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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
I agree completely. Switched to FF 3-4 months ago; it's been great, actually.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
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Microsoft Support advises, “Please use Chrome.”
14 points by jeffmcmahan 8y ago|5 comments
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
There is no need to jump in as a PhD. Enroll as an undergraduate anywhere that has a good department in the area you're interested in, and then express interest and work as hard as you can -- if you show promise, the faculty and gradua
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
I hope you're right. Do you have specific policy moves in mind?
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Yes, I do recognize that. However, it also benefits the Chinese regime enormously, and I think a future in which that regime has the scientific and technological capacity that we currently have is unlikely to be good for humankind (not that
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
No. I said they're cleverer than we are, at least on average. I said the Chinese government should learn some humanity (which they obviously should -- and given the current state of the US gov't and Western politics broadly, ours
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
The average Chinese is just as clever, if not more clever, than the average Westerner. They'll absolutely produce good results given good funding. But the tradition of the University is not Chinese; the Areopagitica is alien to mainstr
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Right, so never ever. :/
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Americans Are Shifting the Rest of Their Identity to Match Their Politics(fivethirtyeight.com)
17 points by jeffmcmahan 8y ago|5 comments
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
"Here's an Automotive theme that is quite unique and pleasing to the eye: ... <BARF>"
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
I've long been an Austin fan -- "How To Do Things With Words" is dazzling.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
"Would [De Morgan's theorem] benefit some group more than the other?" Your actual publicly adopted opinion reads like a joke.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Why Mac? Like many, many devs: (1) acceptable font rendering, unlike Windows, (2) compatible with Adobe CS unlike Linux, and (3) it's a *nix, allowing me to develop stuff that will run on linux cloud instances.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
How is it cynical to demonstrate that a specific claim -- put across with unreasonable certitude -- is in fact flatly false? Let me ask you: is De Morgan's theorem political? Directly? Indirectly?
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
"[E]verything is inherently political." My preference for the scent of lavender over cinnamon -- political. I'm against the designated hitter rule. Political too. I think my dog should not get into the trash. It's all po
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Nautilus is built on this kind of psycholo-garbage. The conclusions go way too far, but the title gets clicks.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Humans are not predicting what a photo depicts when they look at it. They more or less immediately come to a definite conclusion.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Same in JS
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
This is important, but Safari has a stable market position too (macOS + iOS), so the worst case scenario will not be as lousy as the early 2000s situation w/IE. I tried to switch to FF completely - for dev work and all - late last year
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
I tried to switch to Ubuntu in mid-2015, using a VM for Adobe CS, but it was awkward, particularly with the CS working files not being easily shareable btw the VM and linux. Gave up after about 3 weeks and went back to my Mac. It will stay
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
How do we avoid the problem of 40% of people shouting "liberal bias!" when they see the Times, the Post, and CNN dominating the graph?
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
The Gospel According to St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (also by St. Luke).
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
"Chomsky contributed to linguistics and it was an interesting theory but it turned out he was mostly wrong..." You've made a very strong claim about linguistic theory while knowing very little about it. The vast majority of t
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
I figure the math-heavy tests probably represent an unconscious attempt by elite educated CS guys to homogenize the talent they hire, to build teams of people more or less like those doing the hiring - very smart and well-trained in a parti
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
Many excellent developers earned degrees in areas other than CS, or are self-taught and have demonstrably first-rate minds, well worth the salaries on offer.
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by jeffmcmahan 8y ago
That's precisely it -- one does not build modern applications using the kind of knowledge OP is being tested for.
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
Yes, as I said above, politics (re American policy) may have some role, but mostly, he has argued forcefully against a whole range of approaches to studying language. And many people (most prominently those in the Barbara Partee/Montag
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
As the article you linked says of Chomsky's view (correctly), "Statistical language models have had engineering success, but that is irrelevant to science." Chomsky wants to know how your brain does things, and not how best t
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by jeffmcmahan 9y ago
Haha, yes, perhaps. "I found the mathematical approach to grammar immediately appealing---so much so, in fact, that I must admit to taking a copy of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures along with me on my honeymoon in 1961."

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