solinent
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Comment · 5 years ago
What is the likelihood of this study being true? Will it be cited a lot now?
Comment · 5 years ago
Location: Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes (Canadian citizen)
Technologies: C++/C#/Java/Haskell/Python/JS/OpenGL/Vue/Flask/Qt/Houdini
I have a mathematics degree from Waterloo, where I was employed through their co-op program for two years as a 3D graphics developer for SideFX's Houdini, working on the 3D viewport. I then moved into augmented virtual reality (as we called it), researching developing mapping systems for a company which sold to Facebook, Sulon technologies. After that I worked for Teledyne Optech, the leading Lidar company, developing their mapping suite software. At the present I am working on building a startup developing an analytics suite software using NLP for M&A law firms. Ideally I would find some part-time remote work (30 hours is still okay) so I can continue with my business, but I am willing to cut my losses given the right opportunity. Thanks!
Résumé/CV: https://asaldanha.com/resume.html
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 5 years ago
Your face is not really a secret, hardly very secure, I'd say.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think as computers fail to get faster, we won't be able to improve performance without making application specific logical units, however, we may still be able to make it general purpose.
Comment · 5 years ago
Isolation by itself can come in many different forms, I'd say. I don't think that all of these metal diagnoses due to isolation really apply to everyone or every situation very well. It's important to consider that some people historically lived very isolated and also some people lived in the middle of civilization, and some did both.
Comment · 5 years ago
Diversify your speculation, I think that's the best advice, and make sure you stay grounded, ie. have a base which won't really move much relative to potential hyper-inflation.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think that's an absolutely terrible idea.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's really more about signal-to-noise ratio I'd say, if there are often loud noises then your brain will have to attend to them, if there is constantly a fan noise, for example, then your brain will actually focus since there is no signal--but I've definitely found it's best to get rid of both in almost all domains.
Comment · 5 years ago
If you have to study for the interview, they're not selecting their candidates for intelligence, really, but either intelligence or studiousness.
Comment · 5 years ago
Maybe I'll take a shot at a very simple backend, I've not been able to find a kanban which is simple enough for me.
Comment · 5 years ago
> 1B Lines of C++
Seems like our code is inflating quite rapidly. I remember when 1M was the biggest project. /snark
Comment · 5 years ago
Another in addition to these excellent suggestions would be scapular pullups and scapular pushups.
Comment · 5 years ago
It seems to me the investment community has accepted bitcoin at this point, with major institutional investors finally buying in now--1 billion from microstrategy, for example--so expect to see it go up more. I think it will keep going up until it gets regulated, I'm sure they'll continue to find ways to "increase liquidity" despite Bitcoin.
Comment · 5 years ago
Definitely--lots of old assets are used for testing, I've seen them personally. It's standard practice to keep around old models, scenes, textures, etc.
Comment · 5 years ago
They render them at a very high resolution, so perhaps the person I heard the rumors from was talking about reducing the resolution to something less than 10k by 10k (or more sometimes, I've been out of the film industry for 8 years).
I shouldn't really say more.
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