I law a lego batman

are there more than 1

(uh oh furiously googling/ imdbing) a few lego movies. trying to remember was batman in the 1st lego movie (2014)? maybe a cameo?

(lol ok yep not losing my memory/ mind totally yet hes in the trailer) imdb.com/title/tt1490017

XD

@enumaris lol sounds like "frenemies" o_O

just had a convo w/ a financial institution...seems like it's easier for me to sell my data science skills to a more "business"-oriented interviewer...hmmm...maybe my skills just aren't up to par lol

@enumaris you clearly have some real talent/ skills/ background but capitalism can be very cutting sometimes. its a matter of figuring out whats hot, really seizing on it, and yes it can be fragmented across different companies. youre up for some diverse positions...

@enumaris well your current job is more business-oriented than research too, right?

Also do you run into a bunch of terrible articles/blog posts when looking for information about something new? What would you think of something that indexed those and people could upvote/downvote them? Kind of like reddit, but more search-based than time-based

@danielunderwood indeed

hmmm I'd really like to make something like that, but I'm not sure what characteristics it needs to have for people to use it

@danielunderwood would be an interesting concept, but for truly "new" material there might not be enough upvoters/downvoters to make the statistics be meaninful imo...

Well my thought is that hopefully you can start making comparisons between new material without votes and existing documents that have the data

Then you could have something like a news feed that gives stronger weights to newer articles

having the "relevant" news pop up is certainly a very hot topic right now

All the top websites basically have some algorithm to figure out your feed

Yeah and having the ability to vote on it. Like I kind of enjoy Google's news feed, but they show me some things that are entirely trash and the only option is to navigate through a few buttons to just disable that source in its entirety

And not much in terms of add this to a list of things to read unless I manually add it to Pocket or similar

hmmm

lunch today was catered...pretty good :D

I had a chicken parmesean sandwich that had way too little sauce and cheese :(

:(

Evidently the job that I'm applying for has their own cafeteria and coffee shop at that location...yes please

Though I suppose that's pretty dependent on the quality of those

dang, the recruiter said his client's rate is pretty stuck and they can't really go up from there

not much of a chance at that company then...I ain't adding an hour and a half on my commute every day for a ~10-15k pay bump

@danielunderwood a lot of start ups get catered breakfast/lunches everyday as a way to attract talent

and grow loyalty

and increase productivity

Hour and a half commute?! O.O

My limit is like 15 minute commute

my commute right now is like 30 minutes on a good day 45 minutes on a bad day

1 hour back and forth

going up to that company's site would take me probably 1 hour 15 minutes...

since it would be during rush hour

if no traffic probably I could make that drive in 45 minutes

so in my mind it's basically a 30min -> 1 hour 15 minute change in 1 way commute

based on the interview, the chances that I would pass all the next rounds of interviews was quite high though cus the VP already said "I think you would fit very well here" :P

oh well, these things happen, just have to keep looking

@enumaris Is your physics background a plus during the interviews?

(assuming machine learning jobs)

@Mostafa I think me having a PhD is a plus because they understand I "know my shit" so to speak. But that it's specifically physics...they generally don't care.

My PhD tells people I know math and I can do research...and I'm persistent enough to finish a PhD as well.

but in terms of "I know physics very well!" I don't think any of them care about that lol

at least not much

what about your school?

I mean ranking and prestige and things like that

From my experience, at the interview stage, the school part doesn't come up much

but obviously they could be judging me based on my school and just not telling me about it

it could also affect the "getting to the interview" stage

@enumaris are you in a place that you could move to make the commute less? Or would it be in an area that's prohibitively expensive?

I could move straight to the middle of a major city here without much of an issue, but I hear that it's quite different in LA

yeah places be expensive lol

but if I have to move, that's a whole nother deal

Short answer: not necessary...?

(How will CTCs that are not geodesic a be handled. I knew that CTCs involves the revisiting of some event in spacetime for particles travelling along them, but is that sufficient to ensure the light comes to form a closed loop configuration)

isn't the difference CTCs are everywhere time-like (so theoretically traversible by an "observer") while causal loops can become null somewhere?

whoop, according to wikipedia, that's not it lol