Are there books that teach people about the sorts of systems used to make animated movies? I’ve seen game engine books and the like. Physically based rendering is on my list, but I wonder if there are other interesting reads I’m missing.
I also think that people here are missing the game that was played by the VCs. I have a friend working at Insight who told me that they were preparing to issue loans and further funding to portfolio companies. This of course is less ideal than having the government bail their portfolio out, but they would have had no choice. So, having shot themselves in the foot by starting a panic, they decided that the best way to avoid getting in trouble was to push the panic even further to the point that it threatened the entire economic system.
Personally, that is what I find so disgusting and that is the source of my animosity. I believe the fed ultimately chose to maximize the probability of avoiding a crisis over punishing these morons. I think that is wise but still not good.
The analogy I choose is this. Imagine there is a forest that is due for a bit of a natural fire. We should let it burn - but wait it turns out some people built and sold houses in this forest. Instead of evacuating and having these people suffer and need to relocate, we put out the fire. Since we put out this fire, these people living in a hazardous way continue to do so. Eventually a massive fire will start and kill those people and spread to other areas that it otherwise would not have. All because we decided to stop the “maintenance” fire from clearing the brush.
99.9% of the reason I am considering the masters is because I figure it fills a gap in my resume and makes me eligible to far more internships.
I don't really want to do data science. I sort've drifted towards it because my major was computational math and it was such a hot field (still is).
I don't think that I missed that job because of the pay or experience on my resume. I had a bit of an anxiety attack during my final interview of the onsite. It isn't the first company I lost out on due to last second freeze ups either sadly.
If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that I carry on working on side projects and applying to jobs. I am fortunate enough to be able to survive doing this, but my feeling is that the longer I remain the fewer callbacks I will get due to the gap. Do you disagree or is there some way I can mitigate that effect?
You’re totally right! I’m in NY. For a while I was looking only for work here, but as of a few weeks ago I’m aiming for any city. I’m an Italian citizen so I could even go to Europe hahaha. Thank you for the optimism about my position. I’m wondering how you would suggest meeting more people at companies that interest me? LinkedIn? I wasn’t a CS major so all but one of my school friends are nowhere near these industries.
I should have clarified. I do not consider my rate of getting interviews to be reasonably successful lol.
At first, I was very unsure of what I wanted to do. I spent a lot of time applying to really competitive software/quant jobs at finance firms. I mainly did this because I felt pressure to come home (NY).
I then wasted a lot of time applying to data science roles with experience requirements that were out of my range. I am good at Python, SQL, feature engineering, and stats for an undergrad (I think), but these jobs all wanted 2+ YOE. I thought that I might make it with my math background. I was also panicking about the lack of entry level positions I was seeing. I had a terrible go of it and it really shot my confidence. I had the two onsites during this period.
Now there are more entry level positions and I've been applying for lots of data/software engineering positions. I've applied to maybe 20 places in the past month and gotten 3 interviews. All 3 are at companies that a few months ago I thought had zero interest in me.
I am also about to start searching outside of my home city (NY) because that was a stupid constraint to put on myself in the first place.
I do worry that my resume is not as strong as others due to only having one internship and projects. I've been working on a few projects to jazz things up, but progress is slow because I have this terrible excel job at the moment. I was thinking a bootcamp would be a good way to work on projects with less of a gap on the resume. That is probably the wrong reason to go for one because it is mainly about the optics...
I have an mITX setup and the card was overheating under load. I took off the shroud and backplate. I then got the artic accelero kit and installed the mini heatsinks and big heat sink. With the fans from the kit, it wouldn’t fit. So, I put two noctuas underneath the card. Now the card idles at whatever the room temperature is. It is quiet as a mouse because of the noctuas. I’ve only seen it touch 90c one time and that was while training a resnet over the course of 3 days.
I’m no expert on hardware. However, is it possible in the future that our progress towards faster and faster chips slows to the point where a 30 yr old chip is actually not that slow compared to a modern chip?