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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 numpy as np
from scipy.ndimage.interpolation import map_coordinates
from scipy.ndimage.filters import gaussian_filter

def elastic_transform(image, alpha, sigma, random_state=None):
    """Elastic deformation of images as described in [Simard2003]_.


    .. [Simard2003] Simard, Steinkraus and Platt, "Best Practices for
       Convolutional Neural Networks applied to Visual Document Analysis", in