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What do professors do (1995)(paulrcohen.github.io)
1 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
AI that is smarter than the average human has existed for a while. The average human isn't that bright. If we have an AI smarter than a smart human that would be impressive. But honestly average human hallucinations are worse that LL
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I spent a year working at Purdue, and while I never encountered the co-op program that sounds very on-brand for Purdue and a very cool project! Good for your sister!
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Perspectives from the Technical University of Munich(mirawelner.com)
3 points by mirawelner 2y ago|3 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
THANK GOD
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Edit: switched
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I have always wondered if the threshold for 'number of papers published' to get a professorship is higher than the number of high quality papers that can reasonably published in that amount of time. So, people cut corners and publ
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I’ve been meaning to switch to DuckDuckGo for years - this would be the final straw for me
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Grad School Is in Trouble(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Beware for if you continue down this road you will end up sitting in class taking notes in markdown… yes I did do this… I am afraid I am beyond salvation
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Research Debt(distill.pub)
2 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I like lobste.rs. It gets heat from being invite only and therefore somewhat snooty but I’m a big fan
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by mirawelner 2y ago
If you are going to be funding boss spyware at least have the guts to face the backlash
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by mirawelner 2y ago
There is also something to be said for the fact that good researchers tend to enjoy weird research and we can attract talent by encouraging weird research
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by mirawelner 2y ago
People resorting to protest via causing inconvenience. Which is probably one of the more effective forms of protest anyways.
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by mirawelner 2y ago
The main reason I blog is because I work (or am starting out working in) academia and therefore I have to write papers. To write academic papers you have to write terribly, using passive voice whenever possible. I blog so that I know I am s
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Write for Yourself, Not an Audience(softwaredoug.com)
5 points by mirawelner 2y ago|2 comments
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What does Bing chat tell us about AI risk(cold-takes.com)
1 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I don’t think it is - the whole blog is in txt https://misc.l3m.in/txt/
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by mirawelner 2y ago
Sometimes I think to myself 'I should ignore HackerNews and do all my posting on lobste.rs' and then I come across a post like this and I remember why I love this site.
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Does X Cause Y(cold-takes.com)
3 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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The Codebase of a National Lab I Worked At(mirawelner.com)
2 points by mirawelner 2y ago|1 comments
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"Will I ever use this in the real world?" (2016)(blog.waleedkhan.name)
2 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
While I disagree with Ed Zitron's opinion that we are at 'peak AI', I do completely agree with his other points, especially the points he was making that OpenAI and Anthropic had no incentives to make things more efficient an
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Ask HN: What computer science blogs do you have bookmarked?
5 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I think at the end of the day the reason that the opensourced DeepSeek is because they are programmers. Programmers like to show people the cool stuff they did. I had a boss who was rich enough to retire but was working three jobs because p
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by mirawelner 2y ago
I found that people think that whatever you are doing must be extremely cool if you display it with the 3rd dimension being time. So create a video of each frame of the hyperspectral image and it shifts from one frame to another. Idk if it
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Five important things about DeepSeek(garymarcus.substack.com)
1 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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NLP Best Practices(ruder.io)
1 points by mirawelner 2y ago|0 comments
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Why I Don't Like Hackathons(mirawelner.com)
5 points by mirawelner 2y ago|1 comments

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