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by timkam 3y ago
The general concept of luxury beliefs is very interesting, but it feels the author gives it an ideological spin: 1. The author claims that when luxury beliefs 'trickle down' to the working class, they are damaging, which is suppos
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by timkam 3y ago
This paper presents formal results, apparently. Also, in the case of formal results, peer review by experts in the exact sub-field makes sense/increases trust, sure, but why not share on archive instead of waiting for a year (or howeve
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by timkam 3y ago
Sweden is for sure not the socialist paradise that some think it is. But the Winter in the (relative) South of Sweden are relatively mild and there are always some hours of sun. I live in the North of Sweden (geographically somewhat north o
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by timkam 4y ago
A key problem in Sweden -- besides the weird interaction of privatization and legacy over-regulation -- is that the current inflation and rising interest rates break the social contract: a relatively even salary distribution allowed many pe
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by timkam 4y ago
I'd say the experiment (relying on the summary provided here) shows what works: - Papers that are obviously poor are rejected. - Papers that are uncontroversially good are accepted. From a CS point of view, the problem is that in many
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by timkam 4y ago
Without being an expert: I know large companies that have a remote-first, fixed country policy, but allow exceptions under special circumstances (e.g., for family reasons). My assumption is that if one wants to support an employee in a good
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by timkam 4y ago
I would argue that Musk's Twitter obsession has an outsized effect because i) it is all over the news and even apolitical people get it ii) even a chunk of republicans find it weird (e.g., even Gutfeld on Fox is making unfavorable joke
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by timkam 4y ago
There is still plenty of research going on on agents, symbolic AI, and other approaches that sometimes and somewhat reflect (or have informed) ideas from Society of Mind. Some of the ideas are relevant from an application perspective (for s
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by timkam 4y ago
Still, in B2B you typically want to show you have some megacorp logos (in particular due to larger deal size and up-sell potential), are attractive to different industries, et cetera. So this may be a known issue, but it's also conside
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by timkam 4y ago
By common sense: most of academia is monetarily less attractive than Stanford Law School. The salaries of two full professors there make the family at least wealthy, i.e., able to maintain an upper class life. And the perks of being a full
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by timkam 4y ago
Similarly, I don't think it's correct to characterize SBF's background as 'middle class'. Apparently, both of his parents are Profs at Stanford Law School. Most likely, they are wealthy or even rich and SBF could be
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by timkam 4y ago
I also like the general idea, but there seems to be a weird underlying motivation. For me Uber is the prime example for bullshit (in the technical sense of the word) innovation. Stuff like Uber should be considered infrastructure so that th
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by timkam 4y ago
Not exactly of course; reasoning backwards from the fact that he has fathered many children, he announced that doing so is good for humanity.
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by timkam 4y ago
AFAIK, it is well-known in the industry that Tesla is the only relevant vendor (or at least one of the few) betting on video-only. A couple of years ago, this looked (while risky) more reasonable, given the hype around deep learning-based i
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by timkam 4y ago
This would then be inconsistent with Musk's stated principle of reproduction as a civic duty (at least _his_ civic duty)...
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by timkam 4y ago
As somebody who does some 'mathy' theoretical CS work, I wonder if this will stay true forever, for the following reasons: * The general population, but also academics, take increasingly more time to mature. * The body of knowledg
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by timkam 4y ago
Of course there is some correlation between the two skillsets (with respect to ability): people who can abstract well can also understand the underlying ideas that are useful for fast calculation, and for both one needs to have a reasonably
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by timkam 4y ago
The obviously realistic assessment is: it depends. Sure, there are politics in industry, but most large corporations have large R&D organizations were politics are manageable and predictable, at least for individual contributors and tea
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by timkam 4y ago
I think you are right. But my argument was addressing the crypto-bullish assumption that crypto goes up (i.e., assuming long-term deflation) and that one should 'invest' in it as a responsible parent (as implied by the parent comm
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by timkam 4y ago
Buying crypto is not 'investing in technology'. Also, a currency with massive deflation is not usable. You can't go to the moon forever AND have a usable currency. So even if one bets on adoption of crypto and is risk averse
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by timkam 4y ago
I think it is way too early to discard the underlying technology and I think/hope that parts of the open source ecosystem will survive. Reckless speculation being the current primary use case does not mean there won't be any socie
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by timkam 4y ago
The idea is that 4-hours work weeks for relatively highly skilled knowledge workers will actually help lower the costs for the social security system (less burnouts, early retirements) and a more productive society (instead of 'grindin
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by timkam 4y ago
I think the (hopefully) more realistic action plan would be to change the academic system so that the average academic does not need to spend what amounts to the full official working hours on non-research tasks, latest after their first Po
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by timkam 4y ago
In Sweden, students and graduate students are well-organized/unionized, but the situation for PostDocs and other post-doctoral fixed-term employed academics is dire nonetheless, in particular for immigrants, for whom the fixed-term con
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by timkam 5y ago
IMHO, such apps should be considered infrastructure and be regulated accordingly (or be managed by foundations).
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by timkam 5y ago
This is a very interesting comment, but this statement is concerning: "Corporations are supposed to be automata that optimize an objective function." Of course, from the perspective of neoclassical economics, it is true, and of co
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by timkam 5y ago
The question is: what is bloat? Is everything that depends on Electron bloated? I'd say yes, and there's a lot of non-enterprise software that uses electron. So I'd rather say what is special about enterprise software are UI&
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by timkam 5y ago
Isn't the real development that automation and efficiency improvements move more and more people into bullshit jobs? So instead of becoming entirely obsolete, we continue working, not knowing what value we contribute, if any. That&#x2
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by timkam 5y ago
I don't think that these papers will earn the author a PhD, and I also don't think that this is a goal. Looking at the references, the author seems to like to publish such analyses on the arXiv, which is arguably not really what i
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by timkam 5y ago
The title here is imprecise and misleading. "Droplets that contain the Covid virus" would presumably be a bit more precise. Also the paper is a preprint, so one should be particularly careful with strong statements.

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