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by jasonhong 2y ago
In addition to Google... DataBricks is a multibillion dollar company and was based on research at the AMPLab UC Berkeley, which was funded by an NSF Expeditions grant. https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/news/amp-awarded-10m
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by jasonhong 2y ago
Game Theory Optimal This page has more details: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2021/11/03/game-theory-op...
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by jasonhong 2y ago
This sounds great in theory, until you start looking at the actual things that overhead covers. Things like the cost of my office space, my lab space, electricity, heating, building maintenance, telephone, computer network, IT and tech supp
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by jasonhong 2y ago
It's possible that there may be too many administrators at a university, but from my perspective after 20+ years in academia, one clear driver is continually increasing rules, regulations, and compliance, along with fears of audits and
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by jasonhong 2y ago
As one simple example, some funds are for endowed chairs, named after donors or companies. For example, in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, we have chairs named for Richard King Mellon, Kavčić-Moura, Thomas and Lydia Moran, and more. (Y
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by jasonhong 2y ago
I was in a somewhat similar position as the OP, having had a successful exit many years ago and trying to figure things out. I was lucky that I still had a faculty position at a top university, young kids, and a good family to help ground
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by jasonhong 2y ago
There's a comment on MetaFilter that has always resonated with me about the Church in America, which I'll copy here: https://www.metafilter.com/80588/Jesus-who#2514085 The story of the temptations of Christ i
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by jasonhong 2y ago
There was an interesting thread in reddit's /r/AskHistorians about common mistakes amateur historians make, and the top comment was this > Valuing primary sources over secondary, and first person accounts over records. Pri
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by jasonhong 2y ago
Some more fun facts about Claude Shannon, from this New Yorker article ( https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/claude-s... ): He built a flame-throwing trumpet and a rocket-powered Frisbee. He built a
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by jasonhong 2y ago
I've seen my wife (Chinese) and her friends (also Chinese) have this same problem with the exact same word "sneeze", so I'm inclined to believe the author.
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by jasonhong 2y ago
I'm not an expert in AR and VR, but I can point you to papers by two of my colleagues who know a lot about this space. David Lindlbauer is a faculty at CMU who applies a lot of perceptual psych to his research on VR. https:/&#x2F
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by jasonhong 2y ago
This is a really great question, and well beyond my areas of expertise. What I can point you to is this excellent book by my colleague Bob Kraut and several of his colleagues, entitled Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based
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by jasonhong 2y ago
One big area of psychology not mentioned in the article that has been seeing a good amount of success is applied psychology with respect to Human-Computer Interaction. For example, there's a lot of basic perceptual psychology regarding
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by jasonhong 2y ago
You might be interested in Brad Myers' new book "Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interaction Techniques". He's a prominent researcher in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University (and one of my colleagues). It gives a great ove
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by jasonhong 2y ago
Minor tangent, one of the main subjects of this article, Conrad Bassett-Bouchard, was a student in our Master's of Human-Computer Interaction program at Carnegie Mellon University many years ago. He joined after winning the National Sc
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by jasonhong 3y ago
(I write occasional blog posts for CACM and am also on the editorial board) If you have ideas for how to improve CACM, the editor-in-chief (Jim Larus) is highly receptive. He's interested in increasing the value of CACM for industry pr
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Funny you ask this question, since yesterday there was a HN post about Herbert Simon. Here is Allen Newell, Alan Perlis, and Herbert Simon's response (1967) to your question about whether computer science is even science. For context,
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Just to give some more context about Herbert Simon, he's the only person who has won the Nobel Prize in Economics (yeah yeah, memorial prize) as well as the Turing Award, an accomplishment that is unlikely to ever happen again. At Carn
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by jasonhong 3y ago
In theoretical CS, the convention is still alphabetic order. In most other CS, advisor tends to be last.
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Yes, in a later version of the book, Norman differentiates between signifiers (which we might now call perceived affordances) and affordances. However, the HCI field and UX field has by and large not adopted signifier as part of its vocabul
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by jasonhong 3y ago
If you want something a bit more formal, see Turing Award winner Allen Newell's Bands of Cognition. He breaks things up into four major bands, namely biological (milliseconds), cognitive (seconds), rational (minutes to hours), and soci
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by jasonhong 3y ago
I'm a professor in computer science, so things are probably quite different than in other academic fields. There are some clear downsides to academia (lower salary, always looking for funding, limited geography, lots and lots of meetin
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Here's a BBC video showing how good chimpanzees are with short-term memory. Short version, the chimp beats all humans at the memory test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A
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by jasonhong 3y ago
You might be thinking of PhotoMesa, which was a research project (I think later commercialized) out of University of Maryland. Here is the research paper on PhotoMesa: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson/images/pubs_pd
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Latanya Sweeney demonstrated how hard it is to anonymize health data back in the late 1990s as part of her dissertation work: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-liv... "At the time
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by jasonhong 3y ago
I'm not an expert in this, but this link from NOAA seems to be a definitive explanation. Short answer is yes, but it also leads to more ocean acidity, which causes problems for ocean life. https://www.noaa.gov/education
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Many years ago, some researchers at Xerox PARC hacked Barney to be an interactive interface, to the amusement of many. Here is a longer writeup: https://dourish.com/barney/index.html And an excerpt: Using the Barney Pr
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by jasonhong 3y ago
I think it's referring to this case: https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the... And for outcomes, the paper in question was retracted and the professor involved resigned. However, I haven't se
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by jasonhong 3y ago
Or maybe their chasing it because it's a highly relevant topic that might impact lots of people around the world, you know, a kind of human-computer interaction.
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by jasonhong 3y ago
I don't know which specific oral history, but you're most likely referring to Adele Goldberg. She's mentioned several times that she protested showing Steve Jobs their work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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