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by cs_throwaway 8d ago
Maybe someone on the NYU team forgot to opt out of “improve the model for everyone”.
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by cs_throwaway 20d ago
If you know how to use an agent, and I do, you can have do in minutes what would take a undergrad all summer to do. But undergrad research has always served two roles: getting my work done and the pleasure of giving the best students the ch
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by cs_throwaway 2mo ago
This is a good use of TIP division funding. Whatever they were doing before seemed pointless.
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by cs_throwaway 5mo ago
Right. Most people are deeply uninterested in learning anything, not just in K-12, but at pretty good colleges like mine. Modern AI has made me a more productive teacher—-I produce higher quality material and have more time for research. Bu
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by cs_throwaway 7mo ago
I have always thought of it like this: U.S. citizens have the right to marry and bring home anyone they want. It is not about the immigrant. For example, if you're stationed on a military base on Japan or Germany, you can meet a local
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by cs_throwaway 7mo ago
It is counter-intuitive that the more accomplished you are, the more evidence you need to provide. The part about the child not getting a naturalization certificate even though they are naturalized is very weird -- that should be fixed adm
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by cs_throwaway 9mo ago
The computer science that matters the most today —- machine learning, vision, NLP —- is open access without the fees because the main confs are not ACM. (Vision has some in IEEE.) I guess the ACM fees are paying for stupid things like the n
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by cs_throwaway 9mo ago
Surprising it is necessary, given no such fees for machine learning and associated areas. (Which are all not ACM.)
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by cs_throwaway 9mo ago
More money, more income. That's why flood of foreign money is good for a university. But, it is a fallacy to think that this has no cost. In my experience, the large influx of foreign students are typically at the masters level. MS cla
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Exactly the same.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
I don’t understand why we cannot just blacklist these consulting companies as a first step. The 100K fee may effectively do that so it sounds good to me.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
I was not accurate in my previous post. The O-1 isn’t on an academic’s radar because they are not subject to H1B caps. So might as well do an H1B with minimal effort.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Yes. As far as I understand it, the EO is not a rule, but will impact upcoming rules. H1B already has exceptions, so there is nothing new being said. It already has a cap exception for doctors and professors, so why not for critical private
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
The "kids" in the original article are likely PhD students. They are not paying tuition. You and I are likely paying for their education with taxes. (This is likely a small part of the overall higher education picture.)
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
I think a lot of people arguing about the H1B visa are talking past each other. - There is no doubt a large volume of abuse by tech consulting companies. It's likely even worse than it looks, because the H1Bs in the U.S. are to support
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Curious what this will do for faculty. Common to use H1B as a bridge for a few months before green card. New CS faculty salaries cap out at 180K at the high end.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
This won't convince anyone who wants to pause all immigration. However, if you want to allow some immigration, you can make a case PhDs in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, which is what he's talking about. These are kids w
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
> It used to be that if you lost your job as an H1-B, you had 30 days to uproot your life and get out of the US otherwise you'd be in violation of immigration laws. This is still true, right? Overall, the only hard requirement of t
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
As I said, they already cost more than smaller and cheaper alternatives. But people buy them anyway. Heavily vehicles may be cheaper for whatever reason you cite. But they are still much more expensive than smaller sedans. People still buy
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Evidence suggests people want these cars. They already cost more than smaller and cheaper alternatives. But people buy them anyway.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
It is hard to take the ACM's take on publishing seriously, when virtually all significant publications in machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision are not being published in ACM venues.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
> The risk of products like Study Mode is that they could do much the same thing in an educational context — optimizing for whether students like them rather than whether they actually encourage learning (objectively measured, not studen
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
I agree. We are talking about technical, mathy stuff, right? As long as you can tell that you don’t deeply understand something that you just read, they are incredible TAs. The trick is going to be to impart this metacognitive skill on the
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
A lot of this boils down to what you can convince the prof to teach. For most professors, teaching CS1 is a service and does not advance their research. Fewer faculty today are willing to learn Scheme just because it may be marginally bette
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Don’t worry, aforementioned kid is doing just fine, machine learning PhD IIRC. There is a lot of other remarkable stuff in modern computing.
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
It is possible that this doesn't work anymore. I distinctly recall the following episode when I last taught intro CS in Scheme: I revealed first-class functions. After lecture, the brightest kid in class came up to me and said somethin
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
Do you think it may be feasible to do this and maintain the FFI?
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
> It seems like no more than a year ago the prevailing narrative was problems with higher education and science: how predatory and insidious the student loan industry is, and how it traps people in a cycle of debt with special treatment
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
> Every day at class I would keep a tally of how many lies and incorrect statements and explainations would get made every day. In your computer science classes? What/where were you studying?
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by cs_throwaway 1y ago
We in computer science departments are very happy to send our students to industry, whether or not they bother finishing their degree. The article lists a bunch of old-timers, like Page and Brin. Right now, everyone is talking about the &qu

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