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by bllguo 9y ago
A de-cluttered version: https://outline.com/saPHcb
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by bllguo 9y ago
I hope you have another argument in store, as I for one am not interested in replacing email just so companies can market more prettily to me.
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by bllguo 9y ago
That is an interesting point, that people have bought too much into this simplified model s.t. reality bends towards the model. I don't know if I blame the model for that - like you say in your last sentence. But what's the altern
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by bllguo 9y ago
You may be misinterpreting things. Relevant from Wikipedia: "Lo argues that much of what behaviorists cite as counterexamples to economic rationality—loss aversion, overconfidence, overreaction, and other behavioral biases—are, in fact
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by bllguo 9y ago
What? Surely you mean perpendicular to the path? Or does path mean something different from trajectory..?
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by bllguo 9y ago
It has a relation to the ability of someone to actually conduct an experiment... Larger groups have more resources, from knowledge to experience to money. It is not an ad hominem fallacy. I don't know how you twisted his meaning to com
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by bllguo 9y ago
Would be less of an issue if society valued research properly, and enabled scientists to refuse corporate funds
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by bllguo 9y ago
That was my reaction. But it's actually just a poorly chosen title. In fact the article basically says that freshness is actually not important in sushi
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by bllguo 9y ago
Once we resolve the issue of people being automated out of their careers then of course automation will be a net positive on society. You don't have to tell me - I work in machine learning and data. These are basically growing pains th
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by bllguo 9y ago
Don't know about "poignant" - this reads like "I chose the wrong career and it's Google's fault" - but 100% yes, this is one of the biggest societal issues we face. The author may have realized a bit late
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by bllguo 9y ago
Non-engineers deserve fulfilling work as well, but their skillset - and hence their ability to find such work - is being automated away. In this specific case - was it even possible to find fulfilling work in HR in the first place? It'
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by bllguo 9y ago
Don't think so, that's just what OP chose to link. Their store page has more detail: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-book...
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by bllguo 9y ago
I thought from the title that it goes into the mathematics. Unfortunately all the article says w.r.t math is a hand-wavy explanation of autocorrelation. But it was an interesting story about the life of Auto-Tune's creator.
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by bllguo 9y ago
I don't see how anyone who understands what an analogy is would come to the conclusion that the GP is proposing that developers are killed. What's shocking is how ridiculous your comment is.
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by bllguo 9y ago
The problem is that only the first of those definitions of populism is technically correct..
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by bllguo 9y ago
Hmm.. I'm not convinced that this is a problem that actually needs solving. You admit to having these misgivings when starting out - could you describe in general terms what changed your mind?
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by bllguo 9y ago
This is simply an unbelievable position to take. We can't create a perfect model, so it's not worth the time to think about simpler but more tractable ones? Great, I'll let the vast majority of scientists and philosophers kno
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by bllguo 9y ago
I am all for science education, and ultimately I agree with the sentiment that it would be nice to have a repository of easy-to-understand articles about technical topics. However, I still can't help but feel that this is a profoundly
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by bllguo 9y ago
I'm sure there's research on this already, but just a thought - it seems to me like it would be easier to do NLP on Chinese, vs English. (I speak both). Much easier to recognize the author's meaning in Chinese characters, and
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by bllguo 9y ago
Plenty of review papers in Nature, actually! Not really surprising or eyeball-grabbing to see one.
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by bllguo 9y ago
We already know that there's a problem with education - there are many, many signs. US citizens being manipulated by false information, open bigotry, declining livelihoods of the lower economic class, political unrest and populism, edu
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by bllguo 9y ago
Right. These people are getting hammered. We have to find a way to let them be productive at something that isn't simple enough to be done by machines or laborers in developing countries. College is not feasible for them, but neither i
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by bllguo 9y ago
A problem, but not the core of it all. People have been compromising, and adjusting positions based on expert opinion, for quite awhile. I just wanted to raise the issue about the livelihood of the lower economic class.
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by bllguo 9y ago
I agree with the general sentiment that education needs to be overhauled but I feel that you undervalue literature and history. Hopefully someone comes along that is more qualified than I am to speak about this. There must be better ways to
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by bllguo 9y ago
I do believe in raising the minimum wage, but how does that address the fact that outsourcing and automation have been reducing and will continue to reduce the supply of jobs? Thousands of people have skills that are not worth enough, these
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by bllguo 9y ago
Sure, ideally everyone gets well-paid, fulfilling jobs... So, when do we start talking about practical solutions?
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by bllguo 9y ago
I hope they explicitly ask for transcripts, or this is pretty stupid behavior...
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by bllguo 9y ago
Sure, in general, but the key factor here is "fraternity." Of course people who have low GPAs, and are also not doing anything else like joining a frat or making social connections, will have lower incomes in the aggregate. They&#
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by bllguo 9y ago
My impression is that GPA isn't really that important beyond your first job, unless you're trying to get in grad school. And like the article says, in many cases it's who you know, not what you learn. Baffling that this is s
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by bllguo 9y ago
He explicitly quoted what he wanted sources for. Don't try to be cute. In other words, what makes you say the NSA is complacent and that Russia is ahead.

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