Category: programming
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on moving from academics to startups
An old labmate asked me for my thoughts on interviewing (she just graduated with a PhD, and wanted my perspective on interviewing at a startup). I don’t feel like I’m an expert, but I’ve been through the PhD wars and I’ve successfully interviewed at more than one startup in Silicon Valley. I’ve included what I…
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Character encodings – a short tutorial
There is a huge profusion of terms around sets of letters, symbols, and characters and how they are encoded onto computers. I found myself embroiled in this mess working at a speech-technology company back in the day as we struggled to adapt a speech recognizer designed for English to cope with Korean — which turns…