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by fatjokes 8y ago
Pretty sure at the current rate star ML researchers are paid, a million for Tang would be low-balling him.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
> visuospatially-gifted This is such a great term. I never thought about it before or how it could relate to our definitions of intelligence and ability in science/tech. So many generic tests for intelligence that perhaps there shou
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by fatjokes 8y ago
They rigged it against Canada? Can Canadians file a class-action lawsuit?
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by fatjokes 8y ago
I'm sure this rebuttal will get as much coverage as the original headline. "Confidence intervals"? "Misclassification rates"? Get out of here with your science-talk, nerd! Sadly, these days I see too many ML practit
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Academia is not the same as industry, so total comp is not comparable. Tenure, more work freedom, social prestige are intangibles that would need to be factored into academic pay.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Honest question: how much top-tier ML research comes out of IBM Research? I feel like they get what they paid for---and they pay shit from what I hear.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
If a passenger who is a minor exposed themself to the camera, would the driver the liable for producing (and distributing) child pornography, if they somehow didn't notice and let it be posted?
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by fatjokes 8y ago
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. These collaborators are also in cities where FB already has offices that they can lead teams out of. Of course, these offices were started because of the prestigious schools that were already there.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
I love whisky, particularly scotch. Japanese whisky is... fine. It's boring. I like the strength of the peaty Islay whiskies.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Spoiler: there wasn't much sex other than some artwork.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
What about those suffering from mental health conditions?
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by fatjokes 8y ago
You know, I think you're right. I just went to their admissions page. They have no mention of "being the best", etc. It's all about affordability, diversity, inclusiveness, etc. I guess at this point the myth is self-per
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Harvard wouldn't be in this mess if they just give up the bullshit myth that it is at all a meritocracy. They should just have a fixed admissions ratios: - X% of seats for children of wealthy alumni, to maintain their alumni and donor
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by fatjokes 8y ago
How is this not considered collusion?
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Anecdata: has never been an issue for me and I never tip uber drivers---in app or cash. No uber driver has ever asked me for a cash tip (perhaps they know that it would lead to a low rating?)
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by fatjokes 8y ago
I'll be the devil's advocate. I miss the old Ma Bell. Its monopoly meant that AT&T Bell Labs had no financial pressure which allowed it to pursue pure research and crazy ideas that won several Nobel Prizes and laid the foundat
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Heh, reminds me of the time Anonymous tried to fight the Mexican drug cartels, thinking "this is the internet, and those weapons can't fire down here." The cartels found one poster in a local internet cafe. They did their car
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by fatjokes 8y ago
tl;dr for those who didn't read the article. This data is from LinkedIn and based on their measures of: 1. Number of job applications 2. [LinkedIn] engagement 3. employee retention. The 1st factor one may be biased by Amazon's lar
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by fatjokes 8y ago
"You think we're so innocent?" --Donald J. Trump.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
I think Google's point isn't that it can't be done, or even that it shouldn't be done, but rather simply they won't do it.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Isn't it called a murder? A murder of crows.
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Did they have your permission? Because they explicitly say that the difference between them and catfishing is that they have permission...
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by fatjokes 8y ago
Why do you think it was a bug and not a feature? I.e., it is intentional as a disincentive for foreign workers.
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by fatjokes 9y ago
Did IBM use to have "great wages" as the article says? Because it certainly doesn't anymore. A friend had an offer from IBM Research. It was practically a grad student stipend and a drop in the bucket compared to GoogFace wag
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by fatjokes 9y ago
Honest question: are hearings before congress, particularly from tech companies, any more than opportunities for politicians to grandstand and demand business leaders "kiss the ring"? I.e., is anything consequential ever done as a
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by fatjokes 9y ago
Manhattan has bus lines that basically go in one direction: up/down the avenues or crosstown. Just worry about starting and stopping and less about turning.
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by fatjokes 9y ago
Heh, this reminds of a similar incident in New York a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/nyregion/homeless-shelter... tl;dr: they opened a homeless shelter in a heavily (Asian) immigrant c
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by fatjokes 9y ago
In your scenario, Group A got dragged into the mud by Group B. If they wanted to stay ethical, they would've been "dominated". They chose strength and survival over staying "clean". Like I said before, it's fin
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by fatjokes 9y ago
That's exactly what I meant when I said it's nothing to be ashamed of, somebody's gotta do it. Just don't kid yourself that it makes you ethical. Sure, you could argue that you're "better than the other guy&quo
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by fatjokes 9y ago
If it makes MIT feel better, I don't think "ethics" when I think of MIT. I think technological leadership and excellence, but definitely not ethics. For starters, they have plenty of collaborations with the military (e.g., MI

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