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1411.
by unishark 7y ago
I wouldn't quite call world population growth a non-problem, considering it is already a problem. The future predictions may well turn out correct, and have some solid reasoning behind them, but the numbers still look fairly crude to m
1412.
by unishark 7y ago
Yeah that's it. The OP removed the name from the headline for some reason.
1413.
by unishark 7y ago
Because you can sell targeted ad space for a lot more money. Also they allow people to opt out of tracking, which is probably how they kept the govt off their backs thus far. But of course few people are aware and savvy enough to opt out of
1414.
by unishark 7y ago
I can't read it from the US either due to having an adblocker. And even if you allow ads the paywall appears after viewing one story per day. Google the title. Others news sites have it.
1415.
by unishark 7y ago
That was only 10k wasn't it. The story above says the city is suing him for 130k.
1416.
by unishark 7y ago
I don't agree with the bombing of civilians (nuclear or otherwise), and for that matter don't have any special respect for historians, but as for history I don't believe your response fits the world we live in. History was pr
1417.
by unishark 7y ago
Very first sentence: "A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900." (actually in the third sentence they clarify it is square numbers only). Pretty sure most people can&#x2
1418.
by unishark 7y ago
Because proving causation is always difficult if not impossible? Or because in both cases we have a personal bias that makes us not want those programs to have worked, despite not being able to disprove causation either?
1419.
by unishark 7y ago
It's not a reward. The engineer's work is a commodity they are selling to the company. Partly for wages and partly in exchange for equity. That is a real investment they are losing just like the VC's if things go bust.
1420.
by unishark 7y ago
Are you defining "need to know" as in the state of the art methods of today? Problem is the next stage after mature technology is commodity. We'll be getting daily spam from India offering to fulfill all our "A.I. design
1421.
by unishark 7y ago
It's not obviously false. If an old first-generation immigrant running a hole-in-the-wall downtown somewhere cannot attract the number of people at the prices they need them to pay in order to cover the bills, their business folds and
1422.
by unishark 7y ago
That's like criticizing a biologist for only studying nematodes. Research is specialized by its nature. She does say a bit about directing research to other languages. But mostly she complains about researchers not identifying their re
1423.
by unishark 7y ago
I teach in CS and engineering in a US college. The biggest proportion of our MS students are from India. And I completely agree with what you say about the education system in India. Indian graduates can't program unless they had a job
1424.
by unishark 7y ago
A NLP researcher is supposed to describe how language is used, not insist on how it should be used.
1425.
by unishark 7y ago
because geology is so boring
1426.
by unishark 7y ago
I suspect the grueling interview process is the result of CS being overrun by people who cheated through their programming classes and/or exaggerated (lied) on their resume, things which have become extremely prevalent in recent years.
1427.
by unishark 7y ago
"If you say the words “there’s a pipeline problem” to explain why we’ve failed to make meaningful progress toward gender parity in software engineering, you probably won’t make many friends (or many hires)." Am I the only one who
1428.
by unishark 7y ago
I think there are certainly issues with ML in radiology (i.e. lots of publications of low power studies or overfit models validated incorrectly), but I agree with you that Marcus was being unfair. It is principle a straightforward problem t
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by unishark 7y ago
I'd say its the job of academic researchers to dream up high-risk ideas to work on, and to hype up incremental advances as potentially proof-of-concept for those ideas (when they're decades away still, with many potentially unsolv
1430.
by unishark 7y ago
neither do regulatory agencies, unfortunately. Which is why they are so good at making things worse rather than better.
1431.
by unishark 7y ago
It matters because the startup hasn't chosen their name yet (and presumably will check available domains before choosing a name because they're not fools). It's pretty much the same as land speculation. Don't found a bus
1432.
by unishark 7y ago
Also a corporation is a person because judges have ruled that too. I certainly agree that opinions can differ whether various things (e.g. intellectual property) should be called property or not. But personally I don't like the dilutio
1433.
by unishark 7y ago
If work also counts as things like performing mathematical calculations, communicating between people, data entry, and most other unskilled tasks, then your point still applies.