alexgmcm

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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I doubt many of the senior managers mentioned have CS degrees. It's like the old joke about the limit of Engineering as GPA tends to zero is Business Administration.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
They could shadowban the reviews - so the reviewer would think it was being displayed. A bit deceitful but maybe better for UX.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
But equally - does it matter? I would rather have less, but more accurate, reviews than have all of them but many of them being fake. It seems like a use-case where a high false positive rate would be acceptable. Unlike say, medical diagnos
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Also young people can just leave if the economy is just feeding on them. I left the UK partly because between insane housing prices and paying for the triple-locked pensions of the elderly - the economy has little to offer young people and
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Well there was the GI Bill that helped veterans retrain after WW2 in proper careers at real universities etc. But that's a lot more expensive (although maybe less expensive in the long run than having a load of unproductive citizens)
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Didn't the Mafia used to hijack trucks? It doesn't seem that ridiculous even with humans - high value loads often have police escorts in my country for this reason.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I think at least in Europe the Switch will be much bigger than VR just because of the space requirement. Here you are lucky if you have a large flat let alone a whole room to use for VR and this is even more true in the younger groups (say
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I can afford it but I find travelling stressful as you have to get to the airport, go through security, check in at the hotel etc. Also even though I can afford it, it rarely seems like the best use of the money. I mainly travel because I h
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah, also in Pandas you can do stuff that otherwise requires writing a custom reducer or UDAF in which case you aren't using SQL anyway. I just use SQL to grab and if necessary aggregate the data and then do everything else in Pandas
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The rise and rise of rentier capitalism is by far the biggest scourge in our modern economy. Henry George and even Adam Smith identified the problems centuries ago and yet here we are.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Can we use their triple-locked pensions to pay for it then?
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
As someone who emigrated from the UK to the EU, I just hope I receive my Irish passport in time...
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Also the cost of living makes being a PhD student in London almost untenable - I started in Edinburgh before mastering out and at least there one could live pretty well on the stipend.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I agree but sadly the salary often is an upgrade and there are few alternative routes for advancement.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
A policy learning approach is better imho - but getting people to switch to using a multi-armed bandit when they are used to AB testing can be difficult. People don't seem to trust the system to make the right decisions even though you
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
How does it compare to Elite Dangerous?
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
These days? Hasn't that always been the case? It's just that when we were kids etc. we had more free time. The Nintendo Switch has an excellent selection of more 'casual' games. Super Mario Odyssey reminded me a lot of
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I'm from the UK and professors aren't paid huge amounts, but remember that salaries are lower here than in the USA even in tech/software. 60k is a senior software engineer salary (especially outside of London)
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I'm still waiting for the final book!
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Napoleon's Buttons is good - the way the book is divided up keeps it interesting too.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose was a bestseller just recently and I found that impossible to read even with a graduate degree in Physics.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I moved to BCN to work in tech (from the UK). It's pretty decent and more companies are moving here now. I mean occasionally you see ridiculously low salaries but I used to see that in London too. I think the education system could be
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The electrodes also have the benefit that you can stimulate the neurones as well potentially creating a full feedback loop. It would be interesting to see if the brain could adapt to a new input and learn how to interpret it. Rat experiment
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
It's hard to know what is a 'tangent' and what is the next breakthrough though. As they say - if we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
To be fair though - the stellarator design is pretty cool as it doesn't have a plasma current and nowadays we can heat the plasma via beam injection. The lack of the current might make it more stable vs. the tokamak.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah - I remember reading about memristor based technology that aimed to better emulate neurons in the hardware back when I was in Uni. That was almost 10 years ago though and I haven't heard much of it since.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I think it's obvious to anyone with experience in the field that Deep Learning etc. isn't a path to AGI nor an emulation of biological intelligence. But it is one thing to know that the current path isn't leading us there and
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I don't shop at expensive stores but sometimes I get asked if I want help by an employee if they are standing around. I always say no though - it feels awkward.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I'm more concerned about how the lack of investment in science and technology (a career in scientific research is pretty bleak nowadays leading to infamous posts like this: http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html ) is m
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
>The trains are great, but also pretty expensive. I'm from the UK but moved to Spain and used to live in Germany. I think the trains are better on the Mainland. >Terrible, terrible wages in tech This is true for the whole of Euro

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