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Affirm is building an honest and transparent credit network, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without gotchas like late fees or deferred interest.
Are you interested in powering Affirm's machine learning efforts? The ML Platform team’s mission is to grow Affirm’s business by building a self-service foundation for ML Engineers. We enable and scale ML @ Affirm. Come help us build a platform that spans the full spectrum of machine learning, including training and serving.
I'm looking for Staff engineers to speed up our model deployment, invest in our ML Observability stack, architect an ML API Gateway, and modernize our MLOps stack. Curiosity in ML is encouraged but prior experience is not required.
The ML Platform team’s mission is to develop a self-service foundation for applications of machine learning that will provide scalable business impact. This team works in close partnership with ML engineers (underwriting, fraud, growth, etc.) to deliver systems that enable fast paced ML development. Affirm’s goal is to build the largest network as measured by the number of users and merchants. Machine learning plays a critical role in this effort.
We're looking for Senior and Staff engineers to launch an ML Feature Store, design an ML API Gateway, and modernize our stack by investing in open source.
The ML Platform team’s mission is to develop a self-service foundation for applications of machine learning that will provide scalable business impact. This team works in close partnership with ML engineers (underwriting, fraud, growth, etc.) to deliver systems that enable fast paced ML development. Affirm’s goal is to build the largest network as measured by the number of users and merchants. Machine learning plays a critical role in this effort.
We're looking for Senior and Staff engineers to launch an ML Feature Store, design an ML API Gateway, and modernize our stack by investing in open source.
The ML Platform team’s mission is to develop a self-service foundation for applications of machine learning that will provide scalable business impact. This team works in close partnership with ML engineers (underwriting, fraud, growth, etc.) to deliver systems that enable fast paced ML development. Affirm’s goal is to build the largest network as measured by the number of users and merchants. Machine learning plays a critical role in this effort.
We're looking for Senior and Staff engineers to launch an ML Feature Store, design an ML API Gateway, and modernize our stack by investing in open source.
Not sure if there's a clear definition, but the article lists these as symptoms:
>These early perceptual distortions included a heightened awareness of sound or color, uncertainty about the boundaries of one’s body, feeling that the world around them is tilting, and similar experiences.
For me (as someone formally diagnosed with schizophrenia): as a child I had a lot of flickering lights/shadows and brief whispers/noises, horrible depth perception, frequent dizziness, and bad temperature coordination (sweating or shivering way too much in response to weather).
One particular indication which I thought was universal but is apparently somewhat uncommon: visual “snow” in low light conditions, meaning that dark rooms look like grey TV static to me. (When my eyes are closed in the dark I usually just see black.)
When I close my eyes I see "snow", and yes the same thing with my eyes opened in the dark. But this is normal, no? It seems like seeing pure black is abnormal. There will be some kind of noise on the optic nerve, it's hard to imagine it being hard "off".
Seeing snow when your eyes are closed or in darkness is fairly typical from what I understand. Visual snow as a diagnosis is visible at least in reading-level light and against light backgrounds.
I see snow against all colours in a typical office environment. It’s less noticeable in daylight but still there.
I can both see it and "unsee" it. If I'm actively doing something and using my eyes for things I don't notice. But if I'm just sitting listening to music or whatever I can notice the "fuzz" and noise. In low light it's a very fine grain. In daylight it's a coarser pulsing of white and black.
I've always thought this was normal. I've asked a couple other people and they've said they see it too, :shrug:
I always remember the term 'eidetic' and always think I am misremembering the correct term, but it is "eidetic imagery" I am searching for. To me this refers to the phenomenon of seeing above-threshold-of-perception patterns or motions, such as lava-like swirling. As you say, such things can be interesting for a time.
This following link discusses the phenomenon in terms of phosphenes:
Arguably, there have been spiritual movements fueled by relative ignorace around these things, with gurus allegedly claiming that they enable these unexpected experiences for their disciples.
> with gurus allegedly claiming that they enable these unexpected experiences for their disciples
I can voluntarily cause a burst of those color patterns by, after closing my eyes, relaxing all my facial muscles and letting my eyes go unfocused. Works best when trying to fall asleep, so I can imagine people unintentionally doing the same during, say, meditation and correlating it with their spiritual leader.
I think I get phosphenes and never had the word for it. I can more or less elicit them on demand by closing my eyes, relax and let them cross slightly. A stroby concentric circle set ensues for a few seconds. Always the same pattern. Red.
I guess the optic nerve should see the same in complete dark vs in darkness with eyes closed - if noisy then noise in both cases. But here we are talking about a significant difference between eyes closed and low light.
