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by rotskoff 8y ago
The rational provided for these measures is very indirect, and, as such, it almost ensures the interpretation that it is retaliatory. If the concern were truly "integrating" tech workers into the community, perhaps the city would
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The End of Employees(wsj.com)
119 points by rotskoff 8y ago|160 comments
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by rotskoff 8y ago
There's a lot of work trying to piece apart the "thermodynamics of information". I am not sure that the linked paper is a natural starting point for the curious non-scientist. This popular summary is a much better place to ge
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by rotskoff 8y ago
No, it's not a joke. The thermodynamics of information is a pretty active area of research (not too distant from the area that I work in). The basic question in this area is related to the Landauer principle, which asserts that irrever
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All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks(sciencemag.org)
7 points by rotskoff 8y ago|1 comments
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by rotskoff 8y ago
The original article [1] is, in many ways, clearer than the economist's take on it and avoids political diversion. They summarize Baumol's theory for entrepreneurship as assuming that the total amount of entrepreneurial spirit rem
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by rotskoff 8y ago
The economist piece is a year old as well.
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I recently switched to Zotero from Papers, which is only for OS X and I needed to work on a Linux computer. After Papers was acquired by ReadCube, I was also concerned it would end up like Mendeley, which has a social network model that I d
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I'm seeing a lot of misinformation / misunderstanding in the comments. My PhD was primarily about nonequilibrium statistical physics, so let me try to give a simple explanation of free energy and its relevance for biological syste
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by rotskoff 8y ago
This blog post describes twitter's move from Lua Torch to Tensorflow. I am surprised to see it so highly ranked on the front page because there's very little content here. Basically, they describe the sorts of data structures they
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by rotskoff 8y ago
While Theranos relied heavily on excessive optimism about technology's potential to solve a major problem, it also relied heavily on outright fraud. It's true that they had assembled a board of non-experts that were duped by unrea
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by rotskoff 8y ago
In this context, the Hamiltonian is just the log of the conditional probability of the input data given some parameters. In fact, such functions are much more diverse than the functions defined by neural networks (which, though there are
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by rotskoff 9y ago
I don't work primarily in computer science, but rather in math/physics, and both as a reviewer and as an author, I have only seen a positive impact for sharing code. When I review, if code is made available, it is easy for me to s
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by rotskoff 9y ago
Not quite... In Brave New World there is a drug called "soma" that is an opium for the masses; it's rationed by the government. The subplot around soma focuses more on trying to get people to not take it so that their minds c
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by rotskoff 9y ago
If you read my assertion carefully, I said "control" not "fund". I understand that large public institutions are heavily invested in both VC and PE. My point is simply that public markets are less attractive because weal
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by rotskoff 9y ago
I consider this a symptom of the massive wealth inequities in contemporary America. As other comments have pointed out, this phenomenon is not unique start-ups. The most direct cause of the IPO decline is a lack of necessity. Public markets
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by rotskoff 10y ago
Well, the article claims that they are comparing premiums to "to the average amounts paid out by insurers for liability claims in each zip code" which seems to include the additional factors that you describe.
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Minority Areas Pay More for Car Insurance Than White Areas with the Same Risk(propublica.org)
2 points by rotskoff 10y ago|3 comments
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by rotskoff 10y ago
No algebra at all---seems very odd because much of modern mathematics relies heavily on group and field theory.
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by rotskoff 10y ago
It might be the case that this hate is not even grounded in a realistic financial assessment of the company. The reaction of Wall St. to this earnings report, which the WaPo presents as a sign of collapse, was, in fact, bullish. The stock c
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Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981)(nytimes.com)
212 points by rotskoff 10y ago|178 comments
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Root: A Robot to Teach Coding(kickstarter.com)
2 points by rotskoff 10y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 10y ago
I have been using Karabiner for about a year now to disable my option key, which was permanently depressed due to water damage. I haven't exploited it for my productivity, but it saved me a good deal of money!
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by rotskoff 10y ago
"Incomes are going up, but so are prices" The Federal Poverty Threshold is set annually and is tied to the Consumer Price Index, so if prices go up, so does the poverty line.
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by rotskoff 10y ago
Two factors that have aided statistical analysis of baseball and helped it secure this reputation: the long term historical data and the large number of games per season.
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by rotskoff 10y ago
This situation seems colored by the specifics of the case. The questions of morality and ethics wouldn't be involved were the company in question, say, a cybersecurity firm. In that case, it might seem perfectly reasonable to use this
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by rotskoff 10y ago
This article touches on a host issues very similar to those associated with "The Truman Show delusion." There's a good New Yorker article ( http://bit.ly/1ULiZr6 ) from 2013 about these delusions and their rela
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by rotskoff 10y ago
I think what I like best about this piece is the way in which it emphasizes the cultural homogeneity of Silicon Valley and the tension that enjoying and benefiting from that culture creates. It's absurd that each of these companies pre
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by rotskoff 12y ago
I'm a serious advocate of open access, but it should be noted that money which is otherwise ear-marked for research is now being poured into the publishing industry in the form of author fees. The last article that I published cost nea
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by rotskoff 12y ago
I'm a PhD student in the US, and the author's view of PhD students, at least among R1 institutions, is not accurate for most disciplines. In most of these programs, a student is guaranteed a salary for 5 years, given health insura

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