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by walleeee 7y ago
As the article states: advertising, admissions, administration, non-academic student programming, athletics, etc. Much of this seems like cosmetic fluff, probably intended to attract students (also, wealthy parents). Go to almost any compet
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by walleeee 7y ago
> To those in this thread denouncing these dystopian times my question to you is, how do we as technologists create a meaningful and successful career changing this? Disclaimer: I don't mean to criticize you , just to critique the
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by walleeee 7y ago
Not OP, and not necessarily endorsing these specific topics as most fundamental to a CS education (I've more often drawn on discrete math/symbolic logic) but 3Blue1Brown has great series on introductory linear algebra and calcul
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by walleeee 7y ago
Grad school is often funded in the U.S. (PhD at least, masters not so much)
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by walleeee 7y ago
Maybe, but imo a really good Chinese room that "learns" to tell us what we want to hear is way more likely in the foreseeable future than an AI with enough of a "mind", as we commonly understand it, to deliberately lie
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by walleeee 7y ago
> We are peculiarly inclined to suppress whatever impugns the security of that to which we have given our allegiance. Awesome sentence
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by walleeee 7y ago
> People makes shitload of money working on shitty problem I think this conveniently ignores the YC companies working in more meaningful spaces (e.g., healthcare, renewables, etc). That said , you have a point. Ultimately, it appears th
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by walleeee 7y ago
Even if advanced machine intelligence could generate explanations, does that really establish trustworthiness? We can't even trust humans to explain their actions reasonably well. We're usually way better at rationalization than
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by walleeee 7y ago
No one could prove or disprove the conjecture for 50 years. It was considered a very hard problem by very smart people. I don't know about you, but I've never solved any problems that have stumped people for decades.
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by walleeee 7y ago
IANA graph theorist, but I don't think it works like that. Sounds like his graph G (with ~4^100 nodes, from which the 4^10000 node exponential graph and the counter-exemplary tensor product itself derive) is a bespoke construction. I d
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by walleeee 7y ago
Highly recommend the lecture series. He makes it accessible and fun
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by walleeee 7y ago
> I'm not a physicist but i'm pretty sure its a thing more talked about by philosophers and the popular press than actual physicists. Right, hence the popular aphorism (among physicists): "Shut up and calculate."
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by walleeee 7y ago
> So their mission is to continue to exist. As tends to become the primary purpose of most institutions which exist for any significant length of time.
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by walleeee 7y ago
> There is no magic universe where you can get perfectly tailored ads along with perfect anonymity. That's not what they said, and I don't think it's what they meant. Seems they meant to point out that one can run ads simp
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by walleeee 7y ago
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672 : humankind (including "trusted" bodies such as the IPCC) have underestimated the dangers associated with anthropogenic climate change - https://www.pna