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Eh, Bay Area isn’t that left wing. It’s more neo-liberal than anything else, just look at the area’s reps in congress.

Perk of the Ferry: donuts and beer...

I worked for New Relic, although, no joke, probably 90% of the people on my block worked at Intel or Nike!

Back in my Portland days I got the DL on some of Nike’s soon to be announced Jordan’s when an obviously high ranking Nike designer popped open his MacBook and proceeded to have a design review at a local coffee shop! Maybe not the most actionable information but kind of fun to see.

The FAANGs are starting new grads at these levels now. 150K base salary, 100K+ RSUs vesting per year, 30K+ bonus targets per year will get you there and then some.

Excellent chocolates and cheese as well. Great pommes frites, but those are harder to export.

As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as I did at Columbia!

> The only other companies paying that to IC hires that I know of are in the financial industry and that interview process is even worse.

OpenAI is paying way more than 420K for ICs [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...

When I was an undergrad Prof. Joe Traub (famous for applying Quasi Monte Carlo to derivatives) passed away and they had a whole lecture series in memorium. David Shaw showed up and, having bailed on Columbia CS because they didn’t want to fund his ideas on algorithmic trading, was straight up like fuck this department y’all are dumb and could have been billionaires. It was pretty crazy, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more uncomfortable squirming in an audience!

> No, what I really feel is that at work I am not actually treated like a servant any more but like a person.

My experience in FAANG research, outside of the pay > 100x multiplier, has been very different! In grad school we could work from anywhere at anytime, there was no requirement to be glued to a desk 14 hours a day and having to respond to emails on Friday nights or weekends or risk a bad performance review from your manager, no dystopian open office space, unlimited conference travel flexibility, etc. I actually kind of miss grad school despite having made 30K a year as a PhD student.

Spak Brothers is such delicious divey pizza!

This just brought a big ass smile to my face! Some of my fondest childhood memories are of my dad rolling out of the local library with a six foot tall stack of hardcovers... if I recall the library had a checked out limit of a dozen titles and he took full advantage, so I’d have to help him carry them out to the car :)

> 300k for a new grad is not something I've heard of, that's a tad high even for phds.

300K-ish total comp is a typical starting package at the big tech companies now. 150-160K base salary, 30K bonus target, and 100K stock grant maturing per year gets you to that ballpark.

> All dating apps target millennials

Millennials are almost in their 40s now! The prime dating app market (low to mid 20s) is now Gen Z.

How does this help AI and machine learning?

I don’t think Autodesk cares! Pixar bailed on Maya and Autodesk still put Maya on life support (and laid off the Maya R&D team). If arguably the biggest actor in the animation game doesn’t get Autodesk’s attention, why would Ubisoft?

> either you have to call both AI or neither

FWIW having worked with some serious ML heads at Google and Facebook in the past, none of them referred to ML as AI.

The Steelcase Leap is my personal favorite office chair of all time, but it retails for around $1,000.00. You can sometimes find them for cheaper if a company gets liquidated and is offloading their old equipment.

The triangle tends to be pricey. Good public schools, both primary and Uni level, lots of tech work, nice weather 10 months of the year, close to the coast and the mountains. Apex and Cary tend to get lots of Yankee expats (compared to Long Island 700K is nothing), also driving up prices there. Drive 20 minutes and you can get a nice place for half that.

Even in rich major cities (read: NYC), where the city itself does a reasonable job monitoring water quality and updating delivery systems, buildings will often have ancient decaying lead pipes for the last 'mile' of delivery to your unit. It was only a year ago that multiple Bay Area schools found massive amounts of lead coming out of water fountains [1]. Be cognizant of your water, especially if you have kids!

[1] https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/05/03/oakland-unified-lead...

What was the context? Where people still using 286s in 1999?

I presume by keeping the time step small enough? If you go into the integrator settings in the demo and crank the time step, it does go unstable.

I worked at two movie studios (Pixar, Weta Digital) and they were both almost 100% Linux with a smattering of Windows machines here and there. Apple stuff was mainly iPads for story boarding and that kind of stuff.

What is the use case of PMP over something like IGL [1]? IGL has a ridiculous number of implemented algorithms -- at this point the second a new paper comes out in the geometry processing community it gets implemented in IGL!

[1] https://libigl.github.io

Using Wikipedia leads to some weird results. I checked my hometown in NC and would have expected Michael Jordan to be listed as the most famous associated person, but he doesn’t appear on the main Wikipedia entry so we instead got James Taylor.

Definitely regional. When I was in NYC I always got lower ratings when going from Manhattan to Queens, even while tipping well with cash. Bay Area? Went up to an almost perfect score (even going from San Francisco to Oakland frequently), people acted surprised when I tipped cash, etc.

Is there a reference or study for that? I thought GRE scores were mostly a proxy for cramming English vocabulary into your brain (verbal) and for knowledge of basic geometry facts and inferences from them (quantitative).

I love not being tethered. Beat saber on the Quest is, dare I say, a better experience than on the Rift!

> I see nothing wrong with naming names

As he is pursuing legal options, I’m guessing his counsel told him not to.

Measurements are a great motivator! When I was starting an exercise regime being able to track my progress with a WiFi scale was a huge help. Losing one or two pounds didn’t make a huge visual difference, but damned if I wanted to keep driving that line down.