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50 year cycle of hate crimes approaches(nature.com)
2 points by jostmey 10y ago|2 comments
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by jostmey 10y ago
Soylent better be sure that they are right. They just fingered the problem onto another company (TerraVia). What supplier would work with Soylent if it turns out Soylent is wrong?
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Cuba? Really? Might as well add every city in world to that list.
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I think 65000 is with the housing stipend, but it is possible the website doesn't tell us everything. https://medicine.ucsf.edu/education/residency/application/co...
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My wife is looking at residency programs (she will be an MD). She has an interview at UCSF, but we are not sure we will go--San Francisco is just too expensive. Salary is only $65000 and we have to pay back student loans. I cant't imag
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I don't know if this discredits General Relativity in any way. From what I understand, it underlies General Relativity by defining the nature of space and time.
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Sometimes our failures guide us. I thought I might want to study mathematics for life. I pushed myself hard and was taking advanced courses. When I received my first bad grade, I realized it was not the right path for me, and that my motiva
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If I understand the historian's viewpoint, the industrial revolution happened in Europe because it wasn't too dogmatic. I wonder if research today has become too dogmatic -- most big labs are run by older professors pushing their
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In my opinion, tech hubs need: * Open minded culture * Top research facilities (i.e. Multiple top universities) * Low cost of living, high quality of life * Large customer markets Just because Libson has a low cost of living doesn't me
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If WHO YOU KNOW counts as being creative, then yes, it is a creative challenge.
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Except the drug "schrekli" priced gouged was out of patent. It should have been a commodity, so why weren't any competitors allowed on the marketplace? Take a look at Washington for your answer. There are lots of amazing comp
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The neural network community uses proper "training"/"validation"/"test" datasets to asses model performance, and has developed algorithms to fit complex models to large amounts of data using relativel
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This is the future of computational chemistry. The field of "Molecular Dynamics" could easily be swept aside by machine learning. It is why I switched from running "Molecular Dynamic" simulations as a graduate student to
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How much will this help? Neural networks work so well on distributed computing systems because the operations run in parallel. With a neural network, you can leverage tens of thousands of separate computing cores. Top intel processors have
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I own a chromebook and macbook. I do all my coding on a chromebook. I use the ChromeOS as my GUI, dropbox as my filesystem, and crouton to run the ubuntu terminal underneath it all.
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We own both a macbook ($1000 >) and a chromebook ($180). The macbook is bloated with software, popups keep sliding down the right side, and it occasionally freezes. The chromebook "just works". Love the iPhone but we are otherw
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Occam's razor is not science, but it is rational. Science is about running physical experiments to verify your understanding, and to include proper controls to validate the experiments. A lot of research does not have a component of sc
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The hard part will be crafting models that can handle any molecular topology based on a fixed set of learn-able parameters. What dataset will be used to train the model is up to each practitioner (i.e. PDB datbank, ab initio, ect).
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Won't happen while labor is cheap
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Don't count on your research job in industry remaining stable if it can be outsourced to a university lab. The ceiling on your pay is that of a postdoc's plus university overhead.
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Hacker news has seen a lot of posts on this subject. The usual advice is to work in industry, where people are apparently treated like human beings. I am sure this is true, but the advice isn't helpful to me. Society benefits from scie
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Yeah, my interpretation is that people are not storing their wealth in dollars, which is a bad sign for the currency.
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That's the problem. You add bankruptcy back in and the student loan problem will disappear. Banks will start assessing each person's ability to pay back loans before giving them a lifetime burden of debt. Fix bankruptcy laws, fix
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The trend is exaggerated -- everyone needs transportation. But I dislike the idea of owning a car because it requires so much work. I want a trouble free that car that "just works". I don't want to check the tire pressure, ch
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Trying to wrap my mind around the paper. Could be a really important finding. Should now allow for efficient use of discrete variables in deep neural network models.
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I actually ended up coding the hard stuff from scratch in matlab/julia. I wish I has seen a simple example on how to use Theano early on -- then I would have been off on my way much sooner. Learning to use TensorFlow/Theano/e
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TensorFlow Example: Fit a straight line(github.com)
106 points by jostmey 10y ago|16 comments
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Few people have to use calculus or advanced probability or number theory, but everyone relies on it. The article missed this point. Need some examples? Public key cryptography, machine learning, physics simulations of the aerodynamic proper
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The US government will ban kratom but can't even bring itself to ban asbestos.
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FINALLY!!!!!

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