there is probably, legitimately, a market for this
There is. For yearly performance reviews.
Readit Newstriplee commented on A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts transformer.huggingface.c... · Posted by u/amai
triplee commented on A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts transformer.huggingface.c... · Posted by u/amai
Is this... a joke? Performance art?
Not snarking. I'm honestly more confused reading this than I was before.
triplee commented on Something Special Is Happening in Rural America nytimes.com/2019/09/17/op... · Posted by u/burritofanatic
Consumption of resources and cost are only weakly correlated. Urban areas are expensive because people want to live there, for example because that's where the jobs and the cultural life are. There are more efficient in terms of land and energy use as well as in terms of infrastructure cost per tax payer.
This and also poor zoning laws and NIMBYism allow for (and encourage) constant sprawl which also drives city prices up more because some people don't want to commute two hours each way.
Now that's the fun part of the cyberpunk timeline I was looking for.
triplee commented on Interesting Data Engineering Papers github.com/jarikoi/intere... · Posted by u/charlysl
Now this is good content. Thank you!
triplee commented on There are no adults in the room letterstoanewdeveloper.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
> So yeah, no different with what we do, since we're literally always building new things that haven't been done before.
"Where do people get the confidence to say that their work is so uniquely novel that it's "something that has never been done before in the history of the universe", that the field is obviously totally different from another field they know nothing about, etc. ?" --Dan Luu
I think it is less that these things "have never been done before" and more "we haven't bothered to learn anything from people who've done things like this before". Same with parenting.
That too, but also combined with having to balance that the people who did this before also did it in a different time with different resources and also have selective memories.
triplee commented on There are no adults in the room letterstoanewdeveloper.co... · Posted by u/mooreds
This is true in general. "Adults" are just an idea for kids to look up to.
This. I was going to say essentially the same thing.
Every adult who becomes a parent seems to realize very quickly that their parents also had no clue WTF was going on.
So yeah, no different with what we do, since we're literally always building new things that haven't been done before.
The sad irony is that the pattern of
- knowing the science enough to know they're contributing to others suffering
- knowing what might happen with reasonable certainty
- but compartmentalizing that awareness internally to avoid acting
- hiding it externally
- and keeping doing what they were doing
describes the reactions of most individuals about climate change.
Also sounds exactly like what happened with tobacco companies, lead in paint/gasoline, etc.
It's like we never learn and then those who are in charge made rules to make it even harder to learn as we went forward.
Also that humans are terrible at existential threats.
Some senior engineers have been in the game long enough that they could have a reputable cs degree without classes in DB or distributed systems. Now it seems less likely, but after teaching Java, C++, C, the other topics were electives.
This. Data engineering has ramped up significantly and if you want senior people you'll quickly run out of people who've been exclusively doing "big data" for 5+ years.
So your options are either senior software engineers who have done some data work (that's how I got to be a Data Engineer) or people who've been doing analytical data work (either in the traditional warehousing space or via science/insurance/finance type spaces) that are semi-technical but have no formal engineering background.
The former are people who went to college in the late 90s/early 2000s (like myself) when things were different. The latter need to hyperfocus on coming up to speed in engineering.
I reviewed this guide a couple months ago for my employer to consider as the basis of an internal bootcamp, and I'd note that it's perfect for the audiences I mentioned. Also, even for people with more up to date academic experience, note that the transactional database schemas that software normally deals with often look wildly different than analytical structures.
triplee commented on I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry networkingnerd.net/2019/0... · Posted by u/zdw
This! Ten times this! Single dependencies like this are absolutely a risk management issue.
I say this as someone who's both been a single point of failure at times (and learned my lesson) and someone who's had to clean up after piles of "clever" code that someone left behind when they got hired out somewhere else.