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cs @uwaterloo | vector search @databricks | prev deep research @glean, ads ml @quora

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cs job market is so back

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@gaganbuildshw uh oh

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I can't tell the difference between new models anymore

my personal benchmark has been saturated

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@Anujankopu 😶😶

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well I guess that answers my question...

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(guy with a .ai domain and a waitlist) we're an applied research lab

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the first ever git commit, on the git project

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the original chatgpt

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@JustinLau04 but hey we have e-transfer 🤠

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someone just leaked the entire interview question bank for Distinguished Engineer (L9) at google

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Inside scoop is that another 7,000 SWEs got reorged into doing data labelling at Meta

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Meta, $META, has begun making 8,000 global job cuts, starting with employees in Singapore.

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@menhguin @hud_evals YC asks the same thing in their applications too

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@vcarung cs370 numerical computation (friend took cs371)

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I was taking a third year CS course and a couple weeks into it I was struggling on a particular concept from a recent lecture, having to reread the notes several times. I asked my friend (who hadn’t been attending any of the lectures) if he got to that part yet

He had finished the course on his flight from Australia to Toronto before the semester had started

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

People underestimate the intelligence gap between classmates at the same elite college.

So I have a friend, let's call him Joe. Asian American, met him at one of those "gifted" summer programs. Top of his class at MIT CS, worked at a top quant hedge fund, also a YC founder. He is significantly smarter than me.

One day I said "man, you were probably like the smartest kid at MIT when you were there." He looked at me like I had horns and said "dude not even close. There were so many times I felt dumb."

He then told me about a classmate of his, let's call him Ron. White guy. He was a legendary math olympian, and MIT classmates called him the Great White Hope. Joe was struggling with a math problem set, no progress after hours of laborious work. He finally swallowed his ego and asked Ron for help. Ron was playing video games, thought for a few minutes, and solved it with very little effort. Joe was stunned. That was his come to Jesus moment when he realized the limits of his intelligence that nature endowed him with. That there were levels to this.

I was reminded of this story when I read the Scott Wu profile on Colossus.

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vancouver or bust baby

[Karm Sumal @KarmSumal]

People really underestimate how much tech expansion is happening in Vancouver right now. Could we do more. Hell yes. And we will.

In just the last year or so:

- Netflix opened a massive 110,000 sq ft animation/VFX campus in Mount Pleasant (450+ staff, Eyeline VFX joining)

- Amazon completed its move into The Post — now fully occupying all 1.1M sq ft

- ILM opened a new 40,000 sq ft studio at The Stack, now 950+ staff, their largest office globally

- Sony Imageworks moved its global HQ into The Post

- Databricks opened a Vancouver R&D centre (a $100B+ AI company)

- Workday signed an anchor lease at 601 West Hastings, their first major Vancouver office

- Asana expanded into 601 West Hastings too

- Boomi opened a 54,000 sq ft Centre of Excellence at Bentall Centre

- Autodesk opened its first permanent West Coast office

- Wayve launched a Vancouver AI/autonomous systems hub

- Gumloop reopened a Vancouver office (after moving HQ to SF)

- Quandri opened a new 15,000 sq ft HQ

- Sanctuary AI continues building humanoid robots here

Vancouver is quietly becoming one of North America's biggest AI, VFX, gaming and creative tech hubs.

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@flippinsippin not everyone wants to work for 5 companies at the same time…

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cs job market is so back

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@shaanspatels @slashapp @jacob_bulbulia down!

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for reference, i'm in cs at waterloo. mostly applied to US based companies as a canadian needing sponsorship. in 2023 I had some relevant work experience from high school, as well as decent projects. in 2026 I had 5 internships on my resume

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quant resume screens are much easier to pass than FAANG. the bar to pass the interview is of course higher