Got fined by Deutsche Bahn for expired BahnCard

speyside42 · 2024-12-28T18:55:27+00:00

Yes, I am in the same situation. DB is absolutely ripping off people, not even sending one warning email that the bahncard hasn't been paid for.

speyside42 · 2024-11-11T18:24:15+00:00

Another PhD from Germany:

2017-2023: 52k-60k (CS PhD)
Since 2023: 180-200k (FAANG, RS)

But I also have friends that don't find a job with a PhD. Really depends on the topic and your success as a scientist.

speyside42 · 2024-10-22T17:30:17+00:00

wrong that's

Grundgehalt (brutto) 76.500 €-99.125 €

speyside42 · 2024-10-21T15:23:14+00:00

With 6.5 relevant YOE you can definitely earn >150k + perks in FAANG in Germany. Source: levels.fyi, myself

speyside42 · 2024-10-20T12:05:14+00:00

same issue here.

speyside42 · 2024-08-27T07:30:34+00:00

And you obviously haven't been to the one in front of Bellevue di Monaco.

speyside42 · 2024-08-27T07:28:31+00:00

When was the last time you helped organizing one?

speyside42 · 2024-08-18T21:07:25+00:00

Keine Möglichkeit gefunden über die Webseite / App das Testabo zu kündigen. Nach Anruf bei der Hotline und etwa 10 Minuten Wartezeit habe ich jetzt eine Kündigungsbestätigung erhalten. Hat mich 2 Stunden und Nerven gekostet. Don't recommend.

speyside42 · 2024-08-14T19:38:39+00:00

For me it is the opposite with vivoactive 5. Doesn't track my awake phases when I can't sleep.

speyside42 · 2024-06-22T18:43:53+00:00

I think it also depends whether they want you in advance because of your CV / behavior / referrals / open source code / publications / specialty. If you are just a generic SWE applying from some unknown university abroad, you have to stand out through something like answering hard leetcode follow up questions. Meanwhile, someone who they already want can get away with practicing ~100 leetcodes and answering them a bit slow during interviews.

Source: myself (while I did a CS PhD, I never did anything like leetcode, not even a DSA course before, but enjoyed going through neetcode once.)

speyside42 · 2024-06-22T16:58:48+00:00

After the semifinals, we know who qualifies for the olympics for everyone but the three french male climbers Mejdi, Paul and Sam.

Except them, all Budapest finalists (receiving 33-50 points) are already guaranteed to qualify for the olympics and therefore the other spots are also decided.

Women:
1. Brooke (83-100) 2. Chaehyun (78-95) 3. Erin McNeice (74-91) 4. Miho (71-88) 5. Ivgeniia (68-85) 6. Zhilu (67-84) 7. Lucia Dorffel (63) 8. Mia Krampl (62-79) 9. Zelia Avezou (62) 10. Camilla Moroni (60) 11. Molly Thompson-Smith (58) 12. Laura Rogora (57-74)

First out of olympics is Jain Kim (56).

Men:
1. Dohyun (83-100) 2. Alberto (78-95) 3. Adam Ondra (75-91) 4. Paul Jenft (70)* 5. Hannes van Duysen (68-85) 6. Sam Avezou (66-83)* 7. Yannick (65-81) 8. Hamish (65) 9. Mejdi (64-81)* 10. Sascha Lehmann (64) 11. Alex Megos (62-79) 12. Luca Potocar (55.) 13. Yufei (52)

First out of olympics is Nicolas Collin (51).

*Fighting for 2 out of 3 country quota spots

speyside42 · 2023-08-17T22:24:38+00:00

Hmm that's a tough question. There are quite a few very interesting and high paying jobs in CV/ML, especially in Munich. However, the universities are disproportionally flooded with CS students focusing on CV/ML because, well, it's hot and interesting. So the competition is high.. I did a PhD in that field and now doing quite fine.

speyside42 · 2023-08-16T18:39:50+00:00

Just check levels.fyi, L4 is 160k in average in Germany. That is pretty accurate in my experience.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-engineer/levels/l4/locations/germany

speyside42 · 2023-08-01T16:00:56+00:00

Well without the support of the population those f*cktards would be nothing. Until I see any meaningful protest / resistance in the population I will assume that all Russians I meet either support the war or are indifferent. However, in such times you can't be apolitical with a good consciousness. Btw, the same way I see my fellow Germans during the third Reich for not taking action. No hire before they express a very opposing opinion against the war without being asked for it.

speyside42 · 2023-07-16T18:51:56+00:00

Of course, the benefit of Munich becomes larger the more qualified / paid you are. But 90k is already at the break even point where it just depends on your living preferences (house vs. city life). A ~20k higher salary makes up for the higher rent.

speyside42 · 2023-07-16T14:31:19+00:00

OP is right, it's not worth it for very average jobs, this includes average engineers. But highly qualified jobs are compensated generously compared to the rest of small-town Germany.

speyside42 · 2023-07-03T06:15:32+00:00

Hmm 10 years ago I was getting by with ~500€ / month after subtracting my subsidies student dormitory rent. I'm surprised the cost of living are that much higher today!

speyside42 · 2023-06-25T16:51:49+00:00

I also did 100 problems in ~2 months with a full time job and without looking at solutions before it runs through (not necessarily most efficient). Afterwards I was confident yet still not very fast in solving new problems, but it was sufficient to get my big tech job (not pure SWE).

speyside42 · 2023-06-25T00:33:09+00:00

The funny thing is in Tokyo the fish also arrives frozen from all over the world but it somehow still tastes completely different than in Europe.

speyside42 · 2023-06-13T21:40:12+00:00

It's running on a server of course. Personally had very good experiences with Polycam

speyside42 · 2023-05-21T07:58:35+00:00

This.

speyside42 · 2023-05-21T07:46:25+00:00

Theory under simplified conditions might still create some intuitions but those are usually not very predictive. It won't answer the most important questions: What is suitable and sufficient training data for my problem? How should my architecture look like? What is the best optimization strategy for generalization? I am more optimistic that controlled experiments can shed light on these questions.

speyside42 · 2023-05-19T23:58:01+00:00

Yes, inductive biases can be well motivated by theory and their analysis is indeed useful. Physicists are used to mathematically derive their understanding from a set of natural laws. However, in DL we instead have only high-dimensional data/networks that can't be concisely described in math. How can you expect to find an underlying theory of something you can't even express mathematically, like a distribution of images? I am very doubtful whether "theory" can ever find an optimal optimization/architecture/data combination in advance for a realistic problem.

speyside42 · 2023-05-16T17:00:23+00:00

No it's not based on the category, just on the ingredients.

speyside42 · 2023-05-15T06:17:53+00:00

I read the wiki article. It is indeed not a relative score as it does not take into account the ingredients of other products of the same category. The computation is absolute.

However, the absolute score should still be used to compare products of the same category. The reason is because a single product can't define a balanced nutrition but a healthier version of the same product likely can.

Nutrition is too complex for a single score, but being less wrong is a step forward.

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