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by notbob 7y ago
> If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is. I'm not sure. But what's definitely true is that it's WAY harder as an adult. Most self-taught program
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by notbob 7y ago
> That’s not an apples to apples comparison, as Lambda School’s schedule doesn’t align with a university schedule. It's apples to apples wrt income sharing agreements as an alternative to loans. You're of course right that th
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by notbob 7y ago
I am skeptical that these income sharing agreements are so great. Especially in software. Lambda School has a 9 month program that takes a 17% cut of your salary for the first 24 months of employment with a cap at $30,000. Which many studen
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by notbob 7y ago
Recurrent neural networks for modeling physical systems are starting to really come into their own. We have a few exciting years ahead of us.
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by notbob 7y ago
> Maybe you’re the one with the mental problem? I don't think this is helpful. Being able to either ignore or put up with office politics might be a pathology, but it's a pathology that is required in most well-paying work en
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by notbob 7y ago
> If you are paid to perform a service based on the terms of a contract you are, by definition, a contractor. 1. "Contractor" means something specific in the Defense industry. Every employee, including members of the armed fo
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by notbob 7y ago
I recommend learning how to put up with these things. Just stop caring about them. Treat it like laundry or dishes. You don't have to enjoy it, and there's no reason to get emotional over it. Just do it and move on. In particular,
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by notbob 7y ago
Long story short: both titles are too broad to be useful.
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by notbob 7y ago
Grad students are treated poorly, but the same 2-3 field split in STEM is true there as well. E.g., CS PhD have plentiful $200K+ job opportunities after graduation and a relatively labor-friendly faculty market. Meanwhile, many mathematics
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by notbob 7y ago
I work in this space and regularly interact with folks on both sides of that aisle. I would hire both. If you want to do anything serious in the space, you need the resources to hire a well-rounded team. Maybe in five years this won't
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by notbob 7y ago
I don't think it's money grubbing. I think it's a genuine attempt to connect with the zeitgeist and be relevant, paired with a fundamental misunderstanding about what's actually happening inside self-driving groups. But
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by notbob 7y ago
> Gen-ed humanities courses taught to giant lecture halls aren't quite the same as the much smaller courses the majors take This depends on the type of institution. Liberal arts and most honors colleges at large universities have
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by notbob 7y ago
That QZ article gets a lot wrong. In particular: > if the tech bubble bursts, computer science may even be riskier than a humanities degree, which gives graduates a broader set of knowledge. How do humanities degrees provide "broa
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by notbob 7y ago
I know what your point is. My point is that the courts have considered your point and don't agree... and for good reason. Your legal analysis basically amounts to "I don't like that other people use Google's services, an
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by notbob 7y ago
Several million dollars is not a lot of money for a group this size. We're talking "travel to annual meetings and fund administrative overhead (e.g. security clearances are not cheap)" money. There's "not in it for
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by notbob 7y ago
> The authors only claim... Bullshit! The authors wrote an article entitled "Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives?" That's the title of the piece. Not "some possibly generalizable observa
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by notbob 7y ago
This is definitely my feeling, but e.g. my BIL prefers gift cards (NFL Shop and BWW when in doubt) over all other gifts including cash. He doesn't like "stuff", but he's frugal and otherwise won't spend straight up
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by notbob 7y ago
> The papers are mostly good, actually Not surprising. Computer scientists have a bit of experience with computation, after all. It would actually be more concerning if a bunch of new stuff was being invented whole cloth. > but
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by notbob 7y ago
> I used to work at a government lab. Most JASON scientists haven't worked at a government lab for decades. How is this relevant? > ...I've never heard a contractor... These aren't contractors, they are scientists.
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by notbob 7y ago
> If the police were buying That's not what is happening here. The police are not purchasing access like an advertiser would; they are receiving special access for the purpose of tracking suspects. > If you had, I imagine SCOT
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by notbob 7y ago
If that were true, then wiretaps would be A-OK as long as 1) the phone company willingly plays along; and 2) the tap never physically intrudes upon the subject's property. SCOTUS ruled explicitly on this question in Katz vs. US -- wi
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by notbob 7y ago
> the average citizen can hope to afford to go to None of the places you listed are cheap. The price of a steak at CF or Outback is about the same as the price of a steak at any "$$" restaurant. Olive garden is particularly e
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by notbob 7y ago
> I thought it was only 1 or 2 people out of 8 who were problematic I think ahelwer meant the AI ethics space in general, not just this panel. As a researcher who has been working in ML and also software engineering ethics since long b