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Interview behavior is certainly a reflection; presence of a whiteboard, on the other hand, tells you absolutely nothing about the quality of the workplace.

Is yahoo still generating revenue?

Is yahoo still profitable?

Revenue is different from profit. It seems like last year their revenue was about 2.5 billion and their profit was around 23 million - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/annual-report-2019-outlook-20...

Are you really offering an easy setup to the senior devops person? I'm sure they can figure things out.

Something to keep in mind - experienced devops and security experts are extremely valuable, at the same time ML beginners are in oversupply. Do you really want to put yourself at a massive disadvantage in the near to medium term, especially if the future of ML is kind of uncertain while with your other skillset you can have a pretty stable career?

As someone working in ML (a couple of years of experience), I'd much rather be in your position than mine.

Old design + Reddit Enhancement Suite is the only decent way to use reddit right now.

Managing the resources on the planet in a way that every human being has good quality of life and doing this in a way that's sustainable in the long term and without resorting to oppression, dictatorships or active population reduction.

It's pseudoscience and there are no degrees in it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

I read the post and still have no idea what point it's trying to convey apart from a general sense of smugness.

At the end of my programming day, I want to look on something that is beautiful. I don’t particularly care about how useful a chunk of code is or how much money it might make, or what silly little business problem it solves. If the damn code is ugly I don’t want to see it.

I can't relate to this at all.

As much as I like 3blue1brown, watching those videos is not a good way to learn. It's maybe a good way to get some intuition about a topic and much closer to the "infotainment" category. A good textbook + solving problems + maybe writing code works much better for actual learning.

Simply switching devices helps. If it's after 5pm and I don't have any meetings or tasks that I can complete by 6pm, I turn off the work laptop and put it away until the next morning.

People who are moving out of big cities - how long do you expect to stay with the same company and remote?

Your question is almost orthogonal to the way AI is developed. It starts with the task and the AI algorithm is specialised to it. In that sense, we have AI that has not just human but superhuman performance in tasks like playing chess for example, and we're working on many other tasks.

AI that resembles human intellect in the general sense is still just a dream. And we're not remotely close to even knowing how to approach this problem, let alone solve it.

Similar situation - still sharing in London and thinking how for the same amount I can have a whole flat to myself somewhere else in the UK. It's kind of difficult to plan things if I expect to move back to London in 6 months or so.

There's way more to optimization than what's used in deep learning, especially if OP is interested in operations research.

Numerical Optimization - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-40065-5

You'll need multivariable calculus and linear algebra as prerequisites.

Software developer is not a description, it's a title. It's okay if it doesn't perfectly indicate the domain and tech stack that you work with.

And should they be able to do all or any of this?

Personally, I don't think they should which is why I wouldn't work for anyone who tried to enforce this. It would be a massive red flag if an employer brought this up. Also, the companies that manage remote well know this and none of them are implementing invasive monitoring. The ones that try it are a small number of short-sighted old-fashioned shops that feel like they're losing control if an employee is remote and are desperately tring to gain that control back.

71% chance of victory, which is anomalously low chance given current polling data.

Your question is based on 71% being low, which I don't think it's true. It's way way higher than I would expect or predict and certainly higher than what the polls indicate. Have a look at 538's methodology for creating it and also look at Nate Silver's article on how you shouldn't count Trump out yet.

As far as Taleb goes - who cares, the more people ignore him, the better.

Do you already have a degree in mechanical engineering? If you do, you will likely be able to switch to software without doing another full undergraduate course.

I don't know anything about instagram's infrastructure but what I can tell you for certain is that every one of these companies has legacy infrastructure

So you don't know anything about Instagram but at the same time know for certain that they have legacy infrastructure that keeps them from meeting legal requirements? How about we don't give them a pass just because it requires a bit of work to comply with laws and regulations.

but I can equally make a case why moving to a city to pay high rent prices seems kind of dumb.

No one moves to a city to pay high rent prices. The higher rent is a tradeoff that you make for certain benefits of living in a big city (which may or may not be worth it for each individual). My point was that when you move to a remote location purely for the lower cost (which people do), you're making another set of tradeoffs that are often ignored.

Not moving at all because I'm remote temporarily and I'll likely have to move back to a big city in a few months.

Another thing to consider is that if you're young and don't have a family yet, moving to a remote location where you'll be completely alone just so you can pay less for rent seems kind of dumb.

Yet another thing - nobody's job is all that secure right now. Even if attitudes towards remote work have changed, a big city is still your best chance of finding work. So if you're laid off in near the future, living in the middle of nowhere will only make things worse.

The job description doesn't sound like analytics at all, it's for a software engineer with machine learning experience.

1. Needs a back button.

2. It might be more illustrative if the transposed vectors pass over the matrix one by one. In the default example - you take the [2 6 1] vector and show how its dot products populate the final matrix, then do the same for the [5 7 8] vector. That's closer to the way I think about matrix multiplication.

Is the mention of data science in the readme an indicator of future work that you want to add? Because as far as I can see there's no data science anywhere in the project so far.

Have you seen Whirlwind Tour of Python by the same author? - https://jakevdp.github.io/WhirlwindTourOfPython/

A Whirlwind Tour of Python is a fast-paced introduction to essential features of the Python language, aimed at researchers and developers who are already familiar with programming in another language. The material is particularly designed for those who wish to use Python for data science and/or scientific programming

No. Their assets are increasing by tens of millions every year - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti.... They'll be fine without my $5.

What would be good chat software today that focuses on 1:1 messages (not groups/channels)?

The premise of the question is that direct messages are somehow different and require a separate application. I don't think that's true. Slack and Teams do an absolutely fine job at 1:1 messages.

It's difficult to have a win-win situation when one of the three sides is getting paid a massive cut continuously without contributing anything. Next time give your friend a one-off finder's fee upfront and deal exclusively with the client from there.

And I am willing to go as low as $15

So if they offered you $14 an hour, you would drop the project? Despite working for $9 so far and having another client at $10? You'd better be able to walk away from this or your leverage is non-existent.

Answering this question directly is a such an obvious trap, I'm surprised they fell for it.