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by timkam 5y ago
Agree, the NPS aggregation is mostly BS, but getting a signal from median/mean, e.g. by comparing trends across some dimension, and reading complimentary feedback is quite useful.
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by timkam 5y ago
No need to constrain yourself to FOL! Why not use some weird non-classical logic? ;-) Joking aside, rules engines typically use some form of defeasible reasoning, i.e., some not fully formalized non-monotonic logic, and it seems to be a poi
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by timkam 5y ago
Generally (with NFTs), the supposed 1-1 mapping of art piece (or other artifact) and token happens on meta-level, right? So for sure, an artist can issue many tokens that represent the same art piece (and don't tell me the token is a h
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by timkam 5y ago
Judging the quality of something primarily based on its prevalence is a questionable idea as well (no offense). The better argument could be that some of these languages are the result of violent conquest, the subjugation of (indigenous) wo
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by timkam 5y ago
As somebody who's about to finish a CS dissertation, I sometimes think the best way to do CS research is to get a somewhat interesting software engineering job that allows for a 4-day week and to do research as a side project. Most lik
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by timkam 5y ago
Still, one also must acknowledge that the hammer of using simple formal models to describe human decision-making has led to a crisis as well (in microeconomic theory). So it's best to do it like Tversky and Kahneman and build formal mo
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by timkam 5y ago
Does anyone here have thoughts on JOSS? I've reviewed for them once, had the impression the editors take their job seriously, and think I'll review again in the future. The review approach that the journal facilitates has a strong
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by timkam 5y ago
Mostly agree, but "The few geniuses stay and do research" is probably not true. I don't like the term "genius", but many of the best and brightest are put off by academic elitism and bureaucracy and leave, while at
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by timkam 5y ago
I disagree. We can't argue with formal precision here (unfortunately) but we should be permitted to try analyzing, anyway. Roughly speaking, the "objective" observations made in traditional mainstream news outlets tend to be
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by timkam 5y ago
Agreed. One (anecdotal) observation I've made is that bullshit meetings are harder to bear and to defend when everyone's online because people can protect themselves. It's easier to not join if nobody can approach you physica
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by timkam 5y ago
What we consider "welfare" is typically not handed out based on merit, but based on need (and, from a global perspective, also based on privilege). The idea of a welfare state is not meritocratic. Many societies strive to be merit
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by timkam 5y ago
Then the kids did not "earn" it, though; they got it because of their parents' merit, which means it is not meritocratic.
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by timkam 5y ago
I think when looking at least at large scale applications in the context of games (and not just super-expensive showcases), like in the Stockfish chess engine, we see that it's not primarily about depth, it's about architecture de
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by timkam 5y ago
I think that in some highly developed societies, and in particular in Scandinavia, this trend is actually good for endangered languages. The lingua franca of Scandinavia is English. The region, which is comparable in population size to a la
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by timkam 5y ago
Thank you. I took a quick look, and the article at least mentions something along the lines of my "object level vs. meta level" concerns :-)
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by timkam 5y ago
Can you elaborate? I doubt your claim because "how much profit" a business makes is tied to the legal/financial system(s) the business operates in. To me it looks like we have the "object level vs. meta level" falla
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by timkam 5y ago
Doesn't it make things like this all the more meaningless? We know that "unlimited vacation time" can, given a competitive company culture mean "essentially no vacation time". First, isn't this then the same wi
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by timkam 5y ago
As I remember, at least as a narrative, it is clear that having speed limits reduces traffic jams, congestion and accidents, and will actually help get people faster from A to B. Of course, no speed limit is part of the "brand" Ge
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by timkam 5y ago
To generate new, generally useful algorithms, we need a different type of "AI", i.e. one that combines learning and formal verification. Because algorithm design is a cycle: come up with an algorithm, prove what it can or can&#x27
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by timkam 5y ago
I think if the course instructors are more or less experienced contributors and put a focus on meta-aspects such as respectful communication (valuing maintainer time), this could work. Of course, this also means that at the moment, many sch
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by timkam 5y ago
He didn't clean it up when starting in the role, he damaged the (employer) brand he was expected to protect/develop as part of his role, he got re-assigned to a different role, which is arguably a reasonable consequence.
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by timkam 5y ago
Yes, there is an association and a Head of Diversity should be smart enough to not generalize based on this association; it's failure to satisfy the core requirement of the professional role.
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by timkam 5y ago
If you only look at the numbers it's the same story, but with some knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem, it's arguably unreasonable to claim that babel is just a random, trivial package that is pulled in as an arbitrary dependenc
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by timkam 5y ago
They have more than 20 million weekly downloads on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@babel/core , i.e., they are probably used by at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions of developers (not to speak of end
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by timkam 5y ago
I mostly agree, but many scientific communities are rather self-centered/inward-looking, and when it comes to technological innovation like programming languages, it could be a reasonable compromise to align slightly more with a "
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by timkam 5y ago
At first glance, the paper seems to be written by competent people, but the 'related research' section is rather shallow. How is what the authors have developed more than "yet another language"? I don't want to be t
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by timkam 5y ago
I wouldn't be too judgmental here. From the authors' and editors' perspective, the implications are clear because the paper is not marked as a review/survey. Sure, it's not a good choice, but I also think it's
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by timkam 5y ago
At first glance, this reads like a "keynote paper" to me. Does anyone know if this is correct and if there is, or will be, a recording?
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by timkam 5y ago
I think the ban hits the right institution, but I'd reason the other way around: is it really the primary fault of the individual (arguably somewhat immature, considering the tone of the email) PhD Student? The problem in academia is n
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by timkam 5y ago
My guess is: a journal that does not focus on studies of human behavior and whose editors are a) not aware of the ethical problems or b) happy to ignore ethics concerns if the publication is prone to receive much attention (which it is).

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