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by new299 7y ago
This appears to be the original paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b03304 There’s a slightly better summary, which at least references the paper, here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/re
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by new299 7y ago
In the first case mentioned in the article. They request social media identifiers I believe for all visitors now.
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> I don't see why this is so controversial. It seems like the proper way to do a background check in the current era. Because it's not normal to perform extensive background checks for people visiting your country? I'd thi
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by new299 7y ago
CRISPR gives us an editing mechanism. But you still need to deliver it to hosts. Perhaps via some kind of viral vector: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356701/ But... it's not clear to me t
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by new299 7y ago
Or it's like Mask ROM, but you can edit it... sometimes. Oh and it can self-replicate, like software. But the replicates can form 3D structures, so not exactly like software. And they can be physically moved. The software/hardware
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by new299 7y ago
This encourages companies to withhold products from the market. In many, cases they will withhold products for the maximal allowable period before releasing them into the market. This will give them the maximum period of patent coverage, an
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About encouraging growth or not. I'm not sure, it would be interesting to see what would happen without patents. However, I'm reasonably sure scientific startups wouldn't get VC funding as easily. Don't get me wrong, it&
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by new299 7y ago
If you're suggesting a 1 year patent period for all utility patents, you might as well just get rid of patents. In the industry I work in (Biotech - DNA sequencing) it takes maybe 5 years to mature an approach and get it to market. Onc
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by new299 7y ago
Why do you believe it's not a derivative work? Let's say a neural network was trained on two books, and it ends up reproducing large fragments of text from those two books. Is that a derivative work? Or 3 Or 4... And reproducing h
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by new299 7y ago
Legally I believe this distinction is quite clear (IANAL) between these two cases. You can memorize a whole book, and it's not copyright infringement. If you, create a compressed zip of book you that infringes if you don't own the
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by new299 7y ago
In at least some cases, it would be considered fair use. The wikipedia page on fair use has this to say, regarding Google's book scanning for example: As part of the ruling that found the book digitisation project was fair use, the jud
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by new299 7y ago
I feel like a number of AI applications are a bit like this. In this case, the training set could be the original book text, and an audiobook reading of the books (over thousands of books). When trained on that dataset the audio recordings
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by new299 7y ago
It's easy to gain users, when you give away money. When you used PayPay during the original campaign period they discounted purchases by 20%. At random, they would also pay the whole price, without deducting your balance. I've bee
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It’s the problem under discussion in the post you are replying to.
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So, it wasn’t obvious to many candidates I interviewed. For example, one candidate tried to create a solution involving 3 nested for loops.
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by new299 7y ago
So the weird thing is, that people who can’t solve these kinds of fizzbuzz type problems are often employed as programmers. And, in my experience there are definitely situations where the majority of candidates can’t solve these problems.
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by new299 7y ago
Good to know, I would tend to agree. I’m interested in any contrary opinions (because I may not sufficiently account for anxiety, or other issues).
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by new299 7y ago
Yes, that looks like a valid solution to me. If you’re saying only the top 10-20% of CS grads can answer such questions then that would make sense. I’d guess I was getting a random selection of candidates.
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by new299 7y ago
Do you think you could rough out an answer on a whiteboard that would have roughly the right structure? When I used this question I wasn't looking for accurate syntax. If it was a solution that looked like it would work, after some deb
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by new299 7y ago
Is reversing a string not already "the basics"? What are you suggesting should be covered in an interview/screen prior to a trial period?
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by new299 7y ago
This is a really interesting observation, thank you. Is there anything they could have done differently to make the situation easier? (I would guess perhaps giving you more notice about language requirements?). Or is there a different inter
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by new299 7y ago
I guess it depends how you use it. I started hearing about FizzBuzz in the context of "why can't programmers program" [1]. I.e. that many interview candidates can't solve this problem. It's also my experience interv
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by new299 7y ago
I'm curious to hear the opinions of people who think that the question is too hard (i.e. it's too complex of a question to ask in an interview situation). Perhaps some people might feel that while they could write code to solve th
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by new299 7y ago
Personally I can't see an issue with very simple FizzBuzz style programming interview questions. I used to ask a simple "count duplicate substrings" question [1]. Maybe some people consider this too hard? I never used to requ
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by new299 7y ago
This seems like a good solution. Hacking around with a NAS is probably going to be problematic. If I were to go the NAS route I'd probably go with a Synology or something similar, which seem somewhat more hackable/scriptable. Anot
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by new299 7y ago
But physics as we understand it, isn't entirely deterministic. There seem to be a number of other potentially important differences between living in a simulation and some other kind of "baseline" reality. One of those might
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by new299 7y ago
Sam’s lasers sells some refurbished HP laser interferometers on eBay (HP5517 head+the receivers). He has also worked with someone to supply open source software/counting electronics. My notes on the kit are here: http://41j.
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by new299 7y ago
Interesting, but I’ve never heard of it and didn’t come across it when I was looking for wiki/Evernote alternatives a few months back. I guess I’ll have to look into it. Couldn’t quite see how it differs from Evernote (which in my few
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by new299 7y ago
So, are wikis currently out of fashion in Software development/internal documentation? I don’t see many wikis that are really suitable for this, and none that have widespread adoption. Does everybody just throw stuff in Slack and hope
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by new299 7y ago
I’d be curious to know which parts of the manufacturing process are carried out in India. I assume it includes “final assembly”. But does all CNC work, PCB assembly happen in India? PCB assembly in particular, seems unlikely? The supply cha

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