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As so many programming positions pay 3x that amount in a year - and more, over a course of a career, I would say yes. You will earn it back in four months of working.

Also people talk about the downturn in tech around 2000-2001 - I was working then, and startups and dot-coms were going broke left and right. I interviewed at traditional companies - some required a degree, and if they did not they at least asked about it. It doesn't matter when times are good, but when the economy goes south, and, let's say, you're 50 years old with two kids and you're laid off - then it matters. And by that point it is harder to jump into, then when you're in your late teens or twenties (and has less lifetime return).

I'm not really sure what "self taught" means. You are supposed to spend at least three hours studying for every hour in class. So in that sense, it is only a question if you go to college and are 75% self-taught, or don't go and are 100% self taught. With those being the hours spent, you are only going to class for one year any how, and studying for the other three years.

I don't know why the blog post focuses so much on the first paycheck. Your pay will go up over the years. Even beginner programmers get paid decently for a new graduate.

In terms of understanding things like mu-recursive functions as a model of computation, mathematical ideas - so that the idea to use a Goedel number or exponential decay might occur to you - these things you are much more likely to find in a CS grad then one who is not. A CS grad might not know these things, but a non-CS non-grad is even less likely to know them.

Also - a beginner might not know what they should learn. Most beginners want to start by knowing which computer language to learn. Lots of CS programs start off teaching calculus, discrete math, graph theory, theory of computation, and then you start with learning a programming language in a introductory course to algorithms and data structures. It's not just not knowing something - it's not knowing what you should know. I spent more time than I thought I would studying critical sections in class at college. Otherwise I may have thought it was something I could understand in a day or two, which it is not.

Also, it speaks of different circumstances. But one does not have to shell out all the money up front. If needed, you can find work, preferably in technology, find a good public school nearby and take one or two courses at night (or on weekends) every semester.

Skill in knowing the ins-and-outs of the latest Javascript framework is ephemeral. I have years of Solaris knowledge and experience, much of which is useless unless by chance someone has an old Solaris server around they need to find the LUN numbers from. But knowing the fundamentals is useful for a long time. And the earlier in your career you learn them, the better.
Straight isn’t everything. Autopilot keeps you in your lane even as the road curves. With caveats. It’s beta after all.
https://youtu.be/c5ELzL7DGpw?t=2426

Vitamin K - Mk7, Vitamin V, and Magnesium seem to help with the removal of calcifications of the artillery. Though I couldn't really find referees other than reports on `Vitamin K intake and calcifications in breast arteries Angela`
Automatic feature selection is the area of research you’re looking for.
What you say has just enough technical detail to seem entirely plausible to someone who doesn't understand technology.

It is also entirely wrong.

The problem that I am describing is not the Halting Problem. A theoretically perfect NN is also able to do a lot better than any person could. The ability to have binocular vision in multiple directions, and mix that with radar awareness of the local environment and electronic communication with other cars to be aware of obstacles that are out of sight. This technology can drive more quickly and safely than humans ever could.

This sort of thing is admittedly some time off. But it is doable, and it is almost certain to happpen within our lifetimes.
People also seem surprised to learn that, even though you are correct, housing can still be a good investment.
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Given that the answer to your "question" is obviously going to be yes, why did you choose that tone? Do you think there's a virtue to being dismissive and rude? Does it accomplish some worthwhile goal?
Homeowners aren't necessarily satisfied with that though, and they have voting power. Prop 13 is basically a voter-approved way of guaranteeing the upside of stratospheric rises in property value without reaping any of the downside (increased tax reflecting said skyrocketing property value).
Think of it like this. The school has X places reserved for people to pay their way in. In exchange for those places, the university and student body get a bunch of benefits for letting in someone who is not otherwise qualified.

Think of this as a theft from the university and student body by the person accepting the money. The quality of the student body goes down but the university doesn’t get the benefit they’re supposed to.
They don’t say let the car drive. Not yet.
Depth estimation is not a solved problem. Why do you think SDC companies pay so much to buy Lidar if depth estimation was solved?
Fido/u2f is only supported in certain places. What I'm talking about is supported by any server that supports TLS. For instance, news.ycombinator.com is running nginx. nginx supports using client-side TLS certificates. If the administrators of this website chose to enable it, they could allow me to submit a certificate signing request, sign it, and send me the resulting certificate. Then they could allow me to connect to this server using that certificate to authenticate me in addition to my username and password.

