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by oivey 6y ago
I was responding to this quote: > Textbooks state that, in the absence of a minimum wage, a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces. You may disagree with my reasoning, but you yourself
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by oivey 6y ago
It’s also obviously untrue given the fact that wages in the US have stagnated while productivity has continued to grow. That’s despite a floor on wages.
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by oivey 6y ago
Population isn’t the problem, first world consumption and the expansion of the first world are. This isn’t an abstract problem where people in developing countries need to have less children. This is a problem where we need to personally re
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by oivey 6y ago
Can the trades support a sea change in employment/education that leads to a massive new labor supply while maintaining high wages? My guess is probably not based on the scale of change you’re suggesting. America’s labor market is funda
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by oivey 6y ago
Many, many engineers driven more by money than they want to admit: “well if I don’t do it someone else will.”
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by oivey 6y ago
Gigabit Internet in small rural towns is very unusual.
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by oivey 6y ago
Physics describes how oxygen saturated blood looks in the infrared, but using that information in a device is engineering. The engineers who design these devices should have better understood how something obvious like skin color would bias
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by oivey 6y ago
Even before it showed up in the mainstream Bitcoin was famous for its scams.
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by oivey 6y ago
Images and matrices are 2D data structures of numbers, but that is where the similarities end. An image is more like a vector, which matrices can be applied to. You would never matrix multiply an image onto another vector. Still, it isn’t u
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by oivey 6y ago
Of course you, as an individual, can spend your finite resources to rail against the machine. That is what the civil rights movement was. Passively just being a better person is demonstrably not enough to effect change.
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by oivey 6y ago
Of course it is. Arguably the people with that privilege should have more obligation to exercise it in the service of what’s right.
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by oivey 6y ago
No other entity other than The College Board receives the raw test. Everyone else only receives the results. The College Board also charges around $100 for each of these tests, so even if they had to support the format (they don’t) they rea
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by oivey 6y ago
I don’t think it is correct to say that those things are OO because they predate the concept and are used in many paradigms. When I think of OO I think of strict encapsulation (via private), complex inheritance, methods bound and defined in
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by oivey 6y ago
Different users have different problems. I’ll take the recent major advances in, say, start up time and multi threading instead of improvements to the error messages.
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by oivey 6y ago
One important example is large, sparse systems/matrices. The pseudo-inverse requires computing an inversion that can be very expensive due to the size of the matrix. That matrix generally will also no longer be sparse, so it will be ex
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by oivey 7y ago
Don’t discount domain experts. Models are meant to predict the real world. In order for them to be accurate, the model itself needs to capture how the real world works, and the math underlying the model has to be correct. Domain experts are
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by oivey 7y ago
Quality of care after the fact is the obvious one. The patients of the cruise ship weren’t being treated by a flooded hospital system. Quarantine on the ship is less than perfect, but it’s still better than the efforts made by many governme
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by oivey 7y ago
The Diamond Princess’s population is also small, extremely poorly represents the general population, and happened in a setting unrepresentative of the rest of the world. Passenger age is just about the only factor that would drive the morta
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by oivey 7y ago
ITAR absolutely, without a doubt, applies to open source projects. Giving the code away confers no immunity.
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by oivey 7y ago
The problem is much bigger than just transportation. The planet has been warming since the industrial revolution.
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by oivey 7y ago
It’s maybe less of a problem than you think. If you simply want to call a method on two different types you can often just do it. Type annotations generally don’t help with performance, and any type checking is only going to happen at run t
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by oivey 7y ago
$150k seems high, especially if you’re making any effort to choose your school based on price. Where I went it currently costs in the $10-15k/year range for tuition, lab fees, books, etc for state residents. You could further drive the
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by oivey 7y ago
1. Receive a bachelors degree while doing the same sort of things you would need to do to get a good job at the end - reasonable GPA, internships and/or research. 2. Apply to PhD programs.
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by oivey 7y ago
I wouldn’t say that Julia is gradually typed in the same way that Cython or Numba is. In my experience you usually improve performance by ensuring that your functions handle different types generically. One example of that is making sure th