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by LeanderK 8y ago
As a german student, i don't really remember the time before merkel. I was 5 years old when Merkel took the CDU-chair. It's really the end of an era. I have always wondered how merkel can do such a hard job for so long. She is 64
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Just some thoughts, never took the course: These AI-Bootcamps can, i would expect, only complement existing skills. I think they are a bit misleading, since I expect the typical day to day work for the graduates to be more Data-Sciency than
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by LeanderK 8y ago
in germany, you can still see the impact on whether CS emerged out of math or EE in the curriculums. When you have a lot of low-level programming, operating-systems, designing hardware etc. the departement was born in EE. If the emphasis is
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Is there any interesting research happening on what's limiting our lifespan? Is this super interesting and important question being given enought attention in the research-community? Or is it super-niche?
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Ok, interesting. I don't think I've really reflected too much why I feel this way before posting (hello internet!). I also may have probably over-generalized ;) In germany, if you study at a university, you are completely on your
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by LeanderK 8y ago
That's weird. The only serious competition to public higher education-insitutions in germany is in part-time study programmes. One of them, the FOM, is even branding itself as the "higher education institution for working people&q
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Hmm, maybe i didn't clearly communicate my opinion. What I wanted to say is that I can't see how you could learn (without being exceptionally dedicated) challenging topics. Things you normally go to university for. Things where yo
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by LeanderK 8y ago
we have part-time masters here in germany. A friend of mine is doing a part-time bachelor and it works out. But it's usually not as challenging as going to a university for a full-time study.
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I never understood online-learning ([1]) for non-trivial topics. I need to discuss stuff to really understand it and to also have fun with it! I don't know how somebody could do a complete degree or even some harder lectures purely by
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by LeanderK 8y ago
while I agree there are some real arguments, this is not what I would call a scientific presentation. It starts acceptable, but page 19, 22 are just unnecessary and have a connotation. Page 24 seems a bit conspiracy-theory-like. The comic o
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by LeanderK 8y ago
i wouldn't be so critical. It's journalism and I would intrepret the title more as "Machine Learning-community confronts...". And while ML isn't all about NNs and deep learning, we're quite enticed by them righ
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by LeanderK 8y ago
this is exactly what I wanted to criticise by my comment. I don't think these rankings are that important because they don't capture what the (original) article wanted to measure. There's only one stanford, which might be bet
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, then I have to vehemently disagree with you. The bulk of interesting papers I read are not from MIT or Harvard, but from a quite diverse group of interesting universities and non-university research institutions, from Canada to France
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by LeanderK 8y ago
> There isn't any real research happening outside of flagship institutions Does that really imply research only happens at stanford, MIT and Harvard? Or what are "flagship" institutions? What I wanted to say is that you ca
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I think nobels are overrated as an indicator of scientific research, because they don't capture most of the research but only the "super-star" researchers. This is great for figuring out which flagship institutions are attrac
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Excellent article. I don't think the possibility of success is that bad, but they have to take it seriously and also seriously invest (germany doesn't...at the moment!). I think in contrast to other technologies, the EU has a few
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, i don't agree with your interpretation of my comment (since what I wanted to communicate is that my comment is based on personal experience in France, which makes me a bit cautious). But I would put this to rest, since I don&#x27
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I don't know why this is so controversial. It's the first thing I see, before talking to anyone at the startup. I study near the french-border and, in my experience, relying on english in france is hard and even the universities a
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Why is your jobs-section not available in english? I think I would not apply at a company where there's no english version available. I don't think i'd be welcome there as a non-Frenchman. In general, why is there still such
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by LeanderK 8y ago
I really like infinite scrolling! But, unfortunatly, it's often so badly implemented that it's really annoying.
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, that was easy. Helvetica just looks more less fancy and more modern (if you want to be sure, just look at the a, e, s etc.). What I think is interesting is that Helvetica just looks better to me, despite them bein very similiar.
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by LeanderK 8y ago
there are a lot of real, no-bullshit startups in berlin. Startups, they are a real thing. I would also say that a lot of industry giants have all-bullshitting-no-substance offers with a great sales department behind it. Just look at watson.
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, i was looking foreward to push-notifications on the web and used them for non-marketing related purposes. EDIT: I also used Service-Workers in the same project to provide offline functionality :) It worked great, I was suprised how go
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Well, there has to be an end to exponentially growth somewhere...but I remeber that being preached that Moores Law is ending for years. I recently saw old slides from a professor at my uni from the 2000ers containing the "the end of ex
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by LeanderK 8y ago
VERY interesting questions! Unfortunatly I can't answer the questions, since I don't know enough about them. To make the literature search easier: Your second cocern is called "poisioning attacks" and is one of the probl
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by LeanderK 8y ago
while I agree with your second thought, I don't agree with your first. Kaggle is like a sport and therefore can't and shouldn't be comparable to real-life data-science (I mean, who want's to compete in tasks modeled afte
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Also, if you read the fantastic computer age statistical inference from Efron & Hastie (it's available online!), you notice they are both fans of data-science! The whole book reads like a big argument why we need data-science and w
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by LeanderK 8y ago
Tbh: I didn't read the document, only the table of contents. I think one of the problems of set-theory and applictions is that it doesn't lend itself very well to computers. An immediate thought was software verification & the
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by LeanderK 8y ago
If you're not on a purely intellctual trip, my advice is to first get a feeling for the language before trying to understand everything. Every widely used concept arises out a necessity and not out of thin air. Don't read all the
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by LeanderK 8y ago
but isn't pure math research very cheap (compared to the cost of other scientific research) and therefore could still be cost-effective?

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