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Showdown between Elsevier and UC over paying for publications(insidehighered.com)
2 points by Fede_V 8y ago|1 comments
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by Fede_V 8y ago
This is a great suggestion and I hope UCLA follows this.
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by Fede_V 8y ago
Thanks for explaining that design logic a lot more clearly. I figured out what the code did, but understanding the why was very helpful.
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by Fede_V 8y ago
In my experience, it's incredibly difficult to get a strong positive signal from a CV. You can definitely find red flags (my favorite example: people describing themselves as experts deep learning with 1 year of experience and zero pu
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by Fede_V 8y ago
Larry Wall and his wife are some of the nicest people I ever had the pleasure of meeting. I posted this story on HN before several years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9890504 ), but I think it's worth repos
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by Fede_V 8y ago
Interestingly, Isabelle is the director of the INRIA institute in Paris where a lot of coq is developed. I wonder if it's named after her :)
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by Fede_V 8y ago
Tech employees are, as a group: - Highly educated - Young - High % of foreign citizens - Urban - Wealthy If you take the general population and control for those covariates, you end up with a subpopulation that massively skews left. For ex
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by Fede_V 8y ago
You almost have to admire the total ruthlessness of republican operatives. By constantly playing on the offensive, they've put Facebook and Twitter on a constantly defensive posture worried about being called out as having 'liber
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I lived in Paris for a year, and I'm now working for a big tech company in the US. I can't speak from the VC side of the table, but France has incredibly technically strong graduates (people with technical degrees from the top un
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I've said it in the past, but I'm going to repeat myself: if anyone is willing to defend Pai's actions, would you like to do a friendly bet (proceeds to to a GiveWell charity) that as soon as he is legally allowed too he will
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by Fede_V 8y ago
An interesting exercise: assume the first engineering hire you want has to be at least the senior engineer bar at a top tech firm. In order for the engineer's median compensation to match the median compensation he would make working a
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I'm sure there is a practical reason why companies do this, but it drives me crazy and makes me want to ignore what could potentially be a really cool idea. Please make the pricing transparent and viewable without a registration.
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by Fede_V 8y ago
This is a fantastic post :) I'd love to see it fleshed out in a blog if you feel so inclined!
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by Fede_V 8y ago
Let me flesh out a few very simple proposals: a complaint that a lot of city residents have is that tourists that arrive in a city don't spend a lot of money there because they pack their own lunches/avoid museums, etc. How about
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I can't wrap my mind around people that think that 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem. Those are 'problems' that most cities in the world would kill for: if we consider them problems it&
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by Fede_V 8y ago
I think this is an interesting and unintended consequence of AirBnB not investing nearly on filtering their users. AirBnB obviously was interested in getting their product used by as many people as people (growth at all costs) - but this ha
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by Fede_V 9y ago
I'm not sure how you could call that generous give the col of SF. Do we just expect government employees to not be able to live in the city they work?
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by Fede_V 9y ago
It's basically taken almost verbatim from a dialogue between two characters in The Brothers Karamazov. She later said she didn't remember the dialogue at the time but it was stuck in the back of her head and was definitely an inf
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by Fede_V 9y ago
I'm not very familiar with Clojure, but are the numerics done with unboxed numbers? In the end, what every language that wants to do scientific programming right is expose some sort of c-array like data structure that you can pass ont
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by Fede_V 9y ago
I lived in France for a year before moving to the US. Even though French waiters are notorious for having terrible service, I always received excellent service by being very polite to the waiters. The idea that you are entitled to excellen
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by Fede_V 9y ago
As I've previously said: for people that believe Pai acted according to good faith, are you willing to bet that, as soon as he is legally allowed to do so, Pai won't be given a VP-level sinecure at Verizon or Comcast?
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by Fede_V 9y ago
I've done a lot of interviews for work, and I make it very clear to the candidate that the questions they ask me won't be used to evaluate them and that they are purely for their benefit. Candidates have just had a very stressful
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by Fede_V 9y ago
Pai's speech was funny, but his behaviour as chairman is completely indefensible, especially with all the evidence that the comment submission process was fraught with irregularities. To put it more concretely: if you think he has no u
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FCC chairman to push for full repeal of net neutrality(politico.com)
30 points by Fede_V 9y ago|2 comments
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by Fede_V 9y ago
For experimenting, I think the imperative paradigm (define the graph by running it) makes for much faster experimentation and requires a lot less boilerplate code. All big DL frameworks (TF, PyTorch, MXNet, Chainer) are now either imperativ
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by Fede_V 9y ago
I have a few contradictory thoughts on this. On one hand, I really feel Chrome is more on my side than the average webmaster. I don't want bloated websites, I don't want autoplay videos, I don't want copy/paste blocked,
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A 2017 Nobel laureate says he left science because he ran out of money(qz.com)
226 points by Fede_V 9y ago|80 comments
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by Fede_V 9y ago
But that's exactly my point. Feynman was only able to give such a clear explanation because he really understood QM inside out. If you want to describe yourself as someone who can read and appreciate Feynman's books - that's
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by Fede_V 9y ago
Thanks for the interesting post - however, I respectfully disagree with the example you've picked out. How can you do intelligent philosophy about probability if you don't have a good detailed understanding of what probability is?
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by Fede_V 9y ago
While we do need polymaths, the problem with a lot of self described polymaths is that they skip the hard part of different fields and only focus on a 'Gladwellesque' understanding. I think a better way to be a polymath is to be a

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