ps901

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by ps901 3y ago
I don't quite see why it should be contradictory. Yes, teaching imparts already existing knowledge. But on the one hand, there are not only pure fundamental lectures, but also seminars and project courses, in which new procedures are o
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Ask HN: Is my career as an HCI researcher a dead end?
5 points by ps901 3y ago|2 comments
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by ps901 3y ago
It might be helpful to view this from a scientific research perspective. UX research is more about how things should be done to provide a better usability for the user. Like, general respectively abstract concepts (e.g., how should a chatbo
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by ps901 4y ago
China is in fact a capitalist country, despite the "Communist" in it's party's name.
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by ps901 4y ago
I once was spending large amounts of money on physical tech books, mostly on new programming languages or frameworks. However, I felt that by the time I was buying them they were already outdated often. Today, I usually start learning by ju
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by ps901 4y ago
Gotta love to be bombed by missiles made by 'girls'.
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by ps901 4y ago
Look at you, now you're the one commenting stupid.
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by ps901 4y ago
Maybe a quick look to Germany might help. The 9 Euro ticket was / is a great success on its own. However, the more important thing is that people are now actively talking alternatives for transportation, like cheaper / free public
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by ps901 4y ago
I think one important prerequisite for sentience is grounding, i.e. the ability to store and retrieve information, e.g., the dialog state, knowledge of the world but also individual knowledge etc. Systems that don't learn and also aren
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by ps901 4y ago
To my knowledge only humans and some species of monkeys are referred to as sentient. So I imagine insects aren't, at least when applying the general definition.
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by ps901 4y ago
Then why do frozen pizzas exist in Italian supermarkets?
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by ps901 4y ago
I can't click none of the links in the footer of your slide menu, such as Imprint (Firefox and Edge testet)..
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by ps901 4y ago
In Germany we have two distinct college types: Universities of Applied Science (polytechnic) and Universities. They both offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees; however, they do differ in their curriculum and the expectations of their gradua
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by ps901 4y ago
I use Zettlr ( https://www.zettlr.com ) for all my academic writing. It's a Markdown editor that also supports Latex and exports to various file formats including Latex PDF using pandoc. You can add custom Latex templates ( h
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by ps901 4y ago
In my opinion, the major disadvantage of visual programming environments is the inexpressibility of complex structures respectively programs. I was doing research on a VP myself and evaluated it with some users that were no programmers. The
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by ps901 5y ago
It's always strange to see recruiters expecting developers to spend their spare time developing, contributing to open source or maybe leading a community. How would you do that, given that we have to work 35-40 hours a week, having to
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by ps901 5y ago
I'm working mostly on HCI (human-computer-interaction) related topics and natural language, so no experience on image segmentation.
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by ps901 5y ago
I'm currently in this position. I'm a non-PhD (junior) researcher for AI and ML in Germany. I would say at least 50% of my research coworkers "only" hold a Master's and no PhD. However, I'm currently a bit unc