And on the other end of the chicken, China is where most of the process engineers and other people who specialize in figuring out how to alter designs to optimize manufacturing are based out of. Not much call for them in the US so they are fewer around, harder to hire, and tend to be less experienced.
I think part of the issue is that these screws are common in China, but in the US they require special runs. Not enough companies in the US use them to justify their mass market here.
*nod* I think a major element was they discovered the availability they could take for granted in China all of a sudden became supply chain issues when trying to build the same device in TX.
Well, if they have access to one's transcript, it shows which 'hoops' have trained tested their knowledge of particular concepts and technologies. Some hoops are arbitrary, but when you get a degree it lays out exactly which functional hoops one has gone through which might be of interest to an employer.
Ugh.
Last company I interviewed at had a 'test' to try to determine if people knew how to program in C. It consisted of all bitshifting questions (nothing else) on a clock and I spent the bulk of that time trying to figure out why their C interpreter was behaving differently than the C compiler I had on my laptop. But they have been using these tests for years and swear by them.
I sometimes thing the whole 'reduce the pile' thing should just be handed over to dice.
I know companies that use these 3rd party services. I won't even apply at them now, the services are always a nightmare of meta thinking, trying to figure out what some test writer values. The run into the same basic problem HR does.. they need to get applicants through the process as quickly as possible and produce some arbitrary score that can be used to widle down the large stack of applicants... time is money and the customer only cares about the ratio of rejected vs accepted in order for THEM to save their money time.
Depends on what kind of role they are hiring for. Planning on a long term investment with someone who will be contributing for the next 5-10 years? Theoretical foundation and deep knowledge. Need a warm body to finish a project with a set end date or one with a high turnover? Practical skills so you don't waste time on a throwaway employee.
Ah yes, the 'programming challenge' final.. i.e. the 'guess what specific niche that if you have a solid base can probably look up in 10 minutes but if you don't know it off the top of your head and solve it the way I picture it, that means you don't know anything!' test.
Heh. I would actually put the people with degrees as the less replaceable, and the people who one hires for specific skills as the more replaceable 'warm body' cogs. For years tech has been pressuring universities to not waste time on anything that feed directly into new hires having the exact minimal skills for entry level positions today with the assumption they will be dropped soon after. So it makes sense IBM and such would advocate having even more cheap developers with only the skills they need immediately and then replace as soon as the project changes.
Well, the very first one they cut down options quite a bit after learning from the cost overruns of the Lisa, but on the whole the 680x0 macs were offered with a wide range of expansion options including external chassis if you really wanted to throw in cards and disks.
And as much as we want to blame companies for this, ultimately it has been consumers driving the demand for these form factors. Getting consumers to step away is challenging since it means getting large groups of people to consider issues that only have a probability of occuring long after their initial purchase.
I know so many people who use macs for work rather than media consumption, and the have been feeling increasingly abandoned. I would even be happy if they started some kind of official 3rd party system builder program that could still run OSX but had other companies trying to fill the market gaps.
Does anyone ever read the positive reviews? I know when I am looking into a company on glassdoor, I just skip to the reviews describing the problems people have had.
I would argue that this type of work is pretty resistant to AI. Data science is all about adding the human touch after big data has done all it can with collecting information. I am not sure how easily that can be automated since it is very human oriented.
Well, at least not when companies who have a vested interest in the current arrangement are the ones deciding what is 'fair' and what licenses should look like.
Just because scientists looking at something were surprised does not mean they thought it was impossible. It just means they learned something unexpected. Even in cases where they learned they were wrong about something does not mean they thought the alternative was 'impossible', more often than not the 'right' answer is well within the space of the possible, they just thought something else was the case.
Thing is, his proposal was not 'this is alien', it was working out how much the object would have to weigh in order for light pressure to explain its movement. The 'alien' part of it was seriously hyped up by the press, but within the paper it was just part of a list of possible origins for such a lightweight object.
Eh, not really. If one is going to use lightnight, one might as well just go back to ACH. Lightning's technical solution might be novel, but the final result is not.
Being repeatable is not a requirement for something being 'science', it just happens to be a dead end since no new data will be coming in. But taking a data set and proposing models for fitting it? People working in STEM do that all the time.
Ahm, it did deviate from the purely gravity shaped orbit. Something acted to speed it up slightly in a way that could not be accounted for by gravity alone.
Within the paper's suggestion though. Oumuamua would be mostly light sail, which doesn't really scale down since the surface area is the important part.
Which I can not blame him for. The actual paper was not all that sensational, but it caught the press's attention and I think that has tainted the scientific community's view of it, which must be very frustrating.
