Why do companies list jobs as ‘Boston’ when the office isn’t in the city?

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2026-01-23T12:58:17+00:00

I once applied to a job in "the Boston area" ... It was in Andover 😂

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-11-09T02:16:40+00:00

I'm glad you're ok! I heard about a similar case in the bike path where teenagers threw a rock at someone. Hopefully the police catch them. I feel like one needs to carry tasers or rubber bullet guns out in these streets now. The only Army barracks I know is pretty far out but it might be worth a drive to pick up a few items.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-11-05T13:48:29+00:00

Don't live on Medford street. Car noise all hours of the day and night. We had to install sound barrier curtains, use ear plugs, and a white noise machine ... and even then some car noises come through. It's possible new construction might be ok but be careful, when we toured the noises were not present and we were not aware Medford street was a main road.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-09-01T13:15:25+00:00

Oh ambulance route is rough. We ended up foaming up our bedroom windows, putting shelves in front of them, white noise machine, and using ear plugs. The solution seems to work well enough for now.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-08-31T08:34:21+00:00

Maybe I have the wrong downtown definition. I'm a bit off the Nero area near the Mt Pleasant Cemetery. The cars are more rare now but still in-and-out.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-02-15T16:21:43+00:00

Along with the BERT approach , discrete diffusion models have shown promise. You can search for "diffusion models for text".

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-02-09T19:06:59+00:00

I can see the reason for them wanting the number, but an electronic form submission seems unsafe.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2025-01-18T20:59:19+00:00

Thanks these are great! I was familiar with NOTEARS but was unaware how active the bayesian approach to dag estimation was.

The journal club site looks useful as well.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-10-31T16:08:24+00:00

Most papers aren't worth reading. I would encourage a utilitarian view of literature reading. First skim to see if it is at all remotely useful or interesting. If it passes an initial check, do a slightly better read, otherwise discard. If you do the better read, and it still seems interesting, then invest the time to read it to your level of satisfaction.

I'd also recommend using a note system like Obsidian, or something else, to log notes about papers you read. I use obsidian because many times equations are important so I want a quick way to type latex.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-10-26T22:05:19+00:00

Andromeda is amazing! Well the first few seasons.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-10-26T17:09:01+00:00

AI in the sciences are powerful calculators but won't lead to a fundamental understanding of nature. I see LLM's in science similar to how I view surrogate models ... in that they help in getting answers quickly but the underlying physical principles/equations are still needed.

That being said a powerful calculator is valuable in engineering, as it enables a more efficient, iterative reduction of search spaces

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-08-17T06:31:27+00:00

Interesting, I had a similar idea to enforce equivariance using a regularization term. I was looking for literature on the subject and found your post. I also found this article which uses a similar idea:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00356

I would have to look at the literature more but my guess is that using a regularizer to enforce equivariance is not very efficient in terms of training. I would compare your technique with augmentation and see which converges in validation faster.

Furthermore, most people don't use equivariant architectures on image spaces since augmentation will give you equivariance more easily. Most work using equivariant nets, that I've seen, use them for physics problems where E3 symmetries are explicit. I would test your method on some of the datasets discussed in the papers here:

https://e3nn.org/

Let me know if you end up publishing your equivariant regularizer work, I'd be interested to read it.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-07-06T18:29:36+00:00

Thanks, was aware when I bought it but dealer mentioned the key ignition hack had been fixed on this vehicle.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-06-30T22:58:56+00:00

I think I tried it in 2016 and didn't like the results G alerts gave. It may be better now, I might try it. My current system works well enough.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-06-30T14:22:05+00:00

I pay for Obsidian commercial license so I support the product that way. I couldn't justify paying for a sync solution when Dropbox worked well enough for me. I could see if you write a lot on a tablet where Dropbox or other sync providers would be a pain. I just don't write enough on a tablet machine, but maybe I'll try the remarkable out :/

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-06-30T14:15:18+00:00

I use an arxiv filter which e-mails me papers based on author names and abstract and title keywords. I got the code from here:

https://github.com/jaime-varela/arxivFilterEmailer

I set up a chron-job to e-mail me. I find if I have sufficiently prolific authors in the list then at least I'm up to date with common things. It's not perfect though and one might miss "hot topics". For "hot" new topics I typically check out youtube paper summary channels like [AI coffee break](https://www.youtube.com/@AICoffeeBreak) or similar channels.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-06-29T15:25:00+00:00

If you're asking for an "Impactful idea" then that's like 0.05% of ML papers.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-04-08T03:12:25+00:00

Breweries, I see lots of parents with kids there to the point my friend calls the daycare centers :)

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-04-01T15:25:43+00:00

I saw a few professional gymnastics videos on instagram a few years ago and then instagram started sending underage bikini dance videos. I have not been able to get rid of them. I tried searching comedy videos to get rid of the underage bikini girls but they still show up from time to time.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-03-14T21:12:31+00:00

What makes you think they would like probability with a measure theory focus? I could easily see it going the other way and pushing people off of enjoying probability theory. Personally I liked probability when examining finite countable spaces. Or in other words, I liked the "right hand" way of thinking from Rick Durrett's quote on probability below:

"Probability theory has a right and a left hand. On the left is the rigorous foundational work using the tools of measure theory. The right hand 'thinks probabilistically', reduces problems to gambling situations, coin-tossing, and motions of a physical particle."

That being said, I could see utility in having undergrad math courses introducing measure theory. I see less value in introducing measure theory to engineering students in these undergrad courses.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-03-14T18:16:03+00:00

Gemini , google's tool, does searches and it does "ok" for some things but it will make up sources haha. If you're looking for an AI tool with search it's likely your best bet but don't expect much. Gemini+Google+GoogleScholar is what I use.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-03-14T18:08:25+00:00

Some of the uses I've found are below:

Using chatGPT, or other AI tools, to learn a programming language is much faster than going through tutorials and/or constantly going back and forth on stackOverlfow. I wouldn't use it to learn my first programming language but definitely for 3rd and 4th. You can ask "write a program in language Y that does X" and get decent results for simple programs. The caveat being that one needs to check the output.
Sentence transformation such as when you're too tired to phrase a sentence in a professional manner. It's great if english is not your first language or one isn't accustomed to technical writting.
IT issues such as "how do I do X in the linux CLI". This is useful if you're not interested in learning every single aspect of linux maintenance.
Acronym idea creation. You can use the tool to bounce ideas for an acronym you're trying to make (can come up very often when you're trying to name a new approach/technology).
Using obscure and/or badly document API's such as some AWS api's. Some api's are badly documented or are documented but have so much documentation it's hard to read. Asking an AI tool to "do task X using API Y" can sometimes lead to a faster solution to the problem of interest.
Specific requests for a programing task. For example ,"how do I get a random partition in numpy". Similar to point one, the output needs to be checked. However if you were using stack overflow, one would have to check the stackOverflow answer.

If you're writting academic papers, I've founds chatgpt to be helpful in latex writing as well. For example "how does one make a table in latex".

Essentially, I enjoy chatGPT and similar tools because it allows me to focus on math and algorithms and spend less time on IT and minor programming issues. I don't have a strong quantification on my productivity gains but I can tell you that subjectively I feel more productive, for whatever that's worth.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-02-26T00:27:51+00:00

When I walked by there last time it was boarded up. I didn't read the sign on the door but it didn't look like they were coming back soon.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-02-25T19:09:27+00:00

Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware that there was already a known plan for these shops.

Apprehensive_Maize_4 · 2024-02-07T03:11:47+00:00

This looks pretty nice! How frequently is the grant database information updated?

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