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by tsumnia 5y ago
> "Stay calm. Remember, you can’t become worse off than when you started." Yup! I refer to this an "analysis paralysis" (a lot of my terms I'm stealing from martial arts). In essence, I freak out trying to fix my
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I like to use the phrase "practice makes permanent" - not "practice make perfect", cause every instructor disagrees, and not "perfect practice makes perfect" because perfection is subjective and a fool's e
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> this doesn't handle AMBERing of repeated letters correctly Sigh... this game has ruined 5 letter words for me. Saw it and immediately thought "how's that for an opener?"
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> those that pass some minimum score The issue though becomes that the score gradually stops being minimal as more and more requirements get added in over time
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With NC getting its fair bit of snow this weekend, this post was aptly timed. Just a fun piece to read while I sip on hot cocoa. No koozie though
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Soloway's work [1] might speak to you. In essence, Soloway referred to this association as "templates", in which we associate problems with those we've seen in the past. While the linked study points at it as a potential
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Agreed! Even if your code is just a slight modification of some other well known tutorial, in order to reimplement the code means that I, as a scientist, have to reverse engineer your codebase based on your text - which may not be as straig
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> Reproducing the results does not mean running the same code as the author and plotting the same figures as in the paper. This is trivial and good for nothing. I agree with this statement, however I think you may have a misunderstanding
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I like to take a line from Two Minute Papers[1] - If this is what one "paper" was able to produce, imagine the improvements will be two "papers" down the line. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb
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Agreed, and appropriately timed! I just finished using one-hot encoding for a predictor on student practice. The results were better than traditional methods, but only marginal better. When discussing the results I specifically mentioned ho
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My dissertation utilizes something known as the ICAP Framework developed by Mickie Chi. In essence, Chi breaks down learning activities by their levels of engagement, or Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive. For example, watching
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What's more annoying is that the decision to construct the email as a non-academic "other person" was a CONSCIOUS decision by the research team (most likely the advisor). I don't see what benefit hiding behind the illusi
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Bezier curves are actually my favorite way to teach recursion. They give a nice visual representation of what's happening, the base case is pretty straight forward, and so is the math. The time-step element adds just enough extra compl
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I actually disagree. If you're going to look down at "those people" making the company run, then yeah, us techies are just as easily trawled through and filtered via intense programming interviews. What's the turnover ti
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I would say the article's $300,000 model is realistic though. This has been a conversation I've had with my advisor a few times over the years. PhD students get paid a small amount but then there's all the Hollywood accountin
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"calls out top tier schools" Um, ok, ouch... jk :D There are ways to increase your pay and doing summer work is one of those. However, the student fees portion of my comment still rings true. You'll be spending about $4k on s
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"You can expect to make about USD 30,000 (before taxes) for the academic year." Well that's a lie. NC State is $20k for a CS PhD Student, oh, and that's before you pay the $4k a year on student fees. The article glosses
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Its not that decision trees are under utilized, but rather one of their disadvantages is that they can overfit to their training data very easily. This is actually one of the reasons Random Forests exist - just make a lot of overfitted deci
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It's been a crazy surprise during my time as a PhD Student that I can just email or book time to chat with notable experts because I've had questions for my own research. I wouldn't say people don't because they're
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> This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing. Same, I remember being so resistant to porting to XP. AND funny enough, when I finally made the shift, it was the first time I ever wiped a hard drive, los
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That actually makes me think about how smart we want our cars. I know there's a subset of people that strongly dislike smart TVs for roughly the same reasons.
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This is why I reject the counter arguments "Your data is why X service is free" or "If you're not paying for it, you are the product". Even when we are paying for something, we're still getting spied on.
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For my sake, I picked up martial arts in college and would say that ~75% of my life long friends come from there. I have work-related friends, but there's a very clear difference between them and the people I've punched for years
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The issue is also bleeding into academia. International students have been struggling to get updated passports during the pandemic, which then blocks them from other things like driver's licenses.
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Here is their Reddit response: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/ptbf7e/brave... In a nutshell, enabling Rewards is their incentive for giving the product away for free, otherwise they char
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Those types of videos still tick the box of "relevant" to current recommendation algorithms though. I sort of mean that algorithms won't branch into unfamiliar territory. So, as an example, I've never looked up "und
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Most systems have this issue. I've described it as a 'fear of recommending something you hate'. They know you watched X video from Y channel, so there is a good chance you'd like Z video that has a similar fanbase or con
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I've actually tried to frame my Computer Science instruction style based on my martial art experiences (BB Aikido, Purple BJJ). How I view it is that CS and MA share many properties in different environments. Both require a need for un
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> To me at least, when nudging in gaming is associated with monetary payments to the company But in the case of Robinhood for example, they gamify buying/selling a security with confetti. You aren't paying them money per say, b
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Gaming and nudge theory[1] in general is an interesting concept that I expect to have increased discussion in the coming years. On one hand, you have instances like this article where gamification is viewed in a positive light; on the other

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