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by anjc 6y ago
Even source data itself is not free from contexts and biases. Just treat everything with suspicion. And treat people with extra suspicion if they always provide a URL, especially if the URL is to somebody's interpretation of an interpr
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by anjc 6y ago
The XPS 15 throttles horribly at reasonable temperatures. Many people re-seat the heatsink on the CPU and GPU and it fixes this issue.
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by anjc 6y ago
> they aggressively re-publish their existing results. Very low read- and citation counts are common implications. I think it's generally the opposite to a great degree. Some people spend their PhD and postdoc doing one large piece
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by anjc 6y ago
How can seceded states commit treason against a union that they aren't part of? > resulted in the mass murder of hundreds of thousands In other words, a war
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by anjc 6y ago
> We used to apply a ‘Sunday Test’: “If this person were alone at the office on a Sunday, would that make us want to come in just to hang out with them?”. However, this was the wrong phrasing for the idea we really cared about (we don’t
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by anjc 6y ago
> This means that many papers citation list is not a result of a thorough literature search Related work sections aren't typically thorough, that's what lit surveys/reviews are for. It's also not a new phenomenon that
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by anjc 6y ago
It seems awkward to have a verb as part of the noun, but as I write this I'm thinking of many.
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by anjc 6y ago
I don't understand the racist connotations given that there are no "slave" branches. Every similar mention of "master" can't change. What words can better describe a master boot record, for example?
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by anjc 6y ago
Why does it make more sense? Blacklist is used also as a verb, and I don't think "denylist" could be used as such. You could say "add to the denylist" but I don't think this is sensible.
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by anjc 6y ago
If you want a functioning shop, and you were limited to four initial options: 1) prohibitively expensive power tools 2) prohibitively expensive hand tools 3) cheap hand tools 4) cheap power tools ...I'd go for cheap power tools every t
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by anjc 6y ago
It is of course good to have the support of your supervisor, but if the relationship breaks down then you shouldn't feel that your graduation is at risk because of this. I think most universities will have a policy on changing supervis
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by anjc 6y ago
Well thanks for that, I'm confused about the relevance of an 'advisor' to a paper from the perspective of the PC or publisher, or how they would even determine who an advisor is. Do IEEE/ACM have rules for this or is thi
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by anjc 6y ago
It isn't up to his mentor to withdraw a paper for which he isn't the first author. It doesn't even require a retraction as it wouldn't be published yet, albeit, withdrawing is still frowned upon
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by anjc 6y ago
> "Step" refers to an interval gap of "half step" or "whole step" Right, but it does not mean 'half step'. It means one or other depending on the harmonic context, not the language context as said
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by anjc 6y ago
> car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon. > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to sta
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by anjc 6y ago
> I live in a very nice area of DC, cars would get rifled through every ~2 months or so > Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia. It rather sounds like you have a strange perspective on urban living. I can
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by anjc 6y ago
> Depends on your language use 'Step' has a specific meaning in music and it doesn't mean 'semitone'. Why not just use semitone seeing as that precisely describes what's intended? Conflating meanings seems l
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by anjc 6y ago
> I played a lot of VI and stuck with it for a few years > It was a fun game and I got my value out of it > you might want to pass on this [game that I played for years which is temporarily free] ?
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by anjc 6y ago
It work the opposite way too, wherein platforms lose users due to undesired changes. YouTube's banning/striking/demonitizatation of high profile channels, something that Joe often says he's afraid of, could be seen as a
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by anjc 6y ago
It doesn't take much listening to JRE or similar shows to realise that they're in constant fear of strikes and demonetization, even when talking about mundane topics. Joe's no Alex Jones or David Icke, and he's still afr
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by anjc 6y ago
>What’s striking is that the professor and A/Chairman doesn’t know that he doesn’t know. I’m struck by his ignorance of his ignorance, his willingness to think that he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t. Does this make se
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by anjc 6y ago
> your citation count, number of papers, awards etc quickly becomes insignificant compared to those who are There are few metrics with which academia can judge how effective a researcher is. If you're not interested in getting as ma
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by anjc 6y ago
> I'm from Europe so I wouldn't be in debt or anything Do a Masters and it will help with all of your questions
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by anjc 6y ago
> Go into grad school and pursue a PHD because you've got a burning desire to turn one of your good ideas into a breakthrough. I don't think many supervisors will let you do this. 1) you'll need to find someone who has fun
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by anjc 6y ago
Oh I checked my uni's calendar and you're right, there's a brief notice that deferral isn't guaranteed. In practice I've never seen it denied, but these times are different.
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by anjc 6y ago
Are there any regulations against transmitting data to wearables during play? I only see a regulation saying that data from wearables can't be used during a game. Is there anything preventing players from wearing e.g. a device that v
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by anjc 6y ago
> Car centered cities are awful for human beings Do you just mean that a car centred city is more noisy and dirty than an economically-equivalent city that has fewer cars? They've been amazing for human beings if you take a broader&
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by anjc 6y ago
> They also don't compare to baselines This is certainly worth criticising > they can still overfit to test data by running a lot of experiments with different hyperparameters, architectures and parts of the data, and only repor
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by anjc 6y ago
How do you propose that anyone evaluates their algorithm on the future?
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by anjc 6y ago
Many people are criticising their backtest but I don't understand why. Their test data is sequential to their training data, considers time, and doesn't overlap. They can't overfit to their test data. In any other area of ML

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