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by currymj 9y ago
i think a shift from tenured chairs to lots of low-paid, precarious adjuncts can be identified with a broader rise of neoliberal, corporate attitudes in the university. that and evaluating professors solely based on how much money they brin
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by currymj 9y ago
for science reporting, pretty much everything by Quanta Magazine is good. the financial times has a reputation for not being awful because you can't trade on bullshit, but who knows? I can't actually evaluate.
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by currymj 9y ago
it's a good thing in the short term, but it also feels like an exercise of monopoly power by Amazon, which is going to be bad for consumers in the long run. can a business afford not to be listed on Amazon? in the long term, does Amazo
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by currymj 9y ago
maybe not a hello world, but even very rudimentary 20 LoC contracts for, say, keeping account balances can have reentrancy vulnerabilities when written in the obvious way. so your customer could just give themselves an infinite balance. i d
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by currymj 9y ago
I mean, it was a "modest proposal" type of suggestion. There are a lot of researchers who have a limited knowledge of statistics and who basically treat the p-value as a magic number. I don't have any sort of philosophical pr
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by currymj 9y ago
yeah, people do this all the time, to a greater or lesser extent! referencing past or future agreements, agreements between other parties, the prime interest rate published in the WSJ, etc. the difference is, if someone does something reall
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by currymj 9y ago
it's pretty hard to write even a simple smart contract that doesn't have horrible vulnerabilities. far harder, I would say, than writing C code that can't be buffer-overflowed on an old system with no protections in place. an
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by currymj 9y ago
further down, the author in question says he supports sci-hub and is happy to see it linked so that more people can read his work. he was just surprised that someone would post a link so blatantly to a pirate site. on the other hand, he say
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by currymj 9y ago
if Nano is an adjective though then it might be like the classic "Attorney General"/"Attorneys General".
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by currymj 9y ago
is that number supposed to be low or high? in the US $120k is a reasonable (mid-range) salary for a new college graduate in Silicon Valley, Seattle, or New York at one of the big 5 tech firms. It's comparable at financial institutions.
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by currymj 9y ago
if i were the King of All Science and were feeling despotic, I would do the opposite, I think -- put a moratorium for a few years on any publication of a p-value. Scientists would still be free to make use of hypothesis testing to guide the
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by currymj 9y ago
What do devs get paid in London on average? I always had the impression, perhaps wrong, that software engineers seem underpaid in England relative to the US, even accounting for currency and cost of living and such (which, probably London i
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by currymj 9y ago
However, there definitely are analogies! E.g. early work in convnets was inspired by the architecture of cat brains. I think the fields have useful things to say to each other, but we're getting over a (maybe justified) taboo in talkin
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by currymj 9y ago
Things have gotten much more mature in the past few years. Check out edwardlib.org which is adapting Tensorflow to support probabilistic modeling (with a heavy focus on variational inference, less so on MCMC methods). If you’ve got trillion
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by currymj 9y ago
There’s the technical aspects of the fact that every language has to have some notion of “type”. And seemingly interpreted languages might be JIT-compiled etc. This is of interest if you care about the implementation of languages. Then ther
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by currymj 9y ago
that is more or less the PLoS One or Scientific Reports model, right? you pay the fee, it gets peer reviewed for correctness but not impact, and then published open access.
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by currymj 9y ago
I am really stoked to see Tango on here. I maintain that literate programming is actually a good idea. The nice thing about Tango is you can work either on the code file or the markdown file and it will automatically synchronize them, and i
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by currymj 9y ago
There's Redox, which is progressing nicely, already boots in a VM and on some real hardware, and has a GUI and networking, and is intended to be a real general purpose OS someday. There's also intermezzOS, which is a (still being
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by currymj 9y ago
Mathematica costs money but basically does this. There’s a time limited trial and a cheaper home edition. Of course, it’s closed source. But there’s literally just a function Classify, where you hand it pairs of examples and it spits out a
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by currymj 9y ago
Since neural nets are winning at the moment, it's easy to see SVMs as an underdog, being ignored due to deep learning hype and PR. This is kind of true, but it's worth noting that 10-15 years ago we had the exact opposite situatio
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by currymj 9y ago
Anecdotally, it seems to me that it's increasingly common to see Python as the language of choice in greenfield projects. I've seen this in organizations -- scientific, academic, industrial -- that aren't primarily software-o
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by currymj 9y ago
I don't agree with this at all! More or less every mainstream language has adopted first-class functions to the extent that they can. JS has always had them. C++, C#, Java have all added them; Python and Ruby have had them for a while
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by currymj 10y ago
grant actual shares of restricted stock (as opposed to options) and then pay dividends?
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by currymj 11y ago
You can still get a lot out of DNA today. There have already been murderers apprehended because their family members agreed to undergo DNA testing even though they didn't. IIRC it's possible in many cases to go from anonymous geno