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by majos 8y ago
What do you do now?
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by majos 8y ago
I've seen some people use NeurIPS.
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by majos 8y ago
I did read that part. It seemed like more of the same ("in each of these places, there are some interesting light patterns on specific bits of art at different times"). If it's the same coincidences (e.g. all of them light
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by majos 8y ago
> When Zoll spoke to the Hopi, he learned that the panel appeared to mark religious celebrations and important dates for farmers. On 21 April, a day associated with the first planting, a shadow’s bottom edge touches a carving resembling
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by majos 8y ago
Not a bad pitch, but I suppose the main difficulty is getting the pitch to potential students in the first place, which is much harder past the very top schools. If the nature of your funding allows it keeping a close eye out for motivated
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by majos 8y ago
How is it better for them to work for you and get a PhD rather than working in industry? I ask this as a computer science PhD student on the theory/algorithms side, where opportunities to learn how to do research fresh out of undergrad
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by majos 8y ago
This dream-of-teeth-falling-out thing is intriguing. I've never experienced it and I dream pretty much every night, even during naps. Yet somehow it's a "type" of dream for many people.
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by majos 8y ago
Agreed, but my primary bone to pick here is that people seem to be proposing further rent control as a viable solution to the housing problem, rather than fixing existing restrictive building codes.
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by majos 8y ago
Good point. I was thinking of this from the perspective of people who can't afford to live in place x, not people trying to avoid being forced out of place x by rising rents. I'm not well-versed in the state of rent control in CA,
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by majos 8y ago
The amount of popular support for rent control depresses me in the same way that the popularity of lottery tickets does. People in general seem to have an endless capacity to believe that the rare, improbable, valuable opportunity will go t
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by majos 8y ago
Is shifting costs from servers to clients such a massive savings that it could outweigh annoyed users? I genuinely have no feel for the relevant amounts here.
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by majos 8y ago
I don't get this article. As far as I can tell, it wants to prove (in spite of the headline) that mental illness and creativity are not really correlated. Then it goes on to say that measuring either mental illness or creativity is har
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by majos 8y ago
On a related note, I think this idea explains the appeal of smart jerk god characters (Doctor Who, Doctor House, Rick Sanchez, Sherlock Holmes...) to a sizeable portion of nerds (including me). "So smart they can't help but need y
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by majos 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I was unaware of 1. how important midwesterners have been to Silicon Valley, and 2. how old the Silicon Valley-Wall Street cultural divide is. Plus, just a fun read.
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by majos 8y ago
Semi-related question: is the reason smaller people can't donate smaller quantities of blood that transfusion volumes are completely standardized and odd quantities of blood not practically usable? I ask as someone who's never bee
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by majos 8y ago
I agree with a caveat, Sometimes I see people take this sort of complexity (there are limits to what we know, science is fallible, there are different interpretations of pretty much everything) and run with it (YouTube conspiracy theories c
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by majos 8y ago
> [W]e're all otaku now. Are we? Perhaps this is true for the people that write New Yorker articles, and a big chunk of those who read them, but from what I can tell most average Americans use Facebook, play basic app games, watch
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by majos 8y ago
Nice, relevant excerpt. A while back I got very interested in Lucian Freud, moreso for the relationships he had with his portrait subjects rather than the portraits themselves. Long story short many of these relationships became romantic (m
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by majos 9y ago
I find that it makes it easier for me to eat more, to the extent that as I try to gain weight I've taken up sprinting again -- I just find it easier to eat more after sprinting, more I'm sure than I actually burn in 15 minutes of
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by majos 9y ago
"Something useful" here refers to an opinion on what the book in question is "about", or an interesting lesson I drew from it, or a coherent reason why I might recommend it to somebody else. Here, for example, is what I
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by majos 9y ago
Yup. I find it helpful to use a scrap of paper as a bookmark and write down the page numbers of excerpts that strike me. Then when I'm done I go back and type the excerpts up into a big Google doc I keep for this purpose along with a p
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by majos 9y ago
I would not say that most academics are "perfectly fine with the status quo". But I would say that most academics have enough competing interests taking their time away from research that they're uninterested in taking on ano
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by majos 9y ago
This requires trusting at least one of the servers to store your raw data, correct? Local differential privacy doesn't. You might imagine having servers in different countries so that the whole system can't be subpoenaed by any on
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by majos 9y ago
This varies by field, and it varies very closely in proportion to the employability of a master's degree in that field. A master's degree in biology does not have the job prospects of a master's degree in computer science, so
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by majos 9y ago
Apple's epsilon reset problem is real, but it's worth pointing out that they use additional heuristics based on hashing that plausibly add another layer of privacy [1]. Plausibly, not provably, but it's a bit more than just r
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by majos 9y ago
> and if they are truly a "young Einstein," they'll demonstrate it on their own, just like old Einstein did. I disagree with this. The fact that some young prodigies proved it early and eventually became productive adult g
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by majos 9y ago
> If you steal, pay back the stolen goods manyfold. Setting things up so that you profit when someone is convicted of stealing from you seems like a dangerous incentive.
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by majos 9y ago
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted. Wikipedia attributes poaching pretty much entirely to demand for rhino horn in "traditional Asian medicine". > Rhino horn can fetch tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram on the
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by majos 9y ago
I thought the tech scene in Minneapolis revolved almost entirely around healthcare. Is this incorrect?
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by majos 9y ago
> I think you can also contrast this to the many more people who decide to drink alcohol and then drive. Sure, but drinking (more than a little) and driving is already illegal, so they're not exactly comparable.

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