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by sidr 5y ago
> It's like 10-15 years of low pay, "will I have a job next year?" stress, and moving your family around all the time (or, more commonly, just not starting a family). While true for many/most PhDs going the academic r
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by sidr 5y ago
The thing is, you really don't neeed to consider non-Riemann integrable functions if you're actually trying to integrate or measure things. At some point, trying to find non-Borel measurable, but Lebesgue measurable sets serves no
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by sidr 5y ago
I have worked with multiple folks with Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering backgrounds who have switched to being data scientists or software engineers. Often because of the dismal job prospects in their fields. So yes, quite often the sa
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by sidr 5y ago
This is just a rebranding/reinvention of the tutorial system at Oxbridge, so not really that new.
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by sidr 5y ago
If the university doesn't review research methodologies that directly impact others (I'm not talking about societal impact of the work down the line), then they should be considered bad-faith actors. This is the equivalent of puni
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by sidr 6y ago
Or the users escalate to a high enough level, who inevitably has a university admin background and has no regard for IT or security - the decision inevitably ends up being on the side of the userbase. This is the problem with being consider
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by sidr 6y ago
Everyone thinks they want the honest truth. Has anyone ever told you they want you to lie to them?
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by sidr 6y ago
> relationship between relatively small and disparate local media companies and the giant foreign tech companies Are you referring to Nine Entertainment Co. and News Corp. as "relatively small and disparate local media companies&quo
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by sidr 6y ago
Even if you eat a very protein-rich diet, your body is not going to accidentally slip into ketosis unless you are really fastidious about keeping carbs almost entirely out. There is no benefit to ketosis for the average person versus a diet
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by sidr 6y ago
This definition of cloud is meaningless though - anything that sends a packet via the internet can now be classified as "cloud". This is cearly a marketing ploy to appeal to less-than-savvy enterprise customers.
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by sidr 6y ago
This runs completely counter to my understanding of shorting and I just checked on my brokerage - there is no limit. The unbounded losses bit is the whole point of put options instead of shorts.
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by sidr 6y ago
Showing a link to a site is "using their content"? What's really ridiculous is that this law would not allow them to not show a link to Australian news sites that are demanding payment either. The law is literally forcing Goo
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by sidr 6y ago
Unless they block all Australian IPs as well. I don't know about widespread VPN adoption just to have access to Google.
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by sidr 6y ago
These are 4 different companies that compete with each other (Google Cloud vs. AWS and Facebook vs. Twitter, also although you didn't list it Apple vs. Google) in the spaces relevant to this conversation (cloud services, social media,
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by sidr 6y ago
> Way back in feb I made a post suggesting masks might be a low cost / useful way to reduce spread of covid, that was attacked by everyone as not recommended and that they don't work Was this back when the CDC guidelines were s
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by sidr 6y ago
> but to say it is 'too late' is you pouting and trying to let yourself down easy. I don't think the author is saying he has been out of the field too long, but rather that hiring committees (even postdoc advisors, or fell
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by sidr 6y ago
I am not sure why a shared messaging infrastructure implies merging accounts is easy/possible. It's fully possible to have messages pass on a common infrastructure between different entities that correspond to messenger/whats
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by sidr 6y ago
The FAA and its allowing Boeing to "self-certify" the 737-MAX.
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by sidr 6y ago
> this brother of yours was dead and is alive again So don't bother trying to not die, since you can respawn and have a feast thrown for you.
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by sidr 6y ago
> started with rings and fields This seems unnecessary for a first class. I would agree with the parent here that the class should help build intuition and theoretical understanding. Presenting a rich theory with full generality is proba
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by sidr 6y ago
Agreed. If we had a European style system where a master's + PhD could be done in 4 years versus the insanely long duration of American PhDs, the whole system would be better off. Of course, faculty have no incentive to graduate their
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by sidr 6y ago
"Nice job you've got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it." By your logic that's not a threat, just a statement of fact that it would be a shame if the thing you care about were to be damaged&#x2
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by sidr 6y ago
FLANN was developed at UBC. You meant FAISS.
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by sidr 6y ago
I would think the primary use case for this would be pose estimation and/or recovering 3d models from 2d images. The primary use cases I'd guess is for AR/VR and building other kinds of interfaces (gestures etc). Neither of t
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by sidr 6y ago
Do you have any evidence that this particular rule actually involves any additional cumbersome paperwork? Is this just a knee-jerk reaction to the word "regulation"? Would it be better if the word "law" was used instead?
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by sidr 6y ago
I've noticed more and more restaurants in the Seattle area are listing higher prices for the GrubHubs/UberEats (some have explicitly told me during pickup to just call it in if I want to save some money). The picked up discount al
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by sidr 6y ago
I'm not sure why number of views/reads is the metric to optimize for, though. I'm sure more people listen to the Joe Rogan Experience than have read a Mathematical Theory of Communication. Does that intrinsically make it wort
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by sidr 6y ago
> “Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” Mr. Trump said. “And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but we’re going to test it?” he added, turning to Mr. Bryan, who had
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by sidr 7y ago
> I don’t think I’ve ever made a flight decision based on the safety of a particular airline type. Neither had I, until I took a Tupolev jet between Moscow and India. I then decided I would never fly another aircraft that wasn't cer
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by sidr 7y ago
Because price stickiness is real, and the stickiness at free is very very strong. Being a service whose appeal derives entirely from the network effect, they will never ever give their users an exogenous push to leave the platform.

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