Book Finished? Our Kind of Traitor 1 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 1 Brave New World 1 Street Freak 1 How to Not Get F-ed by Technical Recruiters 1 The Catcher in the Rye 1 To Kill a Mockingbird 1 Franny and Zooey 1 Maggie by My…
I accidentally nuked all of my dotfiles. Let me explain. I finally decided to back up my dotfiles properly. I found a seemingly straightforward Bash script that moves your current dotfiles from your root directory to a designated…
In deep learning, we use normalization to solve gradient vanishing or explosion. It kind of inspired me to apply normalization to a recipe. Let’s dive in. This is a gluten free, diary free, processed sugar free cake recipe. 1/…
I remember watching Baby Mama when I was much younger and I had zero understanding of Kate’s struggle. Kate is a career minded woman who’s chosen promotion over pregnancy. She tried donor sperm, in-vitro treatment, hormone…
I recently went through the salary negotiation process as a new-ish grad out of university. Now, whenever I see a post on Reddit or Team Blind that asks the forum whether the OP should negotiate or not, the replies are still split…
After going through technical interviews for small, medium, large companies in the post corona world, I’ve noticed enough differences that I felt I ought to inform my fellow leetcoders. I also wanted to follow up on my last post…
TLDR: unfortunately, virtual hiring is far from perfect and it does not fix many problems tech has had for years. Intro When coding interviews were conducted on a whiteboard or a text editor, the process focused more on your…
The pandemic has pushed for digital adaptation in the workplace, and the market simply isn’t hiring due to the recession. More employees have to embrace odd and temporary jobs. This combination of temporary work + remote work…
I recently spoke to a U of T alumnus and he wrote a very good piece on his experience at U of T. I look back and realize that I have gone through 2 degrees. Perhaps it’s finally time for some reflection. Undergraudate TLDR Program…
I recently read Jared Dillian’s Street Freak. Here are some similarities between traders and software developers. Age distribution Both fields are flooded with young talents. Gender distribution Both fields are male dominated…
While I love what I do, here’s a very quick laundry list of the reality of machine learning in industry. Stay tuned for another post on the plus side of machine learning.