IQunder130

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by IQunder130 6y ago
Bullying happens everywhere regardless of group size. All it takes is the wrong mix of personality types and lack of impartial, interventionist supervision
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Smart statisticians or the next best thing - the kitchen sink black box method
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Aliases used to be the default before the social media revolution, though. If anything the trend has been decidedly in the other direction - using one's real name was seen as irresponsible just 15 years ago, whereas now it seems the av
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by IQunder130 6y ago
I am a mechanical engineer by trade. By "heuristics nobody really understands" I do mean just that. Some of it may be grounded in experimentation, some of it might be grounded in data sets collected by god knows whom go knows when
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Engineers work with high level abstractions and heuristics nobody really understands all the time. There are people working on R&D, and building design tools, but then again there are also people working on algorithm theory and writing
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the people making "why don't they just ... " type comments even bother to read what they have written.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
You are not even reading the comments you are replying to. When you are immersed in a field for a long time, and master it in and out, there's a good chance you'll be able to find something interesting about it. If you can't,
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by IQunder130 6y ago
It is a problem when the language is being used to get anything done in the real world.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Coincidentally, so do I. Btw.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
Sci-fi thread drinking game: take a shot every time someone recommends Hyperion regardless of context.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
>this virus is everywhere now It has probably been everywhere for a long time. The point of the article is that coronaviruses jumping to humans is something that happens fairly often.
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by IQunder130 6y ago
You know you've made it as an engineer when you switching jobs gets an article in reuters.