Also, this isn't tied into a specific application level protocol. This can be done over other other application level protocols like SMTP, IMAP, NNTP, IRC, etc.

From what I've read about U2F[1], you need to use Google Chrome. Just checking the preferences/settings for both Firefox and Chrome, they both have the option of importing client side TLS certificates. Thunderbird also has the option of importing client side TLS certificates.

To put it another way, my browser can tell I'm connecting to news.ycombinator.com by using the certificate authority bundle installed on my machine. I don't need any external service or new standard to accomplish this. The same principle applies to client side TLS certificates.

[1] https://www.yubico.com/solutions/fido-u2f/
Bayesian programming anyone?
*new grad level software engineer, new grads in any operational role are earning half as much as an SWE in total compensation.
The whole problem is that the money didn’t go to Stanford. That’s where the “theft” occurred.
That's all very true, but one interesting thing is that the driver in this case knew that at this location the autopilot was 100% likely to fail. I believe I read he had even reported it several times to Tesla Service and his family.

The lane markers in this area, based on video I watched of it years ago, are pretty bad, IIRC. Like, a human could have problems following the markers bad. As evidence to support this I'll say that there had been an accident in this exact area days (again, IIRC) before that destroyed the "crumple zone" in this area. :-)

It's going to be extremely interesting to see how the courts rule in a case where "I knew the Tesla on autopilot would drive in to the barrier in this area, and I turned on autopilot in this area and it drove into the barrier."
>A few percent better than “humans” is quite bad

Yes it should be (imho) at least an order of magnitude better than humans before we consider it OK to not pay attention.

Not a few percentage points better as you say.

However, to overcome media drama, it probably will need to be not just one, but more like three or four orders of magnitude safer than humans, because of the “oh look, a Tesla had an accident” effect.
Might I ask that you edit the original post to remove 'remote' as I think that might mislead under the common definition in this thread.
Worse. It will get Mormons talking about the Urim & Thummim. I know. I would have been one of them.
No, it's like this:

Radar, LIDAR, ultrasound: returning packets have X value, where X is run through a single algorithm to return depth. In the case of ultrasound and radar, the strength of the return packet is generally directly proportional to depth (algorithmically). LIDAR systems might require an additional processing step depending on the type of LIDAR system used, since many systems use shifted-arrays or rotating frequencies.

Stereovision: returns two matrices of data (i.e., each image). Each matrix is run through edge-detection and object-detection algorithms, and the resultant data is then run through more algorithms to match and compare objects between the two images. Finally, once objects have been matched up, a parallax algorithm determines their 3d positioning. While this can all be done in hardware (i.e., ASICS), it's still multiple additional levels of processing that must be done before you can even get the data to the decision-making part of the system. Stereovision is thus always inherently laggier than a radar-based system when it comes to determining depth.
I think the issue is not a fraction of a percent here or there - this is an optimization.

The issue is what is going to be easy, robust, painless and get you your money without fuss in the markets you need it to?

There's some friction with moving to another processor, but it's not as bad as AWS vs. Azure.

If a team is very familiar with an API/service, that's probably the one to use (!) so long as it checks out on the major items otherwise.

Once the model makes sense, you can think about Russia, 1% conversions, fees at scale yada yada.
> I don't see how it's any different to me withdrawing my entire bank account, walking down to the casino and putting it all on black?

The difference is that you still own a home, even if it is worth less than what you paid for it. If you bet all your money on roulette and lose it, you have nothing left.

30 years from now, when you pay off your mortgage, your cost of living will be very low -- this is very good for retirement. People who are still renting 30 years from now will probably be paying monthly rental bills higher than your mortgage payments, due to inflation if nothing else. The difference over that time might exceed your hypothetical $100k.
Consider the opposite - if San Francisco allowed building. Your charming San Francisco would get demolished in the same way the Pudong in Shanghai did. Housing prices would level out a bit as developers cashed in on the gold rush and the housing supply leveled off with the demand. SF has room to build up but no incentive with rent control and restrictions.

