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by shas3 10y ago
I think you forget that you have to completely set aside human assumptions. How will the aliens even know they are looking at signals encoding video and audio? Do aliens have technology and knowhow in the RF regime? Will they even be able t
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The story sorts this out. Absent an interpreter, you necessarily need to be able to talk to someone who knows the other language so that you can query them, etc. Realistically, there's no way to intercept or interpret communications as
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by shas3 10y ago
[spoiler] Also, the story clearly has a theme of a person being a helpless observer of their own life (prescience or not (see Gwern's post [0]). The movie has a time-travel twist that's very, to use an indian term, "masala&qu
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by shas3 10y ago
A counterpoint to this is Derek Abbott's "The Reasomable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics." Personally, I think domains with low-N (dimensions and sample sizes) and high complexity remain beyond the optimistic expectations of E
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by shas3 10y ago
Yeah! And they use "feature engineering" where "feature selection" would suffice. The hard part of feature engineering is usually not selection, but creatively generating features based on expert knowledge, etc. Also, so
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Richard P. Feynman (who else!) had a scathing critique of this: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/2362/1/feynman.pdf To quote him, in reference to new mathematics of the post-Sputnik era, "In regard to thi
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by shas3 10y ago
I think we should look at the correct operation T on the set of all computer scientists. If T is an operation that restricts the set to computer scientists in the field of theoretical computer science (TCS), then the opposite seems to hold
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by shas3 10y ago
This is not implausible. Maritime Southeast Asia had trading relationships [1] with aboriginal Australians in the northern coast of Australia. It is not too surprising (still very interesting) if a ship every now and then made it to New Zea
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by shas3 10y ago
Very cool! However, I think the author should have spent a a few more words and figures to distinguish support vector machines from standard perceptrons. Maximum margin classification and the definition of 'support vectors,' in my
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by shas3 10y ago
Yes and communities and networks of merchants (e.g. Sogdians) ensured trust and fidelity in delivery of goods and money. A remnant of the Silk Road is the continuing practice of 'hawala': https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by shas3 10y ago
There are only four South Indian states. I am aware of caste-based quotas, but not gender-based ones. Can you provide a source for this?
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It was very difficult to do anything other than engineering, medicine, finance, law, and science in India pre-2000s. Then, with the software and internet and mobile revolutions, in the late 90s and 2000s, software and electronics were subst
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by shas3 10y ago
If you are interested in Indian women scientists and engineers, there is a nice compilation (a bit tiresome to read, but worth it, IMO) of biographical essays called 'Lilavati's Daughters' https://ia800402.us.archi
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by shas3 10y ago
Yeah it looks more like the math component of an engineering exam. If people look at this and think "oh cool, I can do well in this, I will become a mathematician," will be in for a rude shock when they take Grad School Real Analy
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by shas3 10y ago
Great stuff! What's the Wifi range of each of these "Dabbas"? Little tuck shops, bakeries, and tea stalls in India don't always have places to sit or hangout. Would people be able to sit a little distance away at a bus s
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by shas3 10y ago
This article is from 2016.
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Your comment is premised on the notion that immigration vs. locals is a zero-sum game. It is not uniformly so. Restrictionists claim: "If fewer Mexicans, Indians, and Chinese came to the US, then American citizens would be better off.&
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by shas3 10y ago
> I guess you missed the part of the article where it explained that the largest group of poor people are children. Do you think they made poor financial choices? And you also missed "Rates of intergenerational income mobility are,
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You wouldn't if you had compassion. Holding compassion and objectivity in your head simultaneously would enable you to both help the person and acknowledge that the person may have made poor choices and decisions to get them to where t
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by shas3 10y ago
Going against the grain, I don't think Chaffetz meant it literally. While he may or may not have been taking an extremist Right ideological view of poverty, the OP article takes another extreme ideological view, that poverty is inevita
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MSM bias reflects primarily in opinions and reporting decisions. Most important events are reported by MSM in an unbiased fashion, as are (often) investigative reports. Vox does almost no original reporting and is just in the business of mi
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by shas3 10y ago
Can someone clarify why the author talks specifically about Trump's America? This kind of excessive profiling at ports of entry happened under GWB and Obama too. I have heard many anecdotes in the last 15 years. Is there a provable and
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by shas3 10y ago
I think this is already happening. In fact most AI pessimists don't consider that "man + machine >> machine." Consider chess. Kasparov's defeat happened in mid-1990s. Machine is considered > man. Yet, in freesty
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Who said anything about human form factor? I said non-forklift, I meant things like: last mile delivery of furniture and appliances, packing and moving, etc. where most of the lifting is manual. These are situations where things are more un
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I agree. The numbers should be scaled to # of customers and/or population. To some extent, this is addressed in the text. ATMs reduced the cost of operating a branch, so banks opened more branches. It's easy to see that number of
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by shas3 10y ago
I'm sure there is a good critique of that Frey and Osborne paper. Epistemologically, it sounds weird to assign 'probabilities of automation.' I don't have the time to read the paper in detail, but here are a few things:
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> Just an aside, I think it's insane that women are pressured (or feel pressured) to wear heels. Is this common in California? FTFY.
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An earnest question I've heard from people trying to switch is: what's a good benchmark for testing where you stand in terms of coding skills? How do you calibrate and measure your production-quality coding skills in Scala, C, etc
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1. Undergrads who are exceptional in one field: Imagine applying this "undergrads aren't skilled workers" to Linus Trovalds in 1990. 2. Masters students with specialized skills and possible prior experience before their Maste
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Uh? SD is a super-generic title. H1B pool can include disproportionate number of fresh graduates (BS or MS) because OPT program gives them the flexibility to wait till April comes around to file for H1B. It is almost impossible (with except

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