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by ible 18y ago
We should be skeptical that any particular metric does what it claims to do, especially ones which are ad-hoc or based on intuition instead of evidence. I'm not suggesting that Gladwell is wrong about any of the examples he gave being 'mism
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by ible 18y ago
I think Gladwell has a good point that trying to do a job is probably the best predictor of who will be good at it, and as a general principle moving that point up, via apprenticeships, internships, coop programs, and so on would probably b
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by ible 18y ago
Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning is a good recent book aimed at 'advanced undergraduates'. It seems to be 'the book' in ML right now. Norvig and Russel's AIMA is a good general AI resource. The twice annual machine le
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by ible 18y ago
I haven't lived in the countries in question, so I don't have any personal experience to go on. The only measures I have are the various indexes of quality of life and other academic studies. According those we have the following rankings:
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by ible 18y ago
Regarding your final point, the article does mention it, though not in detail. "I believe we have blended the best of Europe and the United States here, the Nordic welfare system with the American entrepreneurial spirit,' he said, pointing
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The CRA Taulbee Survey ( http://www.cra.org/statistics/ ) has detailed info on CS faculty salaries in the US and Canada. 2005-2006 9-month salaries for a new PhD in CS with a tenure track position ranged from $70k to $99k with $82k median.
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by ible 18y ago
I don't doubt that most competent self-taught hackers could learn to do CS research if they were interested. A passionate interest in the learning new things, without waiting for someone else to teach you, is fundamental to teaching yoursel