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   by shas3 10y ago

   We can't know whether fake news tilted the election towards Trump. There is no experiment or analysis that can conclusively dis/prove that hypothesis. NYT and others should be humble here. Sure, fake news is stupid, but so is clai
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   by shas3 10y ago

   Infineon makes electronics for cars and such. Quite likely it is aimed at that, to showcase actuation, etc.
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   by shas3 10y ago

   Cash, money-laundering, sketchy real estate transactions (Benami- transactions under fake names), informal banking (hawala), the same as in most places in the world. Think early mafiosi in the US. The most significant legislative actions fo
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   by shas3 10y ago

   Uh when will the H1B=lower-wage meme just die? A lot of the H1B hiring is purely skills based. In my nook, all of it is skills-based. I am yet to encounter a hiring manager who'd hire shit employees on H1B just so that he can save mone
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   by shas3 10y ago

   I suffered very unpleasant nausea after eating bars from a particular shipment of Soylent food bars. Soylent is now forever (or at least in the near future) associated for me with those bouts of nausea. That's the unfortunate thing abo
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   by shas3 10y ago

   There's no correct answer to this. But, from personal experience, there are companies and roles in which too many sick days and even maternity leave can shaft your promotion. They usually give fuzzy reasons like "you weren't
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   by shas3 10y ago

   I think it is because of a few interrelated things: 1. Ill-posedness of the problems: what is sleep?, why do animals sleep?, etc. vs. the well-posed physics problems such as, what happened at the beginning of the universe? 2. Data sufficien
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   by shas3 10y ago

   The Economist, for one, has a "The Economist, Once" account that only tweets articles once, when they are published!
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   by shas3 10y ago

   This is a sign of the utter commodification of hardware and the possibility that a majority of innovation in the future (with the exception of low-power wearables) lies in the realm of software and algorithms.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Not to mention that a lot of the material minimalism goes out of the window once you have kids. Like any ideology, foisting it upon children may or may not be a good thing. I've seen that kids thrive when they are surrounded by a dump
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Just mull the power and influence of deep learning: Yann LeCun is in FB, Geoffrey Hinton and part of his lab are affiliated with Google, Ruslan Salakhutdinov is now with Apple. In addition to this, there are other alumni of LeCun, Hinton, a
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Blue sky research should be open. Last mile product development and products themselves can be closed source. Else, how do you create profits and value for shareholders? So far, except Apple, the others have made the outputs of their resear
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    by shas3 10y ago

    I have to disagree on this. Data scientist is a very fluid and fast changing term. I know companies who now call what would traditionally have been "machine learning researcher", "machine learning engineer", or "res
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Earnest skepticism: how can you trust Open APS without the rigorous testing required from companies like Medtronic? Sure, FDA regulations are not perfect. But they sure work in a large number of cases. While the DIY spirit of Open APS is co
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    by shas3 10y ago

    There's nothing wrong with Omaha per se, but some of the most cutting edge technology work is truly happening in, Bay Area, Boston, Seattle, and secondarily, NYC, Dallas, Austin, DC (defense). Given this, while Omaha, Nashville, Oklaho
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    by shas3 10y ago

    I can't move past the son's crime. It is horrific sadism and violence. Read about Yu: http://www.wikicu.com/Minghui_Yu Why should we delude ourselves that he is genuinely remorseful or that he will redeem himself
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Uh, it's not that clear cut. Also, the line is drawn along the lines of developed vs. developing economies. Having lived in India and had some experience with US multinational companies, the 'massive international markets' in
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Yes, but if you flood it with white noise, it'd screw up any transmit waveforms. The only alternative is to have a software radio that is flexible enough to switch bands when it encounters noise.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    I think it's more of a continuum than you suppose in your comment. It's not a binary of "great" vs "average" PhD. There's plenty in between and many types of averages. Karpathy had it good, as did Might, G
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    by shas3 10y ago

    This is strange: you buy a jet-black phone so that it looks slick. Then you buy a case and change its appearance because scratches might show? Weird logic.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Yeah! I couldn't even find a citation or hyperlink to the relevant article on the "sciencenewsjournal" page.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    I totally agree! Also, there is plenty of variance and random luck in the fate of companies. Kodak went down, yes. But many other similar companies survived and thrived. GE once sold personal computers and 3M, magnetic tapes. But they succe
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Well, yes and no. Kingdoms and provinces weren't ever linguistically organized till 1957, 7 years after India was unified as a Republic (1950). Most kingdoms and provinces were multilingual, though they all had one or more court langua
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    by shas3 10y ago

    "1. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy" Tell that to the speakers of 10s of languages of India, most of which are so different from one another that no definition would classify them as dialects. I wonder if that quip
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Severe sampling bias. News in the West is focused on all the bad things that happen there. That doesn't mean that there can't be a small percentage of the population that has the time and motivation to educate themselves. I'v
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Two of those are not like the other. Frankly, Portland has a pretty anemic economy and the colleges here are mediocre too. Boulder is a little better. Can't say Northeast Ohio is that bad, Cleveland is on par with Boulder and Portland.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    She may also be learning! You're discounting experiential learning aka learning on the job. Also, she may be reading books relevant to work, including domain-specific books, management books, pop-sci management books, etc. I think the
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    by shas3 10y ago

    Umm, no. That's only the first few paragraphs. The rest is about the side effects of things like green tea extracts, caffeine powder, etc.
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    by shas3 10y ago

    I think this is relevant to HN given the widespread use of various supplements in the community. It is also interesting given popularity of Tim Ferris, Nootrobox, and other supplement enthusiasts.
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    Supplements can make you sick(consumerreports.org)

    6 points by shas3 10y ago|3 comments