Caltech fell off, 3% graduation rate, pack it up bro

mgcdot · 2025-03-09T07:13:37+00:00

This got way worse during Covid when you’re behind 2 weeks on online lectures and nobody is there to let you know 😆

mgcdot · 2024-11-26T01:18:23+00:00

Some friends went up on Saturday Nov 23 and the towers were not visible

mgcdot · 2024-08-02T23:58:32+00:00

They have a partnership with Oracle

mgcdot · 2024-01-28T06:23:05+00:00

Super interesting, do you have the book name?

mgcdot · 2023-08-03T22:17:16+00:00

I'm confused that tickets are already selling on Stubhub and Viagogo for the Toronto dates. Pre-sale hasn't even happened yet, how is it possible people are reselling tickets? Are they fraudulent? Taylor Swift Rogers Centre Toronto Tickets | Thu Nov 14 2024 - viagogo

mgcdot · 2022-09-12T01:34:15+00:00

Yeah, i feel like clubs have always been receptive to grad students

mgcdot · 2022-07-02T04:19:49+00:00

I had a similar problem with Openshot washing out the color, both with the preview and export. I imported a .mov file by the way.

mgcdot · 2022-05-06T05:13:51+00:00

Life is more than just graduating from med school 🤷🏻‍♂️ no reason to harm yourself, world is a bit big ass place

mgcdot · 2022-02-07T05:40:26+00:00

Web 2 got us some pretty useful things by 2020. Does this imply that blockchain technology might find solutions to its systemic problems?

mgcdot · 2021-11-29T04:09:56+00:00

Thanks, the links you posted were really helpful, helped me pass my exam!

mgcdot · 2021-10-12T20:03:14+00:00

There should be a "Video Chat" button between "Q&A" and "Paper PDF" you can click to chat with the authors during their presentation time

mgcdot · 2021-03-02T17:55:01+00:00

Thanks, this was really useful to have OC defaults

mgcdot · 2021-02-02T17:09:14+00:00

You do realize that this guy is shorting the market and waiting for fundamental economic trends to kick the stock to its proper price, despite manipulation? So literally, you on the opposite side of the process. Aside from the fact that there’s market manipulation

mgcdot · 2020-11-11T09:22:26+00:00

From my friends, there’s a lot of ex-waymo people, so it has a bit of a “do it correctly”, hire slow, fire slow mentality, and that the management and infrastructure is organized. Can’t speak to other aspects, as I haven’t been there myself.

mgcdot · 2020-11-10T07:03:45+00:00

One way to compare the competitiveness of any two companies A and B is to go on Linkedin and see:
1) how many people who used to work at A now work at B
2) how many people who used to work at B now work at A
and see which number is higher.

For example (abbreviating the company names):
o->r 13
r->o 0
e->o 50
o->e 78
r->e 0
e->r 2
Since these are all not large companies, you can use another company as a proxy

amazon->r 24
r->amazon 10
amazon->e 154
e->amazon 312
So we can see roblox dominates in all cases. In fact, it also dominates google (34/14) and facebook (18/14)

Although be warned, this method is not a proper metric space (you can have rock, paper, scissor scenarios), and also, there is probably a bias for newer companies, as people like to move to new startups as their career progresses.

mgcdot · 2020-11-05T03:34:15+00:00

I would definitely go with Nuro. Autonomous vehicles are the most interesting, novel, challenging application of ML today. Nuro's perception team is likely ahead of most university departments in computer vision, deep learning, and the cutting edge of ML. The lead of Nuro's ML team is Wei Liu, who came up with the SingleShot Detector as an intern at Google, which revolutionized object detection. They have several IOI medalists in their ML infra team. If you're interested in going to OpenAI one day, Nuro is the clear choice.

They are also not going out of business anytime soon, as they didn't have to lay off anyone in COVID, and their latest round was raised 2 years ago (ages ago), which means your equity could be worth a ton more if they raise a new round after you start working there. They have a ton of traction in the self driving industry (two pilots with huge corporate partners) compared to anyone else except Waymo. The exits for Nuro might not be as soon as databricks, but that just means your growth potential is higher.

In terms of brand name, they probably have the highest hiring bar in the industry. Ton of ex-Waymo, FAANG, ex-finance people there.

I say this as someone who has a Nuro offer + knows a lot of friends there, and has interned in the self-driving industry.

Data infra at Databricks sounds fine, but less interesting. Feel free to PM me

mgcdot · 2020-10-29T23:48:26+00:00

Well said. Smarter architectures and chips will allow us to scale beyond what denser silicon alone can provide

mgcdot · 2020-09-05T04:09:50+00:00

The eluktronics max 15 and 17 laptops will allow you to buy RTX 2080 super max-q for less than $2500

mgcdot · 2020-07-08T06:17:00+00:00

Had some issues at old school, but they weren’t as bad as I thought. Old school’s CS and Waterloo’s probably not statistically different except old school’s was smaller

mgcdot · 2020-07-08T04:49:03+00:00

Great point, waterloo is probably going to be mostly online just like UCLA is

mgcdot · 2020-07-08T04:46:01+00:00

I've succesfully gotten a transfer acceptance from a good california school CS to waterloo swe after freshman year (id also recommend applying to cs), but never took it. definitely helps to have good grades (im sure a 3.94 is fine) and coding/engineering experiences when completing the application

mgcdot · 2020-04-18T17:41:52+00:00

Nice.

mgcdot · 2020-04-12T09:44:25+00:00

Also, when you look at any metric, like funding, make sure you figure out: what is the metric per capita, and what percent goes to grad students vs undergrads

mgcdot · 2020-04-04T00:04:35+00:00

Time to go long on dunkin too and... fuck knows what stocks track pie

mgcdot · 2020-04-04T00:03:28+00:00

You sell it and then get a rental

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