w_t_payne

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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Yes, and that's exactly what I do. It's also what the OP is advocating for.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
I am hugely excited and energised by discussions of how we can make artificial intelligence safer and more reliable; how we can ground our symbolic requirements both in real-world phenomena and also in the sub-symbolic representations learn
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
This is true, but it's also about giving the customer a strong sense that they have made a saving, making it easier to reach a deal.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Shared-nothing dataflow models are an interesting way to engineer (some types of) parallelism.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
How much would it cost them to hire a software contractor to reproduce what you've made? Get your boss to ask for fixed-price quotes from three different software contractors. 60-70% of the median value is probably a reasonable ask for
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Maybe getting contracting gigs might be easier than finding perm roles?
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
This is pretty typical example of culture change when moving from a small organisation to a large one. The thing that makes this sort of culture change so emotionally challenging is that involves a fairly dramatic change in values . This c
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
And when the cause of that internal crisis is the rise of far-right populism (either actively funded or at least tacitly supported by Putin), then it really doesn't take much effort to put two and two together. There are no mysteries h
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
It's a mistake to conflate Putin's interests with those of Russia. His continued attempts to bolster hostile far-right strawmen into something more substantial puts his actions in direct conflict with those he claims to represent.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Well, considering that we're at war, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we will eventually reach a point where none of us has any choice whatsoever.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
I don't care who started it. I'm focused on direct threats to myself and my family.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
He clearly isn't exclusively responsible, but he is a big part of the problem, and it is part of a hybrid warfare doctrine that's being actively and aggressively pursued. Similarly, those fascist/neo-nazi elements, whethe
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Clearly pretty vile, indefensible stuff, and yet it's Putin who is waging war against us.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
They stop being mere 'domestic voices of dissent' once they start threatening my family.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Putin justifies his clumsy adventurism by attempting to paint his enemies as fascists. The rise of the extreme right in the west provides significant political cover for Putin, and should probably be assumed to be a tool of his hybrid warfa
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Very interesting, and aligns very well with my experience with synthetic data as well. (In that diversity trumps realism by a LARGE margin).
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
I have found that the vast majority of people are very warm, considerate and forgiving. As long as you're honest and transparent with everyone around you (including yourself), you don't necessarily need to worry too much about the
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
My experience suggests to me that there is a strong perceptual component to depression: It is a sort of blinkering of the internal eye. The world does not literally become black and white, but nothing in the world is capable of engaging the
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Entirely deliberate Bullingdon-style class warfare.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
That was a really nice description. I've struggled to get traction with a lot of this stuff for a while (and not really needed to understand it, so my curiosity remained unstated) ... but this has really helped. Thank you!
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
This is one of those ideas that causes you to kick yourself for not thinking of it earlier. Simple, and with the power to be transformative. Well done and good luck!
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
True. Both can be true! :-p
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Yes, that's certainly true.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Linters are good because they stop people arguing. Some early employee in the team defines some set of rules, and that's just the way things are from then onwards. Less time bickering means more time spent doing actual productive stuff
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Sadly, behind every person who is prepared to act upon his or her racial animus with acts of physical violence directed against the innocent and helpless, there is an army of equally malevolent supporters and enablers who willingly compound
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
My children being physically assaulted and called racial slurs.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
The COVID lockdown has, if anything, improved matters. With most people staying home, the need to deal with aggression, hostility and abuse on the street is very much reduced.
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
If it wasn't, then why did the Brexit referendum unleash such a torrent of racist abuse?
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
Brexit was an absolute tragedy for my family. Immediately after the referendum was lost, my children and wife started to experience a level of racially motivated abuse that we had not seen before. This reached a level where my wife felt she
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by w_t_payne 5y ago
There are all sorts of strange and inconsistent rules that we (as a species) make up all the time. The number and arbitrariness of these rules helps keep other people in our society on their toes and uncomfortable, anxious and vulnerable to

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