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by arcanus 8y ago
> They have a handful of dangerous competitors, all of which are not reliant on the music business. That can be a double edged sword. They can also kill products that are losing money. Apple does not give away much for free. If this is a
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by arcanus 8y ago
(If this happens) What does this mean for owners (non-employees) of TSLA stock? Will you be able to maintain your holdings in the company after it is delisted from an exchange?
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by arcanus 8y ago
GPU/accelerated computing, photonics, non-volatile memory... What an exciting (and disruptive) time for HPC.
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It Costs $50k to Hire a Software Engineer(medium.com)
3 points by arcanus 8y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
Both this comment and the parent are fair points. I don't believe my situation is rare: this position was considerably easier to attain than a faculty position. Stability is better and worse. It is better in terms of resources (I don&#
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by arcanus 8y ago
^ This After my PhD I received a very nice industry position where I can do more research than my friends who are professors. I don't have to sit in committees or teach: I'm employed to conduct research. I'm also fairly com
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by arcanus 8y ago
> People that have money spread across borders.. trillionaires The only person I could even speculate with that sort of wealth could be Vladimir Putin, if you argued he is a dictator and so controls the entire Russian economy / weal
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by arcanus 8y ago
Lots of good material science also performed. And don't forget fundamental science, such as cosmology.
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by arcanus 8y ago
Surely ancillary data I can glean from watching sports broadcasts is open? For example, if I use convolutional neural networks to parse broadcast video and derive statistics from that data, how could I not own that information?
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by arcanus 8y ago
> Better to get a C at MIT than an A at RPI. That is a poor example. RPI is an excellent institution. After you get past the top-50 or so schools, reputation matters far less. If you are truly attending a 'low-tier' school then
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by arcanus 8y ago
> I have a feeling that something like Universal Basic Income would give this freedom of time to crowds that can lead towards more people doing science and hence more discoveries. Agreed. When I was in graduate school I remember thinking
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by arcanus 8y ago
> This is the dark side of independent research. Without external validation - “I teach at Stanford” or “I got a grant from NASA”, it’s hard to convince people that you’re any good at what you do. This is one of the reasons double blind
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Intel’s firing of CEO Brian Krzanich is a cover for deeper problems(semiaccurate.com)
5 points by arcanus 8y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
> That leaves me to wonder as to the timing of this action. Krzanich received a lot of flak over the past months... it's not entirely unthinkable that the board was sitting on this information and only now used it to get rid of Krza
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by arcanus 8y ago
Sell indicator.
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The Global State of Science (2017)(arstechnica.com)
56 points by arcanus 8y ago|9 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
Most US bathroom doors do not reach the floor. It is much more common in Europe. As an American, that line did come off as a somewhat exotic request.
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by arcanus 8y ago
> In the US, that kind of salary it's common only in the Silicon Valley and NY. I don't agree with that statement. The title relates to six figure incomes, which are certainly quite common in all the tech hubs: Seattle, Austin,
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What's the Best City for Software Engineers?(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by arcanus 8y ago|0 comments
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Mike Meru Has $1M in Student Loans. How Did That Happen?(wsj.com)
39 points by arcanus 8y ago|80 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
Could this be a hint at Intel's supercomputing and AI strategy? They cannot compete with GPUs on flops with Xeon, but an embedded FPGA might get them closer. It is a risky strategy however. Even if they can attain similar performance,
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research(jcs.biologists.org)
1 points by arcanus 8y ago|0 comments
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by arcanus 8y ago
"Police said the gray 2014 Tesla Motors Model S may have been speeding southbound in the 1300 block of Seabreeze Boulevard when it drove off the roadway and struck a concrete wall about 6:46 p.m. Tuesday." The car was not operatin
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by arcanus 8y ago
> There was a lot of margin in the prevailing blade prices that they could undercut and still make money. I also suspect they do not have fat margins on the razors, but the ancillary purchases you can throw in with your monthly razor del
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by arcanus 8y ago
Agreed. Also, start with: don't live in one of the most expensive cities in the world and expect luxuries not typically associated with urban living, such as two cars, a spacious home, etc.
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by arcanus 9y ago
That assumes he held his stock. Everyone I know seems to sell as soon as it vests. If so he didn't get all the return you quoted.
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by arcanus 9y ago
Agreed. Gives some ammo to spotify avoiding a traditional route.
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by arcanus 9y ago
A good point. Conversely, central banks and governments fight recessions with expansionary monetary policy. Thus, as a recession hits government may reduce the cost of capital to VCs, and improve R+D (at least in defense spending and govern
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by arcanus 9y ago
Remarkable that $59 an hour puts one in top-5 percent of wages. That corresponds roughly to 120k a year, which is certainly accessible to many software folks.
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by arcanus 9y ago
CS, and engineering in general, have much better job prospects than other fields. As a result, fewer PhDs are fighting to get open academic positions. Furthermore, I know many people in CS and engineering who have left a tenured professor

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