aqsalose

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by aqsalose 1y ago
Many of the issues sound like issues coming from using improvised civilian hobbyist tech and doctrine being in its infancy. If current FPV drones are bit lackluster, it doesn't preclude 'next generation' that are purposefully
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by aqsalose 2y ago
I think Third Republic France is a more apt comparison. Political fights about religion and content of education, check. Diverging media landscape aligned with party political identity and ideology, check. Major changes to civil service per
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by aqsalose 2y ago
Sounds sensible, bu the major unasked question it avoids is, was the current funding and organization structure of science in place when the past scientific achievements were achieved. the impression I get from anecdotes and remarks is that
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by aqsalose 2y ago
Yeah, the title is a bit hyperbolic. I have not used selection methods that much, but not too surprising they would have similar results to LASSO as selection or predictive method for people who think of it in terms of "feature develop
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by aqsalose 2y ago
From abstract (article is paywalled) >Although modest bivariate associations were detected with educational attainment (r = .17) and body mass index (r = −.17), almost all regression-adjusted coefficients were nonsignificant. No clear pa
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by aqsalose 3y ago
>Well. You have to exist, which means you compete, which might mean you grow. Why growth ? At some point you would eventually hit perfect saturation anyway, the steady state where everyone already is buying your product to the extent an
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by aqsalose 3y ago
"it honestly comes from a place of ignorance, and I say that as basically a layman myself" Here is an added complication: succinct technical communication can be efficient when communicating to peers who work on the exactly same d
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by aqsalose 3y ago
However, I wouldn't then use version control software like Git for versioning analysis objects, as it is designed for text file source control and diffs. (How one does a diff of a data object look like? If there is a natural text forma
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by aqsalose 3y ago
In my experience, the trick is to move them without disassembly or with minimal disassembly (removing only moving parts like shelves that are planned to be removed) like any other furniture. Nothing weird with that: Most traditional furnitu
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by aqsalose 4y ago
> I guess it's referencing the fact that education today is largely about having textbooks shoved in front of you until you're able to recite enough of it. I would argue contrariwise, the education today is bad because the text
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by aqsalose 4y ago
I suspect interacting with the real physical world and its realities and to realize one can affect it would be good, no matter what career they'd pick later. Picking a career in software development has been a good choice for bright ki
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>But I'm also a musician/artist and so I find some of these conversations odd. The problem with them I see is that they are oversimplified. To get better at drawing I often copy other works. Or I'll play a piece exactly as
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by aqsalose 4y ago
> But if I train my own neural network inside my skull using some artist's style, that's ok? How well the network inside your skull can manipulate your limbs to reproduce good-quality work in some artist's style? Our curre
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Sure, extroverted students have some advantage. On the other hand, extroverted people have similar advantage in the real life. I myself am quite happy for every lesson where I was pushed to practice people-facing skills (presentations, demo
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Hereditary monarchy is only one kind of monarchy. Early on, the Swedish king was elected at the Stones of Mora. The Holy Roman Emperor was nominally elected by prince-electors (who most of the time elected a Habsburg). And even withing a
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Coincidentally just yesterday there was a big news article in the largest daily newspaper about the problems teachers have with uncooperative parents. One memorable case was of the parents calling the teacher and informing them that the par
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by aqsalose 4y ago
To piggyback on the OPs question, I for one think the part in parenthesis is actually most important: >(Data cleaning and management should also be learned) There are many students and graduates who either didn't want to do research
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>he’s a villain with good PR In the context of Watchmen, he isn't the only character who fits the description.
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>Here's an illustrative thought experiment: imagine you have a time machine. Now pick a worker at random from some time and place in the past 5 centuries, and carry them forward by 30 years. will they be able to earn a living? I don
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>Britain's descent from the powerhouse of world-changing ideas to one giant housing estate and Tesco superstore is almost complete. In my limited foreigner's understanding, Britain was "the powerhouse of world-changing ide
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by aqsalose 4y ago
> Then these real world problems don’t actually warrant deep learning ? It is an important lesson to be communicated. I'd like to present a conjecture: everyone thinks their data is big until they have worked on much larger datase
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by aqsalose 4y ago
There is not definite answer. Reviewing a paper is difficult, been for people who do it a lot. I think I got better at when I was a part of research group and wrote papers myself, collaborated, and observed others writing papers: it is good
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>I would imagine that those who actually spent some of their childhood in a war zone would have a very different perspective. Not sure if it would imply less war. Around the Napoleonic wars, many officers started their careers as teenage
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by aqsalose 4y ago
True, Orwell has a worldview (though it evolves over time) and it connects his thoughts if you pick up a collection of his essays and study them systematically. But one does not need to agree with everything to find agreement with some part
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Depends on the crime. For serious crimes I think it is quite common? Like, Finnish law claims jurisdiction over all crimes committed against or by Finnish citizens committed abroad, no matter the location or acts legality per local law, if
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>Similarly, in my work with industry partners, some of the most rigorous methodological discussions I've ever had have been with them. I am willing to believe this depends a lot on which industry you are working in, what are you s
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by aqsalose 4y ago
>The academia is characterized by world's top experts in a narrow niche investigating speculative problems few people have any idea of. More often than not, that research turns out to be a dead end, "wasting" years of work
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Sounds like, if you want a capable materials, mechanical, chemical and electrical engineer to write your pull requests, you'd need to pay them a salary they request. (Them in plural, because it is unlikely to find a single individual g
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Only thing I like to buy from Amazon are ... books.
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by aqsalose 4y ago
Theoretical parts of computer science is connected to discrete mathematics, sure. But that is only a subfield of mathematics and mostly happens already at CS departments, so you'd get a CS degree anyway. It is also possible that aptitu

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