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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I thought the whole point of RSS was as an index to new content. It never occurred to me to put the whole article in the feed... surely a good summary and a link gives the consumer the choice to load the article or not, rather than having t
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Hey, if this is your experience, then I suggest you take a step back and look at the world outside of academia a bit more carefully. I was a naive post-doc and wanted an academic job, but soon realised that it wasn't going to happen wi
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Because a PhD is useful for a lot more than getting a permanent academic position. My first "proper job" was at a research division of a big corporation. They had ~20 PhDs when I started and expanded to ~100 over 3 years. I don&#x
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
One teacher in the UK actually delivered meals to kids personally during the lockdown. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Nobody likes to eat gluten-free stuff; unfortunately, some people like me have to eat it.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Convolution is an integration. It isn't itself a property of a domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
The terminology comes from signal processing, where a convolution in the frequency domain is equivalent to a multiplication in the time domain. I don't think anyone is thinking about the frequency domain in deep-learning, but they stil
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Spot on. I always used to get a certain company local to me flagged up by recruiters when I was job hunting. Every time they rejected my resume without interview because it did not have "Spring" on it. Years later I worked at this
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
That is exactly what happened to my son's Computer Science class. They all got shifted down. Thankfully the UK government have now decided to revert to the teacher assessed grades.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Even if you know it is likely that 2 out 5 students who you assess as grade B will have a bad day and get a C in the exam, you don't know which 2 of the 5, so you have to assess them all as a B. Ranking students might be roughly corr
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Nice! I had something similar. It took over a week and the fix was to _remove_ one line of code.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
It's not as simple a choice as you paint. Economic consequences can be fixed by civilised people; death cannot be fixed by anyone.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
My experience is that after you have met someone once (for more than a few minutes) then video calls work a lot better than with people you have never met. I guess you develop some degree of trust (and a stronger mental model) during a meet
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I replied to the wrong post, sorry.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Determinism is not something that just happens to other people. If a criminal acts deteministically in committing a crime, then you also act deterministically in judging them.
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
It will take a long time, generations, to fix this. I remember the 1981 race riots in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot There was a public inquiry afterwards that led to the creation of a Police C
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I don't like Gove, so it feels strange for me to "defend" him, but this is an interesting quote that keeps coming up. In a later interview [1] he said this: "When I was being interviewed on Sky by Faisal Islam, he put it
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I too worked in an R&D lab after my PhD. Which projects to fund was always a problem. No-one knows which projects are going to succeed. Do you stick with a group that has been making steady progress for 5 years or switch to something el
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
Is that true? Or is it just the case that people trying to make a profit have learned how to promote themselves to an extent that drowns out the hobbyists? I had some hobby pages in the 1990s that got a lot of views and came high up in sear
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by r_c_a_d 6y ago
I think the daily briefings are good. It's not just a politician talking; it's a politician flanked by two scientists or public health experts. The politician explains what is going on and the experts explain why, with data. This
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
I wrote an article on this last year, which scratches the surface. My conclusion was that a good name is whatever the team thinks is a good name: you cannot write a set of rules that defines good names. https://richard-taylor.git
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
Are you thinking of this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
A similar thing happened to me too; it was a 3 hour onsite. No news at all... until about 2 weeks later I got an automated request from the agent asking me to fill in a feedback form on how they did. I had fun filling in that form!
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
Yes, this seems obvious to me. If it were not, then publishers would release the hardback and paperback at the same time and let readers choose the format they preferred, wouldn't they?
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
I think the lesson here is, if you are a scientist or engineer (i.e typically not a people person), then never say anything publicly about anything non-technical... ever. Which is sad.
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
Try contacting the original publisher. I did this with the small number of my discs that "rotted" and they were replaced with brand new ones without question. Probably because the industry made such a big deal about them "las
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
When my kids started school I was surprised to learn that at age 4 it is not obvious that the number of items on a whiteboard remains constant if all the items are moved to a different part of the board. So what seems obvious, probably is s
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
Indeed. I worked on a team which was "given" a couple of contractors to help us "catch up" to where management thought we should be. They were both useless. Between finding something they could do without damaging stuff,
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by r_c_a_d 7y ago
I really don't think the people in charge are that clever. What is happening here is a reaction to recent cases like this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/liam-allan-met-p... where a rape tri
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by r_c_a_d 8y ago
No, that is not how science works. We can say with 100% certainty that the theory has not been falsified by any test to date.

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