logisticseh

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by logisticseh 4y ago
It wasn't really primarily about the generals. It was mostly about the captains (who are YOUNG) and soliders. It was the movies, not the books, that made LOTR a powerful tool for DoD. They didn't just know about it. It was an orga
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by logisticseh 4y ago
>> At the very least, tax payers need to stop bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors who scoff at their teaching assignments. > I thin
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by logisticseh 4y ago
If this is true then the universities will win the grants anyways, so why not adopt my proposal? (It's not, especially for disciplines like CS and math.)
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by logisticseh 4y ago
In CS this is just false. Nearly all of the CS research we fund could be done in inexpensive office space with no administrators. The one exception is DARPA-funded robotics research, and even then it's only a subset. In wet lab discipl
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by logisticseh 4y ago
1. He predicts "signs of life" by 2030, which is a (probably intentionally) vague statement. 2. He raised $20MM for an AI startup, which is fine and well but also makes him not entirely disincentivized from hype. 3. I wouldn'
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by logisticseh 4y ago
There has been a real shift in the culture of academia over the last 10-15 years that coincides with what I'm starting to call "the rise of the Twitter Prof". The twitter thing is both literal and also a stand-in for similar
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by logisticseh 4y ago
> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed? For Computer Science: 1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most senior, gets their own N year funding. 2. Each has a lega
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Discord servers.
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by logisticseh 4y ago
I agree. There are two different sets: 1. Actual deep learning researchers, actively doing research. I rarely hear nonsense about impending AGI or mass technological unemployment from these folks. They might express tepid concern about th
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by logisticseh 4y ago
It's only your investments that are failing (assuming you are a US taxpayer). The servicers are paid to service; they don't own the instrument. You own the actual debt. Think of it as a particularly regressive tax -- levied agains
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by logisticseh 4y ago
I've spent a lot of time with working for or closely interfacing with a half dozen academic institutions. I left academia by choice -- with multiple TT offers in hand -- so this isn't sour grapes. I am highly confident in my asses
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by logisticseh 4y ago
> The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC. I'm generally nauseated when I interact with American CS academics. Every time I attend a conference,
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by logisticseh 4y ago
As he should; tiling is highly skilled labor -- closer to applied art than construction, really -- and destroys your body.
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Two confounding factors: 1. billed hours in the trades don't include travel to or from the worksite; if the plumber is 30 minutes from you and the job takes an hour, they're already down to $75/hr. 2. software contracting can
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Universities that offer doctoral degrees and have "Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Specifically, the 130 or so institutions listed here: https:/&#x2F
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by logisticseh 4y ago
I don't buy the attention filter argument. No one -- and I really do mean no one -- is going to read the entire contents of the proceedings of even just one of these conferences. NeurIPS -- a single CS conference -- is more than twice
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by logisticseh 4y ago
1. There isn't as much of a difference here as you think. Contractors do turn around and use components developed in public contracts for other consulting projects. Most commonly with other sovereigns, especially when the original co
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Most of what the big contractors like Booz do is custom software. Every single cloud provider has an entire GovCloud division. Even Office has special Government licensing that behaves differently on the backend.
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by logisticseh 4y ago
It's the other way around -- academic R&D is just about the only type of government spending for which there's wide-spread support for openness and a lack of entrenched power against openness. The USG spent $6B on cloud comp
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Yes, and I've worked on browser-based games that are built on top of webhooks. But what percentage of people could forego webhooks entirely if they weren't doing any personalization or tracking? Or could at least get away with web
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by logisticseh 4y ago
User tracking and/or personalization tick 2-3 of your 4 boxes: UI - Logging mouse movement, keyboard events, and other types of attention proxies. Webhooks and/or Bottlenecks - calling out to either internal or third party classif
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Many of the message queues I have seen are only necessary because of personalization or analytics features that the user doesn't want and the business probably doesn't need. When I try to estimate ROI on those features it's u
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by logisticseh 4y ago
> But, yes, finally! I wonder why it took so long for someone to use these kinds of models to do the obvious. Conjecture: most of the people with $15K home rigs and the know-how to do this also have a lot of earning power and professio
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by logisticseh 4y ago
Totally agreed. Petite landlordism is causing is a LOT of economic damage to Gen Z and even younger millenials. It's a much larger problem than REITs, IMO.
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by logisticseh 4y ago
> how’s Google Reader treating you? Are you able to control your Facebook or Instagram experience? LOL you started by asking me if I know what BFT even is and now you're going on a rant about totally unrelated things. BFT is a mat
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by logisticseh 4y ago
That's marketing.
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by logisticseh 4y ago
> What do you think byzantine-fault-tolerant networks are? LOL. I've been working on distributed systems for... a while. I've even had a few conversations with Lamport, pre-Turing award. Apparently today BFT is a buzzword use
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by logisticseh 4y ago
The characterization of crypto stuff as an alternative to Big Tech is, frankly, one of the most bewildering "Emperor Has No Clothes" situations I've seen in my life. And I've seen a few tech hype cycles.