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by shas3 13y ago
The question arises: what is the scope of compressive sensing? What you show is l1 regularization. This has been around far longer than the term 'compressive sensing'. Even the theory underlying it pre-dates 'compressive sens
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by shas3 13y ago
It is not uncommon for manufacturers of 'systems' to hedge their bets by becoming suppliers of components to competitors. Examples abound in the cell phone industry: Samsung makes Apple's A series chips and possibly, other co
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by shas3 13y ago
Also relevant to this discussion is Douglas Hofstadter's solitary pursuit of 'thinking machines', outlined recently in this Atlantic profile: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11&
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by shas3 13y ago
Centralized research labs give researchers the opportunity to look at different ideas across the company and connect ideas. This is almost impossible if all researchers are siloed in decentralized research groups. Also, there's 'w
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by shas3 13y ago
Thread is getting too deep for HN, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore%E2%80%93United_State... .
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by shas3 13y ago
> In a non-protectionist world there would be free movement of labor and so there would be nothing stopping say a US or European developer moving overseas to follow the work if that it what they desired. Sadly this is not the case so off
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by shas3 13y ago
There are jobs out there which justifiably require a PhD qualification, e.g. industry research labs, defense research labs, national research labs. I think new PhDs should try hard to seek these jobs rather than typical developer-type jobs
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by shas3 13y ago
One cannot complain about the 'bad' companies being 'unfair'. It is a consequence of globalization. If, say, Indian_Software_Company A can do the IT overhaul of US_Retailer B at a price point cheaper than US_Software_Com
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by shas3 13y ago
What is the basis of your assertion? There are at least 250,000 H1B workers in the USA. Do you seem to suggest this is true across the board? In my experience in most 'good' companies (e.g. Texas Instruments that is discussed in t
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by shas3 13y ago
You are reading too much into my remark. I have seen cases where senior faculty members (within or without the department) with experience in finding funding have mentored junior ones and helped them with their peer networks. The bottom-lin
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by shas3 13y ago
This is not about the philosophical debate of luck vs. effort. In my opinion, show-biz vs. academia analogy is not valid (Though there are no Jaden Smith's in academia, I won't use that as a counter-example. Doing so would perpetu
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by shas3 13y ago
I'm a heavily accented non-American, non-British (though I can claim English is my native language since it's been my language of instruction since Kindergarten). Google's voice recognition system, and of late, Siri both work
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by shas3 13y ago
The analogy does not make sense. I know many colleagues who got into academia and were able to find plenty of funding. It wasn't a lucky break that helped them, but hard work and talent. The system is far from perfect, but it is not &#
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by shas3 13y ago
> I actively discourage people from doing a PhD. Academia is a horrible feudalistic system that doesn't pay well enough to keep the bright minds it attracts. There is no sense in being a post-doc for life. Much better to take that h
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by shas3 13y ago
A good compromise on distractions and 'more inputs' is voice-based UI. Honestly, car companies and OEMs must be focusing on better voice-based UIs for cars rather than distracting touch screens. The Sync system in Ford cars is a w
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by shas3 13y ago
The key problem with schools is that they teach you to not just respect authority, but also to defer to it. In the real world, conforming and deferring to authority only makes you mediocre. In order to succeed, one needs to develop the ment
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by shas3 13y ago
What's the problem with cold winters? Unless it is below 0 F (or say, 20 F) or something, you can still get around. It is quite rare that you have such long streaks of sub-zero temperatures. Go out and learn to XC ski, snow-shoe, or ju
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by shas3 13y ago
If only it was so simple. The right advice should be "See an orthopedic specialist and then a physical therapist." From my experience with running injuries: 1. Strengthen your core 2. Strengthen your thigh muscles 3. Strengthen an
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by shas3 13y ago
It is fallacious to say 'just because our ancestors lived that way, it is good'. There is seldom sufficient evidence to back up such claims. Paleo diets [1] are not necessarily good. Nor are paleo-lifestyles [2]. Even several clai
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by shas3 13y ago
Let's take it further. It is an internal COMBUSTION engine. But it is unlikely that your car can spontaneously burn up. Electrical fires however start more easily. For example, in spite of the prevalence of gas-heating systems, the mos
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by shas3 13y ago
How many of those are spontaneous? The concern over Tesla is understandable if you consider the voltage and currents associated with running the motor.
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by shas3 13y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by shas3 13y ago
The root of this problem is that most data sets in psychology, anthropology, and epidemiology are not as large in terms of sample size as what computer scientists and electrical engineers encounter. p-values are a surrogate to explicitly de
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by shas3 13y ago
A few minutes ago, the top voted questions were about whether he uses Internet Explorer, Bing, etc. It is a bit disappointing to see such inane questions getting upvoted to visibility. All I can think of about that commenter is: You have on
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by shas3 13y ago
There is a correlation between the success of a product/service and the difficulty of the technical problem you solved to create the product/service. There are hard technical problems that don't result in profitable products
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by shas3 13y ago
Executive strategies change and their outcomes depend a lot on luck. And it is difficult to predict. Most of our discussions about Kodak, AOL, etc. (like this one right here) are with full benefit of hindsight. Look at how Google (or any ot
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by shas3 13y ago
One difference between AOL and Facebook is that Facebook has hired some of the most talented CS folks of this generation, e.g. Yann LeCun. If their management has the vision to foresee the social network's slide to irrelevance, they ca
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by shas3 13y ago
The plural of your anecdote is not data that contradict the Gates' assertions. What is meant by 'population larger than the land can support'? The requirement 'land can support' is valid for communities which rely o
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by shas3 13y ago
My company still uses Lotus Notes for email. Is this common? I've talked to an IBM employee who vehemently defended it as a great piece of enterprise software. As did the IT folks in my company. Conceivably folks trying to keep in touc
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by shas3 13y ago
> Taleb doesn't point one situation when MAD works better than SD (I pointed out some where SD works better than MAD) he also doesn't address obvious problems which such substitutions create. Ummm, are we both discussing the sa

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