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by timkam 7y ago
I guess Zoom says they're end-to-end encrypted because they're using WebRTC, which probably means traffic is end-to-end encrypted after signaling, but users need to trust that zoom's signaling server doesn't do anything
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My interpretation of the comment is that it is criticizing the somewhat baseless claim. I find it hard to believe that even internally at Google the statement is considered an indisputable truth. I agree programmer productivity is a complex
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Interesting. Can you describe what your (previous) team worked on? Was it an engineering team? I have experienced many good engineering teams who discuss calmly and with little friction, but when the big business stakeholders (and egos) com
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by timkam 7y ago
Good that they got a paper in Nature. It's important such accomplishments get rewarded and acknowledged in the traditional academic way. I hope these people pile up citations. The engineers who build the foundations of modern scientifi
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by timkam 7y ago
An anecdotal perspective: I am doing blockchain-related innovation work in the B2B software industry and often interact with academia and public institutions (research funding providers), as well as with other software vendors. Our problem
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by timkam 7y ago
In many communities, the problem with double-blind peer review is that it's pretty clear who the authors are, based on the exact line of research, writing style, et cetera. And in many cases, you can also guess who the reviewer is with
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by timkam 7y ago
I find it a bit strange that the post lists both LISP and Python as "truly elegant software system[s]". To me Python is a super-pragmatic language that sacrifices intellectual elegance to allow people (even, but not necessarily) w
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by timkam 7y ago
Ariel Rubinstein - Economic Fables. For everyone who is interested in an intuitive and (self-)critical perspective on economic theory. The PDF version is available for free on Rubinstein's personal web page, but requires you to provide
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by timkam 7y ago
Perhaps my perspective is ignorant, but in my sub-field of computer science, most people put their papers/pre-prints openly accessible on arXiv, ResearchGate, or personal web pages (if the publisher is not open access). I've never
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by timkam 7y ago
Exactly, "it stops working when it becomes an interview question". I mentioned that I think it is in intriguing question, but in the blog post, it is presented as an effective interview question. It seems just very unlikely that t
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by timkam 7y ago
First of all, is there any evidence that this question is predictive? Secondly, the article is celebrating this question (which certainly is creative and somewhat intriguing) in a way that seems to be weirdly inconsistent: you ask me about
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There are recent works that question whether "deep" learning algorithms, and in particular neural networks, are really advancing the state of the art of recommender systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pd
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I understand your concerns, but there is a large body of XAI research that addresses them. For example, there are post-hoc explainability algorithms like LIME ( https://github.com/marcotcr/lime ) that "explain"
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by timkam 7y ago
While most OS folks seem to see PR and management roles as support functions, I think it's good to show some appreciation for people in those roles. They help get some funding in and grow the community. Nothing wrong with that, IMHO.
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Agreed. I wasn't describing the problem clearly at all, it is just a rough idea. Now, I agree that the problem is only interesting if we keep some constraints, a) at least as to how people can move and possibly also on b) what informat
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by timkam 7y ago
Now, what if Republicans try to react by moving between states themselves to prevent Democrats from accomplishing their mission? Then, we have a kind of game-theoretical knapsack problem. I could imagine that generalizing and formalizing th
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by timkam 7y ago
As a European, I assume the page is presenting a stereotype and not the (more nuanced) truth. Personally, I've experienced problems communicating with US folks that reflect this stereotype, but at least in Tech/Science, I assume (
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by timkam 7y ago
Indeed. The "largely" in the article's headline is a blatant lie. It cannot largely explain, it probably just largely correlates, considering the samples at hand. One could write tens of similarly attention-catching articles
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Fun fact: when I arrive in Berlin, the plane often lands on the new airport's airfield and then rolls on to the old Schönefeld airport, passing the new, dysfunctional BER main building; just to remind us visitors of the city government
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by timkam 7y ago
Does anyone know if/where this collection is available in Norwegian (preferably in Bokmål)?
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Isn't the blog post facilitating the types of open vs. closed source discussions we should stop having as a community? Very little (or nothing) of what McLoone introduces as "reasons" cannot be achieved with an OS approach. I
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by timkam 8y ago
While I don't think Boghossian is a fraudster, his hoaxes are certainly poor science. He should have conducted a rigorous empirical study instead. Of course, he must have known that fabricating data can cost him his career. But punishi
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There is a small CS/AI community that works on "argumentation", putting exactly the problems you describe in symbols. For anyone who is interested in the details, there are several books on the topic, for example the "Ha