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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   Prof Nelson didn’t call himself “whistleblower “ but it does seem untoward that the main author of the California math framework is also making $5000/hour when the client is not a tech company but a public school district with mostly m
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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   See also https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/tx0zot/jelani_nel... and https://mobile.twitter.com/boazbaraktcs/status/1511366075035... for context
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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   This is a good point. Caplan makes a huge deal about the fact that a students that drops out one semester before finishing the degree takes a huge penalty to their salary. This is what he calls the “sheep skin effect”. He claims that becau
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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   This is not as comfortable a margin as it seems. If a direct implementation of the algorithm takes a few million qubits, it may well be that both better algorithms, better error correcting codes, and optimizing their combination to the hard
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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   The New Yorker article gives a much more detailed look at the evidence for both natural origins and lab leak. “ The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory” https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-my
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   by sgdjgkeirj 5y ago

   For autograd from scratch, see https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd and/or https://windowsontheory.org/2020/11/03/yet-another-backpropa...