Same thing here. Male/mid-30s and no psychotic symptoms, so unlikely to get them now, hopefully. I have always noticed audiovisual "brain glitches" every once in a while, but I think that's because I find it interesting to look for them...
Just got back from 5 weeks in Morocco, 2 of which were in Taghazout. My girlfriend and I were living very, very simply -- shared bathroom, toilet didn't have a tank, no meals included, internet only in the restaurant downstairs -- but we were paying 10 euros a night, each. You can actually see the place in the pictures they've put up, it was very beautiful, right on the beach.
There was a surf hostel that we also stayed in but it was more expensive (15 euros a night) for bunk beds but it had internet, good bathrooms and showers, breakfast included.
Morocco's a bargainers paradise. If you haggle you can get the prices down. It's the offseason now. Out of all the places we visited (Taghazout, Sidi Ifni, Mirleft, Agadir, Ouarzazate, Tinghir, Boulemane, Merzouga, Chefchaouen, Marrakesh), for a total of 2 people, we would average around 20 euros a night, sometimes paying 10 euros and sometimes 30. Of course, we weren't looking for all the bells and whistles, just a clean bed for the night. Sometimes we got just that, sometimes we got a luxury suite for 20 euros cause it's the offseason. The big cities were indeed surprisingly more expensive. But nothing about Morocco is sketchy -- the hasslers are annoying but I never once felt threatened (it was also always the 2 of us). The coast is beautiful and you should explore beyond Taghazout -- Essaouira and Sidi Ifni if you can.
20€/person/night is cheap, but you can definitively find the same prices in many of the cheaper European countries. Here in Portugal you can rent a double bedroom in a nice rural house with all the commodities (AC, pool, etc) for that price, and when I went to Budapest in April, we rented a 3-person apartment (with heating, Internet, etc all included) for a week for less than 400€.
20 euros total so 10 euros per person per night. Sorry that was confusing in my original comment! Having been in Portugal and Budapest on that same trip I can say that Morocco is definitely cheaper. But Portugal was my favorite :) Great people, great waves, great coast!
It sounds a bit like the author's forgotten what it's like not to travel at all. As an American, I wish my friends would venture outside our borders so that in the future when, inevitably, we will need to invade yet another country perhaps we will reconsider. I'll gladly take the risks of homogenization and narcissism to the risks of an insulated population that accepts the media's perspective of the world rather than their own firsthand (albeit limited) experience.
Maybe everyone here makes 6 figure salaries, but overseas travel is ridiculously expensive. I've found that it's mostly the people who can afford it who proclaim the benefits of travel.
I traveled all around South America for six months and spent maybe 10k total on the trip and I wasn't living frugally at all. I stayed in Airbnb's over hostels, ate good food often, and went on lots of paid excursions. I probably could have spent 5k total if I did the hostel thing, ate on the cheap, and didn't pay for any tourist activities.
My point is you can travel on the cheap if you put effort into it, especially in South America. Traveling in Europe? Sure, that's going to be just as expensive if not more than simply living day to day in the states. There are definitely places you can travel without making a six figure salary however.
The problem is not having a job when you return from South America. Most people can't simply expect to get a decent job in a reasonable amount of time.
Going to resorts and fancy hotels is expensive. Traveling is not. Most people I meet traveling including myself are spending way less money than they do at home.
Have we all agreed that higher SAT scores, advanced degrees, less coke, and more money are all things that we want? Am I missing something? Other than coping with stress, I'm not sure I want any of the other qualities.
Those things (maybe with the exception of the coke) are measured because they are easy to measure. It's harder to quantify diverse goals like making sure that you have enough time for your hobbies, staying in touch with your friend or making sure that you give your loved ones what they need. But I'm sure that self control will help with those goals too.
To get those things you need willpower and the research was about measuring willpower.
If you want different things that's your choice but for most good things in life you need willpower. You can't do what the guy from "Into the wild" did without willpower.
Affirm is building an honest and transparent credit network, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without gotchas like late fees or deferred interest.
Are you interested in powering Affirm's machine learning efforts? The ML Platform team’s mission is to grow Affirm’s business by building a self-service foundation for ML Engineers. We enable and scale ML @ Affirm. Come help us build a platform that spans the full spectrum of machine learning, including training and serving.
I'm looking for Staff engineers to speed up our model deployment, invest in our ML Observability stack, architect an ML API Gateway, and modernize our MLOps stack. Curiosity in ML is encouraged but prior experience is not required.
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