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by bigred100 7y ago
My not exceptionally informed impression as a non elite US UMC tech guy: in the very high levels of society and at top US universities, that would be very normal interpretation. Among “normal” people you’d probably be viewed as kind of nerd
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by bigred100 7y ago
In USA (among the social group I grew up around), it seems like it’s mocked unless you’re also wealthy, in my opinion (eg the Starbucks barista who knows Latin). Even with eg Zuckerberg I think it’s mostly unknown that he has some knowledge
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by bigred100 7y ago
I wonder if humanities knowledge will become a status symbol, as being in great shape has become
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t mean to sound entirely too rude, but I want to ask the following hypothetical question. You are working at a research lab at a research university. You need to hire someone who is going to help you do research on new techniques for
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by bigred100 7y ago
Regardless of whether it’s done well, it needs to be done to direct government funding towards these things. That’s how science works these days.
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by bigred100 7y ago
A friend of a friend asked some highly confident guy how to do fizzbuzz in an interview and he failed. It does happen apparently
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by bigred100 7y ago
I imagine a good bullshitter would also be a good antibullshitter (wait for a situation where one could conceivably bullshit, and, if someone tries, press them in a way that will reveal what they’re doing if they are bullshitting, and be ha
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t see any reason you couldn’t just spit out the output and the derivative of the layer output with respect to the weights, then multiply and carry these all the way down. Then if you have a loss function at the end you have the gradie
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by bigred100 7y ago
Backend code for a flower shop contributes to global and local economy and facilitates trade. Video games are (in my opinion) largely cheap entertainment with some artistic merit and mild popular culture importance (depending on your social
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by bigred100 7y ago
I mean, some people I know achieve developer flexibility and performance by just writing their own implementation in FORTRAN. Unfortunately this is inadvisable for many people and seen as undesirable by even more people
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by bigred100 7y ago
I would think it’s more valuable when you’re younger due to the compounding effects of skills or knowledge gain
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by bigred100 8y ago
The ideas seem quite relate. A common reservoir computing setup involves learning a linear map from a back box dynamical system (which can be a feedforward network if we really want it to) to some output. The only significant distinction I
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by bigred100 8y ago
Is this an example of reservoir computing?
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by bigred100 8y ago
Damn, maybe it’s time for me to reread Debord as someone older than 18 and see if I understand any of it
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by bigred100 8y ago
I think many people (including the DFO community) already do that. People also consider the notion of multiple objectives important here I believe
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by bigred100 8y ago
What I want to know is why the software developer is expected to give estimates. Estimating how long common tasks take seems like something I would expect a software manager to be able to do effectively and care about. If you’re just a monk
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by bigred100 8y ago
I saw Jack Dongarra say that plain parallelism is now old and the thing is “communication avoidance”. Also made the point (relevant to your quotation) that changing hardware means redoing the algorithms every ten years to exploit it.
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by bigred100 8y ago
Perhaps my opinion is a bit stupid, but I frankly don’t view attending a top college as such an important thing. The point of a career is to eat and live with some dignity. I don’t think you need a top school for this. If you’re much more a
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by bigred100 8y ago
To force an analogy that I think is frankly stupid but may sort of work here, I believe that almost everyone who is an engineer or programmer or something is going to be much better served by thinking of intuitive notions of continuity, lin
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by bigred100 8y ago
Well, my personal opinion is that a better understanding of human nature will come from the traditional means (interacting with people, study of literature and history and human institutions, and, even more controversially, maybe even relig
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by bigred100 8y ago
Agree. The best way to work tons of hours is to spend tons of time on low-effort things that can be presented as difficult or important in meetings.
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by bigred100 8y ago
Lately I have the vague opinion that half-baked scientific reasoning and the tendency to come up with evolutionary just so stories is a horrible detriment to modern society. Humanity has come up with a reasonable way to interpret human beha
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by bigred100 8y ago
I feel like some people are too entitled. Most companies do not turn a profit and survive over extended periods of time. Most managers do not lead extraordinary teams. Most managers are not assured extraordinary careers. Why can’t we just b
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by bigred100 8y ago
I’m not sure that you’d rather have a mathematician or statistician who can code for all cases with ML. At least at universities I’ve gone to, even the main research in these areas is going on in CS/ECE departments or some in the stats
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by bigred100 8y ago
As someone in academia, I refuse to learn even the programming languages I do use