NY_USA_Hacker

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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
The "thread" is that there is a mess, and main cause is gumment messing up the situation.
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
The answer is dirty: First, computing is relatively new. So, the 'old power structure' was surprised when people in computing started getting paid well enough to buy a house and more than some not very well paid low level managers. But th
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Our academic system, especially in the research universities, is just fine. Nearly all the world's best research universities are in the US. Why? After WWII the US War Department concluded that math, science, and engineering were crucial
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
It's simple. We're not short of "brilliant minds", not at all. Instead, the employers want to have a shortage of a simple word, a common, single, two syllable word, MONEY. It's not about brilliant minds but about money, just the money.
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Beware: I've done some of the world's best work in computer security, e.g., nicely beyond David J. Marchette, 'Computer Intrusion Detection: A Statistical Viewpoint', ISBN 0-387-95281-0, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. Yes, my work became
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
You are getting close: List the characteristics of the usual professions and then conclude that in the US software is not a profession. It's even less of a profession than being a plumber or electrician since can need a license for each o
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
I started with the main, loud evidence -- Al Guru and, at the time, the main IPCC technical document. Flush. Bubble, bubble. It's possible to do some good work in 'climate science', and maybe there is some by more than just the one guy at
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
No, "the medium is the message", and not really "the consumers". Again, back to Ben Franklin, the "medium" was the printed word, and the media still has that. Last century we got radio and then TV. On radio, the number of stations is tin
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"High school" WOW! What distant planet did you just arrive from? You didn't get the memo: "All content is to be at the level of a not very good student in the fourth grade. There are two exceptions: Math is to be at the second grade lev
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
I didn't claim that the issue is a "plot" or 'intelligence'. My main explaination was "the medium is the message", and old media found that pushing emotional content, drama, formula fiction, etc. got them the best ad revenue. I suspect it
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
The whole page is just about 'energy balance', and that fails as soon as there is any significant change. E.g., as there is any significant warming, there may be more water vapor and clouds, and clouds may reflect more sunlight and tend to
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Emotion? Of COURSE it's emotion! It's ALL about emotion; the rest is just window dressing. It's to grab you by the heart, the gut, or below the belt, always below the shoulders, never between the ears. It's from a 'culture' that is ingra
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Organized left-wing drum beat for more in immigration. So, here we have a tear jerking story in the NYT. A few days ago we had Mayor Bloomberg touting immigration in DC. Then we had Fred Wilson giving support on his blog. Yesterday we h
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"References"? Sure, they're crucial. I'm just awash in references on global warming. But this discussion does not come up to the level of seriousness for me to go to my directory of global warming information and pull up references and de
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Some qualification such as "good" is just crucial. Similarly for 'significant'. Otherwise, light a match and warm the planet. Warm it? Sure. Significantly? No. For global warming data, there's all sorts of crapola, fixed up with Fink
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Again, I saw nothing at your URL negative about Exxon. Your claim that three energy industry executives make more money than all the climate science research is likely false: A research grant in science to a research professor goes for abo
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
I have no connection with Exxon or anything in climate studies. Instead, my interests are well represented here on HN. I have never gotten even one penny in research grants from anything having to do with climate in any sense. So, the cl
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
The article is junk: E.g., it confuses 'normal' as in usual and 'normal' as in the Gaussian distribution. And 'fat tails' is not nearly specific enough to describe the exceptional or disastrous events of 'black swans'. The just isn't ser
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Yes, it looks like the election season is 'warming' and someone turned on the propaganda machine again with Goebel's old rule: Just repeat it often enough and people will come to believe it. Global warming is real to the present depending
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Yes, during the campaign, Chosen of Oprah, Blessed Be He, promised to ratchet up regulations to shut down the coal fired electric power plants. But that's now too little, too late because as we know: (1) Humans are evil. They are sinful,
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Everyone at CMU knows who Jerry is. For what I read, those were the course notes.
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"Yes, and the definition of a measurable map is a function between two measure spaces which takes measurable sets to measurable sets, i.e.: a structure-preserving map between measure spaces." That's not at all what I wrote. You really don'
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"Probability is one of my favorite topics, but I agree with (this part of) the course's treatment." This statement is an unfortunate juxtaposition: Glad probability is one of your "favorite topics", but you make serious mistakes right at t
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"But that doesn't mean that no progress can be made without advanced math." Right. But, it's tough to make good progress on tough problems without the most powerful tools! E.g., for AI, it needs a lot of 'non-math' ideas before it gets to
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Of COURSE. Why would anyone think anything else? For more, let's start with source code. Suppose we have source code line a = b*c Reading this line, we want to know what it does and check that it's correct. So, we need to know
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
"the study of algorithms" Well, can do what Knuth did in TACP. There he did a lot with combinatorial formulas. To make much more progress, will have to get serious about math. E.g., the leading question in algorithms is just P versus NP,
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Gee, "15-251 Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science" You mean there really are some? I always thought it was the empty set! Okay, I followed the URL to see these wondrous ideas! So, I saw some 'lecture notes' at: http://server251.the
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
E.g., romantic matchmaking? When looking for a mate in Podunk, it's not much help for the service also to be in Australia! It would be a rare, very 'long' man who could make good use of that service feature!
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
For possibly the most serious concern about GroupOn, the article came close with its statement: "The Daily Deal I got offered today was for a restaurant 30 miles away: how does that make sense either for the customer or merchant?" but stil
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by NY_USA_Hacker 15y ago
Lots on personalities and drama. Is mostly about 1890 to about 1910 and then stops. Really slow finally driving a stake through the heart of the quasi-mystical quaternions and killing them off. No mention of the Gauss, Green, and Stokes the

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