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by cafebeen 11y ago
I think there are two challenges here. First, opting out of major publication venues is essentially sacrificing your career (no funding/tenure). Second, researchers simply don't have free time to start up an alternative publicat
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It's entirely possible for biometrics to spoofed. For example, folks have already figured out how to trick deep neural nets: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1897 Not to mention bio-engineering possibilities on the hori
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It seems relevant to start talking about approximation algorithms as the next step after proving a "1000 year" runtime for exactly comparing genomes. My understanding is that comp bio folks typically use heuristics anyway.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
To be fair, the idea of correctness (in the optimization sense) is based on simplifying assumptions. For example, using the edit distance to compare genomes makes an assumption that insertions, deletions, and substitutions "cost"
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by cafebeen 11y ago
There is plenty of work being done on approximation algorithms, for good reason. If you're dealing with scientific data that's subject to measurement noise, it's valuable to research whether that 0.1% difference actually mat
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Reminds of the idea of the hedonic treadmill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by cafebeen 11y ago
I think the standard solution to that problem is to make food ahead of time (maybe large batches) and then pack a lunchbox?
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by cafebeen 11y ago
An article by Bill Gates about dropping out: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/11-Million-College-Grads "Although I dropped out of college and got lucky pursuing a career in software, getting a degree is a much
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It doesn't seem surprising these kids are doing well--they're already top students, money's no worry, and they're hooked into the a successful social network. However, these ~100 examples don't characterize colle
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It seems unclear if Uber is hiring them as engineers or building an industrial research lab. The latter case could mean they'd still publish their work and contribute to the community (reviewing, conferences, advising, etc). It&#x27
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Some reading on the topic if you're curious (or dubious): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects
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by cafebeen 11y ago
No doubt they've done great things, but the wealth gap still exists and has potential to cause social/economic/political problems.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek response to "What exactly is the issue with wealth?". I don't think there's anything wrong with making some money, but the magnitude of the wealth gap is clearly a serious problem (and evid
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by cafebeen 11y ago
In case you didn't get the memo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Reminds me of the Higgs boson announcement, which was surprisingly delivered in comic sans: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/4/3136652/cern-scientists-com... I suppose the context kept the font choice from
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to say that seatbelt tickets lead to tyranny--driving's mostly a privilege not a right. Seatbelts can affect other people due to an inability to control the vehicle after a collision, more likely use of em
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by cafebeen 11y ago
So AI has been solved, eh?
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by cafebeen 11y ago
My point was that many things are normally distributed (likely due to the CLT) and the square error is the right choice in those cases. This is an empirical thing as well, in that measurement noise is often Gaussian.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
A nice and interesting article, but describing the squared error as "merely convenient" is a bit misleading, given that most noise is Gaussian, due to the central limit theorem.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
This seems more like a list of edge cases for things that normally work pretty well. Why not change the things that contribute to war, overpopulation, disease, etc?
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Yep, shouldn't be hard. There's pretty fine grained control over what gets loaded and when.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Care to elaborate? The study design seemed pretty good from the abstract--longitudinal looking at changes in scores of specific students.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Definitely worth trying--I've used it for the same purpose, and the only performance issue has been a slow startup time (several seconds to load standard libraries).
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by cafebeen 11y ago
These things take time and money to build and maintain though, and there's very little of that to go around unfortunately.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Perhaps the most important point from the article: "Statistical research largely focuses on mathematical statistics, to the exclusion of the behaviour and processes involved in data analysis" If there's a major problem in dat
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Depending on happiness from a job doesn't actually seem healthy. I don't know your situation, but maybe there's some way to improve life outside work, e.g. social circle, hobbies, fitness, mental health.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
There are also computer scientists who study how humans use computers, e.g. HCI, which often includes hypotheses, experiments, etc. There is certainly a subset that only cares about proofs, though.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
The statistical way of approaching this problem is to sample from a Von-Mises Fisher distribution with k=0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises%E2%80%93Fisher_distr...
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by cafebeen 11y ago
"If psychiatry aspires to be scientific, on a par with other branches of medicine, how can it be content with this peculiar practice of delineating the outlines of a disease by a drug treatment?" Sigh, there is plenty of scientifi
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by cafebeen 11y ago
To be fair, most papers include abstracts that try to give that "simplest explanation possible". Though, as others have pointed out, these papers are meant for communication between researchers and not general consumption. I do t

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