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by kem 9y ago
I came here to say something similar. I've become genuinely disturbed at how substandard generic peripherals have become. What's especially disturbing to me is that the problem often seems to be drifting from spec standards, adher
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by kem 9y ago
This touches on so many issues at once I don't even know where to start (private versus public, social medial popularity cycles, distributed versus centralized services...) I think it's not just an alternative to Facebook we need,
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by kem 9y ago
I agree 100%, although I've always been surprised that a game like Freeciv wasn't vector-graphics based, because it seems to fit so well. Maybe not Freeciv per se, but something similar. I haven't checked in awhile, though, s
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by kem 9y ago
God this more than anything before has made me feel old. Is GitHub that strongly associated with open source that alternate models for open source development are a mystery? Somehow that's really troubling to me in terms of the open
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by kem 9y ago
Is this a surprise? Pai has made it abundantly clear he doesn't care what consumers think. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but the idea he would respond to their concerns always seemed naive to me.
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by kem 9y ago
There's one big difference between software engineers and healthcare: regulation. A software engineer is hired for their skills (at least ostensibly). No one is required by law to hire someone with a specific degree and specific post
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by kem 9y ago
Yeah, that was one of my first thoughts about this. I have no love lost for Comey but there's a huge conflict of interest here with Trump and I think the reasons for Trump firing Comey are not the reasons I would want him fired. Comey
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by kem 9y ago
Good point. Finding contact information for certain individuals is more difficult than it might seem initially, though. Especially if someone has left the academic setting per se: a common pattern is for people to leave and go to a business
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by kem 9y ago
I'm an editor at a journal, and these fake review cases have one thing in common, which is that the journal is using author suggestions for reviewers to solicit reviews. For those unfamiliar with the practice, this is common, and seems
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by kem 9y ago
I agree about what you see as the biggest problem with the "lone genius" myth, but the myth itself is so insidious to me, with so many facets, that volumes more could be said about it. I agree with the OP that the article isn&#x27
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by kem 9y ago
I guess that's the thing: from what I can tell, Turkey ceased being a democracy with Erdogan. I do not believe anything pertaining to votes in Turkey for some time, since the time Erdogan was first elected. That vote was suspect, and s
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by kem 9y ago
So... you identify HPEs by saying "Are you a HPE? If so, fill out our survey"? There's a certain circularity to this, in that people are probably more likely to self-identify as a HPE if they're getting lots of offers. I
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by kem 9y ago
Eh ... in my experience as an editor, author, and reviewer, this varies quite a bit. Sometimes you can take a pretty good guess who it is based on the topic and the references (e.g., citations to in-press papers on obscure topics is usually
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by kem 9y ago
Not an expert, but my understanding after reading that article was that at an important level, whether or not Dr. Dao was obligate to exit depends on whether or not he was appropriately told to exit. If he was, he was trespassing; if not he
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by kem 9y ago
Nim looks great, but I have to admit after looking through the website it's unclear to me why I would use this over similar alternatives. In particular, why Nim over Go (or why Go over Nim)? Is the Python's established presence an
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by kem 9y ago
Damn, I'm a tenured professor and reading through the comments it seems like I'm the only one who thinks this is a good idea at some level. The reasons I think it probably wouldn't work are things I haven't seen anyone m
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by kem 9y ago
The issue is that the networks are using a trivial, nonessential stimulus feature to base classification decisions on. It's like basing the decision on a very small-eigenvalue feature eigenvector. That could be a training set issue, or
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by kem 9y ago
It seems to me that Vice casually mentioning Mastodon suggests something about a level of achieved status as a communication platform.
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by kem 10y ago
This is just an anecdote as a consumer, but our interest in it when we were looking in to it heavily stemmed from environmental control products, broadly defined. I'm not sure if I care about my fridge connecting to the internet, but I
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by kem 10y ago
The industry I see Rust making headway into first is actual security. E.g., encrypted communications, etc. The problem with aerospace, automotive, etc. is that there's substantial physical risk associated with errors. So there's n
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by kem 10y ago
There are many, many studies showing the same thing. This study is just one example. See, e.g., meta-analyses of your choice: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/79/4/599/ They're predictive, b
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by kem 10y ago
I've been using R intensively for almost two decades, and Python for about half that time. I enjoy using them both and think they're great languages. I don't think it's an either-or thing, because they both have somethin
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by kem 10y ago
Funny, I had the exact same question, and spent the last hour or so looking into it before I saw your question. In something I've been writing lately, I've wanted to be able to use certain typefaces, but they lack mathematical sym
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by kem 10y ago
I think this quote of yours summarizes why I still use bookmarks extensively: "If I come across a deep link that's so important that I want to keep it, I email myself the link along with maybe a short description, and it will be s
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by kem 10y ago
As a professor, I probably agree that a lot of academia probably isn't that valuable, and probably could be reorganized. However: 1. I think the same arguments could be made about just about anything anywhere. People forget that. 2. I
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by kem 10y ago
I wish people understood this better. I'm not a Go programmer, but I have a lot of respect for it. If you're wondering "why Go"? Think of it as a modern version of C, at a slightly higher level, developed by the same peo
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by kem 10y ago
Speaking from my own areas of experience, I've been struck by how much some celebrated methods and results in machine learning, broadly speaking, basically amount to tinkering without any hard generalizable proofs. In at least one case
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by kem 10y ago
I've had this same conversation with colleagues. I think there's a mixture of things going on. There's a lot more of this going on in a lot of fields, especially the biomedical and social sciences, but probably everywhere. I
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by kem 10y ago
I have nothing against C++, Rust, or Go--I like all of them for different reasons and see them serving different goals, and see room for all sorts of languages. I also agree that there's a discrepancy between how Rust is discussed and
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by kem 10y ago
I think it's less about universities and more about grant agencies and publications. The last sentence of the abstract points to the broader problems in academics, of which this is a part: "Intellectual, social, and re- source bar

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