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by drpgq 10y ago
The company I work for is around 100 people, but the few postings I have seen that are negative and descriptive are on the mark. Maybe Tolstoy was right about unhappy companies as well.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Maybe there needs to be some form of a blank screen for ageism as for hiring for orchestras. Probably pretty hard to implement.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Maybe that effect was more due to really low interest rates?
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by drpgq 10y ago
I wonder if those real numbers were based on a 40 hour week.
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by drpgq 10y ago
I'm amazed that there is a flight delay lawyer.
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by drpgq 10y ago
"An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Canadians work in the U.S. under an exemption granted under NAFTA, known as the TN visa." I'm surprised that that number isn't higher.
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To help solve a homicide, police are texting 7,500 cellphones to find witnesses(news.nationalpost.com)
2 points by drpgq 10y ago|0 comments
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by drpgq 10y ago
Psychometrics? Although the results aren't always politically correct like some of the priming ones.
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by drpgq 10y ago
You kind of wonder whether we will end up with FoxNewsBook eventually.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Isn't intrinsic ability just g in the end?
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by drpgq 10y ago
Bayes and discrimination law doesn't seem like good partners.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Pattern recognition has been getting results for decades now on various problems and for some of those problems deep learning doesn't help that much.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Are trust and friendliness really related?
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by drpgq 10y ago
Amount of GDP versus medals would be interesting as well.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Well it's an arms race.
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Facebook will force advertising on ad-blocking users(wsj.com)
241 points by drpgq 10y ago|449 comments
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by drpgq 10y ago
As a research scientist at a face recognition company, Watson doesn't strike me as particularly powerful or rare. As mentioned in one of the other comments, IBM PR is pretty impressive though.
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Funny or Die Cuts 37 Jobs, Shuts Down Silicon Valley Office(variety.com)
2 points by drpgq 10y ago|0 comments
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by drpgq 10y ago
Well that's an arms race.
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I am still single: How one man swiped right 200K women on Tinder with 0 success(news.nationalpost.com)
3 points by drpgq 10y ago|2 comments
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by drpgq 10y ago
I'm guessing no data on pygmies. Probably no pygmy army conscription.
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by drpgq 10y ago
I think one obvious factor is immigration from shorter on average countries like Mexico and Central America.
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by drpgq 10y ago
What taxes do they pay if they sell? Most of them I'm assuming will have one spouse listed as the owner and there's no capital gains taxes on principal residences in Canada.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Yeah if they really wanted to solve the problem, they would increase property taxes and decrease income taxes like with the carbon tax.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Is Japan especially lonely compared to other advanced nations?
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by drpgq 10y ago
Sexual dimorphism is also important for sexual attractiveness.
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by drpgq 10y ago
Pearson airport in Toronto has a pretty fast moving walkway. Although in its history it was amazing how often it wasn't working. Like when I flew in last Wednesday.
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As Airbnb Grows, So Do Claims of Discrimination(nytimes.com)
2 points by drpgq 10y ago|1 comments
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by drpgq 10y ago
It isn't like Canadian tech salaries are that great compared to US one already. Tech employers are the same all over.
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Ottawa vows to cut wait times for foreign workers joining tech firms(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by drpgq 10y ago|2 comments

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