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by arcanus 10y ago
> 'after burning through 120 million dollars of capital' Wow. Remarkable a start up could be so successful at raising and so bad at developing anything approaching a product.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Somewhat. As I see it, openAI is trying to build the tools (and research papers, IP, etc.) in a publicly facing venue that could power the frameworks that ultimately power the disruptive wave of startups.
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by arcanus 10y ago
I actually think this misses the biggest reason that this AI cycle could fail. A great deal of machine learning talent is concentrated in big companies right now, because of the nice salaries and stability it provides research initiatives.
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by arcanus 10y ago
> or even get adequate performance under other than a single limited use case. Hmm? From the article: " In the core HPC market, Lustre has 75 of the Top 100 systems on the Top 500 rankings, and is used on nine of the top ten system
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Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business(nextplatform.com)
108 points by arcanus 10y ago|64 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
> The market that is still untapped is that of the Linux ultrabooks. Developers and other Linux enthusiasts basically just want a MBA/MBP that runs Linux natively. Do that, and people will flock to it. You nailed it. I'm someon
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by arcanus 10y ago
More than recommended, it is often required for research positions. Just be sure to pick a program that has a research topic that will be of interest. Easiest way to see if this is the case is by looking at previous students from that resea
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by arcanus 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. On the other hand, the research salaries some of my friends are pulling in at the big companies are substantial. And everyone on this site knows what some of the premier software devs are pulling in. Similar dictom
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by arcanus 10y ago
Only anecdotally. I know that at Texas, in engineering (where I got my PhD) we had many, many professors with previous industry experience. I remembered thinking it was not nearly as terminal a decision as I had expected.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Don't let me totally discourage you! Far from it, just be sure to have realistic expectations. I absolutely loved my PhD work and I'm happy I did it. But I'm also happy I was careful to consider how this degree might help my
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by arcanus 10y ago
It's harder than ever for young researchers to get initial grants. The pay is seriously lagging industry. In many cases, the resources at your disposal are substantially larger in industry as well. Meanwhile, universities are increasin
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by arcanus 10y ago
I always dislike estimates of this sort, because they give the impression of a scaling argument O(trillion $) when they are never validated and they are seldom more than 'this could cause a huge impact'! I'm speaking as someo
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Skyscrapers Overtake Suburban Sprawl as Tech’s Towering Status Symbol(wired.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
> I don't think China will sit idly and watch their tbill ands forex reserves turn into paper. What will they do? Unloading them will flood the market, collapsing the price.
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Sleep Is the New Status Symbol(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by arcanus 10y ago|1 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
Neither databases nor the construction industry are leveraged 10x+. Neither provides fundamental utility to other sections of the economy through lending activity, which can result in liquidity events at otherwise perfectly solvent firms. N
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Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says(wsj.com)
76 points by arcanus 10y ago|124 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
'Over time, economists say, nimble new companies should form to challenge sprawling incumbents. That isn’t happening as much these days. Young firms often fail or are absorbed by existing giants. The problem now is that business format
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by arcanus 10y ago
South Africa. In townships in South Africa you can see high tech low life everywhere: abject poverty but people still find ways to get old flip phones working or running a TV in a home with no electricity: just directly plugging it into a g
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by arcanus 10y ago
> American home-owners are politically organized, and constantly lobby to prevent the construction of both new single-family houses and apartment buildings in general That's over-generalizing. Many locations in the USA have sensible
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by arcanus 10y ago
Yea, Austin isn't cheap anymore but it's by no means expensive when compared to the coasts. It used to be something like a factor of two more expensive in SF or NYC, and I don't think it's quite that large a gap. The A
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Google paid its self-driving car boss $120M – and then he left for Uber(cnbc.com)
6 points by arcanus 10y ago|1 comments
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by arcanus 10y ago
> 40% cut of a multi-year 40%?!? I would kill for overhead that low. Most places are over 50 now. I've heard of 70% at the absolute top.
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by arcanus 10y ago
Interesting! I've found Yale's to be more intellectual, although also less practical. Any other schools that (anecdotally) fit a profile?
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by arcanus 10y ago
> Yale, on the other hand, is extremely competitive in terms of grading Nonsense. 'A YDN survey of the Class of 2006 found the median GPA to be about 3.6' http://yaleherald.com/news-and-features/features&#x
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by arcanus 10y ago
> The latter can be challenging since he seems to keep those cards face down Agreed. I think a variety of his actions are driven by pragmatic expediency as well. Trump was essentially a five million dollar contrarian put option, from tha
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by arcanus 10y ago
> You can learn some heuristics that will help you explore, but it is certainly no guarantee for finding anything. Agree. Those heuristics were precisely what I was alluding to. It is all about how you explore that space. The best resear
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by arcanus 10y ago
Much more important than the idea is the process you learn how to vet and research the idea. That is the 'support'. Now I can independently expand on my own ideas, and reject unpromising ones. Some are born with this skill, but ma
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by arcanus 10y ago
As someone who's published in Bayesian inference, that quote has always struck a cord. I've met countless young researchers who embraced Bayesian practices. And all the opposition seems to come from older hands. It's finally
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by arcanus 10y ago
That's not why anyone gets a PhD. The training is designed to teach you research. Unlike any other schooling, the degree has little class work. The PhD is essentially an apprenticeship to a practicing scientist.

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