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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The idea that data is remotely as valuable as one of the highest energy density power sources known to man (at least that can be safely handled and conveniently used) is utterly bizarre and shows how much of a bubble the tech world has beco
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Given many tech workers can work remotely it seems bizarre that we even need to live in city centres. But alas, businesses still want everyone in the office (often all the time as well).
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As someone from Europe - I find it really weird they just seem to treat racial and economic classes as more or less interchangeable. It's as if white==wealthy and black==poor - is the situation still so dire in the USA?
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
No, for several reasons. The main one is that I don't really see the need for such a large screen and it will likely be less convenient to carry in my pocket and hold in my hand. Then there is the expensive price tag which, given I liv
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The high-quality of dubs and subs is one of the reasons I still have a Netflix subscription. I live in Spain and my SO doesn't speak English - Netflix allows us to watch content dubbed in Spanish and equally there is a lot of natural S
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How are people supposed to do this unless they are unemployed? Don't probation periods already exist?
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Yeah - but the argument is that we don't have the tech because there is no point investing in the research when you can get a load of cheap labour to do it the work instead.
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+1 for Obra Dinn I'd also add strategy games like Civilisation VI etc.
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They are releasing Warcraft 3 remastered - maybe if it does really well they would do a Warcraft 4...
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For me, civilisation collapse is like the Bronze Age Collapse when multiple civilisations fall due to a multitude of factors. Not just a big empire fading away.
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I think this makes sense - in that it is better to target unearned income than earned income (in fact it seems bizarre that unearned income is taxed at a lower rate..) However, it seems that capital gains tax would be easier to avoid in the
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I nearly always buy from Amazon though. I bought from some other online retailers and had bad experiences (stuff taking ages to arrive, customs fees,bad returns policy etc.) Plus you get Amazon Music and Amazon Video too - I never use them
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I read The Origin of Species - it is a surprisingly readable book and I like the English it uses, words like incipient etc. that you don't hear often. That said, the chapters on pigeon fancying were rather dull.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
This is the real issue. Getting data is always expensive in any field so it's much easier to analyse data that already exists as you don't need a large grant application. Furthermore, I think the use of certain ML techniques may b
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I have heard good things about the 'Dinosaur book', "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberschatz.[0] [0]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119456339/
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As someone working in DS for the last 4 years this is pretty accurate. If you have a good academic background it can be possible to enter a DS role immediately but often you will be doing work far more towards the Business Intelligence end
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Destiny 2 was underperforming. It was mentioned in the earnings call yesterday.
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But they are releasing Warcraft 3 Remastered.
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It is common in some parts of the world where the sewers can't deal with it. And yeah, the places I was in supplied a bin.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I think the main competition will be Amazon Music as I already have access to it due to my Prime account. I have a Spotify subscription because Amazon Music didn't used to exist and now I am used to Spotify, but if I'm paying for
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
But is the purpose of a UBI or Negative Income Tax to spur people to find work? I think the benefit is it allows people to take more risk - so they can avoid taking a bad job and getting stuck in a local minimum (like intelligent college gr
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Blinkenlichten :P
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah - but now write a movie about a future that's more or less the same except stuff is slightly better and my phone has a nicer camera. Slow, gradual improvement isn't as exciting as disaster and apocalypse.
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I don't understand how this works - why would couriers want to work for something which has no provable value? I mean until (if ever) it has a stable and reliable value you would essentially be working for free. I guess you could use i
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The only concern I have about their approach (from what is in the article, I presume their book has much more detail) is that what people say they will do and what they actually do are often very different things. That said, it isn't a
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It seems to me that the audio space is still quite undeveloped when it comes to Machine Learning. I mean we have visual style transfer (look at the Deep Video Portraits shown at SIGGRAPH, it's insane..) yet the equivalent in speech isn
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It's 'true'. But those companies are largely oil companies that aren't polluting for giggles - but are responding to consumer demand. So if consumers demand less fuel, plastics etc. it is possible there would be a '
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I left academia (Computational Neuroscience) to work in Data Science. Some of my best friends stayed in and are now postdocs (I left the PhD with the consolation master). I'm in Europe so the difference in compensation is nowhere near
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It's good for calculus too - I remember watching his videos on calculus before I went to uni 10 years ago so they may have improved even more now.
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It's weird though - my girlfriend studies nursing and Geriatric Nursing is still one of the lowest paid specialisations with poor conditions and respect (compared to say working in the ICU). It seems residential homes charge the '

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