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by ckcheng 12y ago
Maybe it's an ingroup vs outgroup thing. Living in an area in Canada with a large population of engineers (in oil and gas), I meet a lot of people who are touchy about who gets to be called an "engineer". They seem to forget
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David Naylor: Why universities shouldn’t change to suit industry needs(business.financialpost.com)
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by ckcheng 14y ago
Perhaps votes should be weighted by the length of the submitted post. So, e.g., votes on short submissions are worth less than votes on full essays. Length of the post can be gamed, but I guess when that happens some form of information t
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by ckcheng 15y ago
E.g. "Police link 25 deaths and counting from tainted Canadian ecstasy" http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/can... "12th death linked to tainted ecstasy in Alberta, B.C." http://www.vancouversun.com/12th+death+linked
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by ckcheng 15y ago
"杨宗纬" is probably "Aska Yang", a Taiwanese Mandopop singer. So the original might read: "I was listening to [Aska Yang] with my amazing..." Not sure how that is a placeholder though.
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by ckcheng 15y ago
As I recall, Rob Hall was a mountain guide leading a team. He died, doing his job, staying with a team member who was in trouble to try to help.
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by ckcheng 16y ago
WSJ article seems to be talking about offshore R&D work, not necessarily outsourced R&D work. 787 Dreamliner problems seems to be due to outsourcing to contractors and subcontractors (combined with offshoring): http://articles.lat
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by ckcheng 16y ago
Do you have any links, references on this?? Specific to Canada - and Alberta - would be nice. :) I'm trying to find more info on this, and can't find any relevant info on Google...
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by ckcheng 16y ago
> books were sold by subscription, with sections serialized and delivered periodically Isn't that like what Manning does with its MEAP (early access program)? http://www.manning.com/
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by ckcheng 16y ago
How about considering Clojure's style of using recur to support self-tail-call optimization using explicit syntax?
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by ckcheng 16y ago
SVMs may make a lot of intuitive sense due to the intuitive nature of the max-margin method of building a classifier, but that doesn't make them "much, much better" than a neural network. Neural networks are "universal" function approximato
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by ckcheng 16y ago
As soon as I get Facebook email, I can unify it all in Thunderbird!
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by ckcheng 16y ago
Not the same thing, but similar?, from 1983: "A natural language query system for a prolog database" (Hadley) http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/7254 Not general code generation I suppose, but there's been quite some work on natural languag