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mdcds commented on Ask HN: How do you stay productive after work hours?    · Posted by u/py4
mdcds · 3 years ago
> I see people report learning stuff, working on side projects, etc etc on HN. How?

1. people on the internet are full of shit

2. Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) takes a 3 hour break from work to, quote: "have dinner and spend time with family". Then has another work/thinking session. Give it a try. That's what I'm trying to do

mdcds commented on Disagreeable personalities do not have an advantage in power at work (2020)   pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/davidgerard
talentedcoin · 3 years ago
Strong disagree. It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable, and I personally find it frustrating when people excuse their behaviour in the manner you are doing. Yes work sucks, but being unpleasant, cynical and snarky just makes it even worse. Roll up your sleeves and help or please get out of the way.
mdcds · 3 years ago
> It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable,

-1 for strawman

disagreeing with someone and raking high on Disagreeableness BigFive trait are two different things

mdcds commented on Boston housing price dataset was removed from scikit-learn 1.2   github.com/scikit-learn/s... · Posted by u/ok123456
threeseed · 3 years ago
No. The dataset [1] defines B as:

1000(Bk - 0.63)^2 where Bk is the proportion of blacks by town

And not sure how anyone can argue the dataset is worthy of being included. It is pretty offensive and misguided at minimum to argue that having more black people in your neighbourhood will depress housing prices. And for it to be solely because they are black and not to do with a range of other factors e.g. socio-economic.

[1] http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/boston

mdcds · 3 years ago
data is just that, not an argument in itself. how you use it to disprove something is up to you.
mdcds commented on Ask HN: What about a job site that showed bid/ask spread for wages?    · Posted by u/janalsncm
skibidibipiti · 3 years ago
Levels.fyi and teamblind.com
mdcds · 3 years ago
I don't trust numbers on Blind.

But I do look at averages for a specific role at a specific company on Levels

mdcds commented on Ask HN: What about a job site that showed bid/ask spread for wages?    · Posted by u/janalsncm
mdcds · 3 years ago
People and jobs are non-fungible: no two candidates are identical, no two jobs are the same.

Bid/ask spreads make sense to me only in situations when fungible units of A are traded for fungible units of B.

mdcds commented on Ask HN: Is the industry saturated with data scientists already?    · Posted by u/legobridge
mdcds · 3 years ago
a side, but a sincere question: what do Data Scientists do and what can I expect one to produce as productive output?

I've worked as an SDE on data engineering projects myself (Spark / Hadoop stuff) and have friends who are ML researches and develop things like better recommendation results. Never met a data scientist.

mdcds commented on Ask HN: Given AI advancements, is a master’s degree in CS worthless?    · Posted by u/lisplist
y-c-o-m-b · 3 years ago
Interesting. My dad leads the AI division for a major tech company (one of the top 10) and loathes interviewing candidates with masters degrees for the same reason. "They are smart when it comes to research but fucking clueless for implementation" I believe were his exact words.

I'm a high school drop-out and I've been doing software dev for 17 years or so, currently a senior dev in FAANG. My experience with master's degree holders has been about the same and I often surpass them on teams I've been on when it comes to promotions or getting recognition. To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees.

mdcds · 3 years ago
> To be fair though, two of the most brilliant devs I've ever meet in my career had master's degrees

From what era / decade? World isn't static. MS is CS earned in 80s means a different thing than the one earned today

mdcds commented on A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)   blog.presentandcorrect.co... · Posted by u/irtefa
tabtab · 3 years ago
What's the sun-shaped thing in photo #2?
mdcds · 3 years ago
#2 links to atomic-energy.ru

So it's probably nuclear plant control console and I'm guessing nuclear fuel rods are represented by a dot inside the "sun" and rods themselves are suspended in some sort of a circular enclosure

mdcds commented on Tell HN: I am 12 and my GitHub account is flagged for no reason    · Posted by u/xiyueuyix
mdcds · 3 years ago
Is it illegal you use fake name and fake age on the internet? asking for a friend :)

u/mdcds

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