I would like to new coursework designed around integrating video lectures of this sort as integral part of engineering instruction, with the in-person professor taking on the role or assistance and disambiguation, rather than being an inferior repeater of the same information.
you sir, have ruined my weekend with a treasure trove of material.
Not to be confused with Iridium Communications
3-4 years ago I had such a bad experience interviewing with this company. The recruiter actively told me he was waiting to hear a response from someone else before extending me an offer, that eventually came in 40-60% below my expectation. Would love to work in this satellite communications field though if anyone has any other recommendations...
1differential commented on Ask HN: Any software engineers here that switched to a business/sales role? · Posted by u/Gooblebrai
Early in my career, I wanted to try one of SF's sales bootcamps because my idiot uncle was making > 400k in BD @microsoft. I was in my early twenties and all I saw was him wining & dining and making a lot of money doing it. Well for some reason, the sales bootcamp camp called a BD rep from a startup I was working at, and it turned out this guy and I didn't see eye to eye so he tanks my reputation to the bootcamp and I didn't get to move forward. I ended up having a nice career in tech over the last 15 years, I'm currently a staff engineer and interviewing for roles from senior staff to CTO level of startups but some part of me always wonders what if I was able to successfully pivot into sales...
1differential commented on Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: The IITs nber.org/papers/w31308... · Posted by u/kanodiaayush
I married someone from an IIT/IIM background and I think the public should really meet them and reduce this hype. My wife, while relatively smart and working at a FAANG - is not that smart (I'm trying to use my words respectfully). I've met many of her friends from a similar background from IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, and IIM-A. Infact the IIT-JEET exam is not even "that" competitive, I think a lot of people get caught up in their own smoke and believe millions of indians take it every year - the fact is that less people take the IIT-JEET (a couple of hundred thousand), than some of our exams here - like for law school and medical school. Overall, while I think my wife is a wonderful person, I would peg her and many of her classmates at the equilance of a UC Davis graduate - (Cal/Stanford alum myself, but going off reference points off my high school cohort).
1differential commented on Bullet Train – Rails-based SaaS framework bullettrain.co/... · Posted by u/bauerpl
So this seems like the Rails equivilant of JHipster - which is great because that's saved me weeks of development times 4-5 years ago.
1differential commented on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me? · Posted by u/nikhizzle
Oof. Are you going out for L6? Is the goal a big company, or a startup?
Reading all the comments in this thread, I wonder if there's some correlation to specific areas of the tech industry. e.g., Are people working in the AI space (or even something like ML infra) just inundated with job offers right now?
fwiw I'm a backend engineer - primarily building out services in Java/Scala/Go. I would say the market probably isn't as good as someone with a Masters/PhD looking for ML engineering roles, but that would be anecdotal after chatting with friends.
1differential commented on Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me? · Posted by u/nikhizzle
When you say low ball, do you mean compared to what FAANG companies pay (paid?) or do you mean compared to what non-tech Fortune 500 companies pay?
non-FAANG - I'm familiar with Disney's salary levels, and would say I'm getting offers at a level below what I would expect (or 40k-60k below on base).
And it isn't "x/100," i.e., got x questions right and everything else wrong. It's xth percentile, i.e., better than x% of graduating high school seniors.