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by bsoles 2y ago
I had an engineer friend in an eastern European country who had a contract with their army to build automated equipment to dismantle artillery shells from WWI still in stock at their armories. So, yeah, we still haven't cleaned up from
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I have closed all of my Stack Exchange accounts (including Stack Overflow) after the Monica event and after a number of contributors that I liked left the platform. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/f
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by bsoles 2y ago
> the business community, which, having been sold to the idea that computers would make life easier, is mentally unprepared to accept that they only solve the easier problems at the price of creating much harder ones. So true today in th
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I find that people most eager to give unsolicited advice are people who are least equipped to give good advice. And people who need good advice the most are people who are least equipped to receive it. And it turns out that the same person
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But I wouldn't call a toaster running code an example of software crisis. Call it business crisis or crisis of capitalism/consumerism, but it is not software crisis. I agree wholeheartedly that an internet connected toaster is a v
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Complex things (life/political systems/software) cannot be built based on a manifesto or commandments. See where Christianity and communism got us. When you reduce complexity into simple but interpretable phrases, we always open d
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This seems like a good example of Gell-Mann amnesia as it applies to LLMs instead of journalism. People are falling into the same trap of accepting authoritative sounding advice as true in an area they are not experts in.
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The problem with paywalls is that every organization wants your money separately. I don't want to create a separate account with NY Times, YouTube TV, The Guardian, Atlantic, Bloomberg, etc. and pay for each service separately. In part
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The second-hand embarrassment I had watching that video was unbearable. Social media did a number on those scientists with "big personalities". It is one thing that influencers and grifters get a platform on social media. But it i
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Once they start giving TED talks and such, they are not researchers anymore. They are highly-educated influencers who want to stay in the limelight. And this brings its own set of bad incentives, staying "prolific" and eventually
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by bsoles 3y ago
I am currently reading your article with great interest as I am about to embark on implementing time series anomaly detection algorithm(s) for predictive maintenance applications. I would like to avoid unnecessarily complex algorithms that
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Current Time Series Anomaly Detection Benchmarks Are Flawed(arxiv.org)
2 points by bsoles 3y ago|5 comments
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This article is consistent with my recent experience with academics being in a frenzy to produce papers riding the AI/ML hype, yet producing bunch of practically useless papers. The following quote from the article is striking: "Q