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by aoki 8y ago
mine as well (albeit 4th edition, 1984). which is sort of weird because i never saw or touched an M68k HP; i only ever referred to it when debugging stripped binaries on Sun 3s.
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by aoki 8y ago
you see news articles about norovirus all the time in the context of cruise ships because these are enclosed spaces with stable populations who infect and re-infect each other through fecal contamination and aerosolized vomitus. full decont
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by aoki 8y ago
agreed. i really enjoyed the fact that she (as a phd in biochem) orients to many of these tests as experiments. in her test of the SteriPen, she tries water samples with varying levels of turbidity (the SteriPen is based on UV) rather than
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by aoki 8y ago
anecdata from the current hiring season is that CS hiring at less prestigious institutions has become qualitatively different from that in other fields. one faculty described receiving a total of four applications from actual CS PhDs (not j
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by aoki 8y ago
yet in practice overfishing occurs in species after species; individual interests do not always align with the macro interests. that's why i think there's an interesting story lurking here. there were probably a small number of te
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by aoki 8y ago
i am not sure i would agree that this has been discussed before. this is not simply about use of RF (microwave, mmwave) for HFT. as i understand it, that kind of thing typically involves COTS radios and conventional dish antennas. this ins
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by aoki 8y ago
a meta-comment: it's weird - i submitted this a couple of days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17018883 ), but it still doesn't show up in the default HN search view. (we even edited the blog headline the
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by aoki 8y ago
it's not the point of the article, but i find it fascinating that this industry has managed to figure out how to capture >400k wild animals per year and return ~90% of them alive to the ocean after harvesting their blood with a gian
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by aoki 8y ago
i am not an RF expert, but i find it interesting that folks would use a custom waveform (presumably, since they're using USRP SDRs) for such applications.
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Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery(sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
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by aoki 8y ago
agreed. in the valley you do hear it attributed to intel. the other long-time intel—ism that has now been appropriated everywhere is the OKR system. it was really weird moving from intel to google and hearing someone from peopleops talk abo
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by aoki 9y ago
it appears from linkedin that he was an AF intelligence officer. being a military intelligence officer is not the same as, say, being a clandestine service officer. apparently, the AF even sees fit to give you "intelligence wings&quot
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by aoki 9y ago
i think it's hard to get kids into these topics (beyond shallow youtube factoid videos) at an age when they're mostly into fun. for the STE part of STEM, you can engage more of them with "maker"-type projects aimed at cr
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by aoki 9y ago
most serious US math programs have honors sequences that are aimed at students who intend to go for a PhD and who are often starting with post-calc-I/II/III courses from the very beginning. tao says right in the introduction that
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by aoki 9y ago
i'm not sure i agree. google's cloud couldn't host this customer's production application because (afaik) google can't host classified data. so then you're talking about the fact that your tech is inherently &q
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by aoki 9y ago
indeed - i'm not clear on the basis for the outrage here. from what the article here says (i don't know more about it than that), it's not clear to me that google is doing more than selling their cloud video analysis products
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by aoki 9y ago
my only goal in mentioning the statistics sequence at all was to give a familiar example where the standard sequences vary in depth depending on audience. a trivial point, yes, but i wanted to be concrete because it's the internet. app
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by aoki 9y ago
but they're not actually equivalent, in spite of tables like this [0]. type ii error is a false negative result in the context of a test , where you have to understand which hypothesis is which and exactly what you are accepting or re
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by aoki 9y ago
would you not expect your hypothesized (theoretical) ML expert to understand boosting, which is generally explained in terms of PAC learning, which draws on computational complexity? that said, i'd also expect a phd in statistics to be
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by aoki 9y ago
ali rahimi alludes to the problem of google engineers simply needing to tweak models that were previously tuned by google researchers who do have well-developed intuition [0]. because the intuitions in explicit form are at best heuristic an
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by aoki 9y ago
type ii error is statistics, not mathematics. there is no equivalent concept in CS because type ii error relates specifically to statistical inference and hypothesis testing. that said, if you are just pointing to a box in a confusion matri
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by aoki 9y ago
i think the term is more prominent on the NLP side, via information retrieval (IR) and clustering. i first saw it in IR, and you'd see it in stanford's CS 124 or CS 224N, for example. if the parent is talking about people who are
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by aoki 9y ago
i would request that you stop critiquing "machine learning" based on the presentation in introductory online materials like this and the ng coursera course. you provide a lot of signal in general but i think these critiques do dec
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by aoki 9y ago
to the point mentioned somewhere else about outcomes vs. optics: some of the academic beauty pageant rankings beloved of university marketers do include nominal instructor qualifications (faculty status of instructors, fraction of faculty w
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by aoki 9y ago
lack of security of employment makes teaching at low pay unattractive compared to industry at high pay. look at this posting [0]. nowhere does it say that this ladder is ever eligible for tenure, unlike (say) berkeley's lecturer SOE po
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by aoki 9y ago
yes - "...neither confirm nor deny..."
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by aoki 9y ago
it was never a secret that many of the surface navy's combatants were nuclear-capable for the entire duration of the cold war - stuff like ASROC/W44, but also TLAM-N. as a DD SWO in the early 90s, i went through some of the same s
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by aoki 9y ago
ABET accreditation is for degree programs, not individuals. it sets curricular standards. most credible engineering programs maintain ABET accreditation, as it has been required for graduates to become PEs [0]. [0] i recently heard that ber
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by aoki 9y ago
kudos. ABET-accredited engineering programs have had to document instruction in design ethics for a long time. anybody designing a good CS curriculum should know that and be thinking about whether CS really ought to be different in that reg
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by aoki 9y ago
i think you’re referring to “Zombieboard” (eric saund published some papers on it in the 90s). it was installed in most meeting rooms, not just a demo room.

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