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First ever photo of quantum entanglement(sciencealert.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Spacecraft Cemetery(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Boeing Just Gave Us a New Reason to Be Terrified of Flying(gizmodo.com)
2 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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The Dreams of Google's AI (2015)(qz.com)
1 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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The Average Age of an Empire is about 240 years [pdf](people.uncw.edu)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
there are ways to do this but the market for the manuals would be pretty small.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
by research lab, he means a research group led by a specific faculty member in an academic department. in other words: he is talking about reviews on specific professors as doctoral degree advisers.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
there are some academic disciplines which are extremely guilty of this. they are the ones that are insecure about their status as a science.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
but put it the other way: can you contrive some extremely bad notation to make it harder to understand Galois theory?
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
I thought it worked. It was his way of demonstrating one of his own requirements: (Preservation of quality, I) Every "natural" concept in 𝑋 X should be easily expressible using the notation. So, if he is going to commit to his ide
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BadPower attack corrupts fast chargers to melt or set your device on fire(zdnet.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
Assuming Kratsios does not have experience already in doing so at Clarium: the problem will be -- when there is a dispute of opinion at the pentagon and two Ph.D.s with decades of experience come in with vast amounts of experience, but oppo
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
This agrees with everything I have seen over my career, and adds yet another powerful reason for why age discrimination exists in tech.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
I have seen great tech leaders without a STEM degree. But they have a deep understanding of technology people, technology development as a process, and technology as a business. I have seen would-be tech leaders who tried to take shortcuts.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
the word intended by previous poster is "cronyism."
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
Elos would give a nice apples to apples comparison for something that is an inherently comparative skill. Ironically, Elo may be better for AI than for chess now; in chess, there used to be only a relative measure of strength, but with engi
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
I was waiting for the Eliza comparison. How does GPT-3 react when you curse at him? Whatever her shortcomings, Eliza knew when to end a conversation.
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
Fixing this will be the exception rather than the rule. The author identifies it: the incentives are all wrong once you become a mature company. How likely is it, for instance, that Zoom will internally develop the VR chat app that will be
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On Covid19, from the man who helped eradicate smallpox(wired.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
Problems notwithstanding, I depend on Zoom now. Maybe 100 years from now it will be thought quaint that we flew around in metal tubes to meet people in person.
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The Case for Reparations(theatlantic.com)
4 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|1 comments
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"This is Fine" (2016)(theverge.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Making NSF more like DARPA?(benjaminreinhardt.com)
1 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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DoNotPay Unsubscribes You from Spam–and Tries to Get You Paid(wired.com)
7 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|2 comments
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by mmhsieh 6y ago
in some sense the history of the SAT examinations is a deep example of Goodhart at work.
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Ultrametric Spaces(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Banned by YouTube, gun lovers are taking their videos to Pornhub(therooster.com)
2 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|2 comments
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The Verrueckt Water Slide(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Why the US has so many Filipino nurses(youtube.com)
1 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments
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Chinese period drama reverses gender roles(radiichina.com)
1 points by mmhsieh 6y ago|0 comments

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