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And on the other end of the chicken, China is where most of the process engineers and other people who specialize in figuring out how to alter designs to optimize manufacturing are based out of. Not much call for them in the US so they are fewer around, harder to hire, and tend to be less experienced.
I think part of the issue is that these screws are common in China, but in the US they require special runs. Not enough companies in the US use them to justify their mass market here.
*nod* I think a major element was they discovered the availability they could take for granted in China all of a sudden became supply chain issues when trying to build the same device in TX.
Ahm.. that very link states that Thiomersal was removed from childhood vaccines decades ago.
Well, if they have access to one's transcript, it shows which 'hoops' have trained tested their knowledge of particular concepts and technologies. Some hoops are arbitrary, but when you get a degree it lays out exactly which functional hoops one has gone through which might be of interest to an employer.
Ugh. Last company I interviewed at had a 'test' to try to determine if people knew how to program in C. It consisted of all bitshifting questions (nothing else) on a clock and I spent the bulk of that time trying to figure out why their C interpreter was behaving differently than the C compiler I had on my laptop. But they have been using these tests for years and swear by them.
I sometimes thing the whole 'reduce the pile' thing should just be handed over to dice.
I know companies that use these 3rd party services. I won't even apply at them now, the services are always a nightmare of meta thinking, trying to figure out what some test writer values. The run into the same basic problem HR does.. they need to get applicants through the process as quickly as possible and produce some arbitrary score that can be used to widle down the large stack of applicants... time is money and the customer only cares about the ratio of rejected vs accepted in order for THEM to save their money time.
Depends on what kind of role they are hiring for. Planning on a long term investment with someone who will be contributing for the next 5-10 years? Theoretical foundation and deep knowledge. Need a warm body to finish a project with a set end date or one with a high turnover? Practical skills so you don't waste time on a throwaway employee.
Ah yes, the 'programming challenge' final.. i.e. the 'guess what specific niche that if you have a solid base can probably look up in 10 minutes but if you don't know it off the top of your head and solve it the way I picture it, that means you don't know anything!' test.
Heh. I would actually put the people with degrees as the less replaceable, and the people who one hires for specific skills as the more replaceable 'warm body' cogs. For years tech has been pressuring universities to not waste time on anything that feed directly into new hires having the exact minimal skills for entry level positions today with the assumption they will be dropped soon after. So it makes sense IBM and such would advocate having even more cheap developers with only the skills they need immediately and then replace as soon as the project changes.
Well, the very first one they cut down options quite a bit after learning from the cost overruns of the Lisa, but on the whole the 680x0 macs were offered with a wide range of expansion options including external chassis if you really wanted to throw in cards and disks.
And as much as we want to blame companies for this, ultimately it has been consumers driving the demand for these form factors. Getting consumers to step away is challenging since it means getting large groups of people to consider issues that only have a probability of occuring long after their initial purchase.
This.
I know so many people who use macs for work rather than media consumption, and the have been feeling increasingly abandoned. I would even be happy if they started some kind of official 3rd party system builder program that could still run OSX but had other companies trying to fill the market gaps.
Does anyone ever read the positive reviews? I know when I am looking into a company on glassdoor, I just skip to the reviews describing the problems people have had.
I would argue that this type of work is pretty resistant to AI. Data science is all about adding the human touch after big data has done all it can with collecting information. I am not sure how easily that can be automated since it is very human oriented.
Well, at least not when companies who have a vested interest in the current arrangement are the ones deciding what is 'fair' and what licenses should look like.
Just because scientists looking at something were surprised does not mean they thought it was impossible. It just means they learned something unexpected. Even in cases where they learned they were wrong about something does not mean they thought the alternative was 'impossible', more often than not the 'right' answer is well within the space of the possible, they just thought something else was the case.
Thing is, his proposal was not 'this is alien', it was working out how much the object would have to weigh in order for light pressure to explain its movement. The 'alien' part of it was seriously hyped up by the press, but within the paper it was just part of a list of possible origins for such a lightweight object.
Eh, not really. If one is going to use lightnight, one might as well just go back to ACH. Lightning's technical solution might be novel, but the final result is not.
Being repeatable is not a requirement for something being 'science', it just happens to be a dead end since no new data will be coming in. But taking a data set and proposing models for fitting it? People working in STEM do that all the time.
Ahm, it did deviate from the purely gravity shaped orbit. Something acted to speed it up slightly in a way that could not be accounted for by gravity alone.
Within the paper's suggestion though. Oumuamua would be mostly light sail, which doesn't really scale down since the surface area is the important part.
Which I can not blame him for. The actual paper was not all that sensational, but it caught the press's attention and I think that has tainted the scientific community's view of it, which must be very frustrating.
Amazing how people end up recreating the same solutions they were trying to move away from, isn't it?