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by modernpink 4y ago
Are we possibly becoming a post-English society in the same sense that we became post-Latin? Latin was once the language you needed to know to access knowledge and learning. Now it is of little use to most outside of the Classics. In the fu
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by modernpink 4y ago
Not to mention __________ ______.
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by modernpink 4y ago
That all rings true, however the whole industry (or most of it) managed to be built 'on-site' pre-2020. It's not clear where "policing" comes into the discussion here. I actually think the executives calling for mor
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by modernpink 4y ago
I assume you've not done LISP or LISP-like languages before?
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by modernpink 4y ago
ChatGPT is not the breakthrough it's been made out to be. Yann LeCun has explicated this quite well.
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by modernpink 4y ago
Not sure what relevance this has to tech.
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by modernpink 4y ago
Weighting the access countries by these three factors would be very interesting: Land mass (access to space), GDP per capita (access to human capital), aggregate GDP (access to markets).
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by modernpink 4y ago
Being rich, highly educated, low in criminality, low in illegal emigration means that other nations are more willing to welcome you in. Think of who you would welcome into your own home and they map pretty homomorphically to the same set of
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by modernpink 4y ago
>I spent a month in the lab Do you mean at your desk? What is a lab in a fintech context?
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by modernpink 4y ago
This is the "economic calculation problem" critique of economic planning proposed by the Austrian school[0]. A planned economy is sort of like having a single sysadmin manage all the resource levers for a data centre, whereas the
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by modernpink 4y ago
The focus in climate change discourse seems to be all about prevention when we've clearly been headed on course for worst case scenario several degree rise the whole time. Emissions have not even peaked yet with China, India and the re
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by modernpink 4y ago
LDP links to the CIA are barely a secret. Asking for a source there is only to advertise one's ignorance. Not sure about the Moonies part however.
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by modernpink 4y ago
Many (most?) companies do. They make the tradeoff that the false negatives (those from non-targets who would be hired) are worth losing out on in favour of the smaller amount of applications to process because among that smaller pool they h
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by modernpink 4y ago
There are category category errors being committed on all sides. The confusion is arising from the word "type". To some, a "type" of beer is a style of beer characterised by common ingredients, methods and appearance. To
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by modernpink 4y ago
So in which case Korean can said to be a "simpler" language than Chinese (which uses Hanja). But in modern linguistics you would not exactly say any language is "simpler".
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by modernpink 4y ago
> And I fail to see the need for quotes, there's really no denying hangul is simpler than hanja. Simpler is a culturally conditioned subjective value judgement rather than a scientific one and therefore it expresses an opinionated v
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by modernpink 4y ago
Meatspace Considered Harmful
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by modernpink 5y ago
Do you have peer-reviewed citations to back these points up?
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by modernpink 5y ago
We are headed into a new Cold War that will last decades. The days of globocorps marching into countries in every corner of the world and setting up shop as happened in the 90s-present are now seemingly over. The world will now move away fr
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by modernpink 5y ago
Why complain?
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by modernpink 5y ago
Hopefully China gets the same treatment soon. They are a much bigger problem and threat to the West.
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by modernpink 5y ago
Yep, it's really easy to get a job if you know how to speak the language.
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by modernpink 5y ago
The problem is simple, except that Data Scientists seem to resist good software engineering practices and storm ahead to the model development part which leaves a lot of mess for engineers to pick up. MLOps then looks like a 'difficult
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by modernpink 5y ago
We also have to understand Russia's grievances instead of seeing it in terms of an evil side attacking the good side because it's not that simple. The US would hardly be best pleased if Mexico started receiving arms from China and
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by modernpink 5y ago
The Russophobia that has been pouring out is lamentable. And people don't realise this will only push the Russian people further towards Putin to re-establish their pride. And the sanctions are making this even worse. This mirrors Germ
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by modernpink 5y ago
I suppose they would think it better to be thought of worse for bad eating habits than it is to be incompetent at abiding by international standards for conducting science, or even to have maliciously released a bioweapon.
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by modernpink 5y ago
Note that this is based on studies by Chinese-only researchers in state-backed institutions [1] that has not yet been peer reviewed. Occam's Razor says that the Wuhan Institute of Virology known for studying coronaviruses must have pla
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by modernpink 5y ago
Have wired through £1500.
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by modernpink 5y ago
Interesting that they list CNY but not NTD.
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by modernpink 5y ago
Most CS grads coming onto the engineer market now will have ML exposure through their chosen college courses. As this wave of knowledge makes its way through the industry, the value of ML specialist knowledge will decline, especially as off

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