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How hard was it to source your open arm robot? Curious how much it cost all in?

I find your second sentence very difficult to pull off in practice, if you have any sort of responsibility (e.g. kids). Modern interviews seem to assume you have a lot of time to dedicate to prep.

In the old days, one could prep while on severance. But those seem to be becoming. Less generous and in some cases being skimped on through shenanigans.

I think a huge part of the challenge is we all suck as a field.

Why does something new have to be invented or api need to be deprecated? Do we take into consideration all the things that will break? The docs, the online examples, do we give sufficient context as to why something is a solution or works-for-me and move on? Tech like docker and Java were supposed to simplify but did they actually fulfill their mission? I think I will write a book on this one day.

I moved to management but my heart is still in the code. And it weeps.

B.s. parent literally gave an example of someone that got access to MAID a week after their doc visit. I’ve changed my mind on things after a month. Not saying MAID is bad or should be banned. I’m saying people will 100 percent abuse the system. My concern is healthcare system practiioners. I am dealing with a ton of people whose job it is to press our family into a decision we don’t want to make. This includes an md, a social worker and a care coordinator. Canadas health care for old people and folks with dementia is a disgrace. Maid should not have to be the only option with dignity.

My kids mixed up about 20-300 sets, some big ones, and it feels quite hopeless sorting them through. Any tips on how to untangle, or is it a hopeless cause? I do vision research and am mulling an AI based approach too.

Hey! Those were the last two times I invested in the market, saw my investment diminish and stopped paying attention. For what it's worth, I am putting money in again, so let's see.. lol.

Edit. Oh .. I also invested just before the dot com crash. I looked at the historical charts and can't believe my timing.

Very cool! How did you get the collage layout? I noticed images in each column don’t have the same size. I assume images get Centre cropped?

I’m an old person now but I miss coding. With lil kids and stressful management work, I just don’t get blocks of time as I used to as a younger person. Can you share how you were able to code in breaks? As it takes time to get into a state of flow, I don’t even bother with short intervals under 2 hours. That is likely my mistake. Open to tips to wake up the code monk inside.

I am totally guessing but this seems like proof of concept chip that can likely just do some specific cnn. The benchmarks quoted seemed weird .. who does fashionmnist outside of teaching? What the heck is 3 class imagenets?? Not even sure what time lapse video recognition is.

There is an advance here which is cool scientifically .. just overblown headline as usual I think.

Also work in deep learning for the last many years. We pay people well but the hype about truckloads of cash to researchers is overblown. Unless you happen to be exactly the skill set someone needs, there is a lot of talent.

I post this to say there is nothing wrong with you. You hear of the crazy successful few but not the majority of cases.

Terrible pop up on that site. Designed by an a hole.

Programming team of the future … 9 lawyers and 1 programmer. I think we are getting there.

Piggybacking in case parent answers. I am confused why it works on a limited set of devices. Doesn’t it just need a video source? Can u plug it into a rPI?

Disagree. HoloLens and oculus went with internal SDKs too complicated for most devs, and had official docs recommending Unity and unreal for development. This seemed stupid as those environments were not purpose built for this class of device (mixed reality). I think Apple has shown some serious wisdom here and am excited to explore their frameworks.

This is slightly off topic but wondering how those left behind are faring? I wonder if the situation has gotten a lot more toxic (was never a bed of roses) except now big tech employers know they hold the cards? Are people getting overworked more than before? Are some people coasting hoping to get severance?

We’re you at Walmart labs? Pretty impressive jump from Walmart to google. Any tips as to how you did it? Did you leetcode grind?

Any resources (e.g. YouTube videos, books) you can suggest? At a challenging point in life and this resonates.

Would you mind sharing some non specific examples of toxicity. I’ve been thinking about this of late. Every job has crap but some good parts. I think different orgs have varying kinds/levels of toxicity.

HoloLens 2 did not switch to Android. I have one and it is uwp and unity/unreal.

I'm very curious what he means about the software not being right. I haven't played with the Meta Quest but my experience with HoloLens 2 is absolutely shit on the software side. Microsoft used to be decent at software (this is opinion but I quite liked Win32 and MFC back in their day). The HoloLens 2 software stack is just ridiculous on so many levels (they try to shoehorn Windows and Universal Apps, for the actual innovative 3D apps, you just use Unity or Unreal???). I could not believe my eyes when Microsoft's developer documentation tells me to use a different commercial entities software framework for 3D app development.

This is again a controversial point (but hey ... so is the letter being discussed) .. isn't the software framework for the 3D rendering, spatial awareness the future software platform (what Windows was or Android and iOS are today)???

I'm curious if this is the issue Carmack seems pissed about. Clearly there is a story here.

The suggestion you propose is interesting .. no tax on first k dollars where we raise k from existing levels. Helps rich and poor. I’d be fine with this if it was time limited. E.g. until the war is over and things have adjusted from the pandemic. This would fan inflation due to increase in demand but if time limited to 1 year or 2, it could be palatable.

Not with a recession looming, as the article points out. I’d be interested in upskilling suggestions that are smaller sized chunks.

Online nano degrees seem to be too watered down to take seriously. Need to position self for late 2023.

That is not correct.

Spending is the appropriate response when faced with a demand driven recession. This is a supply driven recession and reducing govt demand may not be a bad idea.

I’m someone who stayed put. Same company for 7 years. Not fang. Got promoted to be a manager half way. I stayed put as it was awesome learning for me. I sucked my first year and yet felt was able to demonstrate value due to momentum from my previous impact. I am getting better at leadership and finding my skin.

But .. in retrospect, I left a lot of money on the table. I also don’t see myself making the next jump (to vp) as I have seen no one do it .. vps come from outside where I am.

I am mulling an mba or emba but it is pretty expensive in time and money.

Thanks for the insight. In Canada, things have been more consistent politically at least. Good point that the same party in power can still result in diverging directions. I don’t feel this as much despite changes in parties at the federal and provincial level over the last dozen years.

E.g. federally, big changes were relaxation of immigration, govt support for lower income earners and cannabis legalization. Provincially (Ontario) govt services like schools and healthcare are being starved, and privatization of previously public services is on the agenda.

Perhaps the water is being boiled slower than I can feel :)

Would you mind sharing changes you feel on the ground? I am from Canada, and feel we are facing unprecedented problems in our society. What is global, and why is created by bad policy ?

Biggest issues in Canada:

1) stupidly priced real estate due to decade plus of factors (rates, building starts, land use, immigration, tax policy quirks)

2) since last year, inflation accelerated making all costs of living too high.. this lack of living wage is a key reason for the great resignation in the service sector imho.

3) tax incentives kill incentive to work. High end rates too high, support at margin seems too generous (CERB)

4) govt services being neglected .. e.g. healthcare. Stuff that remains is bloated ( civil servants getting massive raises relative to others)

I hear from the news, the tax cut being proposed in the uk at least addresses #3 above. I agree that the Econ implications on inflation don’t seem to have been thought through.