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by gajomi 9y ago
I pretty much agree with most everything you write, but just want to add the caveat that this is all a function of relative competence or learning stage in an L2 language. That is to say, some languages that may be relatively easier to part
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by gajomi 9y ago
This is a very good question and would seemingly be implicated in a critical view of the reporting methodology. I have been impressed with the work the NYT data team shows on their github (or whatever). It looks like the economist has an ac
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by gajomi 9y ago
This seems improbable. Of course it depends a bit on the number of hours required to effectively helicopter parent, but the data for USA mothers indicates something like a 100% increase in time spent since 1965 resulting in two total hours
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by gajomi 9y ago
That change would be a good start. I enjoyed the article very much, but not at all because I thought it gave a balanced "Chinese perspective" on the Western elite. It read it as a story about a smart Chinese guy who was very focus
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by gajomi 9y ago
I have done all kinds of work that required some kind of matrix calculus in one form or another. There are of course all kinds of references (sibling links to my favorite), but I have found that more often than not really the best way to ge
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by gajomi 9y ago
Your comment made me lol. But also made me think :) Indeed its not hard to imagine how "uber for day laborers" could increase worker exploitation. In particular the possibility of somehow skirting around worker's comp insuran
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by gajomi 9y ago
I'm sure it must be out there already in some form, but you might want to give a shot at "uber for day laborers". It seems to me like there are opportunities on both the supply and demand side. On the supply side there its lo
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by gajomi 9y ago
EDIT: I just realized you were talking about a hypothetical wave, and not the particular one here, so my comment below doesn't actually address your question :) I am not an astrophysicist, but was also wondering the same thing. Gravita
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by gajomi 9y ago
I was about to reply the same based on a naive Fermi estimation argument concerning the energy density three solar masses distributed equally over a shell with thickness proportional to the effective width of the pulse. But I wonder, what w
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by gajomi 9y ago
>With higher level frameworks like Keras, how necessary is this? I would wager that you've heard this line before, but it all depends on the particulars of what you are trying to do. If you want to develop a first principles underst
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Electrofishing for Whales(what-if.xkcd.com)
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by gajomi 10y ago
I came to write pen and paper myself :). I think cups and books definitely belong here too. But I have always had serious issues with pillows. I don't mean the basic concept and coarse design of pillows, but rather the details of the d
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by gajomi 10y ago
>Musk is talking about a direct brain to computer interface. Video/typing/etc cannot be compared, even remotely. You're missing Musk's point if you argue down that path. While I think its clear the direct to brain int
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by gajomi 10y ago
I would be curious to hear a bit more about this. From my recollection, just about every single piece of vegetable matter in any given Viennese Billa would come from outside Austria (potatoes being the exception). Is there US style industri
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by gajomi 10y ago
A quick word of advice... I have seen firsthand people in similar logistical situations in the middle of the PhD (though not quite precipitated from such dire geopolitical circumstances). If your admission was based on a recommendation of a
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by gajomi 10y ago
Things can get brutal in art school indeed! I think that a big part of this (and its one of the parts that would be less tolerated in say, and engineering school) is that there can at times be a significant political dimension to the critic
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by gajomi 10y ago
>This is great news, until we look at the open space and say, "Wow! Now we can fit so many more commuters on these streets." >It's just that NYC culture is about trying to cram the most things in one place. One possibil
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by gajomi 10y ago
At some point in my past I became biased towards inequalities over equalities; they somehow seemed more fundamental (I have no intention to defend this sentiment... its probably insubstantial). So there are lots of fun inequalities, but pro
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by gajomi 10y ago
+1 on hearing about hearing more about this story and current project with grtensor. Seems like you've had an interesting career trajectory.
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by gajomi 10y ago
I wonder, is there a good reason why these accuracies are reported on a logscale by convention (say, as power of 2 from 50%)?
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by gajomi 10y ago
>Chris Knight explores “the Chomsky problem” — the paradox of a thinker who belongs to the “professional and scientific elite” even as he espouses populist political ideas. Ok, this work is not the substance of the interview, but what is
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by gajomi 10y ago
Well now I feel a bit embarrassed about the sibling comment I made... since the man himself has appeared I just wanted to reiterate that I enjoyed reading your memoir, as did several students in the lab I worked in. We even went and tried o
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by gajomi 10y ago
I very much enjoyed reading through Guo's PhD grind, which came out as I was nearing the end of my PhD. However, the picture he paints of the grind, where he stumbles along a few different projects that end up in top tier journals&#x2F
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by gajomi 10y ago
>Then again, i'd rather see something like "Ok, you made this thing and you're fairly sure it's viable, let us help you make it shine". I found this comment interesting, in that I imagine with the right PR campai
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by gajomi 10y ago
I am just starting to look into these corpuses of pretrained neural networks. Coes anyone know if there are any image corpora with pretrained wieghts that would be suitable for analysis of "high-resolution" images derived from LID
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by gajomi 10y ago
>He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English In all fairness, there is a certain view that most English dialects are pidginized to some extent. et lest tha leksografee iz konsistent with thee observ
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by gajomi 10y ago
That's what I was thinking in seeing all of these photos/videos. What kind of controlled burn strategies does Alberta province have in place? I know that before these kind of policies were implemented in the Pacific northwest of t
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by gajomi 10y ago
The Science magazine article seemed to me scarce on a number of critical details which are made clear in the abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... Of particular i
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by gajomi 10y ago
It a bit funny that the article doesn't mention Julia, which has native multimethods with all kinds of bells and whistles. It could be a nice addition to a "polyglot" flavored discussion. There is also Clojure, although its m
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by gajomi 11y ago
It's expensive, which makes me want to think of who would buy these first. There might be a market in medicine (think Vilayanur Ramachandran style phantom limb therapy) and psychiatry.

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