Klockan

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by Klockan 10y ago
If you had to bet on if a random Asian or a random black person would get the highest SAT score, what would you do? You would of course bet on the Asian because the odds are so much better. This is not discrimination. Discrimination would b
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by Klockan 10y ago
When doing targeted ads for example.
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Does Hoogle let you search by example?
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by Klockan 10y ago
Software estimates will be optimistic as long as optimism is rewarded.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Georgia Tech only enrolls ~7.5% black students so it wouldn't help their quotas. Also companies aren't opening offices in Asia to chase after a demographic, they do it to cut costs.
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by Klockan 10y ago
> most of our systems are designed to reward and reinforce the superficial achievement at the expense of the real contribution. No one cares about your competition results after you start publishing papers, so not really. So if you publi
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by Klockan 10y ago
> So, protectionism works? They aren't talking about protectionism, Sweden "protected" Swedish jobs during this time period by aggressively cutting taxes for the middle/upper class. http://www.spectator.co.
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by Klockan 10y ago
Write a sensible search engine for the web with 1995 knowledge.
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by Klockan 10y ago
0.001% of devs would be around a few hundred in the whole world, there are way more CS grad students than that... I'd guess that at you get to at least a few percent if you count grad students, researchers, people working on performanc
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by Klockan 10y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges. The python line is a good representation of a part of a larger program, while the neural network you are talking about is not a good representation of any part of a larger neural network. You wont get t
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by Klockan 10y ago
No, the equivalent in neural networks is a network which is trained to always output "Hello, world!", and I dare say that such a network would be pretty hard to reason about compared to the python equivalent.
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by Klockan 10y ago
The difference is that all human written systems was once understood by a human. ANN on the other hand creates unlabeled spaghetti which gets impossible to reason about if you scale that up to megabytes. You could try to fix a bug by changi
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by Klockan 10y ago
Them gauging technical competence solely through personality traits like "curiosity", "discipline" and "fearlessness" raises a red flag.
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by Klockan 10y ago
It is easy to do in many cases. Take the following two theories: Rocks falls downwards since masses attracts each other. Rocks falls downwards due to invisible ghosts making masses attract each other. Both of these theories have the same am
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by Klockan 11y ago
I have never heard of anyone else who uses the term the way you do. "10x" usually refers to those contributing ten times as much to the bottom-line compared to some standard "x".
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The same people has no problems accepting n=1 as long as it is an anecdote which purports their world view though.
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by Klockan 11y ago
Mathematics is defined by its axioms and the axioms are derived purely from intuition. Therefore mathematics is ultimately 100% intuitive, if you don't agree then you haven't tamed your intuition.
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by Klockan 11y ago
So you haven't heard about the teacher shortage, the nurse shortage or the doctor shortage? They usually get way more publicity than the engineering shortage.
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by Klockan 11y ago
Why hasn't someone written a good 2 to 2/3 converter which also updates old c libraries? Wouldn't that speed up conversion considerably? It shouldn't be too hard to do it for the c libraries as well, or am I missing some
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by Klockan 12y ago
Technically it is an IQ deflation since 100 IQ today is more than 100 IQ 50 years ago.
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by Klockan 12y ago
Your law implicitly predicts skynet.
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by Klockan 12y ago
They have a protective shell or they would quickly degenerate. So they are cells even if they aren't biological cells.
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by Klockan 12y ago
You can view it here now that the contest is over: http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/6224486/dashboard
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by Klockan 12y ago
To get that fast you need to write around 1 line of code per 3 seconds with zero bugs. It might seem impossible but if you train with it as a goal you will eventually reach it. It is true though that people use libraries and such, but no li
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by Klockan 12y ago
The most important parts of getting good is lots of practice and the ability to tell good results from bad ones. All professionals gets roughly equal amounts of practice so there is no use competing on that front. Therefore the only reasona
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by Klockan 12y ago
It isn't hard to see the answer, but that wasn't my point. The point is that you want predictable behavior from your functions. If you saw the output of said function for integers you could never have guessed the output of said fu
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by Klockan 12y ago
function f(a,b){ return a+b-b } Now tell me, what is f("1",2)? Is this really what you would expect? Treating strings like strings sometimes and integers other times messes up functions, creating bugs that are extremely h
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by Klockan 12y ago
You have a finite amount of smart people in the USA, the only way to increase supply is by importing them. You can teach skills but you can't teach talent.
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by Klockan 12y ago
H1B's earn at least standard wages, so companies wouldn't bring them here if they weren't noticeably better than average.
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by Klockan 12y ago
Where are all the misogynists in said thread? All I see is a bunch of nerds arguing about semantics. Just because some of them don't think that a certain behavior constitutes rape doesn't mean that they actually condone said behav

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