bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Even in free-tuition countries, there are caps on the number of students admitted to various study programs under state subsidy. The government can incentivize more productive degrees by allocating more spaces to them.
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
> Is she going to be in debt for her whole life? No, but she's probably going to pay way more taxes for everything, including income tax, VAT, taxes on petrol, electricity and will earn less. People who complain about it are concent
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
It's expensive because people can pay for it and we know they can because they do. All this talk about debt is mostly a non issue in real life but generates a lot of heat online. American jobs pay vastly more than any other country on
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
A lot of the cost of American college doesn't go towards education but things like sports stadiums and teams, various non-academic events, administrators, various other non-academic staff, uniquely-expensive American legal costs and in
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
But that's theoretical, the point is more how current games actually look, not what people could make potentially with today's tech. Also, some games are intentionally cartoonish as an artistic choice so photorealism isn't
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Not sure. It's hard to analyze as it's more of a visceral impression. It could be in part the way natural environments tend to structure themselves over time, like how we throw our stuff around in natural ways. But also, the desig
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Looks real. The dirt on the computer, the curls of the books and magazines and many other small details look very real. If this is CGI, then I'm impressed and want to see more from where this came from.
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Extremely confusingly the Ti stands/stood for titan as well, while at the same time Nvidia also released cards with the name "Titan", like the Titan X, Titan Xp, Titan V, Titan RTX etc. When people say "the titans"
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
With a caveat: the real images should not be cherry picked to look as close to cgi as possible but the other way around. Real and render can look indistinguishable that way too, but we want real looking cgi, not carefully arranged cgi-looki
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Game graphics look sterile, too clean, sharp, plasticky. The real world is messier with less clear separation between objects, things blend together more, subtle shadows, surfaces are less uniform, there is more clutter, dirt, wrinkles, det
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Presumably you're not a native English speaker. "will" here does not refer to the future, this is a subtle grammatical thing that I can't explain well, but it refers to presently existing games.
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Can you elaborate? As an experienced numpy user, I don't really have an intuitive feel for what you describe. Numpy isn't really math it's mostly an array library for splitting, merging, reshaping arrays, swapping dimensions
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Looking through the topics, a useful addition would be SVMs.
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
What would you categorize as shiny in this case? "spam detection, image labeling, event parsing, text classification" can be implemented in lots of ways, simple and shiny as well. Either way I don't think it matters too much
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
> because of silly management decisions? The whole point is, from their point of view those decisions are rational. It's much more lucrative from their (managers') personal point of view to develop a smokes-and-mirrors looks-go
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
And? It's not illegal for a company to calibrate its business model to improve the bottom line. On the contrary in many cases they are legally forced to. Obviously while respecting other laws.
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Not just "your" (customer's) speech but anyone else you're talking with. Piece by piece we are accepting more and more of this kind of invasion of privacy. Also how is this ompatibe with laws where both parties must cons
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
> Your lede and finish are somewhat contradictory, don't you think? English can't both lack nuance and expressiveness, and be difficult to translate because of the nuance and expressivity! Depends on what "nuance" exa
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
The illusion that we are supposed to uphold is that brilliance and serendipity can be planned for, can be scheduled and made into an academic program. Actually research and scientific discovery should never be the job of someone. It should
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Good keywords to search for are "topic" and "focus" and "topic-prominent languages". Basically word order reflects the informational structure of the sentence, as opposed to grammatical structure. So what was k
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
> Concretely, even if you don't know what the answer is going to be at the end of your research, you must think about, or have an idea about, the format of what that amazing answer is going to be. Write the outline of your thesis an
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Since everyone knows this is corporate bullshit speak, I wonder if the actual function of these words is to signal that you're so high status that you can get away with not saying anything of substance. That you don't need to get
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
It has become a buzzword. Sprinkle it in your text (along with "experiences", "embrace", "diverse", "engagement" etc.) and your text will be hard to argue against. Words are weapons. Just like you hav
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
That style has its uses for sure. For example if you want to impress people or signal belonging to certain groups. It's also risky to state something in a crystal clear way, because you can be disproved and your status is diminished. A
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
While obviously everyone's native tongue seems the most expressive to them, I can't shake off the feeling that written (and often even spoken) English is just lacking a lot of the nuance and expressiveness of other languages. It&#
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Why is bad writing so common, though? I think this needs further exploration. What are the incentives of the different actors? TL;DR CYA Clearly, the reader just wants to get the information that is relevant for them personally, with the le
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
The page has many useful tips on how to avoid writing in a bureaucratic, distant, formal, long-winded style. I see lots of text daily that fit the antipatterns mentioned in the article. Sometimes the writer doesn't know better. Sometim
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Also, this doesn't mean we were always just let loose. The "teachers"/"nurses" (not sure of the word) taught us a great deal of stuff, like different tree types and bird species etc. We'd have a poster wit
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
The auto-reflow of HTML often puts things to weird places. I'm sure it can be done properly as well, but auto-converting a PDF or LaTeX document to HTML results in crappy layout. I always download the PDF when given the option, because
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by bonoboTP 6y ago
Everybody is ignorant, but smart, attentive people are expensive and are not rewarded. Managers get up the ladder by scheming and appearances and alliances, devs are rewarded for padding their CVs, project managers rewarded for introducing

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