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by shas3 11y ago
I think it is incumbent upon you to explain why you think learning to read, write, etc. is a chore or something that shouldn't be part of very early childhood. I think later childhood makes it seem like a chore, but in reality these ar
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by shas3 11y ago
I am curious to know what you think about Larry Sanger's (a co-founder of Wikipedia) approach to this: http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Wh...
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You've actually summarized the article in your comment!
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Ten people who mattered in science and technology in 2015 (Nature Journal)(nature.com)
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> I'm really sick of "investors" thinking that trimming every little cost here and there is going to somehow fix things. Giving such control to investors is the least bad compromise for running companies. On the spectrum o
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Among industrial companies like in the OP, GE, under Jack Welch, proposed to buy/merge with Honeywell in the late 1990s. It was shot down by regulators. http://www.economist.com/node/687696
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Multi-grid methods are of limited applicability. Out of the box, they work on linear systems with special structures. Conceivably you can extend it to all linear systems, but sparsity of matrix is a necessary condition.
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Corporate governance is a lot about perceptions. Even if you set aside the fact that most of that growth comes from Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, you still have the question about Yahoo's future and vision. If there is a perception th
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Right, thanks! Ugh.
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400 percent mark up, yes, but you have to meet volume targets if you have to break even given rent and other fixed costs. Let's say, you pay $5000 rent, another $200 a month for equipment like espresso machines, around $600 for utilit
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That isn't saying much. Every supervised learning algorithm can be cast as a problem of advanced curve fitting, because at the end of the day, your 'curve' is the mapping that takes you from your 'x-axis' of data to
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I think another interesting analogy (in terms of field-development trajectory) to deep learning is the whole idea of l1-regularized regression or LASSO or sparsity priors or sparse signal processing ([1] goes by many names depending on whic
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by shas3 11y ago
Further, do programming languages and math (each with their own definitions, notations, and axioms) count as language? I guess that would depend on how the brain processes these vs. spoken/written language. How about dialects and very
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How to get your green card in America(buzzfeed.com)
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Academic rigor applied to industry would be a type of overfitting. Just as one example, customers don't care how accurate a fitness monitor is, as long as it is vaguely effective. Yet, few journals or funding agencies would buy your cl
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Do stronger muscles result in increased blood flow?
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> Imagine if they lifted that policy, then countries like Mexico, India, China would lock out pretty much any other country from immigrating to the US. Add in the Amnesty program for undocumented workers, and you could imagine that neare
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by shas3 11y ago
> One is denying the right of people born in the U.S. with parents that are citizens. Umm, no. You are mistaken. Racial criteria also applied to naturalized citizenship aspirants. Today, once you have a green card, irrespective of where
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by shas3 11y ago
I think it is reasonable to assume that only a percentage of the experts will be willing to quit their job and move to a new one. People have all sorts of reasons to stick to current jobs!
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Right! There is one across-the-board solution that occurs to me, let's say, the US has an overall cap of 40,000 for employment based preference category, 2800 each are max caps for Indians and Chinese. Because of the 7% quota, I would
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> There is no tech labor shortage. "Tech labor shortage" is not a clear-cut black-and-white issue. The market is not fully elastic to easily use terms such as 'shortage', etc. Say, you need to build a team of 5 machin
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No country is allowed to get more than 7% of the green cards each year (roughly speaking). This GC-H1B lock-in problem is very unique to Indians (~10 year wait), and to a lesser extent, Chinese (~4 year wait). The 7% quota would be illegal
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by shas3 11y ago
It is interesting that you mention Portland there. Portland somehow doesn't seem to have the same serious intellectual culture that you see in the upper midwest (Chicago, Twin Cities, Wisconsin, Michigan). Silicon forest and fledgling
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I know at least one group that has used mobile-phone ultrasonics for sonar imaging of breathing. http://apnea.cs.washington.edu/ In terms of entropy, breathing rate is a lot of information: several breaths per minute. So if
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by shas3 11y ago
I am pretty sure psychologists, etc. everywhere are working on this problem! You cannot publish work if you cannot find ways of quantifying these! An example I'm aware of is, Angela Duckworth at U Penn who studies 'grit' htt
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There is a fundamental fallacy here, that is all too common. You think that busting your butt is something that you only do during your education. It is not. "started from the bottom now we're here" is as common a credo on th
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Applying for an O1 as a researcher is an onerous process with a poor success rate. Some companies that require PhDs with highly specialized skills are resorting to this to bypass the H1B quota, with mixed success (based on 3 anecdotes).
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You are so wrong, you are not even wrong. H1Bs pay the exact same taxes as US workers. So I don't get what 'public benefits' you are talking about that aliens don't deserve.
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Typesetting of research papers was way more complex (for authors) in the pre-personal computer days (pre 1990, say). So you needed publishers to pay and employ people to do this. And then you also have the logistics of mailing the journals
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I'm scratching my head here. Bloomberg casts Apple as the outlier for its secrecy. In reality, companies which publish their results openly are the outliers today. In the post-golden-era-of-Bell-Labs-and-industrial-research era, publis

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