Lately this has been on my mind. I do everything, diet, exercise, social interaction, etc. But I am still just tired sometimes, nothing seems to kick. Maybe my mind is telling me that this way of life is down trodden? Find a new path? Working alot has no value, and maybe I am missing out. Or I am just tired, and there is no where to go
The hiring bar is overrated, I am constantly disappointed by engineers that I encounter at FAANG. Top teams are absolutely TOP, but plenty of mediocrity everywhere.
There are plenty of jobs outside IB. And within IB the pay rises so fast that the 200k starting at FB is a joke. I work at FAANG, the money is good, but its nothing like finance.
I'm not here to convince you of anything, more so to understand, maybe just a little, how people are being convinced of things that arent true. And how is it happening on such a wide scale. How did knowledge that was common 100 years ago, and then reaching back thousands of years, completely disappear or become so shunned.
For evolution to work, IQ has to be heritable, otherwise how did humans evolve intelligence? People who believe in evolution, but not in heritability of personality traits are living in a warped reality. I'm not that interested in proving my point, I'm just more shocked at how many people hold obviously false beliefs.
It's more so that I am in awe of the widespread brainwashing that I see in society.
Head into a college library, maybe into the biology or genetics section, crack a book from twenty years ago thats not well known. Read dissertations, there are bodies of knowledge inside universities and medical professions that aren't exposed to the public.
I would argue its rather that the facts are too hard for society to handle. A neural network that predicts IQ from physiology/outwardly visible characteristics is certainly possible. Phenotypes exist and display specific behavioral and thought process traits. But to recognize it would be like staring into the sun
haha. Abstract classes are the solution to being bored at work and needing stimulation. My boss looks the other way when I create a stratified framework, long as it works.
"> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings and then sharing that information across government agencies."
This is useless and nobody should fear it. You should fear a set of teams of highly trained technologists. Thats not what we have here
Everyone has their tin foil hat with stuff on like this, but unless they are paying a 100 - 1000 engineers 250k-500k a year, I doubt theyve built anything useful with uptime. Maybe they could just scan a massive dataset of everyones posts, with some string searching, but still. I just dont see any entity like this being able to accomplish this task effectively.
False I regularly see developers producing negative value at FAANGS. The code they write is just bad and lacks common sense, isnt logical. And they are trying
My honest opinion is that any ML related to finance that you learn outside of an investment firm is mostly a waste of time. The amount of data and nuance that successful models encompass is staggering. Unless you do something like scrape WSB and predict the next MEME stock, ML for finance makes no sense. You need credit card data, 10ks, tick data, economic forecasts, interest rates, fed moves, etc. You can carve out a niche, but if you do, forget about finding something on the internet that will tell you how to do that.
Eat healthy, exercise, practice digital hygiene. I can only reach higher states of thought when the rest of my life is going well and I am healthy. Then read the Alegory in the Cave
If you want to learn new skills, you need to do it in the morning before work. You should use your freshest mind for yourself, not your employer. I've never had success learning after work, except for the odd day when I am really sharp. Choose a project that interfaces with alot of open source, and really stretches what you think you can do with a computer.