Consider Shanghai as described below. Consider following the link.

"In 1996: After the mayor boasted that 18% of the world’s construction cranes were at work in Shanghai, international media widely reported – and exaggerated – the statistic. Reports described the crane as China’s national bird. The figure on how many cranes were working in Shanghai got rounded up to “a fifth,” “a quarter” and, in more than one publication, “half” the world’s total. "[https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/12/21/china-shangha...]
The reason the visual languages even come up so often is because people outside of programming believe that code is the hard part. It looks scary, so if we just took that part out everyone could be a programmer.

Which makes you wonder why every single attempt to do this makes easy things trivial and everything else difficult to impossible.

Programming languages are (usually) tools created to help get things done. They're not (usually) there to make your life harder, or to force you to learn something. So why does it seem like that's the starting assumption to every alternative proposed?

(NOTE: If your scope is limited, it makes sense. Unreal Engine 4's Shader Blueprints are great, not only is the scope limited but the visual approach allows you to preview each step at a glance.)
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It probably has a healthy engineering staff, but as Wall St. sees it, Google could just cut out dev work, scale back to minimal ops and print money the whole way down the death spiral.
I'm not sure what you mean but SLAM includes a strong mapping component that includes edge and environmental geometry detection. The unobserved variable here are the future locations of the boundaries of vehicles and obstacles (we can't predict where a vehicle would move so can an obstacle).
Learned this from experience. Real estate prices are a function of supply and demand. Buy into a market where the population/job market is declining then be sure that the prices will fall. Buy into a market where the population is increasing then watch the prices rise. It won't be straight up but long term they will rise.

Determine if you will stick around and which way the population numbers are moving then you can decide whether to buy or rent.

In Los Angeles, people are always bitching about housing costs. But as long as people want to live there, it will always be a good time to buy vs rent -if you plan to stick around. Sure there will be declines but house prices will increase in the long run.
If a renter could not make the monthly payments it would result in eviction. Both eviction and foreclosure are bad for your credit, and both mean you need to find somewhere else to live.
At some speed stopping the collision becomes difficult/impossible.

But in the meantime I'd vastly prefer colliding after significant breaking than not.
If you rent for long enough, you'll pay for a new roof eventually because buildings eventually need new roofs, and rental property repairs are funded from rent payments.
Also have jobs related to sysadmin and cyber security.
I wonder if there was a correlation between how much someone had to pay, and how bad the student was.
I changed the way I read (non-fiction) books. In the past, I tried taking notes as I was reading the book, based on both published research - and my own anecdotal experience - regarding retention of read material. That was fine, except I found myself taking overly detailed notes, and sometimes it felt like I was all but transcribing the damn book I was reading. This process was also very slow. But I didn't want to give up note-taking altogether, so I decided to try something counter-intuitive.

Now, I read these books twice. I do a first pass where I take no notes whatsoever.. not even light pencil marks on pages or use of those fluorescent page flags. I read fairly fast (depending on how dense the material is) - not quite the way I'd read a novel, but not too far off. Then, almost immediately after finishing, I read it a second time; but this time I take my notes. Except now, having had the first pass, I already have a better idea of what the salient points are, and I find it easier to filter the note taking down to the high points. Note that on this second pass I will read very quickly, or even skip over entirely, certain sections, based on my prior knowledge from the first pass. This lets me focus in more on the really important stuff.

Anyway, I know it sounds weird, but I think I wind up spending less time with a given book, even though I'm reading it twice. And even if it's a wash on total time, I wind up with more focused notes. And probably better overall retention just for having seen most of the material multiple times.

