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by dfraser992 6y ago
Were they "real" M.Sc degrees or "conversion course" M.Sc degrees (the equivalent of an expensive boot camp with a official piece of paper at the end)? I'm part time staff at a UK university which offers a 'con
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I'd upvote you if I could... I think maybe one has to be old enough (I'm GenX) to see how this 'wokeness' is in part a cover story for some sort of authoritarianism coming from the left. i.e. the "Soviet Union&quot
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Not cool, Hacker News is not a jobs board, but I guess you did not know that. Hopefully there will not be a flood of posts like this. There is a topic that occurs every first of the month titled "Looking for work?" (or similar). Y
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by dfraser992 6y ago
From the conclusion: "Our findings from this large, prospective study of British adults show that meat consumption is associated with higher risks of several common conditions but a lower risk of IDA. The higher risks are at least part
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by dfraser992 6y ago
For some reason, Myers-Briggs has gotten all of the publicity (all those high priced management consultants, I guess). I have found the Enneagram [0] to be just as useful (all the controversy about accuracy aside). It is a different flavor
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I don't know how much this will help...it is a bit free form (need some coffee). After 30 years as a dev/QA/tech lead, I went back to school to get a MSc in data science/ML/AI. I was sick of development work and nee
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Here is a repo of options for freelance technical writing: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms In the process of doing this type of work, you surely will learn new things and probably will help you fig
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by dfraser992 6y ago
"Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared" I did not read TFA because I know I'd just be ticked off - the hoopla and sloppy reporting around GME tr
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I have some amount of sympathy for 'conservatives' now after reading through the lazy and careless reporting about GME. Lots of articles simplifying what is going on, trying to shove it into a 'common sense' or 'con
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by dfraser992 6y ago
How did Trump persuade a mob to attack Congress and interrupt the official certification process? He only said stuff like 'fight like hell' and 'the election was stolen', but no direct orders... Manipulate people'
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by dfraser992 6y ago
"not a financial advisor" is, practically speaking, much like SWIM (Someone Whom I Met) back in the early days of the Net when talking about drugs was 'likely' to get the police involved if you used your real name etc et
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by dfraser992 6y ago
"Corporate publications are more trustworthy..."? My brief exposure to that arena would lead me to disagree strongly (but I am an engineer and not in marketing). Everything in my experience has to be vetted by multiple layers of
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I had to deal with this sort of thing once while I was living in London. A letter was sent around, I guess up and down the street of flats (I don't know how far) which explained they were planning to have a blowout party for some signi
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Hi, I forget what the exact cause was, but awhile back, I noticed that for The Guardian in Bing, the description blurb started out with "The Guardian, a far left wingnut rag..." - I told them about it and they had this recurring p
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by dfraser992 6y ago
You can tell HN is full of engineers - all discussing the difference between weighing and measuring, the utility of using DL for this.... but no discussion of the end product. Well, I made this the other day. I measured, so probably didn&
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Thanks - I thought it was a clear explanation of the basic forces/processes driving things, at least the financial aspects. Now I can see how to fit in the information (accurate? I don't know) that someone else on HN said - that o
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I have been paying attention to r/wallstreetbets for the past few weeks - I don't have the source handy (it was on WallStreetBets), but there are reputable big name funds / companies who are long on GME. Other big name compan
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I am old enough to remember when the WoSD really kicked off (i.e. crack cocaine) and that has been shown to be a bunch of bollocks aka propaganda. You are right in that reducing the causes of the WoSD to easily understood simplistic theorie
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I will certainly be taking a good look at this! My pandemic project was building a system that processes raw text documents into different sets of features (BOW, sentiment, etc) and I ended up developing a generic library for easily process
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by dfraser992 6y ago
> "more effectively identify fake Amazon reviews while Amazon (with presumably better data) fails so miserably." ... Doing so is Fakespot's raison d'etre, but an unimportant side gig for Amazon. I did my MSc thesis on
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I know this is anecdata and I have no proof, but when I was in SF 20 or so years ago, I knew a videographer. One of his contracts was doing video work for the Libertarian party, filming meetings, etc. He told me, in some meeting of the uppe
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I did my MSc these in ML on classifying fake reviews, using the text for features. So I know something of the field and how non-text features (like the age of an account and the rating etc) can be used. The details of Yelp's algorithm
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Exactly. If the "authorities" had any integrity, they'd be following the "process" and that would give them at least a fig leaf of legitimacy. Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but looking at these growing
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by dfraser992 6y ago
And that's the video were the whole incident seems suspicious - see my comment. An undercover op would logically have equipment for stirring up trouble / doing damage if part of his remit was to be a "fifth columnist".
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Reddit was all over that video the other day. The general consensus was that it looked more like an extraction of an undercover operative (dressed all in black! with only the eyes visible!). That seems plausible to me because of how coopera
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by dfraser992 6y ago
Off topic: I was trying to see the comments for this link - there are 258 of them apparently - but all I can see, in multiple browsers, is 1 comment from "flak48". No other HN topics are behaving like this.
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by dfraser992 6y ago
About 15 years ago, I was in a bookstore in Palo Alto and, while browsing, picked up a book on depression and antidepressants. What it was about, or at least a chapter, was linking antidepressants and the areas of the brain they were known
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by dfraser992 6y ago
I am rebuilding the "framework" I wrote for doing my MSc dissertation on the classification of fake reviews. Now that I have the time, the code is far better organized and the higher level structure pretty clean in that I can copy
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by dfraser992 7y ago
Zuckerberg's major in college was psychology, not CS. A Skinner Box [1] is Psych 101 - I am certain Mark knew exactly what he was building. And how is the like button nothing but building on the theory of social psychology? Facebook, I
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by dfraser992 7y ago
My deepest sympathies - that is quite a lot to go through in just one year. I have had my own battles with mental health issues, but never so concentrated (just protracted). Like others, I really think you need to find a therapist first. As

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