gerland

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by gerland 6y ago
Can you recommend anything? I do enjoy the content here, and some of the people are really great, but the level of wokeness is just absurd. I got some people chasing me from here on other networks just because I dared to say my opinion. Tha
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by gerland 6y ago
I think it's much easier to measure value of tech skills than most other skills. In the management and business areas you have to bet on how well people will perform and it's harder to put a finger on what will define success. Eve
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by gerland 6y ago
Most of my best jobs came from LI leads, so I don't really get the point. I find LI to be a more open and just system than hiring a guy that knows a guy, or forcing people into slavery in open source. It's not the hiring that is b
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by gerland 6y ago
So I guess Scientific American also joined political bias? Should have expected that, but it's a bit sad.
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by gerland 6y ago
Additional trivia - Benjamin Franklin was a big proponent of inoculation. He tried to spread the awarness and convince people that it's safe and effective. Unfortunately his first son died of smallpox before he could be inoculated. He
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by gerland 6y ago
They try their best to keep their business as profitable as possible. This often means they just don't want to analyse content in a sufficient way, although it should be possible to do it in an automated way. It's better to take d
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A Little Bit of Motivation(stronglyagainst.com)
1 points by gerland 6y ago|0 comments
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by gerland 6y ago
Putting aside the topic of how easy is it to understand a trained ML model, I really hope we won't end up in a SEO-like situation.
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by gerland 6y ago
Very convenient for the author of the post, right?
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by gerland 6y ago
Just a notice - there is a "in English" button in the top-right corner.
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by gerland 6y ago
I agree that there is no privacy law violation, but it is a bit distasteful. We have some implicit standards in the society and it seems those are conveniently ignored at this point. There is some excuse given in the article in the form of
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by gerland 6y ago
I heard someone found shoes that Bill Gates once wore and a gum chewed by Steve Jobs. Both became relics and worshippers write articles about this in the internet. Seriously though - would someone think it was ok if I got a number after a l
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by gerland 6y ago
Would an online degree be worth something? If yes, then which would you recommend?
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by gerland 6y ago
I'm hoping a bit that we moved past those early steps and CE is now more in a DIY phase, but I don't know, hence I'm asking.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to learn chemical engineering from scratch on your own?
2 points by gerland 6y ago|4 comments
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by gerland 6y ago
Once again a post that does not break any guidelines is being downvoted. Which proves why we need to battle deplatforming inj the first place. If you cannot even post something as harmless without people trying to bend the system to silence
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by gerland 6y ago
No Sir, you are just strawmanning here. Please do not put in my mouth (or rather in my hand) words that I did not say. My point is, that you cannot always distinguish what is hogwash and what is legit. If you refuse someone the right to spe
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by gerland 6y ago
Einstein was refused publication and ridiculed until Bohr, who was an authority, vouched for him. Madam Curie had to publish under her husbands name, because her publications were rejected on the basis that she was a woman.
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by gerland 6y ago
I hope I won't go too close to breaching the Godwin's law, but there seem to be some analogies to Herschel Grynszpan here. We can always find an outlier that would be a good excuse for an overblown reaction. We can also probably f
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by gerland 6y ago
> Free speech doesn't mean everyone is forced to listen to that speech. You are completely right. Free speech does not mean that anyone will force you to listen to Alex Jones or any other nutjob. It means that AJ will have the right
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by gerland 6y ago
It's a nice move, but probably it will even further deteriorate the situation. If NYT had to lower standards due to lack of funding, then removing cookies will only speed up the fall. It looks like a last resort attempt at trying to sa
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by gerland 6y ago
Let's hope it happens. If anything can change this pathological US-China relation, it's something like this.
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by gerland 6y ago
Sure, I agree, but so far unregulated capitalism served only those companies and nations that already had market advantage. Forcing "liberal" economic changes in South and Latin America caused their markets to crumble under global
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by gerland 6y ago
That was a bad joke, but truth be told there are not that many outlets. The word "monopoly" is thrown around very lightly, although if you have just a few big players on the market then there is always a real possibility of cartel
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by gerland 6y ago
I would say from approximately 2008
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by gerland 6y ago
This is a very hard situation for the affected, but I cannot look at it any other way than a positive change. My own opinion is that modern universities are a mix of ponzi scheme with stockholm syndrom. It's a bubble that should have b
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by gerland 6y ago
The word "key" does not reveal if it's positive or negative, just that it's important. On the other hand - nor does the article. Variance could be explained not only by testosteronje levels, but also by behavior and envi
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by gerland 6y ago
No it is not. Problems with drawing the line between what is acceptable and what is "violent" speech are caused precisely by the fact that this axiom is completely false. You cannot have free speech, and by extension speech at all
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by gerland 6y ago
Thank you very much for that lengthy explanation. I experienced the fear of loss before and I was surprised how bad I handled it. It's shortcircuting all rational decisions.
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by gerland 6y ago
That's a bit off-topic, but what do you think is happening? I'm considering buying some s&p500 based stock, but I'm a bit afraid. What do you, anonymous stranger on the interweb think?

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