anjc

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by anjc 6y ago
Because they're academics who choose to forego money in order to advance their career in academia. They could also generally double their income overnight by choosing to move to industry. Many do, most choose not to.
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by anjc 6y ago
Only if you don't have infinite money on the side, in which case it's guaranteed to be profitable
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by anjc 6y ago
Thanks
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by anjc 6y ago
Thanks!
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by anjc 6y ago
In my experience, the primary limit for engineering/CS labs are simply room capacities and the number of PCs per lab. Each lab therefore must be tightly scheduled by the school. Virtual learning has been amazing in this sense: labs can
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by anjc 6y ago
> Colleges are not going to let many people take gap years. How are they going to get out of abiding by their own regulations? Universities I'm familiar with all provide for deferred years.
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by anjc 7y ago
Can someone briefly eli5 how the Monte Carlo simulations feed into learning the optimal surface?
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by anjc 7y ago
Could Apple go back to being forward looking with their tablet/laptop/computer line please? If this keyboard/trackpad is a good idea now, then it would have been a good idea 10 years ago. If it was a good idea 10 years ago th
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by anjc 7y ago
Isn't this what some governments (through purchasing supply) and some central banks (through relaxed lending restrictions) have done with real estate?
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by anjc 7y ago
> I gained some great intuition from http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/ and (of all things) a paper named "An Introduction to Quantum Computing"[0]. Just wanted to say thanks for this paper. It really does help w
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by anjc 7y ago
> many years ago I tracked down a working Dreamcast and acquired Sonic Adventure 2 You make it sound like a relic! There are plenty for sale and new games are still made for it
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by anjc 7y ago
I hope people aren't commonly doing what this poor guy did, turning autopilot on and taking their hands off the wheel at 71mph . At this speed, the stopping distance is greater than the max effective distance of some of the forward lo
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by anjc 7y ago
> A problem may be that the source material is simply too high quality to begin with? I watched the original first and thought "wow, 1896, this enhancement is great", only turns out that was the original clip. Funny, I did the
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by anjc 7y ago
Can people in this thread genuinely not see a difference between the before and after or are you just being contrary? The change in resolution should be clear enough, but the FPS change is amazing and gives a great sense of presence to me w
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by anjc 7y ago
I'm confused then, we seem to be in agreement? If you're not a professional day trader, and you don't trade crypto as a primary source of income, then are your trades not "personal" going by the definition you gave?
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by anjc 7y ago
> recommend that anybody who wants to avoid criminal charges should not base any decisions on your definition of a personal transaction. Well of course
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by anjc 7y ago
A capital gain of $200 for a single transaction is plenty for day traders who do it in their spare time. This is still a personal transaction, even if you happen to profit from it.
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by anjc 7y ago
If it's not your main source of income then it's presumably a personal transaction, i.e. it's not a company transaction. This would cover most crypto day traders. That you're buying Litecoin from a stranger with your Bit
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by anjc 7y ago
Per transaction! This seems like it'll make day trading tax free, if it isn't your main source of income
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by anjc 7y ago
You're correct, I'm sure it could happen, it is highly unlikely that a non-academic could get published even at workshops for low ranking conferences. In my experience it takes at least a year of guidance before the average PhD
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by anjc 7y ago
These grants tend to require industry partners and matched funds, so the value for money with regard to public funds is probably far higher now than the "weird" era you're talking about. > enrich established PIs Nobody sta
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by anjc 7y ago
The titles for these roles are not "postdoc" though, that's his point no? The role "postdoc" doesn't exist, at least in any institutions I know. Of course there are postdocs in the world, but the actual payscal
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by anjc 7y ago
> I guess I was wondering where math fit in this picture for AI research. Well you can't do #1 or #2 without having a level of maths proficiency that most college grads do not have. FWIW, I don't understand the difference betwe
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by anjc 7y ago
Most people would be wrong if they think that this is what all researchers do
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by anjc 7y ago
Your tutorial is very good, but to able read even a few paragraphs you need to be proficient with linear algebra and calculus already. > Most papers strike me as requiring a non-trivial knowledge of linear algebra I think this is correct
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by anjc 7y ago
Oh well I understand that funds are allocated for a project. But in my experience, postdocs who are coming to the end of the funding for one project tend to be moved to another incoming one. I.e. they're essentially permanent staff any
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by anjc 7y ago
Good article, but I must misunderstand, how do the suggestions at the bottom overcome the issues/myths listed, particularly "postdocs formally [don't] exist" which seems to be the issue at the root of all problems. The t
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by anjc 7y ago
It doesn't follow that because an app is free as in beer that the app company is selling your data to make up the cost of running the app. For one thing, the likes of Plenty of Fish got to near billion $ valuation via AdSense and banne
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by anjc 7y ago
The Hidden Forces podcast is excellent
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by anjc 7y ago
You're looking at GDP, not budget... If you want to compare GDP, SF is in the top 20-30 countries according to your own link

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