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by naturalgradient 9y ago
And you are virtue signalling by taking my comment ad absurdum and describing a situation to which nobody could reasonably respond with 'no'. Think about this and the divisiveness of this debate. In phrasing like yours, no grey ar
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
While I have no intention of ever getting involved in that way, I disagree.The article I linked gives a good perspective on this: 'They are subtle to the point of near-invisibility. It seems Michael Oreskes liked to kiss women. Now, it
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
A relevant take on the metoo debate, although is contains some rather contentious points: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/12/06/the-warlock... 'Several cases recently in the headlines are simp
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Linus Torvald's NVIDIA moment comes to mind..
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
And how is this contributing to the debate?
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Amazon+Echo+Teardown/33953 Hardware teardown of an early generation echo. Worst, all of this is electronic waste in a few years. We all do this and just by design, smartphones and l
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
'Removing a single consumer electronic device from your life isn't going to impact those global markets' <- Indeed it will not. Only if society begins viewing owning and using resources differently (which will happen event
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
What about the larger cost to the environment? Is it worth having rare earth minerals mined by literal slaves in Africa and China? Is it worth the energy associated with transporting the resources, processing them, assembling the device and
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
So they built...a scheduler?
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
It's the old adage: "If you owe the bank $1000, you have a problem, if you owe it $1 billion, the bank has a problem".
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
No mention of Kronecker factorization or any work on second order methods? This would be more aptly titled 'Tips and tricks for Adam'..
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
So any consumption is justified because it supports the overall advancement of technology and we need not think about consumption because things will be consumed either way? I am sorry I do not buy this - where is the justification for the
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Now this is a very negative opinion in a general anti-consumerist sense but: Why does one buy items like an Alexa? I get that it performs some features, it slightly increases convenience but it does not enable anything new or different. Som
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
This is not really the case. I have personally quite literally implemented papers the week after they appeared on ArXiv and they worked. Anecdotical yes, and there have been papers that nobody was able to replicate, but at large the communi
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Well that is actually true. A 'thanks' does not do anything for me. I don't write a library for other people's appreciation, I write it because I want to, because I can, and because I have my own interests for it. Insofa
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I do tell them i) whether it is on the roadmap ii) what would need to be done. The reason it bothers me because it sounds like an order to someone who is delivering a service for you, e.g. 'Can I have another drink? Thanks!'? That
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
As the maintainer of a reasonably popular library, I actually get irritated by a lot of 'thanks', because they are in the form of this sentence: 'Hi, can you implement <Feature that takes a month of work>? Thanks!'
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Really? To me the article reads like moral mccarthyism. He sounds like a not nice person to be around, like a bad husband, but really, really, this is national news: 'And, indeed, multiple women whom Recode interviewed said their sexua
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Ah that matches what I have heard. HFT/HF is paying up but overall, as someone who is coming up on making the decision, it's hard to see the upsides of finance. Losing all visibility/ability to publish/being a first clas
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Can anyone comment on how competitive salaries are there actually? Right now, for top tier PhD graduates in machine learning, it's about 300-400k at big tech companies starting out, and ~200k for master's degrees. From what I read
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Reader mode is not displaying the article, what kind of dark-pattern trickery is this? (Safari)
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Do you have an argument other than that it feels wrong to you? Some people feel deeply about net neutrality and the state of society.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
As someone being in a similar situation, it's a really difficult business model. Unlike many other business models with a natural moat (i.e. by virtue of having all the data, being deeply integrated into organisational processes, etc),
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
It is not quite clear to me what value it provides to the discussion to completely mark comments [dead] beyond downvoting. Why not leave them there?
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Sure, downvote, but that does not make it less true. I am not implying the NYT is a worse newspaper than many others in that instance. I am saying they are trying to pretend they are objective and above the rest in their noble fight for the
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
The NYT has run of the most effective ad campaigns in recent years, somehow placing itself as the last bastion of 'objective reporting', and the intellectual smugness that comes with it. From my observation, they are giving platfo
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
Or it is just Uber being Uber and not caring.
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Timothy Gowers on peer review(the-tls.co.uk)
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
His snark also does not make your comment true in the first place.
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by naturalgradient 9y ago
I was an undergraduate at a no-name university for various personal reasons. A Google, Microsoft and other big tech co offices were nearby. Throughout my undergrad, not a single event, talk or recruiting opportunity emerged. I understand th

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