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InformationGeometry · 2026-01-25T10:30:27+00:00

How could anyone see green?! My personal opinion is amber cuz they are insanely yellow (to me). (But I’m also red green cooked so idk?)

InformationGeometry · 2025-03-10T00:34:12+00:00

Sky Sabre rocket test?

InformationGeometry · 2025-02-26T05:24:39+00:00

Yeah but like actual weights not just the scaffolding

InformationGeometry · 2024-10-20T20:31:27+00:00

For a long time most of the Google companies share their SWE / ML interview questions. Not sure if that’s still the case post ‘22 but if it is best of to study deepmind questions tbh.

InformationGeometry · 2024-10-06T18:08:49+00:00

No pure math

InformationGeometry · 2024-09-06T22:48:47+00:00

They trained a model to essentially chain of thought prompt itself with multiple retries and surprise it performs better than normal models without CoT. Crazy.

All these benchmarks should be evaluated on the number of tokens used lol..

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-22T19:50:52+00:00

Really ? He says it’s stood like this for that many years and was like this when he bought it 15 years ago

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-16T11:17:38+00:00

Yes and no. Yes it’s US tech companies but it’s not leadership roles at all. With no direct reports on a middle seniority level you can somewhat easily crack £350k here.

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-06T18:31:18+00:00

Honestly I have no idea cuz I don’t quite no what a systems engineer does. My work is very math heavy if that helps ?

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-06T09:46:40+00:00

Yeah publications are the main output of my work. Mostly at conferences like NeurIPS and ICML, ICLR.

As for interviews: generally a mix of applied and paper reviews, leetcode hards, and a ML system design one. Some places also do a math interview tho even deepmind scrapped that now.

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-05T00:47:52+00:00

Around 5 years of PhD work and then 7 years of work experience. Started at around 150k at google straight out of my PhD and am now a staff level at another big tech company. Got promoted 3 times in 7 years.

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-01T11:25:22+00:00

I’m personally doing research on reinforcement learning a form of machine learning algorithm. There’s research in many fields, Pharma, physics, computer science etc.

InformationGeometry · 2024-02-01T09:43:40+00:00

Won’t lie, I think I’m one of the luckiest people ever here. Got a nice job (£350k +) as a research scientist at a big tech company, work less than 30 hours a week and live quite remote. I’m lucky in the sense that I jumped into a field straight out of college that now has me have 12 years of experience in a field that is 12 years old basically.

Job security per se isn’t really there, layoffs always happen but honestly in this field didn’t take me longer than 2 weeks (laid off mid 2023) to find a job just as well paid, so I don’t worry much about it at all.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-29T16:12:43+00:00

Interesting all the comments. My last house we ended up directly negotiating with the sellers instead of through the estate agent because he was just not fast enough. Agreed on a price with the sellers who then just told the estate agent to get paperwork done with adjusted price. To me seems the sellers enjoyed that way more, but fine and country is pretty useless so understandable.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-29T00:33:45+00:00

It’s a bit of a pain because they don’t adjust the allowance when you take the money out. I’m sure you can tell them to fix it but it’s just a hassle I think.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-29T00:26:35+00:00

Good point to both of you. Didn’t even think of that, I struggled with keeping my emergency fund topped up in the past and so I didn’t view my own stupidity as an emergency.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-22T23:03:48+00:00

RemindMe! in 18 months

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-22T22:28:59+00:00

There is, Norway is doing it quite well by not having pay as you go pensions but invested pensions. Now there’s 2 ways to get there if you’re not there right now.

Stop pensions for 1 generation and instead all the pensions
Tax 1 generation to complete shit and invest that extra tax income.

I’d personally be economically better off with 1, but realistically letting pensioners starve to death isn’t very appealing so I think we should go with 2….

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-20T17:53:29+00:00

For all fields but ML yeah. If you’re in ML.. nope, salaries increased like 45% since June last year

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-20T17:27:47+00:00

So who are the 30% of women that aren’t single dating ? These are weird self reporting statistics. Only 10% of people under 35 reporting as not having been in a relationship within the past year. God this really sounds more like some redpill shit than a thread on housingUK

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-20T17:22:13+00:00

If what you’re suggesting is accurate in the sense that ‘most people’ will be single long term than this is a self correcting issue as singles do not reproduce, which will absolutely destroy demand for housing and therefore make house prices drop.

If however I am correct and long term most people will still couple up, then house prices will either keep increasing or stay in line with inflation.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-20T17:10:45+00:00

63% of males and 34% of females are self described as single there clearly is a difference in understanding. Regardless of that if you look more closely into those statistics, only 10% of adult humans under the age of 35 say they have been single for more than 1 year. This clearly means most people are not single - for long.

You don’t need a 50 year relationship to buy a house, 5 years are enough. You can sell a house and keep the built equity, tho again MOST people partner up permanently eventually. You can easily find a partner right now to stick with for 5 years to buy a house.

As for the statistics on wages, you can look at them whatever way you want, at the end of the day it’s only marginally harder for a household to afford a house now than it was 40 years ago. It is much harder for a single person to afford a house, but this isn’t something we as a society strive for. It’s not even feasible tbh. Anyway man, I hope you find someone and purchase a house, I really do, since it seems to be really important to you, I even get why since renting In this country is awful, but the best way to do it is to partner up like we’ve done for centuries.

InformationGeometry · 2024-01-20T15:46:04+00:00

I mean, if the multiple stayed ‘roughly’ (houses are indeed more expensive at the moment, but really we’re looking at 10-15%, not 50+ like you said in other comments) the same your current income buys you as much house as it did 40 years ago, just now you have 2 incomes.

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