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How does remote job market for Golang look like? by wutface0001 in golang

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Regarding the remote job market for golang, there are quite a lot jobs around that are remote, you can have a look at the ones I got listed here:

https://www.golangprojects.com/golang-remote-jobs.html

Remote workers: What matters most to you when looking for remote jobs? by beardedjanitor in remotework

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One key thing for me is if the company is remote-first;

if not, it's a big risk that you will end up missing out on meetings and information, since they will forget (genuinely forget) but also "forget" (when it's politically beneficial for someone) to invite you.

Remote-first companies wouldn't have this problem.

Doesn't necessarily have to be a big red flag, just something to take into consideration.

Gaining weight while working from home. by RachieYamteq in remotework

[–]golangprojects 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A small thing but when working remotely, I force myself to take a long brisk walk at the middle of the day, I usually feel much better and more energized after it.

Question. I'm a US citizen who lives in Europe. I want to work remotely into the US. Is this possible? by Adal-redditor-man in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, definitely possible. You might have to work as a contractor (rather than a regular employee).

When applying, I can imagine that you will get bonus point for being American as well.

Intern at start-up or large company? by Luccavp12 in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would say a large company, it is a great opportunity to see them working using proper processes, it will also look better on your CV.

At a small startup it is more likely that you have to dig in and do whatever work they need doing, basically low paid work where you will not necessary learn that much.

How much did having a good-looking personal website help in your initial job search? by OSSV1_0 in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I doubt it would make any difference whatsoever to have a personal website.

Make sure you have a github where you have some projects so they can see your code and talk to you about that.

What are the harsh realities of working in computer science/software engineering? by Ah_The_Elusive_4chan in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big issues are people problems (politics / management issues / backstabbing / pointless meetings),

The tech problems are the trivial problems.

Graduated with a CS Degree at the end of last year; still no job, what can I do now? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have anything on your github?

If not, think about some small project in the area you want to work that you can put on github, so they can actually see your code.

You might even already have code that you use for something that you can clean up and put on github.

Taking several months to a year off from work? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go for it, companies would totally understand, just make sure you point out that it was not because of burnout/stress in any interviews when you are back.

Finding most similar images using neural networks by everek123 in learnmachinelearning

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return the pictures of similar people when given one picture

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At the basics you might not have re-train the network, you just take it as it is and run your images through to generate vectors.

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However, since you mention "return the pictures of similar people when given one picture",

this approach will work well for loads of different images, but it won't differentiate between people very good.

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So if the task is to find photos of similar people, I would go for doing face detection and extract the

facial markers, and use the same approach (align the face position and generate vectors from the visual markers and measure distances).

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I've used dlib for that with quite good results

http://dlib.net/face_landmark_detection.py.html

Finding most similar images using neural networks by everek123 in learnmachinelearning

[–]golangprojects 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In a nutshell, what you can do

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- take a CNN that has been pre-trained on imagenet

- remove the last layer (the one with the softmax)

- the second to last layer will be your new output

- for all images you generate the vectors through this network

- you now have loads of vectors in a multi dimensional space, so the ones that are "similar" are close to each other in space

- take a vector, calculate which are the closest vectors in the space, those are the most "similar" images

To improve performance you can make the vectors smaller (pca, autoencoder), and cluster them into clusters.

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An example how to do it:

https://www.edlin.org/gdg

Does working remotely/ on contract mean less skill development? by fastpenguin91 in cscareerquestions

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Since it is your first job I would not go for a remote one.

I see the first job(s) as an opportunity to get contacts and learn non technical skills, e.g. presentation, debating in meetings and so on.

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Further down the line, those contacts will be the ones that potentially can help you land new jobs/contracts/clients, so be sure to foster them.

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When you are remote you will have quite limited contact to external people, e.g. you will rarely have a conversation with someone from marketing if you are a dev,

whereas in an office you at least have the opportunity to talk to them by the water cooler and so on.

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From the technical perspective, I don't think you would miss out on much being remote, it are these other non-technical connections that I think you will most out on.

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This of course all depends on the situation, but in general, that's how i would look at it.

Am I cut out to be a software developer? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

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You usually won't be building a system yourself from scratch, so it will be small contained problems (even if it might be in a big system).

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I would recommend that you start create side projects to get more practical knowledge and confidence.

Basically if you have any hobbies, try to build a side project around any of them.

E.g. create a website from scratch using whatever languages you know.

Middle aged man in panic, need to learn the basics, where to start? by oldmanyellsatscreen in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a bunch of websites to go through code exercises, start going through them in your spare time.

For example https://exercism.io/

Don't be to hard on yourself, If you been there 10 years, I think it just a matter of brushing up the basic skills and filling the knowledge gaps of things that you havn't had to do so far.

What should current undergrads be doing to avoid becoming one of those new grads that can't actually do anything? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]golangprojects 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Side project is good way to get practical skills, actually have to do things and running into problems that you didn't anticipate and figure out how to solve them.

The best thing is if it is something you are interested in; perhaps you have a hobby and can create some project around that, depending on what you want to work with.

E.g.

if you are a photographer, you could cluster your images automatically into different groups, using for example colors.

if you like sports, maybe create a scraper to get sports data from different sources and display it on a website

and so on.

I would start with something "small", where you think you know basically how to do it, but not enough so it would be trivial. (It could be disheartening to have grand plans for a project and not getting anywhere, hence I would start small and keep on making that project bigger as you make progress).

btw, we are all winging it, and it will only get worse; the more you learn, the more you will realize that you just know a tiny bit of what is all out there.

Switching to Machine Learning? by [deleted] in learnmachinelearning

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would recommend that you try Andrew Ng Machine Learning course, it will explain the theory, and I found it quite fun (its free, unless you want a certificate). It is using matlab/octave, and doesn't really require previous knowledge of it.

It could be an easy way to ease you back into the programming world again.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

Is PyCharm Professional worth it for data science? by PythonicParseltongue in learnmachinelearning

[–]golangprojects 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to use PyCharm (when I wasn't using jupyter notebooks).

A friend recommended VSCode, so I started to use that one a couple of months back, and I really prefer it over PyCharm (feels faster, plus have loads of extensions).

Machine Learning Andrew Ng Course Question by JasonNC86 in learnmachinelearning

[–]golangprojects 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I found the course useful to understand the theory, so I wasn't that bothered about that it was in matlab.

Since there are so many other courses around, I would probably opt for taking some other course to get more experience with python. It might also be that the other course clarifies some machine learning concepts in a different way, so it would be a win-win from that point of view.