So far I'm on about book number 4 or 5 using this approach, and it seems to be working pretty well. It may not be for everybody, but I'm going to stick with it for the time being.
A few more: Blueberry Garden, Starseed Pilgrim, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Braid
Yeah good to keep an open mind on both possibilities, but it’s overwhelmingly likely that autopilot will only get much better over time.
"autopilot" covers everything from a wing leveler to what you're describing. GP's description is entirely accurate for a general aviation airplane.
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If we take CallJoy and add their Duplex service, it's easy to see where this is going: call centers and IVR.

Companies like Avaya and Cisco are making banks selling solutions for call centers, but what if this could be automated? Perhaps not today, but say around 2025, 2030? I doubt Cisco and Avaya have the expertise to pull this off, but Google (or Amazon) certainly could.
The difference is that you can ride out housing market downturns until home values recover but if you bet it all and lose at the casino, the game is over. Even though the housing market drops 20% in your example, you still have a place to live and your monthly cash flow is unchanged. Just be patient, and you can recover it all.
> This old fashioned "just play the game because it's fun" mentality is dogma to Valve, but nowadays users want and require the Pavlovian reward systems.

Speaking to the choir I suspect, but god do I hate progression systems.

Haven't played Artifact, but I'm really not convinced by the narrative that Valve is removed from this stuff. TF2 and Counter Strike all have loot and inventory systems of their own. They're basically required in any free to play game.
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I want a language that is designed alongside an editor/IDE. I want to stop putting comments in my code. I want it to be first-class for my code to be in the left pane and my comments to be in the right pane, always binded together with anchors but always separate so my comments don't have to adhere to the limitations of the code's text area.

And then I want to put rich things into my comments section like graphics and tables and such. And I don't want to have to write table-like Markdown or a shorthand that converts into graphics. I want all the WYSIWYG of Word or PowerPoint or Inkscape just right there feeling 100% natural and native.

Jupyter is pretty darn close to this. And I like it a lot. But I feel like I'm giving up a lot to make a notebook. I want this in a much more heavy lifting format.
> I know a bunch of people that got patents in high school, competed in math/informatics olympiads and have multiple published papers (of varying quality, but nonetheless).

For each of those people there are a hundred that haven't done anything like that. "Ability" is a continuum: there are levels between "not doing anything" and "at the top of everything". Join your local research lab, try some competitive programming, do some open source work–just try your best and see what you can do! Not everyone can be the very best (though, it's entirely possible that you can, if you work hard and get lucky, so I don't want to close that off to you), but that doesn't make you unable to do cool things.

(FWIW, I'm in a middling undergraduate program, have no patents or papers in my name, and while I've competed in olympiads I have probably not done so at the level you're thinking of; I still feel that I've done cool things. YMMV, but if you want to chat personally feel free to shoot me an email.)
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Investing is crucial, all the rich people have their money in the market. It's the best way to retain/grow your wealth.
I have been practicing that for years.

Pays right off proper.

Frankly, a very large number of use cases can be performed very reasonably in default environments. Doing that takes a reasonable, largely one time, investment too.

Incremental changes are largely low impact too. Sometimes they aren't, and that sucks. A customization may make sense.

Every so often, re evaluate default workflows and UX tricks. Maybe losing a customization makes sense.

Result: At any given time, customizations in play are high value. Great. They pay off.

At any given time, risk is low, closer to optimal. that pays too.

Finally, overall efficiency, consistency and productivity are all good to excellent, though rarely peak. That is fine. In the vast majority of cases, due to cost and risk avoidance delivering better returns than the effort and cost to maximize performance will, it all ends up a very nice net gain.
FYI Unreal Engine's "blueprint" is a visual programming language that is neither a teaching toy nor an unusable disaster.
Most of the tech is the same, only the transport differs. Getting people to live in a lava tube in Antartica permanently would at least tell us if the idea is feasible for the human psyche, it's basically the same as mars but warmer and with easier access to water.
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They actually just recently released a sequel to Human Resource Machine called "7 Billion Humans". Builds on the gameplay but adds parallelism
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>and of course, if the runway is equipped, land the plane.

There is certainly no such thing as an auto-land system in which the pilots are not required to be ready to take full control of the aircraft at a moment's notice. It is Level 2 in the strictest sense.
But mah autonomy!!!

THB, meh.
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