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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Possible answer: First nearly every civilization that mastered, say, radio, did it millions of years ago. Second, nearly every such civilization long ago found much better means of communications than we know about. Third, they realize t
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
The last thing they wrote was "Confessions of Hot Hollywood Starlets at Secret Clothing-Optional Parties" published in 'The National Enquirer' right next to "Aliens Impregnating Actresses? How Many?"?
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Mostly wrong: You have described a way to stay afloat in essentially a paper boat driven by hype. Don't try such a boat on long trips over deep water in high winds! Elsewhere on this thread I've outlined how business 'handles' new technol
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Yes, I believe that the situation has changed since 2005. For the evidence, this thread is the strongest I know. Yes, I know that Google, Microsoft, etc. should be using AI for ad targeting, search ranking, scam and fraud detection, etc.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
One of the in person interviews was at a company, somewhat well known, in Connecticut. They had a room with long tables and vertical walls about three feet high set on the tables with about enough space between each partition for a PC and
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I just applied for anything, and not just for software engineering jobs. The resumes I sent to Google, Microsoft, GE Research, etc. were for whatever I was qualified for. At the time, 1995-2005 (see my post below) AI was not much on the ra
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Thanks for the leads, guys. Yes, that job hunting when I sent those 1000 resume copies was from 1995 to about 2005. Finally I gave up on getting hired and decided to start a business. I'm now deep into that effort and at least for now shou
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I got no meaningful feedback on why I was not hired. The resumes led to only five interviews, and I'm counting phone interviews. The main issues were (1) I am a US citizen and, thus, not on an H1B and (2) I was over 50. Generally a subordi
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I was just trying to get HIRED for anything, anything at all, not seriously illegal, immoral, or dangerous, and I would have compromised on those. So, since this thread was about 'job placement' for students who did well in an AI class, I p
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Maybe, but be careful and think 'long shot': I was one of three researchers in a team at Yorktown Heights that did some of the best research in AI in the world, published a string of peer-reviewed papers, was the source of two commercial pr
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
The old media has their business model. It's old and self-perpetuating. They just keep following their old model. Yes, in places the Internet is bringing some changes. The model is based on that sure-fire method of getting and holding th
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Go on mod, vote it down, down, down. Don't post a response or rebuttal. Instead just vote it down. How much are the GW and CC people paying you?
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
PG, there're a LOT of REALLY severe PC mods here on HN. Looks like HN is a safe zone for all media BS, no matter how bad.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
It's clear enough what the scientists tried to do with GPS, the southern boundary of Greenland, and the level of the bedrock of the boundary of Greenland. There are amazing images of all of Greenland showing that nearly all of the Greenland
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
You can use GPS and bedrock levels on the southern coast of Greenland to measure temperature if you want to, but I prefer to use a thermometer.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Reading the whole article gives nothing better. What was written in the whole article has nothing significant. If the study had something significant, then the author of the article didn't report it.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
If we look a little at the first sentences of that article, then we see that the writer was going for drama but actually, strictly didn't say anything at all significant: So, he starts with: "An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelera
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Good, important, additional information.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Yes, the Fed did 'quantitative easing' which is obscure nonsense for they printed some money and gave it to the banks. The bank stockholders should thank the Fed. Actually the taxpayers should own the banks and slowly sell them back to pr
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Nice Wikipedia link. Yes, one of the reasons a bank had architecture borrowed from some ancient Greek temple was to convince depositors that the bank was 'solid' and not about to go bust, which long far too many banks did.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
No, sorry to say this, but we are in 100% agreement! :-)!!! I was 100% for the AIG 'loan' for just the reasons we both explained. But since it was not clear that AIG would ever be able to pay back all the loan, I was willing to call the l
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Iraq: The "tubes". They clearly were NOT for gas centrifuges to enrich uranium. The US Department of Energy knew this. But Secretary Rice kept saying that the tubes were evidence of efforts at uranium separation. In fact, as eventually
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
There's more! There was GM! Some of the money the US Treasury 'invested' in GM may not get paid back. So, we might say that GM got 'bailed out'. Hmm. As I understand it, there was a little more to the story: One approach to GM was just to
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
"What would define a 'bailout' as then?" It's to "help" someone in a "predicament". The context is that the someone is in trouble and to need the help is pejorative. But with this definition, TARP was not a 'bailout'. Help? The "help" is
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
So, the author asks: "What do you think? Do you think people overestimate the value of an idea or am I just full of it?" Along with the author is "Ideas are easy and plentiful. Execution is hard and everything." Well, first what is being
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Some clarity and contact with reality: "The bailout was a mess" The efforts of big gumment to get people who couldn't afford a house into one that blew a housing bubble that popped and created the worst financial and economic disaster since
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334504
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
It would be super tough to replace TeX for its intended users and uses. There was a GRIM problem -- getting math typed for high quality work in math, science, engineering, and technology. TeX was a terrific solution. The problem has not m
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334504 For your: "The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do." No, that is exactly the point. Net, TeX won't slice bread. People who want to slice bread shouldn't u
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Okay, just for dextorious and jakobe and starting with my http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334504 I'll try again: (1) Issue 1. In that issue, the author had: "It’s comforting to think that all the TeX documents I’ve written over the y

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