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https://youtu.be/Lpq-fc-K0Nc?t=3355
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Linguistics has been largely subsumed by CS (LLM, speech synthesis, translation). It's not an empirical science or social science and most of its theories are not falsifiable. But generally speaking Chomsky's ideas, and in particu
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Language and intelligence are mostly orthogonal to each other and development of linguistic skills appeared very late in human evolutionary terms. Babies and in particular Deaf babies understand and communicate significant amount of informa
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> MIT as being high prestige mostly for people that actually want a science or tech-related career... Apparently you've not been to MIT in a while - it offers degrees in business management, finance, plus 17 in arts, humanities, and
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> You are either there because you’re exceptional or exceptionally rich. Or a certain skin color known for their personality... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-universities-p...
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I can't recommend SAT solvers enough, the CS community isn't familiar with them and don't appreciate their vast improvements in recent years. If you've the luxury of formulating your 20M system in terms of satisfiability
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There is no general purpose solver available that can symbolically solve 20M equations, and unfortunately, progress in this field has been excruciatingly slow. It's highly unlikely it's possible, even in theory. Symbolic solvers
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> So, we’ve come full circle to symbolic AI! Yes, but from a business point of view, NLP based GUIs have been the holy grail of marketing and customer support, especially in STEM apps market. Case in point, Wolfram Alpha is not
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> Why would you not if you don't incur in external debt doing so? you described economic Neoliberalism since 1968, in a nutshell. However, its most important consequence - impoverishment of the low-income and very low-income native
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Here is the original coverage by wsj, note the shody reporting and absence of independent review or opinion by anyone not affiliated by MIT. “It’s fantastic,” said Acemoglu. “I was floored,” said Autor. https://www.wsj.com/e
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At a minimum, MIT must disclose publicly, if and how, its faculty PI and admins complied with the review and approval requirements for human research subjects and NSF grant: "This work was supported by the George and Obie Shultz Fu
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Thank you for clarification. I wonder if there is any stat on how many initial H1B applicants make it to the lottery list to be selected. Is the process straightforward or does government/Labor Dept challenges a certain percentage o
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When US firms apply for H1B or J-1 work visas for foreigners, what part of the process is the most critical part or where it's most likely to fail.
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MIT is hiding its own culpability by throwing the Student under the proverbial bus. Acemoglu and Autor who are notorious attention seekers and very media savvy and wealthy profs had vouched for him. There is no way a 2nd year PhD students
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> If you aren't hiring junior engineers..., where do you think the senior engineers you need in the future will come from? This problem might be new to CS, but has happened to other engineers, notably to MechE in the 90's, Chem
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by FilosofumRex 1y ago
Right on target, publicly funded research always ends up in the hands of private profiteers via private university labs. If LLM/AI is critical to national security, then it should be funded solely via the Dep of Defense budget, with no
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"in the enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the utter poverty of the masses". the wisdom of Pope Leo XIII Rerum Novarum appears as relevant today as it was in 1891: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rer
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Horizontal integration is a tried and true strategy of monopolies. Standard Oil bought or bankrupt competitive refineries, pipeline companies, regional railroads, even mom&pop gas stations & groceries often at considerable costs to
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They're too big to fail argument of Obama, is now they're too big to break up. No, they are not, by historical standard. When the Standard Oil Trust was broken up in 1911, it controlled nearly 80% of gasoline market in the US and
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It's surprising that so few people bother to use non-parametric probability distributions. With today's computational resources, there is no need for parametric closed form models (may be with the exception of Normal for historic
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Yes, exactly, just watch how little babies recognize and communicate about hundreds of objects, emotions and situations before they're able to utter momma or dadda.
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You can make any subject "mathy", because there are relations, ratios, correlation and patterns in everything. My favorite example, is how Chomsky mathified linguistics, and made it esoteric, undecipherable, uncomputable and ther
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The Greeks fought √2 to the last Pythagoreans standing but √2 won, so best of luck to prof Wildberger.
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Bush invaded Panama in 1989, and imprisoned its president, so technically he gave away your favorite canal. Besides it's called Panama Canal and not American Canal for a reason - perhaps it never belonged to us. Every president since
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Established engineering firms are trying to incorporate LLMs into their fancy simulation software, but that's counterproductive, just like professors who use LLMs to write new textbooks! We need innovative disruptors to train LLMs to d
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The two options are equivalent, since the final (equilibrium) temp of an adiabatic system (coffee + Milk + room) must be the same - ie it's the total amount of heat transferred that matters, and not the rates of heat transfer. If the s
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The classic reference on the subject is "Numerical Linear Algebra" by Lloyd Trefethen. Skip to the last chapter on the iterative methods for computational aspects. You'll learn a lot more and faster with Matlab. https:&#x2F
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Keep in mind this kind of drivel is produced by economists and the tail-end of CS, who are desperately trying to stay relevant in the emerging work place. The wise, will displace economists and consultants with LLMs, but the trend followers
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Those types of jobs are mostly in India & Philippines, not the US or Denmark, so let them deal with it.
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Life Sciences is misleading because it includes lots of teaching hospitals which are funded by the Feds, and not the states and don't do biotech nor any product development, but employ thousands of low paid academic post-docs and resea

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