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by mathteddybear 4y ago
Ohm's law you called resistance law, Maxwell's equations you called electromagnetic equations, Planck's constant you called the quantum constant... -- The Three Body Problem
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by mathteddybear 4y ago
The survey did not include any question about start-up career prospects, I suppose what Paul Graham touted regarding software startups is not widely applicable across most fields.
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by mathteddybear 4y ago
The reason is simple - in math, it means solving open problems.
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by mathteddybear 4y ago
Lemoine's public LinkedIn profile. Also, dekhn did not include Google Translate system in his list for the first 15 years of Google https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198695 so there's that.
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by mathteddybear 4y ago
Blaise Aguera y Arcas calls it a consummate improviser; when the AI Test Kitchen ships you all will agree that it's an improvising software that is not too shabby, and also it can be customized by developers. Which is why it is odd to
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by mathteddybear 4y ago
Indeed computer science is not trivial.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Curious thought, isn't in this area that the most important thing to avoid showing to the user certain undesirable result by accident? Not implying that bing ever failed to do that.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Several Google ad products involve serving the same ad on Search as well on other people's pages.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
I cannot recall if they were popular games that matched it at the time. Let's not underestimate the online elements of the game (and the lack of difficulty levels, lack of saving game, that goes with it). As for the combat, that was th
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
In the linked opinion piece, the author calls the surveillance capitalism unethical; the author of Surveillance Capitalism wrote entire book which is more nuanced. Likewise, the field of algorithmic fairness is more detailed than the politi
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
The term "surveillance capitalism" was made by one prof (seriously, the book starts with one-pager "The Definition", Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n. (...)), however it has its own Wikipedia page. On that Wikipedia page,
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Did you get to the part about choking? To me, the article seems just a long collections of folks contributing speculations. I might be biased because the wife of my cousing-in-law is researching these topics scientifically
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Well, the European Publishers Council published an "executive summary" of their complaint https://www.epceurope.eu/executive-summary and they just seem to copy stuff from Texas AG third-amended doc. As you seem to
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Sure there might have been no profit in making gay doodles for Putin. With ads, "almost" zero profit turns out to be a unicorn sized I guess. If we have to stick to that shallow judgement. On the other side of a spectrum is "
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
But is there a perception that they are? I mean, in my home country, the stereotypes about mathematicians usually involve them being out-of-touch with the material world, so to speak.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
One time when I was still a sophomore a friendly professor shared a story how one of his colleagues had a math paper accepted, and found an error in the proof only after it was published. So he had another paper in that journal next, with t
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
I guess not really. The ad exchange is sort of an auction of auctions; for bare efficiency, every participating network submits only their top two candidates. This is communicated to ad networks; I guess, there is no obligation that the net
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
WIRED 3 days ago reported on it in a less confusing manner. Also it included a comment from Google > In a statement, Google said, “AG Paxton’s latest allegation—that we generated a ‘third price auction’ or manipulated our ad exchange—is
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
is "on a net basis" the same as "auction winners are selected based on highest bid after fees"?
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
The article seems to be a survey of some recent pieces on this topic. The titular question, however, cannot be answered "how?" without answering "when?". I, too, heard it is the early personal computers. I suppose that i
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
On top of what was said already in this thread, I think there is some opportunity these days in applying AI / ML to certain elements of video games, for example writing. It would be difficult to call it wholly novel video games, though
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
I believe the phrase was "Once sales start dying" though Anyways, while there are some similarities shared between Open Source and video game modding scenes, they are substantially different. Instead of evidence to back up this cl
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Yeah, especially that in the context of this article, the distinction between Engineering and Product is presented as > Engineering wins by producing beautiful and scalable systems, in pursuing that they sometimes build too complex too q
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
Ever thought it might be a carrot to dangle to ICs "look at them yo-yos! that's the way to do it! if you work hard and stay in this company, you could be able to enjoy 2-hour week work, too! No need to break away and start a start
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
As someone who put more lines of code into <50KLOC hobby project, that is not guaranteed, especially when your "little work" affects the bottom line on megabucks scale.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
There was a leak of Twitch data recently, so we know that top twitch-ers earn megabucks. The real business is, of course, Twitch itself.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
He said that about a non-fiction book by her, an essay about a school reading realist Polish novel from XIX century. In Poland, being a good fiction writer is correlated with being a good literary critic as much as in any other country. DYP
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
According to that post, "You don't have nights OnCall" applies only to SREs covering the systems of the highest profile. Which is not even all SREs Anyways SREs are software developers as well. The distinction SWE/SRE ca
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
It is common in internet software companies, less common in other kinds of software companies. Bigger companies tend to have multiple levels of compensation for different oncall rotations.
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by mathteddybear 5y ago
I don't often want to be on-call, but when I do, it goes like this My team managed to get paid for oncall that we had set up with a number of false positives, click-to-fix alerts, "override if slightly above threshold", rules

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