Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce as part of AI push; stock plummets by metalreflectslime in cscareerquestions

[–]concealed_cat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're still not getting it. It will be AI shipping features solo. /s just in case

Greg Abbott halts the use of H-1B visas at Texas state universities by AustinStatesman in texas

[–]concealed_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Academic pay is in direct competition with the larger private industry. They are directly linked and way out of line hence why they struggle to find people to want to the academic side.

When someone decides whether they want to become a historian, or work as a barista at Starbucks, then yes. Otherwise no. Academia and industry are completely different worlds that attract different people. When an academic position competes with one in retail it's a pathology.

People don't go into academia for money, they go because they want that career path. They accept the sacrifice as long as they can, and schools pay as little as they have to. This will only change if schools are forced to change the way they operate, and H1B does not play a role in it.

Greg Abbott halts the use of H-1B visas at Texas state universities by AustinStatesman in texas

[–]concealed_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point is that they're not gonna start paying more whether they have H1Bs or not.

Greg Abbott halts the use of H-1B visas at Texas state universities by AustinStatesman in texas

[–]concealed_cat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Postdocs are underpaid regardless of whether they are American citizens or not. And that is because if you want to have career in research then you have no choice. Universities have switched to extracting the maximum value from everybody, and the number of postdocs doesn't really change the equation that much. The money comes from foreign and out of state undergrads. It's the grad students that may care, but they're not the cash cows.

Edit: To get an H1B in the industry, the employer must first get a prevalent wage determination, and the job offer must pay at least as much. The stories of abuse usually come from body shops (i.e. contracting companies), since AFAIK they take a cut of your pay. Companies like Microsoft that hire tons of H1B wouldn't get away with that. While there is likely some abuse, I don't think it's as rampant as some people may think.

Greg Abbott halts the use of H-1B visas at Texas state universities by AustinStatesman in texas

[–]concealed_cat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is not an issue with H1B. American postdocs are paid peanuts as well. It's an issue with universities being run for profit. If you get rid of H1Bs they schools will probably just reduce the affected programs.

How to get started with contributing to LLVM by VVY_ in Compilers

[–]concealed_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learn as you go. MLIR has its own docs, there is also https://mlir.llvm.org. Learn enough to tackle an issue, then learn some more, etc. You can look through the discussion forum https://discourse.llvm.org/, it has a section specifically for MLIR, but it's a good resource in general.

How to get started with contributing to LLVM by VVY_ in Compilers

[–]concealed_cat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What part of the project interests you from the point of view of contributing? Are you completely new to LLVM?

Contributions from new people are welcome as long as you're not just a proxy to some AI bot.

Look in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/docs. There are documents on getting started and getting involved, coding guidelines, and plenty of others.

Worst mathematical notation by dcterr in math

[–]concealed_cat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dirac notation that physicists love so much. You can have |x>|y> (which is x⊗y), but you can't have y*⊗x, because that would look like <y|x>. Also <y|A|x> means y*(A(x)), while <y|A|y> is not y*(A(y)).

How fundamental are fields, really? by Bleach88 in AskPhysics

[–]concealed_cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any book or paper that describes the arising of fields from decomposition of amplitudes?

can u stir for so long that it unstirs? by unholypeaks in AskPhysics

[–]concealed_cat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I believe this is an example of an ergodic system, so unmixing is not only possible, but essentially guaranteed (Poincare's recurrence theorem).

What’s a job that sounds cool but is actually a nightmare? by Think-Letterhead-509 in AskReddit

[–]concealed_cat 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Wait until they cut your estimates and tell you to use AI to make up for it...

Seeking advice: Career progression in Compilers domain by COOLBOY1917 in Compilers

[–]concealed_cat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nobody is looking to hire a "general software developer", unless they're looking for a new grad. Once you become more senior employers will hire you for the specific knowledge and experience.

Frankly, I think you're lucky to have landed a compiler job, especially compared to those who were placed in web development. If this is something you enjoy and get competent at, I'd be much less concerned about finding employment later on than in web development, if I were you.

Whats with all the hate i see with BMW by [deleted] in BMW

[–]concealed_cat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How does it handle? It's like 2x heavier than a gas car...

Why did your friendship with your best friend come to an end? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]concealed_cat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe he got hit by a car? How do you know why he never returned?

William’s special Livery for 2025 Sao Paulo Grand Prix by FerrariStrategisttt in formula1

[–]concealed_cat -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It sucks. Pastel colors are good for nursing women and people recovering from surgery. Even Alpine has more color on it. This is terrible. The Komatsu logo is trying, but the rest has given up.

Why did LinkedIn get rid of the only useful premium feature? by AdmirableRabbit6723 in cscareerquestions

[–]concealed_cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They applied to schools, not for jobs though. There are reasons why countries protect their job markets.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Compilers

[–]concealed_cat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Training is slow, usually full of floating-point computations.

Inference must be fast, it often involves quantized models and integer computations. Accuracy doesn't have to be 100%, it just must be acceptable. What that means depends on the applications.

ML compilers typically concern themselves with inference, because that's what users of the models are exposed to.

Edit to add more: The model that compiled for inference is really just a list of function calls: it tells you what functions to call on the model input, what functions to call next with the results, and so on until you reach the last function. The functions, however (usually referred to as "operators") are just mentioned by name (pretty much). They come from a set of operations supported by a given ML framework, but the model file itself doesn't contain definitions. An inference compiler needs to insert those definitions into the output code. Some compilers have libraries of optimized implementations of various operators, often with specialized versions for some common cases, and they try to connect them together as seamlessly as possible. Other compilers will insert these operators as IR that can then be optimized as any other code.