aftoprokrustes

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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Indeed... Too late for that, but it will teach me to proof read every comment before hitting send! On the positive side, no comment of mine ever generated that much engagement!
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Let's be fair to the title: 'giant' is in inverted commas, and the article is pretty straight to the point and does not try to drag on the expectation that the worm was 100s of meters long (or alive, but I was expecting a fos
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Not necessarily. I am in the same case as OP. Basically I am a specialist with a PhD in a niche topic. There are at most a handful job postings per year that fit my profile perfectly, but then I have virtually no competition. If you have a
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
True, but with some important additions: - in some countries, dedicated home office rooms and supplies can be deducted from taxable income or lead to other forms of tax reduction. - you do not have to pay for the commute. Not only in terms
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Note that this does not really reduces the validity of the comment you react to. Beavers could probably say pretty much the same thing. "Did you try living next to humans? I do not recommend it. Not only do they break the dams we took
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I obviously cannot assess the validity of the requests you got, but as a former researcher turned product developer, I had several times to take the decision _not_ to display confidence intervals in products, and to keep them as an internal
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
But the blameless culture as highlighted in the article does not prevent to identify when someone messed up personally or is not doing effort to follow the process/bring the results. It means to start by assuming the best of intention
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Would you mind elaborating? In particular, do you refer to the technical people ("no need to take care, even if I mess up no one will blame me") or the managers ("those cowards just want to avoid being accontable for their mi
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This sounds lile terrible advice. Not only does it take a long time to get familiar enough with a code base of reasonable complexity to make a contribution of any interest, but not all open source projects have the capacity to review and pr
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This fits. The way the interviewee describes his relation witho Tolstoy couldbe the way I describe my relation with Hugo. I was obsessed with him for a few years, and read most of his fiction. It changed my relation with the world, and in p
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> To me, consciousness is the collection of electrochemical signals traveling throughout the brain This is unfortunately not a definition of consciousness, rather an hypothesis about the cause or origin of it. Consciousness is an experie
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> This. We don't know if a brain keeps all information necessary for a "reboot" or not. It may decay over time if whatever machinery necessary to first "start" consciousness is never used after birth. We do not e
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I unfortunately cannot read the full paper (I am not affiliated with university anymore), but from the abstract alone, "one of the masterpieces of science" seems a bit exaggerated. I do not want to argue that it is a bad paper wit
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Another "perfectly timed" TV moment with Rockets, unvoluntary this time, would be Ariane 5's first launch. The commentator literally says "all propulsion parameters at their normal value" (in French) as the thing is
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Note that the article does not say that it was hard, just that it was perfectly timed. The fact that the time of the launch is known to the second is exactly why they were able to pull this off, but they still had to have the idea, and exec
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> That car driving itself is not one big AI brain. > Instead of a whole toolchain of specialized models, all connected with normal code — such as models for computer vision to find and identify objects, predictive decision-making, ant
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I should have mentioned that I only ever was part of the review process for very junior positions (PhD candidates and interns), so all CVs are pretty much the same. So for most, a 10 secs glaze is enough, but whatever the quality of the CV
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Apparently everyone here hates cover letters, so I would like to offer a different viewpoint. Every time I am part of the hiring process, I start reviewing each applicant by looking at the cover letter. I only look at the CV if the cover le
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Thanks a lot for your comment, it is very interesting to read directly from your experience. I am particularly pleased by your comment, because it kind of goes in the direction of my first reaction when I read this comment about "sub-t
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I did not say that they are easy problems, nor that seeing a robot do a backflip isn't impressive. It was just an amused observation that what we call "intelligent" in a computer changed based on whatever the current hot tech
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
What I find funny is how it seems what we called "AI" shifted from what we actually mean when we speak of a human as "intelligent" to what we definitely do not consider a part of intelligence. Take the robots from Boston
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I had the same experience with Maven vs SBT (scala build system, config is scala). At first it is really cool to have access to a full programming language (in particular when it is the same as the one the project is in, which means that yo
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> No one is claiming that buying a pair of sneakers from a company that uses part of its funds for an evil end makes you guilty of the crime If you are a German company, yes, the law makes you guilty. This goes by the sweet name of Liefe
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Not just time saving, but since I use it I did not have to re-tie my laces during the day, it looks very symmetrical, and I regularly have the silly but satisfying experience of people seeing me tie my shoes and say "how did you do tha
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I am not of the field, bit did dig into the CBT hole (both reading and consulting a trained therapist), and I have the impression that the effects are overstated (and, at least for me, this was totally the wrong approach). The main issue I
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Hi, I came here to tell the exact opposite, so I guess this is a good idea to do this as an answer to your comment. I feel like death is what makes life beautiful and precious. Because if you have an infinite amount of something, this is re
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Post doc? In what kind of utopian field did you work? In my former institute virtually all papers were written by PhD candidates, and reviewed by PhD candidates. With the expected effect on quality (due to lack of experience and impostor-sy
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Not necessarily. You can be compasionate to a narcicist manipulator while being perfectly aware that he is trying to manipulate you and not playing hus game. Being compasionate does not means doing everything someone asks for, but trying to
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Something that worked for me is that I have a profile where I am a domain expert who is reasonnably good at data science and software development. I am no rock star in any of the three fields, but this particular combination is pretty rare.
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
As I mentionned in another comment here, in my case, I used to intellectualize too much. Actually, intellectuallizing is the only way to do anything I knew for a long time: even when starting a new sport, I would start with a book or a seri

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