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by moab 4y ago
The claims made in this post are in dire need of citations, and don't strike me as believable. And just FWIW, most first-generation Indians in America couldn't give two shits about the caste system.
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by moab 4y ago
The plan makes sense. A likely issue for folks currently preparing papers in LaTeX is that they will be put off by the extra work of having to port/write another copy of their document in Nota, but maybe this is intended. You shouldn&
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by moab 4y ago
Nice work as usual, Will. How do you plan to convince users that this is not just a research prototype that will be abandoned after being published, and won't suffer from bit-rot 5 to 10 years from now? You talk about this a bit at the
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by moab 5y ago
Strikes me as very anomalous. 5% attendance? Anyway, bad idea to draw conclusions from one university…
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by moab 5y ago
These kind of prognostications /opinions are easily falsifiable by talking to your coworkers that went to other universities. Most of the top-25 schools have upper-div CS classes that are nothing like what you're taking about, wit
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by moab 5y ago
"During our conversation, I was continually struck by the degree to which Hotz and his company are anti-mimetic. Like many founders of tech startups—thanks to the influence of Peter Thiel – Hotz has a passing familiarity with René Gira
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Urban vs. Rural Sustainability(ranprieur.com)
3 points by moab 5y ago|0 comments
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by moab 5y ago
I found your comment hard to follow, but I think I got the general idea. I’m not sure I buy the last extreme disjunction you’re making though. Surely we can have some middle ground between anarchic individualism and a totalitarian thought-p
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by moab 5y ago
It looks like the English translation of Haffner's memoir is titled "Defying Hitler: A Memoir". Thanks for the recs!
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by moab 5y ago
Your post reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U This is fantastic satire :-)
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by moab 5y ago
This is a great idea, and I hope they will be able to scale it beyond UCB/Stanford/UCSF. A little cynically, I wonder whether PIs at these #1-ranked universities in CS/Medicine actually need an additional funding program sinc
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by moab 5y ago
Can you expand more or provide a concrete example for the second point? What kind of database-like searches are you thinking about for spatial data? Things like range-queries can already be (approximately) done. Or are you thinking about re
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by moab 5y ago
No doubt there is a lot of good advice in your post. Being independent is of course a key aspect of being a successful scientist and researcher, whether in industry or in the traditional pathways in academia (tenure track asst. prof, etc).
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by moab 5y ago
No offense but your post is rambling and does not contain great advice for prospective phds. Most advisors I met during PhD were extremely generous with their time and their ideas, and their students would not have found appropriate problem
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by moab 5y ago
A little off-topic, but I find it strange to brand the company around the "Eigen" name when it's already a super well-known C++ numerical library: https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
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A New Medium for Communicating Research on Programming Languages(willcrichton.net)
3 points by moab 5y ago|0 comments
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by moab 5y ago
Obligatory on the topic of long-burning bulbs: https://www.tildedave.com/byron.html
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by moab 5y ago
The comment is about turkish tenses that are "similar" to the kind of knowledge conveyed in the tenses OP points out. It seems relevant to me.
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by moab 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this. The only book by Sebald I have read is "The Rings of Saturn", a wonderful book about a walking trip through the south-east of England. Sebald mixes personal reminiscence with the history of the largely for
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by moab 5y ago
Reading about bar-ends made me think about the Brompton P-type, which (alas!) Brompton recently discontinued: https://www.bikefolded.com/brompton-s-m-p-h-type-handlebar-d...
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What If Remote Work Didn’t Mean Working from Home?(newyorker.com)
2 points by moab 5y ago|1 comments
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by moab 5y ago
Although you might have a point with regards to vocational training, there is basically no research coming out of places like lambda school and the recurse center (please correct me if I am wrong). Things will change only when researchers c
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by moab 5y ago
We have been using objects of the kind described in your last paragraph, called compilers since the 1950s, and with the increasing number of portability-focused high-performance DSLs / frameworks like tensorflow or OneAPI, we are only
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by moab 5y ago
Thank you for posting this. It's an excellent talk that covers history, personal stories, and great anecdotes. For the amount of success he's had, he comes across as incredibly down-to-earth.
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by moab 6y ago
Snark aside, I can't see what good maintaining such a public list and encouraging people (presumably frustrated graduate students) to submit complaints. When working on the experimental section of a paper, maybe half of the papers you
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by moab 6y ago
Seems about time that woke-tactics are applied to the high-stakes playground of academic reputation.
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by moab 6y ago
Just FYI you probably meant equate instead of equivocate. Two other reasons to add on to the GP's post: (i) improving our species fault-tolerance to astroids, and other existential risk is a good thing (ii) efforts like SpaceX make sci
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Praxis: Build the Future on the Frontier(bluebookcities.com)
1 points by moab 6y ago|0 comments
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by moab 6y ago
I agree that in principle anyone can do what they want, and I hope that in our long term our society can actually realize this ideal, but in practice an individual's decisions are informed by the mores and attitudes of the culture they
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by moab 6y ago
Thanks for the datapoints and level-headed reply, and apologies for the snark. I didn't know about the Cornell study, although I am not at all surprised to hear that. How do you suggest representation imbalance in CS faculty gets somew

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