peoplewrong

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by peoplewrong 8y ago
meh my prior on british nationals writing about american decline is not very high...even if he did work for larry summers
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
the comment I am responding to is talking about computer science
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
I don't think there are many (any) academic labs in CS with 100 post-docs. also post docs arent students. big engineering research efforts like that DO happen in industry though.
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
I am not really sure how you are defining 'research' but I think your definition might be wildly different from mine. I have a feeling in the pit of my research that what you define as 'practical research' I would NOT de
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
who is us? academic computer scientists?
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
this made me chuckle.
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
disagreement and people being wildly wildly wrong in good faith [and other people pointing it out!] is an essential part of the scientific process. it is difficult because academics often closely associate themselves with the status of thei
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
I bet the first version of this was some kind of maximum bipartite matching. like hopcroft-kraft but on the topic of experts check out this paper by the same research group. This is much more of an 'AI' paper that does include exp
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
> The kind of system described (though only very vaguely) in the article is a rule-based system, possibly an expert system. These hand-crafted systems were the norm in AI up until the '90s or so and are still in widespread use in va
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
I agree this isn't really "AI" but this project required a lot of algorithm tuning and development.... Here are some good slides. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~arielpro/15896s16/slides/896s16-14.pd...
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by peoplewrong 8y ago
mechanism design/market design is a huge part of CS that overlaps with economics. Also I am not sure how much the article emphasized this but a big part of the success of these programs is designing 'good' matchings which is