buitreVirtual

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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
It should come with an epilepsia warning.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
The context of this rant by now is academic problems, not your attempts to distract from them.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
It's not so much about the area, although some areas lend themselves to more abuse. Obviously humanities are important. The problem is the bad incentive system and the irrelevance of the resulting research.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Stop pretending this is about some kids. I'm talking about the system and culture today. A lot of academic research is broken and you can't pretend you don't see it. The main goal is to maximize metrics. Just look at many aut
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Not at all. I'm just being realistic.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Actually, I've been there and done that. There is a huge difference between the relevance of the problems people are officially targeting and the actual substance and relevance of the research being done. I've seen first-hand that
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Highlighting the cost of opportunity of hiring these students doesn't make the irrelevance problem of a lot of modern research any better. I'd rather teach students to work on practical or fundamental problems and change the incen
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Yes, they learn, and others might appreciate reading the papers too. But I'd rather steer creative students to solve real-world problems or build serious science, and they will learn more about what matters.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
As a matter of fact, I am. It's not one or the other, it's both. It's a moral obligation to point out wrong wherever it is. Criticism of government waste shouldn't be taken as an argument against government, like some op
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
These papers would be funny if you didn't stop to think of all the tax dollars being wasted on all of this.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Actually, companies pay universities to conduct fake research that "shows" that their products work.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
While articles like this are just driven by hype and a lack of understanding, we know that a human can code spectacularly well, so in theory this same ability could be achieved or even surpassed by a true AI. I say "true AI" to di
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
Collusion is one of two major problems with modern research in CS. The other one, perhaps even bigger, is its lack of substance and relevance. Most research is meant to fill out resumes with long lists of papers on impressive-sounding venue
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
It's primarily for show, with a tiny chance that it will somehow get backing from the current SCOTUS.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
With proper backups outside the reach of most personnel, and requiring multiple signatories to delete them, a bad actor is not enough to bring the business down.
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by buitreVirtual 5y ago
I'm not so sure. Some banks and airlines might still be running those machines.
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
> I use facebook primarily as a news aggregator nowadays. Isn't this how people end up trapped in alternative-facts bubbles?
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
Responsible news networks would refuse to relay seditious talk. Would be constrained to his media bubble.
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
Why hasn't Google taken G suite seriously already? The only gem is Gmail. The rest feels like toys (i.e. 20% projects).
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
A colleague recently discovered by chance that his goat cheese vendor at the farmers market in his local town is, or was, a zfs developer.
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
Ideally, all that saved money would be used to help addicts. But in practice, it would just be used on new tax cuts.
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by buitreVirtual 6y ago
The doctors said he actually had a 50% or better chance of recovery.
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by buitreVirtual 7y ago
At least in the market a junk product doesn't survive despite being first to market. The product needs to be good or at least inspire others to be regarded as a real contribution. This additional requirement is what's missing from
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by buitreVirtual 8y ago
Indeed. Writing software is akin to drawing the design of the elevator, not building an individual copy of the elevator. Each elevator is equivalent to one instance of the software deployed to run in one place. The same design/code is
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by buitreVirtual 9y ago
Which highlights how important it is to invest in making computing more approachable for the masses. It's how we democratize tech today.
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by buitreVirtual 9y ago
Maybe it's not a realistic goal today, but computer literacy needs to be in everyone's mind today.