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by ke88y 3y ago
Military officer corps at least comes with a insanely generous pay+benefits package when compared to PhD and post-doc. And the bar is lower and work easier for most positions.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> The friend got a job at Google, and as far as I can tell, is supporting their spouse's dedication to this job search. Your friend is a saint. Those types of multi-postdoc job hunts usually end in divorce. I can't imagine th
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by ke88y 3y ago
This isn't even close to true (was: was there). Or maybe we're misunderstanding one another. By "inane corner" I mean "can't even fill a single session at a 100 person specialized conference". Even in the
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by ke88y 3y ago
What field? In CS this is trivial, as long as you're doing science that is still relevant to the world and not working on some inane corner of some pet project from the 1980s that people should've stopped thinking about a long tim
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by ke88y 3y ago
The problem with the community events approach is that the students you are mentoring rarely have the time to commit. It can happen, but it's rare. If you just want to scratch that teaching and mentoring itch, you can opt out of most o
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by ke88y 3y ago
> which some academic friends of mine claimed was not possible To be fair: "industry" is not one thing. There's a huge difference between being a software engineer at a non-R&D software company doing uninteresting co
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by ke88y 3y ago
> I legitimately can't tell if this is satire or not. I mean... really? It's clearly satire. And fairly well constructed prose imo. What the author's actual point is, though, I have absolutely no idea. Maybe there is no
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by ke88y 3y ago
Again, without a baseline educational background, doing so in a way that's productive -- ie anything more than running around like a chicken with its head cut off -- is impossible. There were journalists on the COVID vaccine beat for o
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by ke88y 3y ago
I agree with your prescriptions, but worry the point might've slipped by. > READ the papers The point of my original comment is that most journalists don't have the educational background required to do this. And everything e
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by ke88y 3y ago
> Most journalists aren't experts on the law, either. How do they report on court cases? Journalists have roughly the same undergraduate educational background as lawyers and receive a half-decent education on the high level basi
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> You don’t judge a source by reading the source itself. Well then, I guess we at least agree on the following: today we have science "reporting" done by "journalists" who will write about findings reported in publ
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But who? And what questions do you ask? Without a baseline, you're poking around in the dark. Or knocking on the same 20 doors at the same 20 universities, and all those people talk to each other and they and their students all sit on
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by ke88y 3y ago
Ideally, but AFAICT that's not how it works. I have given a number of interviews to "Science" journalists, in two occasions even for science-focused publications. In each case I began the interview by asking the journalist to
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by ke88y 3y ago
Big question: HOW? Most journalists in the USA receive basically zero scientific education. At university I majored in two STEM subjects but also took 10 courses in Philosophy, Art, History, Journalism, and Economics. Almost no one majoring
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by ke88y 3y ago
Yeah, this is my general feeling about why this area is doomed. It's why I haven't bothered to write up a patent even though I had some good ideas a few years ago. Maybe that was a mistake since governments and corporate politicia
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by ke88y 3y ago
I would like to know the same thing. In the case of JPEG and similar schemes in particular, an impossibility result that isn't unrealistically narrowly scoped (again assuming non-adversarial user) would be highly surprising.
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And a huge chunk of the electorate (in more than one country even!) is hugely influenced by or at least aligned with Rupert Murdoch. These questions are political, even if you've made up your mind about them.
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by ke88y 3y ago
> perfect I think you're being distracted and confused by imprecise and inaccurate descriptions of the intent of various algorithms, instead of considering what actual algorithms actually do. No existing compression algorithm wa
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by ke88y 3y ago
FWIW, I always recommend charging 3 months of jr dev time for cross-licensing and use the cash to pay for a project-related internship. It's win-win-win: - you get help with your project, - the project (and its corporate user) gets new
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by ke88y 3y ago
What is the browser-based debugging tool story for compiled-to-WASM languages?
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Yeah, I should have been more specific. I think people agree to this when you say it out loud but the recognition is not actually reflected in favored evaluation and research methodology.
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Agreed. It's an effective strong-man example in the context of western democracies, though. At least if you include the word genocide. And are also careful to not explicitly point out that Native American relocation and Black Slavery w
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by ke88y 3y ago
> There isn't space for invisible watermarks by design. Very incorrect. Steghide [1] supports JPEG. JPEG and other lossy image formats are ultimately just fancy file formats; there's nothing preventing you from encoding arbit
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by ke88y 3y ago
"Toxicity" in the LLM space is much less well-defined and there seems to be a reticence on the part of the research community to admit that defining "toxicity" is a necessarily subjective and often political exercise. I
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by ke88y 3y ago
Wait, what in the world are you talking about?! The paper is about improving face attribute detection by using demographic information. They improve performance on some standard benchmarks by doing this. The only way your characterization p
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by ke88y 3y ago
It might be more informative to look at the current US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation [1]. There are some reasonable people on the committee on both sides of the isle [2]. Noticeably missing are any true subject m
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And Minsky before them.
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"the AI is going to kill us all, dear Senators! Nothing to see in this disgustingly immoral little corner of the world where I'm building a measly $100 million personal fortune!"
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> What the fuck even is "AI" anyway? Indeed. For most lay people I've talked to -- family, friends, and acquiescence outside of tech -- the answer ultimately boils down to "automation that can do my job or can do th
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by ke88y 3y ago
> while a lot of that funding gets redirected back to universities, a healthy amount of it goes directly towards research that all of us benefit from tremendously. It's a crime that all of that money isn't accessible to peo

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