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New comment by antt in "The Troubled History of Psychiatry"

antt — Wed, 22 May 2019 04:31:46 +0000

It has tried and failed, get better bombs on your planes that explode when they hit kindergartens.

But bonus point for assuming everyone is Anglo white on here.

New comment by antt in "The Troubled History of Psychiatry"

antt — Wed, 22 May 2019 01:28:15 +0000

Your ideology and bias is showing. You're fighting a straw man that has nothing to do with what I said.

New comment by antt in "Experiments find higher social class more likely to have inflated sense of skill"

antt — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:39:26 +0000

I find it odd how Americans try to convince themselves there are a lot of ways to be high class. A doctor might have slightly better standing than a plumber but ask yourself this, who would be served first in a restaurant, the doctor, the plumber, or the millionaire who just drove in on a Ferrari with a model on each arm?

New comment by antt in "People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study"

antt — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:27:42 +0000

Given that the Waltons family is worth more than the bottom billion people on the planet and their main achievement was being born from the right vagina, yes exploitation exists.

Now the question for that billion is, are the Waltons worth eating? Which I suppose depends on how badly the crops have failed that year.

New comment by antt in "‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab"

antt — Sun, 19 May 2019 11:51:34 +0000

Better than work pieces. Sorry boss someone out a 3/8th piece in the 5/8th holder. That $10e6 titanium piece is now scrap. We'll do better next time.

New comment by antt in "‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab"

antt — Sun, 19 May 2019 07:50:26 +0000

How is that different to gcode?

New comment by antt in "I turned my interview task for Google into a startup"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 21:27:51 +0000

Op missed the part where they need to batch run their solution 200 times over and pick the quickest root. Like always ignorance begets confidence. That's not even talking about part 2 which you need to completely refactor the solution from the previous problem.

You sound like the type of engineer I get hired to replace at three times the rate when the project is on fire because they didn't understand the spec.

New comment by antt in "I turned my interview task for Google into a startup"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 20:18:31 +0000

> Where exactly is the complexity?

In understanding the question.

At any rate, you still haven't replied to my job offer. I need you to do two weeks of free work for me.

New comment by antt in "Going Critical"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:29:25 +0000

There aren't any I could find, I had to do everything from first principles and the notebooks were left with my employer.

New comment by antt in "I turned my interview task for Google into a startup"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:26:33 +0000

>For context, for my first job as a developer the take home assignment I got was creating a web app that logged realtime CPU usage and created a graph of that CPU usage that was updated in real time.

That's at worst a 4 hour job to do with a beer over the weekend. You sound incredibly incompetent if you can't tell the difference in difficulty between that and that they asked OP to do.

That assignment is 1/128th the work of point 1) from OP.

New comment by antt in "I turned my interview task for Google into a startup"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 19:14:05 +0000

Sound great. I have a job offer for you. Contact me for the two week unpaid test.

New comment by antt in "I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 02:22:07 +0000

I met a welder who had hourly prices above work samples.

The $300h one looked like a piece of art. The $20h looked like sea gull crap landing randomly around the piece.

New comment by antt in "I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page"

antt — Thu, 16 May 2019 02:18:30 +0000

If you want to be paid more: ask for more. It is astonishing how few people do.

New comment by antt in "Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety"

antt — Wed, 15 May 2019 02:38:11 +0000

So one so outdated that no discipline uses?

New comment by antt in "Going Critical"

antt — Tue, 14 May 2019 22:53:40 +0000

Yeah. And because they are sparse the representation is both tiny and stupidly powerful.

New comment by antt in "Going Critical"

antt — Tue, 14 May 2019 13:11:41 +0000

The hyper volumes between vertices can have single weights. Say you have a pump that is contaminated with cholera. You can either model the pump as a node on the graph with every person drinking from it being connected by an edge, allow an arbitrary number of edges between any two nodes, or allow for a relationship that can connect an arbitrary number of nodes.

I built a rather sophisticated simplex based trade analyser for one of my contracts for a broker trader. From what I've heard it's given them an edge since no one even knows about it. It's been three years so my NDA and non-compete are finished. I might get around to writing it up if I don't get hired to do another one.

New comment by antt in "Going Critical"

antt — Tue, 14 May 2019 12:37:51 +0000

Real social networks aren't even networks, they are simplexes.

New comment by antt in "Shipments of PC Hard Drives Predicted to Drop by Nearly 50% in 2019"

antt — Tue, 07 May 2019 10:12:41 +0000

Not sure about that. Tape drives have always been better for long term storage.

New comment by antt in "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]"

antt — Mon, 06 May 2019 06:16:54 +0000

Every country that has had a GDP ppp of over $8k equivalent 2010 dollars does not have replenishment birth rates.

New comment by antt in "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]"

antt — Mon, 06 May 2019 06:14:45 +0000

You ignore the destruction of capital war causes. Germany in 1945 had maybe three bricks still stacked on top of each other, but had lost less than 20% of its prewar population.