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by iskander 16y ago
If qualified applicant need assurance of all these things before even applying, that confirms in my mind that such applicants have the privilege of scarcity. Has your hiring experience been substantially different from mine?
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by iskander 16y ago
I've hired a few technical employees in the Chicago area, and I found that it's almost impossible to find someone with basic reasoning skills. Most people I interviewed had very poor eyes for details, had a hard time spotting or understandi
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by iskander 16y ago
>If programming shops were willing to hire people fresh out of college with English degrees and teach them programming, they would probably do really, really well. But nobody is willing to do that, so college grads go without jobs and s
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by iskander 16y ago
Haskell with a cleaned up library and eager evaluation would be a dream. Alternatively, adding type classes to OCaml (and removing the object system) would yield a similarly awesome language.
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by iskander 16y ago
This is roughly how I program using OCaml's module system. Does anyone else prefer higher-order modules as the basic unit of program structure?
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by iskander 16y ago
> common in modern cognitive psychology Only among a small besieged minority-- the majority have moved on to neurocognitive research. >and is presumed by theorists of evolutionary psychology That's just straight-up wrong. Perhaps th
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by iskander 16y ago
Now imagine the same feat repeated every 10ms with billions of dollars and you have the modern institution of high frequency trading.
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by iskander 16y ago
"old-fashioned AI" is usually a term reserved for symbolic techniques fashionable in the 60s, 70s, 80s. Learning and data-oriented techniques are mostly the new kids on the block (for Computer Scientists at least-- stats people have been at
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by iskander 16y ago
Situations where I see the term "artificial intelligence" used: (1) a legacy hold-over from the bad old days when people thought symbolic inference was central to human intelligence (e.g. AAAI, JAIR) (2) research on extending old-fashioned
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by iskander 16y ago
s/Americans/people
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by iskander 16y ago
>And specifically, the APL/K/J focus on data makes it a better foundation for optimization, parallelization and reasoning about program behaviour. I'll give you the first two points (though some heavy-weight optimizations become necessa
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by iskander 16y ago
First of all, you seem to be ignoring China's wars with India and Vietnam, the Chinese attempt to overthrow the government of Malaysia, territorial claims to Taiwan (and a dozen smaller chunks of land), their continuing support of North Kor
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by iskander 16y ago
> J and K would be a better foundation A better foundation for...what? Many important programming domains don't fit naturally into the array-oriented model.
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by iskander 16y ago
Setting aside your personal judgments on how other people spend their time, do you actually not think that facebook has had a large impact on how (primarily younger) people socialize, understand each other, and think about their relationshi
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by iskander 16y ago
OCaml, C, Q, Matlab
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by iskander 16y ago
>The modern anarchist movement hasn't been able to connect their message to anything that's relevant What is the message? I usually just hear unfocused discontent. Saying "Grrr evil government" makes for a fun sense of solidarity and go
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by iskander 16y ago
Can you explain more? How can property rights and individual liberties be secured without the police?
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by iskander 16y ago
That disconnect has always confused me. How does country manage to maintain the best universities and among the worst high schools in the first world?
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by iskander 16y ago
"Imports" have always been our research strength :-). Thank you Germany for going all crazy in the 30s giving us an era's worth of top-tier scientists.
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by iskander 16y ago
For a country with a dysfunctional university system, the US certainly seems to create a disproportionate share of the good research.
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by iskander 16y ago
There's a more general lesson here: personal interactions are the quickest way to bend the rules. You may have a stellar application/resume, but so do many other candidates. If you want to get an unconventional outcome, do it in person. Rel
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by iskander 16y ago
The (still!) ongoing translation of the dead sea scroll fragments could really benefit from some computational techniques. They're trying to do something akin to gene sequencing manually.
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by iskander 16y ago
>@Thilo No, it doesn't... ? If a random variable is uniformly distributed in the range (0,1), and you sample the variable n times, and take the sum, it will just be uniformly distributed in the range (0,n). – user359996 12 hours ago It'
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by iskander 16y ago
QBASIC: I had a coding friend in elementary school and on the weekends we had QBASIC sleepovers. We stayed up til 3 or 4am making barely playable games and fake imitations of operating systems. I remember the vivid rush of excitement when s
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by iskander 16y ago
>It's just semantics. It's probably all the time spent on LtU mucking with my brain, but I have to suppress a minor rage every time I see this idiom. Does this happen to any other programming languages people?
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by iskander 16y ago
These sorts of endeavors are usually doomed by vague thinking (see most of AI research in the 70s and 80s). However, I've read a few of Mitchell's papers-- he's a really good researcher and his involvement makes me more curious. Also, I'm
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by iskander 16y ago
HN reality check: You are a community of people who debug Javascript and scheme to get acquired by large companies.
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by iskander 16y ago
That whole school is hetero?
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by iskander 16y ago
When I was using MapReduce for "real work" it was mostly to count n-grams. I don't think I was the only one...
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by iskander 16y ago
>the ultimate cause for the enjoyment is increase in genetic fitness Falsifiable claims, please.

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