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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Gee, looks like a LOT of dedicated, devoted English majors here. Who would'a thought?!
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Gee, some people really do NOT like facetious comments, parody, and humor! What is it particle physicists: Don't understand humor?
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"It's truly sad, and perhaps even criminal that journalists, and especially science journalists fall victim to those same misconceptions." "Journalists"? You are being moderated in your high praise of 'journalists', that is, professional m
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Yup, safe job: Predicting the centers of distant, dead stars.
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"the implied message was that there is no problem and intervention is not needed" No, again, I just addressed the point of the article, 'productivity'. To move on to address the 'social', etc. results from getting more productivity via inf
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
There actually is a point about suicides and other problems: During the early 1980s when the Rust Belt was suffering, the rates of divorce, domestic violence, infant mortality, alcoholism, and suicide all went through the roof. Sadly I bla
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
It's called 'pop culture'! Or it's "the great wasteland". Or it's the "message" in "the medium is the message". But heavily it's the old tried and true of the humanities culture, 'drama' as in 'formula fiction', especially as in the 1000 ye
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Yes. A LOT of sales people got replaced by Web sites. And technology also replaced many book store clerks, telephone operators, etc. In some ways it's a BAD situation. But, in 'productivity', that is, economic results per dollar, that rem
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Here's one of his first serious mistakes: "The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other country, yet without producing measurably superior results." That situation is always easy to obtain: Just do a sufficiently
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Nice points. Okay, I revise my argument! What will be left are genes, in the society, in both men and women as required, that make the people, men and women as required, really WANT to have babies! Then back to my argument: The populati
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Seems to me that the article missed the most central point. Let's start with a little, simple, relevant background: (1) In the past, e.g., in tribal or agricultural communities, women had children whether they really 'wanted' to or not. (2
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He omitted a bigger, more central point: The main drive in the economy is more productivity; the main approach there is more automation; the main approach there is computer hardware driven by software. Next, the main point about software is
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'Education', K-12, college, and later, is pushed and shoved by several large influences. As in this thread, two of the influences are (1) employers want some 'criteria', maybe even 'credentials', that will simplify selecting promising emplo
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
He's mostly smoking funny stuff: He's talking applications of optimization. Okay. Optimization contributes problems, e.g., integer linear programming, in set NP-complete only if one insists on exact optimality down to the last tiny fract
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Certainly nothing beats a good book, but often a good lecturer can give some intuition or motivations that are not customarily written down." You are correct on both points. Early in my learning, I found both points to be important. And,
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Yup, Kolmogorov and Fomin -- NICE book. I never learned from it, but I believe that eventually I got a copy, looked through it, and liked it. If Boyd has some nice engineering applications, terrific!
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Yes, since the US military, yes, mostly via NSF and NIH, have been tossing Stanford ballpark $1 billion a year, it's nice to have some alums kick in a few million a year, maybe $10 million now and then?!!! Yes, I can believe that the Stanfo
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Is Boyd still talking about convexity? Convexity is an important concept, and the world is just awash in rock solid treatments. So, for some positive integer n, consider n-dimensional Euclidean space. Suppose C is a closed, convex subset a
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
His "#1: Be Narrow "Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful." has "You can much more easily position and market yourself when more focused. And when it comes to partnering, or being acquired,
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Learning is not a spectator sport. For material that is solid and clearly presented in a book, for a good student with good preparation and good motivation, it is enough for the student to study the book independently or nearly so. Indeed
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Uh, in "AI", the "I" is mostly just a hope or goal and not yet an accomplishment! We have AI as a field mostly just because of long, aggressive funding by DARPA, early on especially of the MIT AI Lab. Since then DARPA has funded the prize
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Government should sponsor this kind of thing" Maybe 60% of the budget of Stanford is from research grants from the US Federal Government. For the students, there are also scholarships, e.g., from the NSF, NIH, etc., which is more "governm
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
The core of the simplex algorithm, and the key to its considerable power, is a cute application of elementary row operations selected to improve the value of the objective function. That's the 'algebraic' part. There is a cute, and signif
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
"Sorry, but when you state that CS should be a footnote in a math book, you are kinda making the point that everything in CS (even in those sub-domains that are eminently practical) should be math-based to do anything meaningful. This is de
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Seriously? It's not about me. It's about that book. For my remarks, you will have to look at them and not at me. I nailed them on their description that the simplex algorithm was like Gaussian elimination for systems of linear inequaliti
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
That remark is a bit facetious.
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I was being facetious.
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
You are starting with an axiom that I'm talking nonsense and then bending everything I write in that direction instead of reading what I write. E.g., "I regret to say that that's not as easy as it sounds. There are issues of tractability,
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
That's about me and not the book and, thus, inappropriate. You are not concerned about the book but are torqued at me for some of what I said about the book. You took what I said personally, as if I was mean to your favorite baby. You need
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by NY_Entrepreneur 15y ago
Part II For the CS topics you listed, e.g., programming languages, that field has for decades just cried out for some good math but gotten nearly none! Clearly compiling and executing a program are necessarily mathematically something, und

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