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by joker3 7y ago
There's a certain asymmetry here. If you're under 25, that'll eventually fix itself, but once you're over 40, you're going to be over 40 for the rest of your life. Given that, it doesn't really make sense to
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by joker3 7y ago
Doesn't work.
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by joker3 7y ago
Peter Cappelli has written a lot about how terrible recruiting has been in the last few years, and we'd all be better off if companies were reading his work (and implementing his suggestions). https://www.linkedin.com/
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How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples (2018)(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
There's a big difference between what everyone believes and what everyone actually knows. Getting confirmation could matter.
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America's Forgotten Mass Imprisonment of Women Believed to Be Sexually Immoral(history.com)
1 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
OP here. I think I saw the WSJ writeup of this paper posted a few days ago, but it was kinda light on actual details. This is the actual (working) paper and is quite a bit more detailed and specific.
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Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis [pdf](weis2019.econinfosec.org)
2 points by joker3 7y ago|1 comments
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Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint(technologyreview.com)
3 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
The math is the easy part of statistics. What really marks the people who get it is that they understand the part that isn't math.
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by joker3 7y ago
It's censored data. Statisticians have been working with that for at least half a century. All they've done is reinvent the wheel, and I have no confidence that they've made something that's as good as what we already
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by joker3 7y ago
The relationship between the business cycle and demand for graduate school is complicated. Some programs have a very strong countercyclical component to their demand, and others don't. See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F
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by joker3 7y ago
I really don't like the idea that education is a thing you do once in your late teens/early twenties and then finish. There are good reasons to do something then, but there's no good reason to stop.
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Biggest Offender in Outsize Debt: Master’s Degrees(nytimes.com)
152 points by joker3 7y ago|165 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
Somebody ought to do a breakdown by subfield.
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by joker3 7y ago
Top five is a little too strict, but top twenty, yeah, maybe.
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by joker3 7y ago
What do UIs have to do with systems research? And given how much easier it is to use an interface that you're already familiar with, isn't it a good thing that they've mostly stayed the same?
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by joker3 7y ago
It'll be fun to watch this one and see all the discussion about open plan offices from people who didn't read the article.
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by joker3 7y ago
It describes why machine learning was regarded as separate from statistics twenty years ago. The world has moved on.
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by joker3 7y ago
Everything is Turing complete until proven otherwise.
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by joker3 7y ago
I guarantee you someone out there is thinking seriously about it.
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U.S. regulators approve new Silicon Valley stock exchange(reuters.com)
2 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... In my experience, most hobbyist programmers are fine writing scripts and other small programs but have no exposure to the sort of ideas that are necessary
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by joker3 7y ago
I'm a statistician under 45 who has first-hand experience with the separate cultures laid out here. The gap isn't as big as it used to be, but it still exists.
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The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation(nytimes.com)
20 points by joker3 7y ago|6 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
You know the story of the boy who cried wolf? The villagers committed several type I errors first, and then a type II error second. (Yes, the terminology is stupid and should be changed. But as long as we're stuck with it, this helps
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by joker3 7y ago
Particularly if you relocated.
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Can anyone tame the next internet?(vox.com)
5 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook almost missed the mobile revolution; can’t afford to miss what's next(vox.com)
2 points by joker3 7y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 7y ago
This is good in the sense that having poorly calibrated forecasts is bad, but it's not quite as strong as you might want it to be. Imagine that you're tasked with predicting the next state of a traffic light that just cycles thro

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