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by mazelife 10y ago
I think that's a bit of an uncharitable reading. He anticipates a similar objection with, "You’d lose out on entry level talent! Maybe, or maybe part of your operations would be getting to know college kids ." (Emphasis min
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by mazelife 10y ago
My company, which is a tech company, pretty much does exactly what the author describes as his preferred process: "I strongly prefer code reviews and evaluation of my public code samples and am just not interested in discussing why man
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by mazelife 11y ago
I don't know that this is "something that would matter to a business" per se, but here's something else they're working on with it: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
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by mazelife 11y ago
The most detailed accounting I've come across of the economic realities of the record biz (including the myriad ways an artist can be screwed by his or her label) is the book "So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star" by Jacob
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by mazelife 11y ago
I'd somehow never heard of this guy. The piece of his they link to doesn't contain any microtonality (at least not the parts I listened to) and sounds _very_ much like mid-period Scriabin. I was a little disappointed at first, but
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by mazelife 11y ago
Here are some links that might interest you: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/11/02/sae-denies-charges-... http://features.yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/16/harassme
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by mazelife 11y ago
It's a shame no recordings of this instrument are known to exist [1]. Given the mechanism was quite similar, it seems likely it would have sounded like a Hammond Organ. [1] http://www.historyofrecording.com/Telharmonium
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by mazelife 11y ago
Yes, but there are an infinite number of ways it could possibly not work. How long will they go on discovering them? Edison could say something like that because he actually was able to successfully build and market a lightbulb.
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by mazelife 11y ago
Good piece in the Baltimore Sun from a few months ago about what a boondoggle this project has turned out to be: http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/federal-workplace/bs-md... "But after 17 years of research
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by mazelife 11y ago
I dunno, taking aim at jargon seems to be central to the article's purpose based on my reading of it: "The idea that writing should be clear, concise, and low-jargon isn’t a new one—and it isn’t limited to government agencies, of
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by mazelife 11y ago
I'm not going to say that there's isn't plenty of obscurantism, needless jargon, and just plain bad writing in academia. But, this article paints a pretty simplistic and one-sided picture. Let me take a quote that's embl
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by mazelife 11y ago
Or EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), which is very useful when you suspect disk IO may be a choke point.
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by mazelife 11y ago
Since when does supporting the righting of an injustice require you to also support rioting? I'm sorry, that just doesn't logically follow. You're confusing the tactics of a tiny minority with the substance or a huge movement
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by mazelife 11y ago
So when a small group of individuals riots that somehow validates, for you, the injustices experienced by the larger majority? That suggests a pretty shallow commitment in the first place. Look, I'm a Baltimore resident and I hated to
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by mazelife 11y ago
There was a pretty good long-form piece about Yahoo News in The Baffler a while back [1]. It was by Chris Lehmann, a former YN editor. Although one expects that there's going to be a certain amount of one-sidedness in an account by an
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by mazelife 11y ago
I have very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's great to see a younger and/or less-traditional audience attending symphony concerts. But I wonder what percentage of these first-timers would ever come back for a non-vi
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by mazelife 11y ago
You're point about "Irish songs seem to be simple enough for the NN to understand it back to front," is a good one. There are a number of aspects of the compositional parameters here that I think make it much easier to genera
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by mazelife 11y ago
I'm not sure if you read incorrectly, or it the article was updated after your comment, but I don't see that quote anywhere. What I do see is: "Just as nuclear scientists developed norms of ethics and best practices that have
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I spent a weekend at Google talking about charity. I came away worried(vox.com)
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by mazelife 11y ago
No doubt there is interesting data to be mined here, but I wouldn't rely on it solely. The vast majority of patients are not in a good position to evaluate the quality of care they received. The kind of things they typically judge by a
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by mazelife 11y ago
In addition, the realities of managed care and reimbursement rates mean that--for many types of practices--doctors have to see a pretty large volume of patients every day to be able to stay afloat. No doctor I've talked to likes this s
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by mazelife 11y ago
- Violent offenders represent 53% of the population of state prisons and 7.9% in federal prisons [1]. So what's everybody else doing there? Also, it's necessary to present evidence that our unheard of incarceration rates are what
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by mazelife 12y ago
That's a good point. A sum type/disjoint union (by my understanding) means the type is in the union of subsets and that the subsets are pairwise disjoint, but it doesn't say that the subsets have to be finite. Since this post
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by mazelife 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out; I think the syntax highlighter may have clobbered some code. It's now fixed.
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by mazelife 12y ago
Author here. Thanks for pointing me to pylogsparser, I'll definitely take a look at that. Your point is well taken: without building a parallel implementation in Python, we don't have a way of knowing for sure if Haskell is faster
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by mazelife 12y ago
This seems to be similar to Euterpea, a domain-specific language embedded in Haskell for computer music composition: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/ . I'm curious what the differences are, either in capabiliti
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by mazelife 12y ago
There's a secondary source of government funding beyond earmarked grants to universities: the tuition assistance it offers to students, which then goes straight into the pocket of the school. Consider pell grant spending, which has gro
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by mazelife 12y ago
I'm not getting mixed up about the direction the money flows; see my quote down-thread: "endowments come from donors by definition" When asking why is tuition growing, I was saying exactly what you state: that for universitie
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by mazelife 12y ago
No, endowments come from donors by definition. The question is—for schools that are sitting on large endowments—why is tuition so expensive? And why are there so many cutbacks to things like number of full-time faculty when the school is s
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by mazelife 12y ago
Mostly anecdotal, which is why I said "suspects". I'd love to see a comprehensive comparison of university endowment growth over the last few decades. I suspect the data's all there, but nobody's pulled it together.

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