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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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import theano
import lasagne.layers
from lasagne.layers import Conv2DLayer as C2D
from lasagne.nonlinearities import rectify as relu
from lasagne.layers import NonlinearityLayer as NL
from lasagne.layers import ElemwiseSumLayer as ESL
from lasagne.layers import batch_norm as BN

l_in = lasagne.layers.InputLayer(shape=(None,3,64,64)) # Assume incoming shape is a batch x RGB x W x H image
encoder_stem = C2D(

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{0: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
 1: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
 2: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
 3: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
 4: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
 5: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
 6: 'stingray',
 7: 'cock',
 8: 'hen',
 9: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus',