The thing is, many of these expats aren't even "paying into the system" anyway. I have to file US taxes but can deduct what I pay in taxes in my country of residency, which is higher than I'd pay in the US; as a result, I don't actually owe any US taxes. But, like another commenter said, I have to pay thousands to someone to figure out how to even file all this stuff. In other words, some local accountant is making bank, not the IRS.
I was feeling pretty awful by the time April came around, being in the same position as you. But I took advantage of the fact that I work remote now and moved to a very large and densely populated city you've heard of. Meeting people and socializing regularly has completely changed my point of view. Obviously, not everyone can do this, but perhaps the moral is that a change of perspective would be beneficial and some sort of life change could catalyze that. A huge advantage of being single is that you have a lot more freedom to just up and go where you like.
Noticed this when I was in Germany/Austria as well. In America, if you go out drinking then that's the primary activity. It's what you're doing. But in central Europe socializing and seeing friends is the activity and you just happen to drink because that's what you do when you see your friends.
Not exactly. It was free for years but due to the program struggling during the pandemic, they implemented an ISA. In other words, you only pay if it works out for you.
Obvious bias, but myself and a number of people I know have obtained great value from the Insight Fellows Program [1]. From what I can tell, nothing else really comes close.
For their Data Science program, I believe a PhD is still a requirement, but it seems you have one. The bigger caveat is that it's not really a "bootcamp" per se, in that there are no real lessons or assignments. Applicants to the program are expected to be nearly ready for entry into the job market already. The program is rather for developing soft skills and networking. Although the program centers around a project, the project is really more of a conversation piece for interviews.
Pre-COVID, this program was free, which was one of the best things about it. Now I believe there is an ISA instead.
If the person who filled in the blanks already had a good grasp of the language, they probably didn't learn much. However, fill-in-the-blank exercises can be a good language learning tool for children as well as adults learning a foreign language.
This was my first thought as well. The question is: How robust are adversarial perturbations? In other words: Given such a perturbation that was generated using one model, how well can we expect to work on a similar model (in the sense that both models are fooled)? I would be curious to know if any research has been done on this question.
Yeah, I guess the FAQ is out of date. Think you should be to sign up for free if you want to check for yourself. I highly recommend it! And F# would be a pretty great language for this course, I think. Looks like no Racket (or any Lisp) support, though.
Not when I took it! I did most of those assignments in Haskell (a choice I came to regret). Double-checking and it seems the grader supports the following languages: C, C++, C#, Elixir, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Lua, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python 2.7, Python 3, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift.
So true. I used to burn out fast whenever I was very motivated about some goal. Now when I feel that motivation, I think about the long term and make it a priority to keep a regular schedule and avoid burn-out.
If needed, you could probably containerize that workflow as well. Conversely, if someone shared their containerized environment with you, you don't necessarily need to use VSCode. You can still just attach to the container directly using Docker.
The most shocking thing to me was that after weeks of struggling to get used to hjkl for navigating in vim, I realized that I had already been using jk for navigating up and down on numerous sites (reddit, gmail, twitter) for YEARS.
> In order to undestand how these systems work I would recommend to know the language in which they are written. The biggest concern with Python is its poor performance hence the knowledge of a more efficient language will be a big plus to your skillset.
I think these two sentences are sort of orthogonal to one another. The first, I interpret as saying that it's useful to understand Scala if you're using Spark, essentially because of the law of leaky abstractions [1]. I think you're responding to the second sentence and in that case I agree.