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How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences(city-journal.org)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
University that want to retain computer science professors, especially those working in hot fields such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, will have to pay them well. The main problem may be political -- can they pay professor
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by poster123 8y ago
"- both C and C++ have gone through quite some changes as well, and so have the compilers; so it's not exactly uncommon to find 20 year old code written without this in mind and making use of some specifics which now are unavailab
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Apple Pulls Plug on Irish $1B Data Center(barrons.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Rooftop Solar Is Expensive and Inefficient(marginalrevolution.com)
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by poster123 8y ago
I think the Trump administration plans sanctions on multinational corporations that do business with Iran. This could affect financial markets, although it may already be priced in.
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Own an Android Phone? You Might Not Get That Loan(bloomberg.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|1 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
If North Korea makes a verifiable commitment to end its nuclear weapons program, I think he does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Starbucks Is Not the Next Selma(wsj.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
"Too many people experience Stack Overflow as a hostile or elitist place, especially newer coders, women, people of color, and others in marginalized groups." Must everything be about race or sex? Yeah, I am a little annoyed that
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Finland Has Second Thoughts About Giving Free Money to Jobless People(nytimes.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Credit Risk Analysis Using Machine and Deep Learning Models(papers.ssrn.com)
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by poster123 8y ago
I would not exclude women from the candidate pool, for both moral and practical reasons, but if successful Chinese companies are doing this, it does cast doubt on the business necessity of diversity in tech.
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English Literature Isn’t Brain Surgery: Why Is American Medicine So Expensive?(wsj.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Or by modern Fortran, which has had array operations since the 1990 standard? There are functional elements such as PURE functions and the FORALL construct.
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Tom Siebel Is Both Delighted and Worried about AI(barrons.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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The Looming Battle Over AI Chips(barrons.com)
124 points by poster123 8y ago|85 comments
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One Year of ‘College’ with No Degree, but No Debt and a Job at the End(wsj.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
Same article (but different title, so it got through) as the one in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866959 .
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Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power(wsj.com)
2 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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Why All My Books Are Now Free (Aka a Lesson in Amazon Money Laundering)(mebfaber.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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The value of Facebook and other digital services(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by poster123 8y ago|0 comments
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by poster123 8y ago
If YC is good at what it does, and I think it is, then being rejected by YC should cause you to lower your estimated probability that your start-up will succeed, at least a little. The question is how much.
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by poster123 8y ago
I don't understand the furor. If you go to a cafe, you are expected to order something. When the manager asked the two men to leave, they should have either spent a few dollars or left. If they were planning to meet someone, they could
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The Collapse of Public Pension Funds Is No Longer a Distant Prospect(bloomberg.com)
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by poster123 8y ago
Is this a bad thing? Advertisers want this. It does not make sense to market luxury cars to the poor, for example.
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by poster123 8y ago
Sorry, I need to learn how to post code here.
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by poster123 8y ago
Here is a Fortran 95 program to compute the factorial of 0 through 5. The factorial can be computed as the product of an array created on the fly, without an explicit loop. program xfact integer :: i print*,fact([(i,i=0,5)]) contains elemen
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by poster123 8y ago
I bet the female/male ratio is higher for users of Excel than for R or Python. A majority of programmers are men, but the sex ratio of white collar workers (a large fraction of whom use spreadsheets) is much closer to parity. There is
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by poster123 8y ago
I have used Fortran 90+, Python with Numpy, R, and (rarely) Matlab/Octave, all of which allow operations on whole arrays and array sections. Would they be considered array languages? What is qualitatively different about APL, J, and K?

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