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by ASpring 8y ago
That's the whole point. Their name is /not/ "Mrs. [husband's first and last name]" There are definitely people I know that would be okay with being addressed this way. There are many I also know who have expres
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by ASpring 8y ago
I think there are a great many places in the US where you can live a good life for 1500 a month. In many college towns you can find an apartment for <$500 a month and there will still be a decent amount of culture from what the college b
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by ASpring 8y ago
Looks like most of this is derivative of Molich and Nielsen's heuristic evaluation of user interfaces guidelines from 1990. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=77486
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by ASpring 8y ago
Aren't all of the 2.7% gains wiped out by inflation?
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by ASpring 8y ago
How do you plan to counter the harmful societal biases that embeddings embody? See Bolukbasi ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.06520.pdf ) and Caliskan ( http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334
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by ASpring 8y ago
Disregarding vehicle drivers I actually think the boom in pedestrian transportation (powered skateboards, scooters etc) is a huge plus for bikers. People on these forms of transportation get a taste of what bike commuting is like and will b
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by ASpring 8y ago
"• No one can start the project by generating an adequate requirements description. Generating such requirements documents at the beginning would be a misuse of time—detailed require- ments must be derived from initial design efforts a
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by ASpring 8y ago
This is why user experience researchers have a job. It's not about asking the user what they want, it's about observing how they work, their problems, their current workarounds, and then building something they need.
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by ASpring 8y ago
> If you have to pay people to give feedback, you're doing something very wrong. Why? This is a more unbiased way of getting feedback than letting your most vocal users tell you about their problems with your product. Paying users f
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by ASpring 8y ago
If I understand the situation correctly, at the UCs most workers are not contracted out and are rather a unionized public workforce see AFSCME. "AFSCME Local 3299 is the University of California’s largest employee union, representing m
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by ASpring 8y ago
>If Santa Cruz is anything like a typical college town then there are buildings on campus or nearby that could be repurposed for this problem. Certainly there is money somewhere that could be used to purchase space (even though real-esta
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by ASpring 8y ago
Or even just other UCs. Merced/Irvine/Riverside are not experiencing housing crises at this level. Sending more students to UC Santa Cruz is just irresponsible.
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by ASpring 8y ago
If only it were that easy to rid of predatory faculty members.
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by ASpring 8y ago
Absolutely agree with your points. Especially given some of the recent high profile settlements regarding sexual misconduct at UCSC these emails seem poorly thought out. > The real solution is to build more affordable student housing on
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by ASpring 8y ago
Good point on KL divergence not being symmetric. For anyone who wants to quantify KL divergence in a way that can be used as a metric, look into Jensen-Shannon distance which is based on KL-divergence.
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by ASpring 8y ago
I agree with this but with a strong caveat. I believe product designers excel in B2C applications but aren't often as successful in B2B and Enterprise focused applications.
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by ASpring 8y ago
I disagree with this. Teams I have been on that are very engineer-driven had tendencies to create products that they thought were innovative or technically interesting rather than something customers actually wanted. I think broader realiza
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by ASpring 8y ago
This is little more than 1 engineer's salary and benefits for a year. Can you explain how this is Mozilla "throw[ing] its money away"?
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by ASpring 8y ago
I would argue that we are at a point where it's more important to raise awareness of the dangers of algorithmic bias and other AI issues because the public is not aware of them. Art is provocative and fits this role nicely. To answer y
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by ASpring 8y ago
It's a bit much to say design is goonish and an arms race. I'd argue the reason that Apple is the most valuable company in the world is mostly due to their design expertise. You can make the same argument about software between co
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by ASpring 8y ago
We can quibble over some of the examples they give and their "ideas of how the world should be" but there are many cases where fairness may be explicitly legislated or defined that makes this research useful.
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by ASpring 9y ago
What a hard-hitting finish! How many of us will create amazing things and then see them destroyed as time marches on?
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by ASpring 9y ago
There is an argument to be made though that we should be looking for causal connections rather than correlative when we think about what fairness looks like. Unfortunately, even with the many recent advances in causal network detection, we&
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by ASpring 9y ago
A lot of what Sedghi is saying about definitions of fairness echoes my own research regarding how different academics define algorithmic bias. There is a large class of academics who would say that algorithmic bias is simply a data problem
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by ASpring 9y ago
I think you're just talking about replication. Peer review is the process where authors submit a manuscript and receive feedback from reviewers about the merits of their paper and how to strengthen it. This was published in the Journal
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by ASpring 9y ago
This is 100% real and everyone experiences it. Academics talk about it as mood congruence; it's a well studied phenomenon in psychology and some work I've done in the past has touched on it. Basically you're more likely to re
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by ASpring 9y ago
Also curious about this. Tesla has the ability to to hoard millions of hours of driving experience per year. Data seems to trump all in ML applications so far and Tesla definitely has the most available to harvest. At the same time, Tesla i
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by ASpring 9y ago
Certainly Uber is more places but in the past 2 weeks I've spent time in "cities" of sizes around 50-60k people and almost all have had both services. Often Lyft will have less cars on the road but I did not struggle to find
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by ASpring 9y ago
It is very possible to be a healthy meat eater but in general vegetarians have lower incidences of common ailments that decrease lifespan in western populations like cancer and heart disease. Here's a relevant meta-analysis: https:&#x
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by ASpring 9y ago
My mistake, CS is in the school of engineering at my institution. My point stands. A social science researcher is better equipped to run this study than an engineering researcher. > My EE profs at Illinois were capable to run studies and

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