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by jorleif 15y ago
> The most amazing thing was the management style of that lab I've worked some years in academic research in a position where the pioneering research of one guy led to a big laboratory with plenty of researchers in the lucky situation t
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by jorleif 15y ago
While I certainly agree with many of the OPs points about how to make meetings work better, I sometimes suspect that the reason a lot of people dislike meetings is not just that they are ineffective, but rather that they feel unpleasant. De
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by jorleif 15y ago
This was a very insightful post which confirms my experience that generally working with people you can't communicate easily with almost always leads to bad results. What I'm wondering though, is if it really is a property of the person, o
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by jorleif 15y ago
I think his advice is "good" in the sense of safe. If it is followed, it is very likely that the student ends up in a good place professionally. But, I think he ignores the fact that to become really good at something is not pure grit, but
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by jorleif 15y ago
This is an interesting solution, because the problem is that the original codebase is messy and therefore not portable. It seems to happen to most software as it ages. Putting it on a server makes the architecture more robust against messy
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by jorleif 15y ago
Overlearning/Overfitting is a term from machine learning/statistics that means that a learning system fits its learning data so well that it does not generalize to new data. The examples given in the article seem like perfect examples of th
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by jorleif 16y ago
Am I the only one surprised that they are using robots from an American company? I would have thought that this is the kind of opportunity that Sony, Honda and the like would jump on immediately. Or is it really only iRobot who has somethin
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by jorleif 16y ago
Academics can't stop publishing irrelevant papers, since funding is granted based on publication history. To get really novel things done researchers must keep a steady stream of publications. This is easiest achieved by making somewhat eas
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by jorleif 16y ago
Big companies are notorious for their low tolerance for failure, but I've been surprised to discover that many research institutions are maybe even worse. An academician needs a steady stream of hi-quality publications, i.e. stuff that peop
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Is this good startup marketing? (robotic recycling startup promo video)(youtube.com)
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by jorleif 16y ago
It seems to me that if one becomes a professor, a very big chunk of one's time goes into writing grant applications. All of that is "wasted time", in the sense that it takes time away from the primary goal of making good research. In the pr
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by jorleif 16y ago
This seems like a great service. The world is moving more and more towards using English as a universal language, and I think that plenty of non-native speakers are at a disadvantage, because they cannot communicate their ideas well enough.
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by jorleif 16y ago
What is your writing process like? Do you edit a lot, or just write it in one go? I notice with the academic articles I'm involved in, that they are edited to death by the separate authors. Comments are often good, but sometimes I feel that
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by jorleif 16y ago
I can churn out four or five pages an hour. I'm utterly fascinated, is it really possible to produce that much text on an unknown subject? I write maximum about 1 page of academic text per workday. That is of course real, and contains a s
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by jorleif 16y ago
I think it has to do with more work being "creative", in the Richard Florida sense, of being problem-solving oriented. It is much easier to estimate the time needing to complete tasks such as "milk the cows" or "build a shed", because 1) Yo
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by jorleif 16y ago
Exactly, there would need to be something like GTD for problem-solving. E.g. similar to the two-minute rule, one would have something like the two hour rule: "If you can't solve the core problem in two hours, ask someone for help".
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by jorleif 16y ago
I've had this experience as well doing research. GTD is great for doing many small tasks that are hard to remember, but I always seem to have tasks that are hard to break up. Something like "Make machine learning method X work for data Y".
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by jorleif 16y ago
Nice point, but that was not what I was getting at. The chess bot can see the whole chess field and "knows" how the pieces moves. The difference with google, is that google does not see the meanings of the words (or the entities that the wo
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by jorleif 16y ago
It's a bit strange to compare Google's language understanding to that of a human, since Google does not really understand language, as much as is able to return documents that are about the same thing as the person writing a query intends.
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by jorleif 16y ago
Would you care to enlighten a bit on the accuracy of the device? I think that a chemical analyser in everyone's phone would be very useful for example in detecting toxic substances in consumer products (e.g. cadmium in cheap jewelry). Would
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by jorleif 16y ago
To me it seems not wanting to plug in has very little to do with what we believe about happiness. The most obvious reason of all to not plug in: That one actually cares about something in the external world. Sure, the machine could give the
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by jorleif 16y ago
Agreed, the manager is working for the company, not for the employee, so keeping a good employee is in the best interest of the company, even if it's not optimal for the employee.
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by jorleif 16y ago
I think this kind of thinking can easily be scaled also to more abstract parts of projects than the code and infrastructure itself. A core part of the design process of any app is to decide what it will and what it won't do, and these kinds
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by jorleif 16y ago
Thanks, that's very close to what I was looking for.
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by jorleif 16y ago
I hadn't actually noticed that, thanks. I tried it quickly and it seems that web pages are not so easy to read with it. Simply too much stuff around the actual content for the small screen. RSS feeds might be better as there is only text.
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by jorleif 16y ago
I was disappointed for a second reason: I thought about Web for the Kindle, rather than Kindle for the Web. I really like reading books and research paper pdfs on the Kindle, but delivery of non-Amazon content is a bit of a hassle. Not very
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by jorleif 17y ago
I agree with him that mostly the bottleneck is not in idea generation, but in what you do with the ideas that you and others have. Unfortunately, he does not really address the "doing" part, except by saying diligence is good. Sure, but you
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by jorleif 17y ago
I think there is a fundamental difference between the creative acts of programming and producing artwork. The programmer has a requirement of what the program or piece of it should do, and the creative problem, is how to do express this in
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by jorleif 17y ago
I've worked from home for a year but now I'm back at an office again. Working from home seems very good for concentration, but I missed discussions with other people. It felt like after some time I would run out of energy to do it. This mig
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by jorleif 17y ago
I thought about exactly the same thing. What is also worth considering, is if there is a lot of individual variation in the need to interact. In my experience many people are not the "self-driven" kind that are often considered ideal. What

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