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by moab 6y ago
I recently applied to the faculty job market and wrote a diversity statement. I have also served on the hiring end (last year), and have heard enough to understand that the content in this statement will neither make nor break your case, bu
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by moab 6y ago
It sounds like you have not been in an R1 university (ever?) and are pulling your critiques out of a hat after listening to right-of-center podcasts like the Rubin report. I would love to hear about a _single_ R1 university that is hiring b
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by moab 6y ago
> and they are absolutely in every way possible better off than a bison wondering the Serengeti Why is that, though? I would reckon that most animals on the Serengeti (not Bison, mind you) live out their average lifespan. Sure, some perc
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by moab 6y ago
At what cost, and with what kind of externalities? Individual rewards that come at the expense of social / public health, the inability to have nuanced political conversations, and depressive symptoms for a broad segment of the userbas
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by moab 6y ago
I am sure we would still have some number of dairy cows like the lovely highland cows that this person takes care of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmBYs53quP8 Their population would be greatly reduced, but is having a bi
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by moab 6y ago
Well, if you take the time to learn about dairy farming (even in free range dairy farms), you would quickly find out that cows have a natural lifespan of ~20 years, but cows used in dairy farms have an average lifespan of ~6 years. From the
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by moab 6y ago
Choice quotes like "Kanye is the only candidate to my knowledge that has talked about agriculture." abound. Funny read.
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by moab 6y ago
Thanks for this great comment. What kind of workloads are people trying to run on sensor data that arrives at such a high velocity? Time series analysis? Anomaly detection? I wish I had a better idea of what kind of specific problems users
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by moab 6y ago
Yes, there's a few papers over the last few years on this, starting with this paper: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sanjeev/papers/soda14_disjoint_se... Here is a more recent paper (from this year) analyzing conc
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by moab 6y ago
If he was suspended for that, it is truly a sad day for USC. There seems to be 0 malicious intent; he's explicitly referring to "that that that" before saying it in Chinese. This is a common way of saying "um..." in
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by moab 6y ago
That's really unfortunate. I agree that the $$$ and accounting help make sure the system is not abused in the usual case. Unfortunately jerks are unavoidable, and even if the manager knew the true story they could ignore it to emphasiz
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by moab 6y ago
Not my experience of Google, at least having worked there as an intern multiple times. All of the peer bonuses on our teams and affiliated teams have been for people going out of their way to help out with some project even if it was not pa
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by moab 6y ago
Does the OP have links to any benchmarks? Specifically, what kind of ingestion rates can one expect with a modest number of machines? Does it support a single-machine (shared-memory parallel) environment? What kind of algorithms are support
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by moab 6y ago
This is a very cynical and bad faith reading of the OP. I don’t see how knowing about HoTT or category theory gives one away as an absurdly pre-prepped kid who is shoehorned into academic success by tiger parents. I went to a Bay area high
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Novid (Contact Tracing App from CMU's Po-Shen Loh)(novid.org)
2 points by moab 6y ago|0 comments
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by moab 6y ago
Yes, but sites like: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome https://sci-hub.tw/ exist and make it trivial to get around draconian publishing practices. I'm not advocating not paying
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For the Lulz(nybooks.com)
1 points by moab 7y ago|0 comments
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by moab 7y ago
By the argument you make below ("The brains are different.") you could use this argument to deny the humanity, or capability of feeling pain of anyone that isn't yourself. This argument quickly slides into solipsism, which is
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by moab 7y ago
It's a great and tough question, and to be totally honest I don't have a fully formed view on this. It does seem like a life lived on a farm with humans could have significantly less suffering than a live in the wild. If the anima
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by moab 7y ago
I'm actually working toward a sort of "orthodox"-Jainism in which you only eat substances that plants are actively trying to give to other animals to help them propagate themselves (so eating fruits/bellpeppers, etc. are
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by moab 7y ago
There are now clear environmental and animal rights reasons to avoid red meat and dairy. Unfortunately, animal rights motivations don't seem to cut it for most of my colleagues and friends, who are by and large highly educated. Argumen
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by moab 7y ago
"It’s only a threat to people who have a compromised immune system because of age, diabetes or something like that." Yeah forget those people. /s
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by moab 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. I would be very interested if you could point me towards any private companies providing these kind of database solutions. I am particularly interested in their story around concurrent ingestion + analytics workloads.
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by moab 7y ago
Could you provide some references for this work on caching and schedulers? I’m also curious what application domains are storing close to petabytes on a single machine with only a few terabytes of dram.
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by moab 7y ago
I found it fun to read this after reading this other post that made the rounds today about AI automating most programming work and making program optimization irrelevant: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2020/02/24&#x2F
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by moab 7y ago
There's an interesting thought.
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by moab 7y ago
Can you elaborate? I’m not familiar with the current state of graphics research. Can a high end GPU today do this, and if not, how far are the fastest high-quality algorithms from realtime today?
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by moab 7y ago
Can you elaborate on why? As someone who works on parallel/concurrent algorithms and data structures a single-threaded system design seems anathema to most research over the past decade (maybe excluding H-Store, which uses local single
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by moab 7y ago
Thanks for sharing these. It's funny, I had exactly that series by Naval in mind earlier. I think the database tweet is really useful (reminds me of a lecture slide).
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by moab 7y ago
To the author's point, yes I remember the main themes/movements in the Steinbeck books I have read. I remember them for the Dostoevsky and Tolstoy I have read. I remember them for most good books I have read, even if the reading h

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