It's not mentioned in this article, but Geoffrey West's book "Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies" give a fascinating and approachable overview of similar ideas.
One of the ideas presented is the "quantization" of the exponents observed in power laws relating various biometrics. E.g. it's known that the larger a species' average mass, the longer it lives, and that this relationship is expressed as a power law. What West found is that the exponents in many of these relationships are integer multiples of 1/4! This book, and West's research, uncover the origin of that phenomenon, relating it back to the efficient distribution of material throughout the organism (certain branching laws of cardiovascular networks, or phloem in plants, etc.)
It's not hard to see how that could apply to things like cities and companies as well.
The most helpful job interview I had was when the interviewer broke script and just leveled with me about how I wasn't presenting myself well. There was a shared connection (our alma mater) that must have convinced him to be straight with me instead of hiding how poorly I was doing behind a mask. The HR handbooks say that you should never let a candidate know why they were not selected, but that information can be extremely helpful.
If you're not getting offers, I strongly recommend that you find somebody you trust to do a mock interview. Let them critique your resume, cover letter, posture, awkwardness, lame handshake, etc.
Strong agreement. I can confirm for other readers that the day I realized this --- "Oh, rejection means nothing!" --- was a weird day. It takes a weight off.
And it is true across every other field. There are way more factors external to the "you" of the decision, and they're given more weight than the "you" of the decision. This is one of those cases where you only need to experience the "other side of the table" once for it to click.
Companies that are more humane in their hiring practices (even just actually send a rejection email vs. ghosting) deserve a bit of credit, because caring for the applicant is not a KPI.
Similarly, Obsidian is just a markdown editor. So you're not even relying on their free tier; you could use any other markdown editor on the planet with the same results. Or any cloud file syncing tool.
Oh come on, this shit is easy. Why did they say "it is" and not "it's", by the way? To put it that way can't help. So yeah, it's a pipe that can suck, and you push it all over your room, to suck the dust and dirt up off the rugs and such, and in fact off of any low down flat part. One kind can even move on its own! But what I want to say here, in the main, is that you math guys have all lost your grip on how to say any idea in an easy form. You are not able to do it any more, 'cos too much math has made you sick in the head.
Damn two of those would have fooled me too if I wasn't looking too carefully.. the one like the one with the old lady and her cake and the kittens one.
We have a similar issue in the UK. The government has refused to provide enough resources to process the backlog of asylum applications, so people are left in limbo being housed in hotels with no legal rights to work or anything. It costs way more than just processing their applications and allowing them to work, but the government are too scared of looking 'soft on immigration'. And these hotels are often in poor and disenfranchised communities, so people understandably ask "why are they getting hotels paid for by the government when we have such a lack of social housing?". It just creates more tension and doesn't help anyone.
It's also important to separate the different kinds of immigration. Refugees are a very different category from other migrants, because we have international obligations to grant them asylum in legitimate cases. So lumping them all under the banner of 'immigration' isn't really helpful.
A large part of my job in the last few months has been in the form figuring out how to optimize joins in Kafka Streams.
Kafka Streams, by default, uses either RocksDB or an in-memory system for the join buffer, which is fine but completely devours your RAM, and so I have been writing something more tuned for our work that actually uses Postgres as the state store.
It works, but optimizing JOINs is almost as much of an art as it is a science. Trying to optimize caches and predict stuff so you can minimize the cost of latency ends up being a lot of “guess and check” work, particularly if you want to keep memory usage reasonable.
I've used DVC for most of my projects for the past five years. The good things is that it works a lot like git. If your scientists understand branches, commits and diffs, they should be able to understand DVC. The bad thing is that it works like git. Scientists often do not, in fact, understand or use branches, commits and diffs. The best thing is that it essentially forces you to follow Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research [1]. Reproducibility has been a huge challenge on teams I've worked on.
The business has cash saved up. It has 3 options. Give the cash to the business’ owners, spend the cash on improving the business (such as R&D), or keep the cash sitting around.
And businesses often times do all 3 in varying amounts.
However, for a publicly listed business, giving cash to the business’s shareholders is taxable income. An equivalent way to reward shareholders without requiring shareholders to pay tax now is to buy outstanding shares and hence causing the price to go up because the supply of shares relative to demand goes down.
Also, if a publicly listed business awards equity to employees, such as RSUs which tech companies famously do, then buying back shares simply negates the effect of that since giving the employee equity increased the supply of shares relative to demand.
The only thing stopping tens of thousands of genuine good upstanding citizens from permanently ending most of SFs' crime is the undeniable fact the SF police would be taken to task in arresting those good upstanding citizens for completely ridiculous and utter nonsense reasons like "murder."
Until the voters of SF realize what I'm describing isn't a crime, this will continue. That, or all the good people will be eradicated by criminals.
It would very obviously be useful for work if you can actually get high res, effectively unlimited monitor space. Maybe not for everyone, but people already spend $3500+ on monitor setups somewhat regularly (and employers definitely do this). Apple themselves sell a single monitor that costs $2300 when fully spec'd out (5k, but the point is that they know what people spend on monitors). I can't figure out why that wasn't the highlight of the demo, since that's just very clearly the easiest way to sell a $3500 device with this specific set of features.
The recording video of a kid's birthday was one of the most ridiculous thing's I've ever seen. I'd maybe record my kid with something like this every once in a while, but I certainly wouldn't be wearing ski goggles while he blows out candles.
One of the ideas presented is the "quantization" of the exponents observed in power laws relating various biometrics. E.g. it's known that the larger a species' average mass, the longer it lives, and that this relationship is expressed as a power law. What West found is that the exponents in many of these relationships are integer multiples of 1/4! This book, and West's research, uncover the origin of that phenomenon, relating it back to the efficient distribution of material throughout the organism (certain branching laws of cardiovascular networks, or phloem in plants, etc.)
It's not hard to see how that could apply to things like cities and companies as well.