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by bo1024 3y ago
Not really on the topic of this link at all. But I wouldn't be surprised, since you're likely comparing the few physicists and philosophers who switch fields against the average computer scientist.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Interesting positioning as "great ideas" -- it seems like the topics are a pretty standard undergrad Theory of Computer Science course.
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by bo1024 3y ago
There's probably details I'm missing, but I think the fundamental issue is that "private" messages between people are presumed private, but actually the platforms we use to send messages do read those messages and access
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by bo1024 3y ago
This is very interesting, but I really want to hear about the training data process!
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by bo1024 3y ago
Of course any estimates that scientists make are "made up". But estimating the number of unseen species is a very old problem in statistics with a lot of rigorous research, including an important approach by Alan Turing. https:&#
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by bo1024 3y ago
> Today society shares based on your work contribution and it is our sharing that must evolve when less and less work needs to be done. Strong agree!
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by bo1024 3y ago
All of the examples you gave are lottery-ticket professions, though. And even if a large number of people could be successful entertainers, I'm not even sure about the premise. AI-generated media could compete with YouTubers very soon.
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by bo1024 3y ago
YouTuber is a lottery-ticket profession. It's a winner-take-all, heavy-tailed distribution. It doesn't make sense to tell a whole population to buy lottery tickets. For kids, it's a modern equivalent of "I want to be in
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by bo1024 3y ago
Nothing wrong with asking the question. There might not be any practical applications in those fields, and it could still be a worthwhile, interesting, fun question. But in this case, I'd bet that developing the math needed to solve it
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by bo1024 3y ago
I wonder if they really thought this would set a precedent that benefited them.
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by bo1024 3y ago
That's one of the origins for sure.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Interesting, so you might be saying that you think the individual quality at a given school varies a lot more than the difference in average quality from school to school?
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by bo1024 3y ago
The patent office subscribes to the same AI service as the inventors do.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Ok, but your reputation among employers may go down and that will hurt all of your future students.
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by bo1024 3y ago
This comment is not historically accurate with respect to universities. Universities originated as places of research and scholarship (there are also theological roots). Joy of learning and enlightenment are deep in their roots (so deep we
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by bo1024 3y ago
“Or I’m wrong, I just don’t know how. I guess when someone’s wrong, they never know how.” -The Big Short, more or less
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by bo1024 3y ago
I think programmers and technical people are mare likely to think the rules are defined by whatever is written down in the rule book, as opposed to the rules being living practices of a group of people that are summarized in the rule book.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Consolidation, or interoperability. Somehow any radio station can play any song they want (or seemingly any), for a standardized set of fees. And there is plenty of competition among radio stations. Couldn't we get the same setup for o
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by bo1024 3y ago
"You shoot a basketball for the first time -- you miss. The second time, you are more likely to score." A common phrasing. It doesn't mean that scoring is more likely than missing, it means the second time is more likely than
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by bo1024 3y ago
My first interpretation of "more likely" was also "more likely than the previous ball". It makes more sense in the context of the previous sentence. For example: > The first time you shoot a basketball, you will almos
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by bo1024 3y ago
I'm sure it depends on the situation, but I doubt for example that you could legally copy 50 pages of problems out of one book and sell them in another book verbatim.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Strong agree on (1). I don't mind the copyright violation personally, but as an academic who develops these types of problems, attribution would be the polite thing to do.
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by bo1024 3y ago
In some formats, the question is easy. If the CDF is F(x), then the CDF of the maximum of n independent draws is G(x) = F(x)^n. This is because the probability that the max is less than x is the product of the probabilities that each is les
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by bo1024 3y ago
Yeah, it would have helped me if they walked through what it actually means to "use" Willow. Do I install something like Dropbox on my computer? Do I write code that calls Willow as a library?
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by bo1024 3y ago
Another important meaning of the phrase is "we searched for evidence of X and failed to find it". In other words, we failed to reject the null. I think Scott means to wrap that up in the second bullet point ('we have evidence
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by bo1024 3y ago
Yeah, this is why Rivian never enabled tank turn.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Phone and Chromebook. Kids through highschool might never see anything else. Assignments are in google drive, etc.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Thanks.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Thanks, this finally clarifies for me what the article was actually doing! And it's very different from what I expected, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I guess if statisticians already believe your model, then they want
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by bo1024 3y ago
I don't normally use that term, but someone else in reply to me did, and it captures what I wanted to say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_interval

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