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Imperial College EEE Graduate

Engineering @ ARM 2012 & 2013

Machine Learning Engineer @ Startup 2014

Associate Product Manager @ Google 2015-Present

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www.wsj.com 5y ago

What's the Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy?

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medium.com 8y ago

ICOs and Economics of Lemon Markets

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Yahoo to Change Name to Altaba

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500hats.com 9y ago

The Unicorn Hedge

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newsroom.fb.com 10y ago

Facebook Messenger reaches 1B MAU

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Twitter Buys Magic Pony Technology for $150m

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www.kpcb.com 10y ago

KPCB 2016 Internet Trends Report

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www.stlouisfed.org 10y ago

Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing

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electionbettingodds.com 10y ago

Election Betting Odds

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Indonesia bans gay emoji and stickers from messaging apps

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www.sciencemag.org 10y ago

The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

Washington Post starts delivering news in HTTPS

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www.sidewalkinc.com 11y ago

Sidewalk Labs

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www.theguardian.com 11y ago

Oculus acquires British VR startup

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www.slideshare.net 11y ago

KPCB 2015 Internet Trends Report

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

Nobel laureate John F. Nash Jr. dies

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www.ft.com 11y ago

The mystery of billionaires’ long marriages

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cyngn.com 11y ago

​Cyanogen Announces Strategic Partnership with Microsoft

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time.com 11y ago

Is It Bad to Eat the Same Thing Every Day?

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googleresearch.blogspot.com 11y ago

Beyond Short Snippets: Deep Networks for Video Classification

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www.entrepreneur.com 11y ago

Multitasking Can Damage Your Brain and Career

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www.jnj.com 11y ago

Johnson and Johnson to collaborate with Google on surgical robotics

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www.bbc.co.uk 11y ago

Kraft Foods to merge with Heinz

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googlepress.blogspot.com 11y ago

Ruth Porat to Join Google as Chief Financial Officer

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spectrum.ieee.org 11y ago

The Race to Build a Search Engine for Your DNA

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www.economist.com 11y ago

The growing size of firms may help to explain rising inequality

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Leap Buses Are Coming to San Francisco

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www.bbc.co.uk 11y ago

Can the world get richer for ever?

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arxiv.org 11y ago

Google FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering

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www.economist.com 11y ago

Data-driven underwriting contains great promise and grave perils

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this makes sense, in 2018-2022, I would get tons of emails from recruiters at meta, doordash, snap, stripe etc now I barely see any (maybe they've given up )

My friends who are still at Google also say that most job postings will end up going to someone internally - in fact people say they don't do that many external interviews anymore.

Finally the interview cycle seems to take a lot longer than I remember with quite a few added rounds.

Claude 2.1 3 years ago

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

In case this is useful - I had end stage arthritis in one of my ankles and ended up getting a bipolar ankle allograft in San Diego at Scripps. I barely think about it nowadays except that sometimes after a long hike or strenuous workout it will feel a bit stuff. Considering I could barely walk before it was a night and day difference.

You essentially get a completely new joint surface from a donor and have to be in crutches for 3 months but it was 100% worth it for me. I refused to do fusion and avoided any doctor that said nothing could be done.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31045670/

Another solution for end stage ankle arthritis is distraction surgery but I didn't look into it much but it could be useful too: https://www.hss.edu/conditions_ankle-distraction-arthroplast...

I can confirm. Just moved from Zurich to San Francisco. Pretty much everything except rent is cheaper in San Francisco (food can be up to half price of what I paid in Zurich) but rent being such a major expense, it ends up being similar. Salaries are a bit higher in Switzerland though so one would save more on average there.

They democratically elected to basically jump off a cliff so you can't blame the media for having the time of it's life.

And referendums aren't always a good idea, prop 8 in CA was overturned because we eventually realised its a bad idea.

ok so I have an invite and it fails all questions except "Who is Bill Clinton"

Having tried it somewhat extensively I'm quite disappointed - I don't mean to say it's bad but that video was definitely curated in terms of questions.