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by unishark 5y ago
> It seems like the system is rigged no matter which way you look at it. The only option really is to amass enough fuck you money. It's not actually rigged though. People just sell themselves short due to information asymmetries and
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A contract is supposed to benefit both sides though. So maybe it's like an HOA that pays for a pool, as a benefit that comes with owning the house. But when it comes to things like you neighbors' ability to dictate your use of the
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Volunteering your time to mentor people can be very rewarding in its own right though. But the fact that people are paying for it probably killed that aspect of it too. The cost of the service should have been a red flag from the start. It&
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I'm not clear what is illegal and where is the jurisdiction in this case. Apparently it is about Danish Intelligence allowing the tapping of Danish internet lines in Denmark. Is that a crime? Is it even something China would deny doing
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So you want to restrict people from getting a phd unless they can get a top job out of it? What about people who want to do research but aren't worth the pay/responsibility of top jobs? Is your goal to increase the value of a phd
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by unishark 5y ago
Yes I imagined his idea of "criticizing" amounted to abusively yelling at people. From what I've seen, the way people win Nobel prizes is by working their lab 24/7 like a slavedriver. I actually have seen psychopathic pr
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Novelty is in the job description though. I think the problem, especially in AI/ML is the obsession with "State of the Art" algorithms. This can be gamed by making claims with numerical "experiments". If an idea had
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by unishark 5y ago
As long as there's a possibility of making more money by lying and cheating, people will lie and cheat. Especially when it's a lot more money. But I don't think there's any unemployment danger among CS PhD's to w
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The faculty have very little say in most of those aspects of universities you're complaining about. The media is just a crazy sideshow that cherry picks a tiny subset of stories to run or people to destroy when it fits the right narrat
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I have seen stats that say mornings are the worst time overall for depression in depressed people. And there is a particular form of depression called diurnal mood variation where people are depressed in the morning then fine later in the d
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There have been studies suggesting causality in both directions. The resulting vicious cycles you get from that are common in mental illness.
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Caffeine also takes 30-60 minutes to really kick in anyway, meaning your body has to do the waking up on its own either way. The immediate pick-me-up a regular drinker gets from it is a psychological response to the initial low concentratio
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by unishark 5y ago
Do you also feel much more creative and confident at this time? Personally I feel like there is a sort of weak hypomania that kicks in right after bedtime if I let it. It can be fairly irresistible, especially when under stress and having t
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by unishark 5y ago
If someone is referring to that rating system they should use its definitions. Below level 1 is functionally illiterate. Levels 1 and 2 are not functionally illiterate, they are low literacy.
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> I believe it's more like a Red Queen race, meaning that as soon as you increase the average education of potential employees, companies will equally raise their requirements. Competition is always the way these things get tied to
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Every time I try to use Twitter to follow interesting companies I get annoyed and quit because of the same garbage. I've been thinking it's an age thing, where people with better eyesight than me or who grew up looking at low SNR
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Yeah IBM or anyone else could say the same thing. "Many of our layed-off employees will be able to find jobs at Google so it's cool."
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Built in America by the same people who would have been building it elsewhere. If US workers could be hired for those jobs they could just skip the H1b part and hire domestically in the first place. And I think you are hugely underestimatin
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> Same reason we don’t have enough engineering seats in the usa and use H1B to fill in engineering positions in Silicon Valley. Colleges have quotas, Silicon Valley doesn’t. Lower tier engineering schools have room. And anyone can start
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Any online process that endeavors to be secure will be indistinguishable from a malicious system that tries to make your task purposefully difficult. I just got refused by a govt site recently because of the six different forms to info they
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by unishark 5y ago
It doesn't seem fair to presume Schmidt forgot that people must use the bathroom and sometimes bathe or change clothes and such. To bring in a little good faith, perhaps we should amend Schmidt's statement to include the ending &q
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AI is not only a weapon though, it is literally intelligence itself. So it can be both the bomb and the means to counter the bomb. It's basically the same as saying we need to match their advances in science.
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In the US, both academic hiring and proposal reviews are already laborious jobs where committee members are supposed to investigate the candidate/proposal deeply on their merits and potential. It shouldn't be a new burden for them
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Liberal democracy has that liberal part though, which means rights and freedom and is pretty clearly in opposition to authoritarianism.
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The 250k number was not completely uncontrolled. It was apparently supposed to be "optimal" in the sense that it's the fastest way to reach same number of people who would eventually die whether it took 3 months or a year to
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I've been in places where bicycles are required to be on the sidewalk (shoulder really doubles as sidewalk) and hate it both as a pedestrian and as a biker. Also the website mixes relative and absolute stats. Car fatalities at "al
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Wouldn't your view be in agreement with the poster? They aren't saying they personally believe there must be a right side but that the metaphor implies it.
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P-values are based on a normally-distributed sampling distribution which presumes the samples are randomly-chosen. It's hard to see how random sampling can apply very well here. Suppose we did a comparison between the p-values of biase
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Here's the one for NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp#q1 Search for Public access policy and agency name.
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> The real fix is for it to be required by law that any research that was funded by government grants must be published with open access. It basically is already. In the US, if you produce a peer-reviewed paper resulting from federal fun

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