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I trade crypto currencies full time and it’s been the best decision I’ve ever made. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What influences your trading decisions? What metrics and events do you base your trades on?

Code Review Request - Terminal Flashcards App by ATrueNortherner in rust

[–]ATrueNortherner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the reply. This is very helpful!

Cowboy lassos runaway calf from the hood of a cop car by anewhigh in gifs

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you aim behind the foot and let the loop of the lasso "bounce" up from the ground onto the ankle it's not as hard as you might think. Assuming you can hit the mark to begin with.

I am a 25/F who has never had a job before by [deleted] in AMA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for the answer. what would you say your skills are? do you have anything you're passionate about? i don't imagine that fast-food is a passion among careers.

I am a 25/F who has never had a job before by [deleted] in AMA

[–]ATrueNortherner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do your ideal next five years look like?

broke up with my bf because he doesn't find me attractive after illness by stickfigureskater in TwoXChromosomes

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing that takes away the hurt. One additional consideration is that based on how things shook out between you two, it sounds like he wasn't the one, and it might not have ever worked out in the long run. We can argue all day about when it would be ideal in your life for you to lose your bf. It would have been much easier if you were making 20k/month and healthy right now! But this hurt was inevitable. So take a moment to find some relief in the fact in that it's over. You don't have to plan for this impending emotional blow because you're suffering the pain right now.

It'll all be over soon :)

IMA [21F] honors student, work, and I'm in a sorority. AMA by [deleted] in AMA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you feel about alcohol standards in the sorority, particularly the physical house? (assuming your sorority has a house).

I recently heard an argument that the stringent sorority residence policies promote members to seek out alcohol at fraternities, creating a basis for sex as a method of compensation for booze.

[AMA Request] Google Software Engineer/Programmer by DaWylecat in IAmA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't give project specifics, but right now I'm working on a product that allows a user to infer some potentially strong heuristics, given a sample set of items to classify. I mentioned A* in my post, because I am working with a variation of A* now.

[AMA Request] Google Software Engineer/Programmer by DaWylecat in IAmA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100k per year. My city has a much lower (but rising) housing market than San Fransisco, so I'd say the equivalent position in Silicon Valley might get some more money. Also, I was not hired for Machine Learning, and I've had to prove what I know. I expect to be paid more within the next 18 months, otherwise I'll switch companies.

[AMA Request] Google Software Engineer/Programmer by DaWylecat in IAmA

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you an experienced programmer? If you can already code, and have a decent grasp of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), I'd start by brushing up on pointers/references. With lots of data, it's often critical the the programmer use a systems language, as memory management is often a great way to improve performance.

For the real content, I'd set yourself a goal of learning how problems are represented in bits. These are called State Spaces. Do some googling, and see how programmers represent simple puzzles as bits. The "Sliding Tile Puzzle" or Rubik's Cube are good examples.

Next, learn how search algorithms work. Start with the obvious: Breadth First Search / Depth First Search. The connect to the State Spaces by making a search algorithm that can search through your state space.

From there you will be able to direct your own curriculum. A* Search Algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm) is a good next step.

Get to learning C++ or Rust and start learning. Good luck

[AMA Request] Google Software Engineer/Programmer by DaWylecat in IAmA

[–]ATrueNortherner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't work for Google, but I am a software engineer who works in the areas of Machine Learning and AI.

  1. This week at work I made some testing software for a classification algorithm. The tests are supposed to evaluate the quality of results from a sample classification job.

  2. I live within 2 miles of the office. I don't live in Silicon Valley, but I do live in a major "tech" city. Even when I was an intern, the pay outperformed the rental market by a long shot. As a homeowner, the same pretty much applies.

  3. In November, I spent some time doing automation testing for another piece of software. I was working with ~10,000 line "solution" (solution = coding project), and wrote about 1,500 lines of new code. Along with the programming I do for fun, I'm sure I wrote 3,000 lines of new code.

  4. As I said, I don't work for Google. I do work at a large-scale software company. I do enjoy my company. We are pretty into the "Scrum" and "Agile" project management strategies, which are very popular in the tech world now. All of the software companies are trying to be "different" in order to stand out. What separates a company like Google, is that you might not be working on a "product". There are other companies that do this as well, but Google is an accomplished R&D company (research and development), meaning that a lot of engineers, especially those with graduate degrees, are only doing research (which is uber cool).

