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Doing the lord's work

It doesn't on iOS. Safari does _sometimes_, when it feels like it… but even if it were consistent, who (even in the family) wants to use Safari on desktop? Back to square one

Yeah, I think that’s even the way that they are meant to be used, at least if the guides that I’ve read are to be believed. Nothing occult at play according to the guides. So, ironically, the common culture actually misrepresents them as being prognostic.

Yep. Unfortunately, the someone in question was paid in money, rather than respect, which puts food on the table for them.

The biggest problem I have with it for textbooks is just how slow the fucking thing is to scroll between pages. Which is a key operation for a reference material.

I spent $100 on a textbook on kindle, then just pirated the PDF for this reason.

> gotten a low interest mortgage before quitting

Meaning it would have been easier to with a demonstrable income stream? Or just incidentally, due to macro stuff and time raising interest rates over that same period

Damn, I’ve been there — at least in the situation where the manager concludes that micromanaging will somehow make the managee more effective, rather than in the very best case, hamstring it by bottlenecking on them and in the average case, deeply humiliate by trying to make the managee do things exactly the way they would (but be worse at it, because the managee is not them and could have their own different, personalized, effective work style).

Even that extremely minor step counts as “more work” for the clientele we’re talking about here.

Companies aren’t purely rational.

Middle managers are probably less effective or at least more obviously as such due to remote work.

They lobby higher-ups, who they have closer contact with than the ICs by definition, with various propaganda

Helping others is the obvious purpose, at least for me. Easier said than done, though.

tldr: he stripped the binaries

The reason that path is an exception is that generally-speaking (in VHCOL areas at least), a developer job is as good or superior a job pay-wise to a data science job.

Also, since DS is so broad skillset-wise, it's basically a catch-all starter career for everyone that doesn't have CS/ SWE experience and training specifically, but does have some non-CS STEM training.

> many couldn't implement fizzbuzz without a library.

case in point: this article teaching them how to do so to pass interviews https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-solve-the-fizzbuzz-pro...

> But we don't do a great job on explaining that estimates are probabilistic by nature, there are risks involved

Ironically, I've recently been catching flak for "not being confident enough" when I give confidence intervals around my estimates indicating uncertainty.

In some sense, literally can't win. I then realized it was more about my lack of doing this: https://www.csun.edu/~to18470/articles/Managing_your_boss.pd...

Explains why people do stuff like Math PhDs assuming they'll continue to be rewarded by society for this sort of thing before finishing, and then face the grim reality that no one* really cares unless it makes them money.

*Except in truly exceptional circumstances that are too rare to consider.

Took me quite some time to find the paper that seemed to describe the ML algo[1]. Pretty disappointingly domain-specific and barebones ("logistic regression").

And indeed, model form was so unimportant that it was relegated to the supplement. [2]

Yet again evidence that access to data and domain knowledge trump fancy ML algos 10/10 times.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092375342...

[2] > Custom software was built to classify samples using source models that recognized methylation patterns per region as similar to those derived from a particular cancer type, fol- lowed by a pair of ensemble logistic regressions: one to determine cancer/non-cancer status and the other to resolve the TOO to one of the listed sites (supplementary information)

Looks like, from the CNBC article, that WFH basically worsened the performance of low-level/ middle managers, which feels about right.

It also feels that some way of improving this group of people in general is sorely needed -- how does the G2G program work exactly?

ninjaedit: found this https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/learning-development-em... . Will evangelize at my company… probably will be ignored though because I'm an IC.

Ah yes, I was just thinking that this could be useful for `aws s3 ls` and similar.

(Really I just want `tree` on `s3`. There's `s3-tree` but that uses the entire bucket rather than a prefix)

This is the real issue. It's considered less-skilled and therefore by supply/ demand more can do it and it pays less.

I think this is probably only because it's harder to assess skill in it, though. It's easy to test for knowing the vagaries of the ADAM solver or statistics or whatever. What is the equivalent for being a good data cleaner, though?

> All-remote work has definitely made a big (negative) impact in the velocity that ideas can be communicated.

This, along with the fact that employment half-life is long relatively to COVID (2 years average tenure), convinces me that this "remote permanent" hype is going to grind to a screeching halt in another year or so.

Yes, I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in SF Bay real estate, in this case).

Right, STEM-types tend to lampoon religion due to being based on "mere faith" rather than "hard evidence."

But anything that is not directly experienced by oneself requires some substantial faith; one cannot possibly redo all science experiments oneself and personally collect evidence.

Therefore one must have faith that the aggregate scientists had no motivation to skew or misrepresent evidence.

As a scientist, I know how reasonable doubting this to be.

Could be a lockup still. There was for palantir.

Er, PLTR still had a lockup for its direct listing. If this trend continues the “usually” aspect will not hold.

Don't think it's mentioned, but actually what I hate most about it is that there are plugins that seem to do useful stuff, but they're paid-for plugins that also require the IT department to do something. It's hard to imagine a more hopeless prospect that even one of these two things occurring (people agreeing that we should pay for something, and IT doing it in a timely fashion), but both at the same time and just because some lowly IC (or even whole team) wants them to is far beyond the realm of possibility.

Hit the nail on the head with this. It's sort of like a gimmie "problem" that can be weaponized if anyone is in the mood, but mostly just ignored entirely.

If ever.

Well to be fair, probably the engineers want to on some level, but there is a business mandate to not (and there always has been).