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by majos 8y ago
Probably not useful specific ones, as they're mostly about my own idiosyncracies. But if you can find a natural way to introduce some foible you have into the conversation, especially if it's something they've joked about bef
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On the same note, sometimes when I introduce two friends who don't know each other, I get the conversation rolling by (not overtly) getting them both to poke fun at me.
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I know we're supposed to downvote short jokes, but so help me I like this one.
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My read on why writing a book is seductive is more cynical: most people believe that writing a book is an achievement and signifies something about the writer -- depth of thought and feeling, intelligence, vague specialness, etc. So writing
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I don't think this shows that the author is incorrect. As far as I can tell, the author is arguing that it does not make sense to wring our hands over the death or life of "deep reading" because it has always been an unpopula
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Interestingly enough, randomness may be poised to make a comeback in decision-making as more decisions get made by algorithms. Many proposed "fair" learning algorithms require randomness, and IIRC the American legal attitude to fa
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I don't think so, rather I think everyone involved tacitly accepts that a ton of money and power is sufficient to buy your way into pretty much anything, even (especially?) top universities that enjoy cultivating money and power. There
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Huh. My understanding is that brutalism's claimed emphasis on practicality was kind of a pose, and that it was more of a competition to see who could be the most anti-bourgeois, to the extent that the working class hated living in hone
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Heh. I got 97%. I like to think I have a good face memory, but some of the noisy images felt like guessing. Also: weird that the test consists entirely of remembering the faces of white guys.
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It seems reasonable enough to argue both that 1. AI should take over certain human roles like driving, which causes millions of fatalities due to human error, and 2. it's silly to frame every new step in AI as part of a grand road to S
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by majos 8y ago
I hope this doesn't sound callous, but is there anything (beyond pancreatic cancer's aggressive mortality rate) to suggest that the disease is somehow "ripe" for increased research funding? "How much money should we
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Confused. Do restaurants have to pay to play songs?
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What's keeping major carriers from getting serious about these steps already?
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I didn't, but the Neopets HTML guide got me into writing my first code when I was around 10. Having a cool user lookup was a nice incentive, and IIRC there were a few mystery plots that involved picking around in webpage source code. I
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> unless we want another occupy movement or worse It seems like the current administration would be just fine with another Occupy movement. I mean, were they even a real problem for Obama, who had to at least make gestures of support in
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by majos 8y ago
If a student wants to get a taste of research, then they will probably need a research mentor with a PhD. Failing that, somebody who has published a few good papers -- but such people usually have PhDs! So it's not unreasonable to have
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by majos 8y ago
I promise I am not pursuing the tiresome argumentative tactic of demanding formal sources as a way to postpone defeat. But, seriously, do you have a source for > The majority of depression cases are relatively self-induced and could be f
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Oops, didn't know that. Thanks.
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@Florin_Andrei: Sure, but we have reasonable expectations of how bad things can get and our capacity to learn from them. Alter your perception and memory and those things go out the window, and that's way scarier than normal organic li
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As a dude-do-you-ever-think sidenote, this sort of thing keeps me from getting excited about any type of virtual reality that does anything with our brains. How do I know it won't simulate 10 years of torture, then at the end replace t
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by majos 8y ago
Heh. A few years ago one of the items on UChicago's Scavenger Hunt list was any UChicago library book containing an interrobang, used as intended, outside of a discussion of punctuation. I looked for a few hours. Never found one.
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by majos 8y ago
Many of these internships are research-oriented, so they're not really the same as normal undergrad/software development internships.
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As a PhD student, I'll lightly disagree and say that I'm happy in my PhD. I like doing research every day and having freedom to work when and where I want, on what I want. It's much better than the year I worked as a software
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by majos 8y ago
CS PhD student (not at Stanford) here. Based on the survey timing, 2015 respondents were in their 3rd year when answering this survey. I have personally heard and read that 3rd year is a hard year for many PhD students (and the experiences
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I can never quite tell whether to be impressed or depressed by the human capacity to conflate "this person is often on a screen near me" and "this person is my friend".
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This is a good point, I hadn't really thought about it but the credibility of photos has cratered in the past decade. Deepfakes' destruction of the credibility of videos is still worse because it totally removes the ability of a r
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by majos 8y ago
From this article: > AI researchers and platform technologists need similar in-house or third-party societal impact review boards to help them evaluate the potential unintended consequences of their work. As a machine learning researcher
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I suspect that lower GPA students have higher variance but lower expectation outcomes than higher GPA students. Higher GPA students, at least when the coursework is serious, tend to be at least one of extremely bright and extremely conscien
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One answer is to be braver about calling out people you think are sociopaths (maybe not using that word). Presumably some non-mops are in the sweet spot of having enough social skills to do this but not so much that they find it uncomfortab

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