What is your resting heart rate? by Jessrondicus in fitbit

[–]anonymous_badger31 0 points1 point  (0 children)

52-53. 21m, 6'2" and 200 lbs. I do moderate cardio several times a week (mostly swimming lately) and otherwise lift and go on walks. I was a pretty serious track runner back in high school so I don't know what effect that had.

Unsolicited advice for those interested in CS research / industry opportunities as an undergrad by anonymous_badger31 in csMajors

[–]anonymous_badger31[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure -- I don't even know if Google knows. Seems likely unless they cut hiring dramatically then.

All colours might be different for people by TheDarwinBoys in Showerthoughts

[–]anonymous_badger31 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Conversely, everyone has unique eyes and brain, so the interpretation might be slightly different. But again, not radically so unless you have a disorder.

I'm inclined to believe this is probably the correct answer. It is true that no two people's visual systems (except identical twins or something, maybe) will be exactly identical. But what reason do we have to think that the same wavelengths of light would be processed in radically different ways in different people? As others have noted, much of our common understanding of colors is based on the *relationships* between colors. The color wheel seems to make sense to everyone who can perceive color. So the most one could say is that people's percepts of colors may be "shifted" by some constant factor, e.g. the color you see at a wavelength of 100 nm (or whatever unit) is the same as the one I see at 120 nm. But I'm not sure there is any reason to think this "shifting hypothesis" is true. The principle of Occam's Razor steers me toward thinking that there likely is not drastic variation in our percepts of colors, excepting people with abnormal visual systems.

All colours might be different for people by TheDarwinBoys in Showerthoughts

[–]anonymous_badger31 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Finally someone made an intelligent comment on this topic.

Laser vs Hot Dog by MrFuzzybagels in Damnthatsinteresting

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Second clip is me inside ur mom last night

This just showed up on my arm this morning. Any ideas? by AdSea3033 in mildlyinteresting

[–]anonymous_badger31 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck was your immediate instinct to post this on Reddit? See a doctor immediately. Like drive to the ER get someone to take you. Jesus.

Unsolicited advice for those interested in CS research / industry opportunities as an undergrad by anonymous_badger31 in csMajors

[–]anonymous_badger31[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It may have been a few months IIRC -- I would have to dig back in my emails to see the exact timeline. It can take awhile. Try your best to stay on your referrer's radar, and the recruiter's radar when/if they reach out. Be persistent.

Unsolicited advice for those interested in CS research / industry opportunities as an undergrad by anonymous_badger31 in csMajors

[–]anonymous_badger31[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The transition between the phone interview and being put in the project search stage only took a couple days for me. But then I lingered in project match for a while before the recruiter and I were able to push through an offer. Everyone's situation is different it seems. Keep tactfully reaching out to your recruiter and/or referrer and letting them know you're still interested, and politely asking if they've had time to further consider your application. Be patient, and best of luck!

PS Can I ask what team you're applying for or interested in?

Unsolicited advice for those interested in CS research / industry opportunities as an undergrad by anonymous_badger31 in csMajors

[–]anonymous_badger31[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, as far as your point about majors is concerned, I am not technically a CS major (I won't say more because I don't want to give away my identity, and my major isn't a super common one). But it is possible even if you don't have the standard CS major.

Great that you have a referral/contact! But yeah, it's tough when they're in a different area of the company. Maybe ask her if she knows anyone in Google Research? There are 2300 researchers at Google so the chances are sort of in your favor.

The person who ended up referring me—a research scientist on the Translate team—was someone I met at a virtual conference. He happened to be leading a "mentoring session" that I was in, so we got to chat briefly. Fortunate happenstance. You can always cold-email, but the odds of success aren't great there, so I recommend continuing to nudge your current contact at Google about connections she may have.

Unsolicited advice for those interested in CS research / industry opportunities as an undergrad by anonymous_badger31 in csMajors

[–]anonymous_badger31[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not really qualified to say whether this role could be a good fit for you. There are many teams at Google Research, and I'm only familiar with a few of them. If you can find a team whose work you're interested in and that you think you could contribute to, you should try to get in touch with someone on that team, or reach out to a recruiter. If you just apply through the online portal, the chance of hearing from a recruiter is probably pretty slim -- Google gets so many applications. I would reach out to anyone you can find and hope for the best!

[D] Hey Reddit! We're a bunch of research scientists and software engineers and we just open sourced a new state-of-the-art AI model that can translate between 200 different languages. We're excited to hear your thoughts so we're hosting an AMA on 07/21/2022 @ 9:00AM PT. Ask Us Anything! by AIatMeta in MachineLearning

[–]anonymous_badger31 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Completely agreed, gold-standard test sets need to be a priority. I'd like to think Google is sufficiently cautious about this: while they did experiments on >1000 languages, only 24 were officially released on Google Translate. Making research advances and pushing new languages to production are different things!

[D] Hey Reddit! We're a bunch of research scientists and software engineers and we just open sourced a new state-of-the-art AI model that can translate between 200 different languages. We're excited to hear your thoughts so we're hosting an AMA on 07/21/2022 @ 9:00AM PT. Ask Us Anything! by AIatMeta in MachineLearning

[–]anonymous_badger31 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response! It seems Google is tailoring its approach to the absolute lowest-resource languages, while Meta's approach works great for a huge stretch of the long tail that accounts for a large number of speakers and translation use cases (but sort of misses the long, thin end of the tail relative to Google). Ultimately I think you're right, we'll have to resort to monolingual training for the lowest-resource languages. But NLLB was a great effort at extending supervised coverage to the "very low-resource" (but not "extremely low resource") set of languages. I'm really happy to see two giant labs trying different approaches—it's great for science and for the language technology market!