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by gajjanag 6y ago
> Those kids of work may even help get you promoted and open up more interesting projects. Do you have any anecdotes in support of this view? My general understanding is that working on such things (if it isn't part of your explicit
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by gajjanag 6y ago
Does anyone here have a good source for how fast vector instructions (AVX2 and the like) will compute under Rosetta2 on the Arm-based Macs vs the current x86 Macs?
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by gajjanag 8y ago
Very sad to hear. From what I know of Berlekamp's academic work, he always had a good sense of fun in his research. Such researchers are a rarity in my experience, and thus bring a very valuable aspect to the research enterprise. As an
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by gajjanag 8y ago
> [...] Many of the most brilliant human beings of that era worked for very modest salaries, and seemed content to do so. I wonder why it is that nowadays the "smartest" people tend to work in tech or finance and mostly pursue
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by gajjanag 8y ago
Witten's talk at the IAS on this subject may also be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYugyhoohhY
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by gajjanag 8y ago
As others have mentioned Xerox PARC, I also recommend the "PARC counterpart" to this book titled "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael A. Hiltzik. It was a beautiful summer read,
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by gajjanag 8y ago
It definitely is not just you. I spent my first two years of PhD wrapping my head around the stats and maths commonly used in ML, and realized that mathematically (as "theoretical" ML is practiced today), most answers are already
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by gajjanag 8y ago
The funny thing is that MIT already has something called "MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society" (IDSS): https://idss.mit.edu/ I wonder how this is going to play with the new MIT Schwarzman College of Compu
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by gajjanag 8y ago
A funny thing I have noticed about Wikipedia is that although citing Wikipedia itself in an academic paper is still not a good idea generally speaking, the references provided in a Wikipedia article are usually far more relevant than the on
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by gajjanag 8y ago
So here is a possibly naive question. From my viewing of Youtube, Google transcodes uploaded videos (typically H.264 stuff) to VP9 only when a certain view threshold is reached, which makes sense from their perspective. However, I have also
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by gajjanag 8y ago
The Julia programming language uses it.
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by gajjanag 8y ago
> Indeed, if the purpose of a PhD is to expand the totality of human knowledge, why was it expected that I would publish 3-4 conference papers to graduate? This is a question that bothers me quite a bit with respect to EECS (electrical e
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by gajjanag 8y ago
In a sense, yes. I currently have a Moto G 1st generation that I acquired approximately 4 years back. I intended to keep it for at least a year or 2 more, but through the steady accumulation of such 100 mb losses, I have ~ 500 mb storage le
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by gajjanag 8y ago
I generally agree with this, but here is a counterpoint regarding graduate studies. From my first hand experience as a graduate student at MIT, a lot of the research produced at MIT generates a disproportionate amount of buzz - essentially
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by gajjanag 8y ago
Fiction is in general severely underrated among STEM people today, with many arguing for how it is a waste of time, etc. I was fortunate enough to grow up in an environment where I had good access to it, and a healthy level of support for m
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by gajjanag 8y ago
You might want to adjust the figure to account for clothing/minimal construction work for shelter - both are definitely fundamental in most parts of the US. One might also wish to add in a minimally functional healthcare system to ensu
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by gajjanag 8y ago
Thanks a lot for your work on this issue, and for your references - especially [1]. I had a conversation with a friend a week back where we tried to estimate what is the reduction in economic growth due to the lack of a sane housing policy,
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by gajjanag 9y ago
"Indiscrete Thoughts" is terrific, and there is a lot of gold in its pages. Of possible interest to those who work in artificial intelligence/machine learning is Chapter IV "The Barrier of Meaning", where Rota recor
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by gajjanag 9y ago
For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Ch
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by gajjanag 9y ago
The impact of flying has been very nicely estimated in the freely available book "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by the late Prof. David MacKay FRS: http://withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml and h
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by gajjanag 9y ago
Here is something that I have a need of pretty often, but don't know how to do in things outside email (Whatsapp, Signal, etc): a point by point interleaving of the original message and the reply; for instance in a technical argument.
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by gajjanag 9y ago
Disclaimer: I am a graduate student in EECS, and not math. In particular, I am not a professional mathematician. At some level, none of us is smart enough to understand higher mathematics (in its entirety). Some illustrations (for which ref
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by gajjanag 9y ago
The vast majority of which don't need, and hence don't effectively utilize a Ph.D. Most of those jobs can be performed as well, if not better, by people with an undergrad degree, possibly with a master's tacked on + equiv num
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by gajjanag 9y ago
I went through a similar experience, and spent two years going through the machine learning landscape. Every month or so I would wonder why I still bothered to continue working on it, but still continued as I saw so many smart people around
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by gajjanag 9y ago
Nice! I have noticed that there is a lot of high quality mathematical/numerical software coming out of INRIA; and have often wondered of late why we do not have an equivalent in the US. Do you have any thoughts on why this is the case;
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by gajjanag 9y ago
> I guess there is actually an 11th person saying, awesome I can financially support this evil company in the short term and make a quick buck. Well, unless you belong to the minority of people on this forum with no assets in the stock m
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by gajjanag 9y ago
> With graphics!: A note: does not work in Firefox as it uses the WebP format. Works in Chrome though.
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by gajjanag 9y ago
> A political fix is a necessary prerequisite to the adoption of any technological fix. Political "fixes" are by nature temporary in the scheme of things. Regimes come and go, governments rise and fall, etc. They can possibly s
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by gajjanag 9y ago
> that I don't see a future where they are unseated. The way I see it, consumers (at least right now) are free not to buy into the hype and consume whatever it is that these companies produce. So if prices are too high or quality to
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by gajjanag 9y ago
This is an astute observation. The world leaders during WW2 recognized this - basically, when critical work needed to be done, they knew whom they needed and roped in a large number of the leading "dreamers/thinkers" of the t

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