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by munin 9y ago
If this isn't a metaphor for the programming interview I don't know what is: http://www.techiedelight.com/multiply-two-numbers-without-us... "Implement multiplication without using loops." "Uh, okay
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by munin 9y ago
> That said, we also are able to set a maximum # of interviews per week that we will accept, and our time is respected. Perhaps the same cannot be said for peer review in academia. It absolutely isn't. Until you get tenure, you have
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by munin 9y ago
What is "your data" exactly? And in the limit, how far does this go? Here's a question: who owns your drivers license? Here's a hint: it isn't you. Can you "own" you mailing address? Copyright and trademar
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by munin 9y ago
Through no fault of its own, this is a very American-centric view of early computing. I'm pretty sure that at the time this was written, the story of COLOSSUS was still highly classified by the British government. It has since been dec
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by munin 9y ago
possibly they mean pay as in losing value to inflation?
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by munin 9y ago
The amount of money the university got from those grants would be lower, though, because they'd have to pay the grant writers. That sounds bad. What if instead the professors just applied to larger grants and worked overtime? That&#x27
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by munin 9y ago
Tuition is funny money though, it's money the university is charging itself for nothing. You pay tuition to take a 3 credit class that never meets, doesn't have an instructor, and has no assignments. It's just there to justif
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by munin 9y ago
> I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them. Who would pay them?
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by munin 9y ago
I have requested my CLUE report from LN. It contained basically no information.
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by munin 9y ago
It was a joke, when Curtis was dis-invited from speaking at a conference due to writings he made as Moldbug, the argument he made was that the Moldbug persona and the Urbit developer Curtis Yarvin are separate so there was no problem or wor
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by munin 9y ago
Don't you know, the Moldbug persona is separate from the persona that develops Urbit!
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by munin 9y ago
I think urbit started out as a pomo critique of modern academia and tech, with heavy jargon and wheel rebuilding. Then, some other people started taking it seriously. I’m not sure if that is the best or worst outcome for this kind of joke.
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by munin 9y ago
I guess Silicon Valley hates it because the research was done by a bunch of academics and government scientists, but they've been working on and successfully demoing a brain interface that can do control and feedback with arms: https:
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by munin 9y ago
It might be my cynicism, but in the PL literature I find "intuitive" to be a very low calorie word. Obviously you would describe your own system as "intuitive" what are you going to do, write a paper that says "we h
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by munin 9y ago
IMO, this is blind spot in the research community right now. The programming language community doesn't care about the ergonomics of language use and is only interested in theoretical evaluation of their work with rigorous proofs. The
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by munin 9y ago
Proponents of this approach would probably argue that non-linear arithmetic doesn't show up frequently in index computation. I don't know whether this is true or not, would be curious to see data. Based on my own experience I&#x27
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by munin 9y ago
I have done netpens. Almost always it is as you describe. Sometimes someone has their shit together and it is not.
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by munin 9y ago
There are many networks where having a raspi on the network gives you no particular advantage.
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by munin 9y ago
> The thief would have to physically resemble the victim's photo Why? Show up to a government station with your birth certificate, SSN, some telephone and utility bills, and they'll take the thiefs picture and put it on an iden
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by munin 9y ago
Interesting. At the institutions I'm familiar with, you can do all kinds of unspeakable crap to animals and no one cares unless PETA gets wind of it.
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by munin 9y ago
I dunno what to tell you, the Belmont report was about humans. It's right there in the name. Animal research is often regulated under a framework, just not the IRB. My training was pretty clear on that.
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by munin 9y ago
Well, we could use a crude metric which is, how much of the day do you spend doing intellectual work? Right now, my advisor spends about ten or twelve hours. And it is pretty deep intellectual work, most of it is paper reading or discussion
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by munin 9y ago
> Humans aren't capable of extended periods of mental exertion The humans on my thesis committee are definitely capable of extended periods of mental exertion. I don't know if it's something you're only born with or i
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by munin 9y ago
Fortunately for us, the IRB only governs human experimentation. You need very little approval to experiment on animals, in the US at least.
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by munin 9y ago
In IRB's that I've participated in, low-risk interviews can go through expedited review, and though it's still happening under the IRB, it's far from the same process as something involving say, injections, imaging, gath
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by munin 9y ago
Computer scientists will do stuff like expose people in repressive regimes to internet censors ( http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p653.... ) or hack your Facebook account and slurp al
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by munin 9y ago
> which felt super-odd because journalists wouldn't need any ethical review at all in order to carry out exactly the same interview in exactly the same way. Journalists don't have a history of injecting you with syphilis just t
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by munin 9y ago
The accuracy of those studies has been questioned and the ethics of using that data, independent of their accuracy, debated, extensively.
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by munin 9y ago
Lots of people make this argument. I have a counter-argument: when a technology is convenient or appealing enough, people will overlook even very obvious safety/health problems. Consider texting while driving, drinking, smoking/va
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by munin 9y ago
Imagine that you make your living in a somewhat unorthodox but honest way: you live in a tent outside of the castle and every morning, as the king walks into the castle, he hands you a deck of cards. "I've just played cards last n

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