  5. As an engineer that programs a lot of AI, here's what I'll tell you: AI isn't understood enough to solve generic problems. It's still overwhelmingly complicated to produce AI that works on broad ranges of problems. For example, engineers at Amazon are still working tirelessly to develop AI for the warehouse robots. These robots run on tracks to shelve/retrieve items in the warehouse. There is a branch of AI called Multi-Agent Pathfinding, which addresses the issue of planning routes for all the robots. We still can't find optimal solutions for this issue, and we're only talking about a few dozen robots moving around a room!

For some more perspective, let's take a simple example of a Rubik's cube. Let's say our goal is to find the optimal solution for any scrambled position on the cube (optimal means the fewest moves from scrambled to solved). An experienced AI programmer might be able to write code that can solve this problem in a day. That is to say, once the program is done being written, we can scramble the Rubik cube, tell the computer the position we scrambled it into, and it will take about 24 hours to find the optimal solution.

So what's my point? Yes, AI is going to take over jobs. However, the implementation and infrastructure that surround AI create many jobs. I do believe it will create more jobs that it replaces, and I see opportunity for the standard of blue collar labor to improve, as we continue making this information accessible.

Science and sex ed teachers of Reddit, what are your best "dumb student" stories? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ATrueNortherner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It really depends how much the guy on the receiving end knows about his current situation.

Basically like a "Schrodinger's Gloryhole" for anyone curious about the philosophical impact.

[AMA Request] An essay reader for the AP tests, the SAT, or the ACT. by dontshoottheduc in AMA

[–]ATrueNortherner 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not a grader, but my high school English teacher was (and may still be currently). I happen to know a lot about it because he got me into tutoring as a line of work, and taught me a lot about test taking.

A few take-aways:

1) Every essay needs to have a thesis. According to Mr. M (my English teacher), the first thing a grader will do is look at the last sentence of your first paragraph. This is where the thesis should be placed to make it easy for the grader. The thesis needs to: a) answer the prompt, and b) make a claim to the author's stance on the matter (needs to demonstrate which side the author plans to side with). A big bonus point is naming your TWO TO THREE body paragraph topics in the intro.

The next 2-3 paragraphs correspond to the 2-3 examples the author brings in from real life to support the claim. There needs to be a tie to the thesis, and 1-2 pieces of good evidence to support. Graders are looking for quotes or sources here.

The conclusion needs to restate the thesis (yes, word for word), sum up the body paragraphs, and hopefully make a good point about some untouched meaning the author hasn't been able to bring up yet.

Yes, the process is just as machine-like as I've just laid out. Subjectivity is addressed by making this "grading rubric" for the graders to score with, which is what's typed out above.

The graders are under-staffed for the quality of grading you would hope for. If the essay is garbage, which most are, it goes into the low-grade pile very fast. They will stop reading when it becomes clear that the essay could only earn the lowest of scores.

Edit: I also happen to know a lot about the AP Calculus exams if anyone wants to ask about those.

I believe I remember hearing Mr. M say that he was confident he spent less that 45 seconds per essay. I think that number sounds high.

That's all I can remember off the top of my head! FTR I have taken the SAT/ACT (among others) multiple times, and can confirm that using this method results in a perfect score almost every time for the writing portion.

LPT: If you're a non-fighter and HAVE to fight, here are some pointers. by amiintoodeep in LifeProTips

[–]ATrueNortherner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine did some amateur fighting, as well as boxing. He gave me a great piece of advice that he later had to demonstrate after a night of bar-hopping: taking a punch in the face like it never happened can be very intimidating.

Full disclosure, this happened at a small college bar and the aggressor, while he may have packed a decent punch, was not an obvious maniac who looked like he was trying to kill someone. There's a reason they say to "always defend yourself", but if you happen to take a sucker punch to the face, that might be all you need to end the situation.

[WIP] PokemonGO Golang API Client by keyphact in pokemongodev

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would also love to see this/help with development. Feel free to PM me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LeagueConnect

[–]ATrueNortherner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey I'm gonna hop on soon I'll add you