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by LeanderK 6y ago
yeah, I know. And the ETH graduates are probably top-quality. But the parent poster said that he didn't experience cutting edge technology in switzerland and I wondered whether it's the same in Zurich. In germany, I've experi
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by LeanderK 6y ago
yeah, but I was wondering whether they managed to built a high-tech ecosystem around the ETH. I know that at least google has offices there, but I don't know what it's like in zurich and how much cutting edge high-tech is actually
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I've heard there's a lot of cutting technical edge in zurich due to the ETH, would you disagree?
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I think that's because he didn't have a lasting impact for Berlin (or Germany) beside being the first. Zuse built the first computers in Berlin, but they were only used in the war-time government ministries afaik. After the war, h
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I recently tried to find out what the current SOTA of program synthesis via I/O examples is but was unable to find current benchmarks or examples of what's possible. I was interested in synthesising high-level logic. Is this a col
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I didn't find an overview of what will be covered in the course and who the intended target audience is. Did anybody find some infos about this course?
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by LeanderK 6y ago
> apart from the border In germany it's a mandatory corona-test and quarantine until the results come back if you entered the country from a high-risk region (to avoid the spread through travelling). No restrictions as far as I know
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I really don't know how they end up with this, but my grandparents run windows and regularly have some kind of malicious advertisement installed. It's a not easy to keep their computers clean.
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by LeanderK 6y ago
in many societies not the market itself, but the government shoulders a big share of the costs for the arts. Societies came to the conclusion that they need to publicly fund the arts in order to give everyone access to culture and not turn
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by LeanderK 6y ago
> The mass arts that the masses can afford to consume (TV, streaming music, and movies) are by definition based on popularity, so we can only have so many artists. maybe it's a bit los in translation for me, but I wouldn't cons
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by LeanderK 6y ago
at the end of the article: > So much water is now being used that ground water levels in Helmand are estimated to be falling by 3m a year. The fear is that pretty soon the water will simply run out. "Maybe this boom will not last lo
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by LeanderK 6y ago
While I don't want to defend the german state, i think it should be mentioned that germany does have a pretty active pro-privacy movement. The chaos-computer club is big, with local chapters in nearly every city, very well connected an
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by LeanderK 6y ago
yeah, i think the cultural aspect can not be ignored! The stereotypes of some cultures being more cold and wanting to keep their distances is grounded in reality. In e.g. france or italy having very close contact for example when greeting i
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by LeanderK 6y ago
Well in the end it's still LA you're watching. Linear Algebra is the study of those linear systems, the determinants, the eigenvalues etc. How they behave and why. The abstractness is the "nature" of the LA approach and
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by LeanderK 6y ago
> Instead i keep hearing that google engineers are going on "strike" (ie, getting company paid days off). This is totally unnecessary. Striking is a serious matter and not just getting company paid days off for some lazy eginee
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I sometimes wonder why the world is in such a pity state. A lot of improvements seem obvious, but nothing gets done while a lot of those things are not really opposed by anybody. Why can multi-national corporations essentially exploit peopl
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by LeanderK 6y ago
Out of interest, in the US can you turn to anyone who represents your interests in this case? There are no unions and no worker-representatives at all, aren't there? Is everybody scared to stand up to your employer in those cases?
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by LeanderK 6y ago
yeah, I would view every Mathmatical discipline or any discipline that heavily involves maths as a different "programming language". Each having evolved their own sets of conventions and styles (e.g. Mathmatical physics vs Statist
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by LeanderK 6y ago
while I understand your point, I often geht frustrated when there's text what should have been maths. It is very easy to skip details which are then hard to pin down when you try to translate it into Mathmatical notation. It can become
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by LeanderK 6y ago
ah sry, i am german and frequently do this wrong since it's the exact opposite in german.
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by LeanderK 6y ago
not an American, but I also view this very critically. In Germany the university is free, but in reality it's just hugely subsidised. I just can't justify pumping a lot of money into free (real) university education for seniors. T
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by LeanderK 6y ago
In my view Jupiter notebooks can be, but must not be, a form of literate programming. Many tutorials take the form of a single juypter-notebook exaplaining concepts with code interleaved, which i would argue is a form of literate programmin
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by LeanderK 6y ago
I recently opened a bank account on a major german bank (commerzbank). It took 15 minutes and I didn't have to send a single letter!
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by LeanderK 6y ago
> The whole point of contact tracing is to give the government access to contacts when needed (location is much less important). Yeah, but only when needed, only as much as strictly necessary and deleting it immediately afterwards. I don
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by LeanderK 6y ago
My impression as a german: Government access to private data: revealing location & contacts. I think privacy might be the wrong description, I think it's more about surveillance of the people by the state, which is not acceptable f
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by LeanderK 7y ago
> I agree with masks The problem in germany is that we don't have enough masks to give them to everyone. Right now we have to acquire enough so that our healthcare-system doesn't suffer. It's being discussed, but is seems
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by LeanderK 7y ago
I don't think dw would publish articles without a reliable source. Also welt.de is the online-presence of "Die Welt" (the world in english), which is a major german newspaper. I would say that it's not known for world-cl
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by LeanderK 7y ago
Since the mortality for younger people seems to be quite low I wonder, given the serious circumstances, whether it would be useful to give some (maybe volunteers?) medical staff in endangered regions "controlled" exposures to coro
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by LeanderK 7y ago
I don't get why there's not continuous validation from apple for UX. Can't they just pay random users to do some tasks and continuously monitor whether they are able to do it? Something like: how satisfied are you with x,y,z
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by LeanderK 7y ago
wow, this is a fascinating, outstanding interview. I don't know why, but I was immediately hooked. I watched the whole thing.

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