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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
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Ty. it was just a quick search & 1 link but lots easily found.
I forgot his immigration laws changes
And an opinion, but lots of facts - 2 links below
Understanding big-O notation is what gave me the revelation to understand why RF far-fields and near-fields exist. Specifically why one occurs over short distances and the other over long.
Anyone can guess what the connection between the two were for me?
@cobratbq yea when people start blanking i offer to give them some time alone to think... I usually like to let a candidate come in, answer some questions, then spend some time alone doing some coding stuff with ample time. The ample time is so they can reflect ont heir earlier questions and before they leave i try to probe them to see if they had any new thoughts.
Blanking under stress is common and I want to help that not be an issue.
@JonKramer Thats the kind of person I want!
Banning abortions after 6-weeks might have some merrit, but unless he also pushed to give free pregnancy tests and aide to those who need abortion then I'd say it was done improperly (thought could potentially support a post-8-week ban under those conditions)
The disney thing I'n need some more context on.
The other stuff is inexcusable no matter how you dice it.
I will check the link out shortly. Thanks!
@tatzelbrumm Usually if the interviewee is struggling or stressed I will remind them of this story, that I have had people who couldnt answer a single question that I've hired and that I care more about how they reason their way through a problem than what they know... so hopefully that helps the unequal treatment somewhat.
As for some of the questions I ask, I usually have a range of them from simple, to advanced but most of them are designed to have multiple levels of answers.
Also keep in mind since ive worked in so many diverse fields, usually as the boss, that the questions vary dramatically based on the field. Hiring chemists are very different questions than programmers, or medical doctors, or electrical engineers. So its hard to give you good examples that really covers the gammut.
I think you're a programmer IIRC so let me give you some examples from there:
On the whiteboard, in psuedocode, write for me an algorithm that will check if a number is prime. How would you be able to optimize it if you were asked to generate a bin of primes rather than to test for prime?
What is the difference between little-O, big-O little-omega and big-omega?
How would you evaluate a conventionally written algorithm to determine if it is likely to be suitable for GPU acceleration?
What is the fork-join pattern useful for and why is it so important?
@tatzelbrumm She did, and its been I think a decade since then and I have long since moved on from that job and we are still in touch. She did a wonderful job, and I got to teach her a lot in my time as her boss.
I have been told I give some of the most technically challenging interviews most people have ever experienced.. once a lady couldnt answer any of my questions, even the easy ones, and just started crying.. little did she know she got the job because im not looking for people who know the answers, I'm looking for people who ask the right questions to arrive at and understand the answers.
Agreed, its scary as fuck!
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As a climate scientist who has warned about the threat of climate change for decades, I think the fact that we just saw what was probably the hottest day in recorded history, and probably in thousands of years, is deserving of attention...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/world/hottest-day-world-climate-el-nino-intl/index.html
@cobratbq Its true, at least in this climate specifically... everyone feels if something is important they are duty bound to be biased in the extreme. Not always in ways that are blatant lies.. but more like "Im going to provide you all the legtimate evidence that supports my opinion and conveniently leave out any of the counter-points". It is most often lies of omission, but they are very damning to the credibility of a source.
Take vaccines, I think we all know vaccines are good and safe overall, and that anti-vaxers were on the rise and concerning... Me being in the COVID field saw daily people overexagerating or lying in both directions out of fear trying to counter the anti-vaxx rhetoric... but with such an unbalanced presentation I think they did more harm to create anti-vaxxers than to push back.
So apparently after this guy posted some screen shots of me posting the attached he rage quit, said he was deleting his account, and well, did.. at least after he messaged me with some threats and I blocked him...
I have to say, that doesnt make me happy. I really would have rather him just act like a mature adult, he could have just walked away more politely, or just moved on.. in fact a simple "Im sorry" would have been enough for me to let bigons be bigons....
While his attitude suggests him leaving is better for the fediverse, frankly its not what I'd call a win, anytime someone is this immature no one wins.
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@cobratbq This thread: https://mastodon.online/@digital_wyrm/110698564541929924 Which lead him to make two more posts stating: "Huh, I got my fi...
@freepeoplesfreepress Wont be out till August, so you have some time :)
@icedquinn Well if your using a DMM you atleast have a basic understanding of how to diagnose it... I suspect there is more to what you know than you give yourself credit for, even if it is entry level.
Even among scientists we dont have all the answers...we have mostly **educated** opinions. But there is a lot of room for error there too. When people act like this dude, yea all it does it muddy the water and hurt everyone... but once you filter out the noise you get enough information to form your own educated opinion... But yea.. it can be hard, especially if your a layperson in a topic who wanted to rely on science.
@icedquinn To be fair you can do a hell of a lot of EE with just a DMM and a soldering iron :)
It is weird the things you miss when you are away from home for multiple years... friends aside its really nice to have my handy Fluke 289 DMM back in my hand.
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@freemo He doesn't work as a scientist or "in a field of biology". He works as a programmer as stated in his own profile... he is LARPing.
Ultracrepidarianism at its finest.
@dashrandom HAHAHAH LARPing... yup pretty much... And while I am a research scientist I never claimed I worked in a field related to climate change, but I do work int he field of biology. I guess he just felt he had to lie to feel "superior" or something, which is funny because until he started with the personal attacks I had no need to even mention what I did and was fine to just have a friendly discussion about the topic as equals... but nooooooo
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
