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by djaque 6y ago
Wow, that's the perfect XKCD for my work right now. I'm integrating ML into my very traditional field of science and it seems like the most fitting place is on the "boring" problems.
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I am going to guess that the police or media outlets chose the most nefarious looking photo they could find. They have that type of power to drive a narrative. It's the same type of bias as when the mugshots of criminal police officer
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by djaque 6y ago
This is the info I was looking for. Julia is such an awesome language, but I can't use it due to latency. As soon as this gets fixed I would switch over all of my data analysis in a heartbeat.
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I am really concerned about November with the current administration pushing a narrative of voter fraud. Now they've appointed a partisan postmaster general which I haven't heard of being done before.
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I sincerely hope that with all of the well documented instances of police abuse and lack of accountability in the last few months that people in the US are starting to wake up to the problem. Additional scrutiny from journalists like this
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I have to disagree with you that the piece brushes over the firing. The author makes it a point to say that Shor's firing is pretty universally thought of as unjust. They also bring up an open letter written by proponents of cancel cu
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by djaque 6y ago
The MIT flea is awesome and I've met him a few times. Definitely visit if you get the chance.
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The article is put in the context of the US reopening schools, but there's nothing comparable about the two situations. As far as I can tell, European countries have orders of magnitude fewer cases per million people than the US [1].
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by djaque 6y ago
Did you jump out of a PhD? I'm going into my fourth year now and just feel like I'm stagnating and not being challenged in my lab anymore. I've been thinking about the quote "If you're the smartest guy in the room
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by djaque 6y ago
Absolutely agree with you. Sometimes your unorthodox opinion just sucks. Also, was anybody else bracing themselves for what "unorthodox" was code for while reading? I think I'm so used to seeing this argument used in an at
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> Stripped of context, it is obviously true, and utterly harmless. You can't strip phrases like that of context. "All lives matter" isn't just a statement, it is a direct response to black lives matter (too). Anybody
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by djaque 6y ago
I've always used clear nailpolish as a hacky version of conformal coating.
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I think it depends where you hang out on HN. I also think it is civil for the most part, but there are a few threads I have been apart of where I was shocked at the racist, homophobic, sexist comments coming in. They did get downvoted pre
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> It's not a AI bias problem, it's a dataset problem I would argue that it's beside the point. The argument is that the ML systems we generate now and are looking to use for real world systems have biases in them. For e
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by djaque 6y ago
The article highlights dataset biases that reinforce existing biases in society. It becomes a problem when ML affects the real world. See e.g. predictive policing [1]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/889xy
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by djaque 6y ago
It sounds like you are saying that some people choose to be gay when they are younger and then let it become so much a part of themselves that they can not change it later in life I was ten or eleven when I first noticed that I was attracte
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by djaque 6y ago
WRT the comment on whether being gay is a choice: I am gay and I spent a solid decade of my life hating myself for it. I am talking about hating myself to the point of considering suicide. When I was younger I tried to force myself to bec
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by djaque 6y ago
Reading through the list of top news stories on Facebook scared me. It is clear that news can't be chosen based on engagement and that Facebook can't change. Related: Wikipedia's current events portal [1] acts like a user so
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That is a good point, because the way I was taught it is that ferromagnetism is one of the few purely quantum mechanical phenomena we see in everyday life. However, people don't really refer to it as "quantum matter". I thi
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> One could retort to the original title saying all matter is, in fact, "quantum". Quantum matter has a specific meaning in condensed matter physics. It's anything where you can't approximate the system's behavi
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by djaque 6y ago
Most of the public is only familiar with colliders like the large hadron collider at CERN. However, most accelerators are much more common/practical than what is going on there. In terms of research impact, accelerators are our most p
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by djaque 6y ago
I research particle accelerators. Even over just the past five years that I have been attending international conferences, there has been a broad feeling that the US is no longer the best place in the world for what I study. In particular,
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I went to a protest in my town and there wasn't an unmasked person in sight. I think that if you showed up without one, you would get called out and asked to leave.
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Came here to comment the same. I have memories of spending nights just reading it as a teen. IIRC, there is some conspiracy theory stuff on it, but there's so much interesting content. I think the guy is an exhibit designer at the Bo
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It is a matter of economics. Even at $20 per liter, that research group only pays $8k per year. It would be hard for them to justify dropping $100k on a liquifier to their funding agencies. Doing that would bump up the amount of money th
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To add on, another promising technique is ultrafast electron diffraction (UED). You can get atomic space and time resolution (sub-angstrom and 100 fs) already. It's just a matter of scaling up beam quality to the point we can study c
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by djaque 6y ago
Not an astronomer, but it looks like the Herschel Space Observatory was in the THz gap [1]. Interestingly, the limit to its lifetime was how much liquid Helium they could keep onboard to cool their detector. [1] https://en.m.wik
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by djaque 6y ago
"Police brutality supercut videos go viral" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/style/police-protests-vid...
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I've mostly avoided the really bad platforms like Facebook and Twitter, but I caved and started going on some of them for the past week. They are so awful. It feels like they were built from the ground up to discourage thoughtful conv
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by djaque 6y ago
Same, I fortunately just saw a senator pledge that he will end the federal 1033 program which provides military weapons to local police departments. That was one of their points.

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