mr_gibbins

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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
Could it be because AI is an overhyped rehash of the AI craze that swept academia and industry in the 1980s, only to collapse in the 'AI winter' as everyone realised the truth? We use AI/ML for trivial purposes right now. M
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
It's interesting, but any reason why the age limit is 89? And when I adjust for co-morbidities (presumably adding them) my chance of hospitalisation and/or death actually decreases?
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
<rant> The people behind Zoom have no obligations to you (not you, OP, the general 'you') at all. They built the product with the Facebook SDK wired up to report your activity back to Zuckerberg. They told you about it in t
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
This is the problem I have with some cards and mechanics in MTG (particularly Arena). The white Ajani's Pridemate coupled with life-givers e.g. healing hawk/enchantments - you see it once, you shrug, say OK, but then every second
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
laughs in SQL DBA
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
Completely agree. My persona at work and at university are two separate things. My persona when I come home and interact with my kids is different to my persona when I'm arguing with a colleague about database schematics. My politic
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
It's a little lacking in content. I searched for 'Bernoulli' and came up with nothing, so widened this to 'probability' and nothing still. It would benefit from some kind of taxonomy on the front page to give an in
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
I'm the same. It drives my employer crazy, they want me to use JIRA and I use Notepad, and guess which requires less maintenance? I do use a couple of external tools though - Trello in particular, and Google Sheets to keep a basic ex
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
It's fine to offend in some contexts, but the author sounds like a douche. He wouldn't like it much if another researcher wrote an article taking a massive dump on his work, would he? It's basic manners. Don't say the
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
I can answer that one for you having recently taught a semester of postgraduate database systems to a cohort of just 6 students. It was a blast. I followed a pre-planned course of lectures, but due to the low class sizes it didn't wor
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
I teach enterprise systems at a university, with emphasis on SAP. It's hideous. Hideous. My students complain it is unusable (agree), doesn't make sense (agree), that they can't see the point (agree). When you look at the u
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
Good, fuck the journal aggregators. Speaking as someone who has published papers, I'd happily (and do, via ResearchGate) give them away for free. I made the noob mistake of putting them up on my own website before being shouted at by
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
Good idea but poor execution. Asking for 1,500kcal over two meals, I was presented with tomato & onion on toast and an apple for breakfast, and tuna salad & avocado plus a bowl of carrots for lunch. Ideally I would have been able
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
And this is what gets me about Feynman, why I am a huge admirer of his work. Take a look at the footnote. An offhand comment of how to calculate the square root of any N using a short iterative loop that you can compute by hand. I'm n
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by mr_gibbins 7y ago
Oh for *'s sake. Companies and institutions are desperate to justify their AI investment any way they can. They would have gotten a perfectly good estimate by taking some photos of the crowd at different density areas over the day a
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
It's not just old books. Even those just a couple of decades have this too. I recently ordered a second-hand copy Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance after misplacing my own, and it also has that peculiar smell - I love it.
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
I've got one of those. The one time it's come up, in relation to out-of-hours support, I made it clear that there are plenty of other jobs. So the arrangement is that I agree to do any overtime that the company requires, free of
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
This is half an article. Stopped when it was getting to the good bit. Without heading off for a whole load of research I would have quite liked to know why splitting the Mobius loop results in two sections with non-overlapping circles.
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
I'd be interested to know if there are any additional costs involved to have the journal listed in the major directories, getting/calculating an impact factor, promoting it to institutions and so forth. This example calls itself
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
This, this, and this a thousand times. As a PhD student about to write up his thesis I'm on the cusp of deciding whether to go down the Word or LaTeX route. I cannot describe how unbelievably angry I have gotten at Word screwing up d
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by mr_gibbins 8y ago
https://www.b3ta.com have been doing it for around 20 years.