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All managers should know the below. It’s proof the job is not effective.
> Here are the facts your manager might not know about you and your team that we’ll cover in this post:
>What’s slowing the team down
>Exactly what individual people on the team are working on
>Where the technical debt is
>How to help you get better at your job
>What your goals are
>What issues they should be escalating
>What extra work you’re doing
How compensation/promotions work at the company
Edit: It’s by Julia Evans too. Awesome.
Edit: Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact.
Him saying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM
An article: “ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.”
https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...
Sutton and Barto is the best start for foundations. Start there.
By this, I would assume you mean the year of prep that goes into being able to pass the interview process at those companies.
> by Kevin Patrick Murphy
This is the advanced version of Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective
Which means that they are now traceable and can be cross referenced against other databases.
Any plans to do one on MOE for LM?
Many places were shut on and off due restrictions during our time. Definitely makes thing harder.
Boarding public transit is definitely an issue. Going anywhere with small children is a bit difficult to be honest as their are quite a lot of rules. For example, no toys in the pool.
Constrained and limited places to play outside. Outside of the park everything is concrete and many types of play are banned. When out, I had to watch them like a hawk. Here they go over to a neighbors yard to play and have no such worries.
Childcare is also expensive to get if both parents do not work (in that case it’s free).
That said I knew plenty of expats from population dense areas that were of different opinion. They had cars too :)