Glad you're happy, I also want to get out of my current industry eventually. How much was 50% actually? For all I know, you could have went from 400k -> 200k. Do you live in a HCOL area?
What do you think of the current situation of (ex-)DACA recipients? Do you think the tech industry in general would benefit legalizing those "dreamers"?
I'm currently a DACA recipient. I got my DACA 4 1/2 years ago. In those four years I went from no job, to a full-time developer, to a CTO of a multi-million dollar company that oversees a team of 9 developers. Our company went from 9 employees to over 40 in that amount of time.
There are so many similar cases of DACA recipients flourishing. Many are devs or designers having a tremendous impact in tech, and many more are entrepreneurs.
We, Dreamers, have been waiting for 20+ years for an opportunity like DACA that allows us to show the US what we're made of and that we really are no different. We just need to be given a chance to be productive and help pay back for the marvelous opportunities we've been given.
I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to legally pay taxes. It's a weird feeling but it's fantastic!
The Wikipedia article gives Weierstrass's original condition, but it was later improved to just ab ≥ 1 (as noted, not very visibly, at the end of the article).
However, the Nautilus article also says that "Conventional wisdom held that for any continuous curve, it was possible to find the gradient at all but a finite number of points", which is clearly not true, so I'd be cautious about its technical correctness.
Mathematicians didn't state this as theorem or axiom, so it's hard to pin down exactly what they might have believed; the people answering the question talk about "except at isolated points" rather than "except at a finite number of points".
You can define a periodic function that goes from 0 to 1 as a straight line and then from 1 to 0 as another straight line, basically a triangle wave. It is not differentiable on an infinite (and countable) number of points:
I imagine they would have been talking about functions on the interval rather than our modern sense of functions on the reals. (Of course there are plenty of examples on the interval as well, but no obvious ones)
Hi, for PhD students, when is the recommended time for applying to this program? For the data science program, I believe it is 1-3 months before degree completion; is it the same case for the AI program? More specifically, I'm on track to graduate in 2018, but interested in looking for internships/bootcamps during summer 2017.
You need to be able to start your new full-time AI role within about 2-3 months of completing Insight. So we recommend applying within the last few months of your PhD, which will allow for a smooth transition from your program into your new role.
On a related note, anyone have any personal experience with iFixit's tech repair kit? I'm looking to gift a set of electronic repair tools for the holidays.
They're not the best quality but also not the worst. I feel like they're a little overpriced, but have bundled in a few unique bits which you don't typically find in toolkits (since they aren't technically tools, like the spudger, suction cups, and heat gun). iFixIt tools are one of these things you should buy on sale, the $80 "Pro Tech Toolkit" is a joke (even $50 seems high).
Unfortunately for iFixIt if you look around on Amazon you can find a lot of third parties that have copied various iFixIt sets almost 1:1 and are charging less than half the price for them. Even for more bespoke items like the spudgers.
You're better off buying high quality screwdrivers (e.g. wiha brand) and then adding the unique iFixIt additions, rather than buying the iFixIt set and getting really mediocre screwdrivers.
No experience with the ifixit stuff, but my set of 'small weird bits' is from wiha, and it includes a bunch of tiny pentalobe bits, one of which fit the screws on the bottom of a friend's apple laptop. I personally really like Wera, xcelite and wiha for my screwdrivers/bit drivers.
Or, to be more specific, I like wiha for tiny bits, wera for regular 1/4" bits and ratchets, and xcelite for fixed screwdrivers. The Xcelite XPE102 is my favorite screwdriver, and the tool I use the most often.
I have an iphone 5 that needs repairing, so I will soon be able to report back on how well the wiha works for that.
Now, I personally like nice tools the way some people like nice watches, so if the difference in price between the cheap tools and the good tools is significant to you and you don't use the tools often, you probably want to ignore my advice.
I've got the pro tech toolkit, and it's worth it for the case it comes in alone. The plastic case with all the little bits is clamshelled together magnetically, and then sticks to the roll with additional magnets.
I don't have much experience with industrial-level toolkits, but the convenience factor on ifixit's kit is off the charts. A worthy gift, imo.
I have their "54 Bit Driver Kit". They are well made and enough for me as I only use then to repair my own home electronics. Not sure they would last much on a pro repair shop.
They don't last in a pro shop. We have about five sets right now at my shop and have gone through more. Of those sets more than half of the phillips head bits are chipped and broken. Anything marked J0* or PH0* is particularly fragile.
The material doesn't feel anything like the tool steel that my auto repair tools are made of. The iFixit bits feel light and flimsy.
