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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
My experience: not all masters degree holders are created equal. There's a big difference between people who leave a funded phd program early with a masters, and people who enroll in a terminal masters program. Especially if the termin
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> 1) sounds like exactly what deep learning is...map more complex abstractions in each succeeding layer Only at such a high level of abstraction as to be meaningless. > 2) are computers that can understand speech, recognize faces,
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
You stated ...No good mathematicians (currently) are [self-taught] The main thrust of my post was that all good Xs are self-taught, for all values of X . That's the primary point of disagreement between us. Lots of self-teaching hap
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> ...it doesn't matter how much formal education / training you get, you're still going to have to do a massive amount of self-learning before you can hope to achieve excellence. So I'm a self-taught programmer, and
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
As someone who has done research in the area, I'd argue that a lot of work on temporal logics is at about the same level of difficulty as a better-than-average undergraduate linear algebra course. Certainly none of the standard results
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
This suggests that the inefficiencies would not be fixed, but instead explicitly codified exceptions -- with a high cost to the average user but little cost to political and economic elite -- would be created.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> Imagine how fast things would change if the president had to go through the TSA. I don't think they would change at all. 30 minutes or an hour of time is inconsequential compared to the political (and non-political...) calculati
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The red scare. The civil rights movement. Anti-war movements during WWII. People distrust the FBI for very good reasons.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
My experience was the opposite. The more practical Mathematics was too easy to hand wave through so no one ever bothers with proof. But then when something goes wrong or you're not sure whether a particularly complicated calculation ma
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> but it seems like the part about learning the mechanics of research and publishing should be something so well documented it shouldn't be that big of a deal. No. I think you're thinking: "how to format/structure a
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
I've worked with these types of bridges before. They are terrible if you want to keep the program running and intermittently call Mathematica throughout the course of a multi-hour session. If you have a small script that makes a single
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> If I'm just some keyboard puncher, I could give a fuck about what is best for the company. Exactly. The one-sided sense of loyalty implicitly demanded in this article is astounding. Fuck that shit.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Getting a CPA would have been a very long road for a person with an associates, and they likely needed to replace her with one or more CPAs right now , not in 2+X years. That said, it's hard to imagine there wasn't something sh
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The interfaces are terrible. The price is high. If you need to call one of the built-in pieces of Magic (TM) then Mathematica is OK, but if you want to build something new that needs to interface with literally anything outside of Mathemati
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Can a lawyer or something with legal background please weigh in on this?
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
CS is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. You write grants for things you haven't done yet but also you typically have some initial work (maybe a minor publication, maybe not) to prove the direction is promising enough to fu
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
There was no actual intrusion, so this feels like fair game to me. Especially since mitigating a very possible attack vector is a direct result of running experiment. Still, hopefully the researchers got an IRB to sign off on the experiment
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Why not? Central repositories could require that all names are within a certain Levenshtein distance of one another. This could get mildly annoying every once in a while when there are legitimate non-clashing names. A better metric/typ
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> The really frustrating thing is when your lab is doing something that another lab is doing better because you're trying to get into what looks like a really interesting and useful area. Then you have to justify why you're th
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
What?! Do you fold your clothes? It burns about as many calories as watching TV and picking up the remote on commercial breaks... Folding a week of laundry for 3 people takes about an hour. Reclaiming that time and doing actual exercise i