queensnake

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by queensnake 13y ago
I disagree. I can't quantify it, but taking a few impressive-sounding (and -being) courses makes you look good in employers' eyes. It shows you to be a self-driven learner who tangles with hard stuff. At least somewhat. But you&#x
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by queensnake 13y ago
> it's not clear to me if actually reasoning and talking with another human is really required for learning. Dialog. Being able to ask questions, to get clarity on some angle that the teacher took for granted, uncovering assumptions
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by queensnake 13y ago
> even seemingly "senior-level" people (people with years of programming "experience" on their resume) have shown an inability to do basic coding from scratch. I wouldn't have believed you a few months ago (and y
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by queensnake 13y ago
> There's a cost to automating any task: the time spent designing and testing the system. Good point, but, once something's automated, it's automated (and cheaper) forever.
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by queensnake 13y ago
"Fewer people in the world" solves a lot of employment problems - we're a dime-a-dozen right now.
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by queensnake 13y ago
All of the /mentioned/ analyses - those of the first program sound like something you could do in an afternoon, yet it's been worked on for 10 years. I think there are more, and more sophisticated methods than were described.
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by queensnake 13y ago
Here's one team trying for that: http://www.inria.fr/en/teams/flowers
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by queensnake 13y ago
Yo people, let them have their ads, don't submit printer-only versions! http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/why-the-mcwr...
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by queensnake 13y ago
> imagine how successful it would be if your employer couldn't sell the products you manufactured to anyone outside your state. Well, but that's imaginary. We have free trade within all 50 states. That's reasonable, for wh
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by queensnake 13y ago
He does - he says that people younger than him will pay for gadgets and wi-fi, but not music, toward the end. Ie pirating is killing the labels and thus new bands.
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by queensnake 13y ago
I know that Glucochrome eg is more powerful than its generic knockoffs. Also, this article http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/05/red-pill-indian-generic-d... talks about how the FDA operates on trust, to the point th
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by queensnake 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Social_ou...
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by queensnake 13y ago
Coursera, Udacity etc are killer for this. Sure they're not work experience or academic credit but I've gotten positive comments "It shouldn't be a problem [that I didn't know their tech], you've picked up a lot of stuff". (Thinking about i
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by queensnake 13y ago
OCaml is instructive, that's another compiled-but-GC'd language. Looking at them they're about the same. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
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by queensnake 13y ago
Call me a spoilsport, but it's still slower than Java http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te... . That takes the bloom off the rose for me.
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Corporate “Work” is the most elaborate victim-shaming structure ever devised.(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
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by queensnake 13y ago
Udacity has some permanently-on courses, where you go at your own pace. It's wonderful for the ability to binge study, but the lack of schedule might allow you to push it off indefinitely. For my own part that's still an open question, but
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by queensnake 13y ago
Lack of academic credit. Often being /half/ of a class.
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by queensnake 13y ago
No! Do it like humans do it - use deep learning to let it grok its environment better with less / different sensor data. Also, make it pay attention to history (it may already, I don't know) and give it something like object permanence.
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by queensnake 14y ago
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/09/senates-comprehensi... It'd be nice to have a specific bill #, but I'm not sure it has one. Here's a list it's likely to be in anyway: http://capwiz.com/politicsol/issuesaction/billlist/?issue=26
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by queensnake 14y ago
Also, their mindshare: "We're changing the world, 100K under-served people signed up!" vs, 5K who finish and most have at least a Master's already anyway :)
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by queensnake 14y ago
You can totally do that. The courses are 'synchronous' in calendar spans of time, not in lectures being broadcast live.
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by queensnake 14y ago
'Drake' for that use was on here too, not too long ago. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
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by queensnake 14y ago
.. so then as part of the settlement, the trolls says 'and withdraw your bounty'. Same thing.
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by queensnake 14y ago
Herman Hesse said somewhere, that the desire for suicide is really a desire for change. Sounds like the hardcorezen guy rediscovered that.
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by queensnake 14y ago
oops; sorry, I upvoted this based on the first couple seconds.
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by queensnake 14y ago
Yet another reason to work at Google. They're anti- both obscure or clever code (see their coding standards), and so far in my own experience, you get the time you need to get the code right. There are periodic 'testing on the toilet' piece
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by queensnake 14y ago
Maybe Google has a monopoly on all the smartest people anymore, or, is just one-stop shopping for support for the biggest ideas. Ray's worth 27 million and as you said has many of his own companies, he doesn't need a salary.
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by queensnake 14y ago
Here's something concrete you could charge the employers with: hearing loss. I've heard that it's only safe to listen on headphones 1 or so hours a day, not 8 - 10. It's like second-hand smoke, only, it's not cancer, and probably no-one's g
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by queensnake 14y ago
You know that a coursera-taught team won a (non-academic) machine-learning competition, right? Knock-on articles about it made the rounds here a few weeks back.

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