rocketflumes

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by rocketflumes 3y ago
I love this idea in principle, but when our school ran something similar to connect grad students who didn't have the opportunity to socialize due to covid remote work, I got a feeling some of them just showed up for the free coffee (w
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by rocketflumes 4y ago
saw a fascinating video on this topic awhile ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY
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by rocketflumes 5y ago
This series on YouTube has some fairly easy arguments on the Earth being a sphere w/o using any math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHqBy92iGM
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by rocketflumes 6y ago
I think OP meant "teleoperation" - controlling a robot from afar
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by rocketflumes 6y ago
On the issue of bias - I'm not confident that paid news is necessarily less biased than news that relies on clicks and ads. Two potential issues: 1) A news agency might be further incentived to publish biased, "echo-chamber"
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Bots, Lies, and DeepFakes – Online Misinformation, and AI's Part in It(skynettoday.com)
5 points by rocketflumes 7y ago|0 comments
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by rocketflumes 7y ago
I can't comment on China and other fields, but in the US for AI and robotics, in which I do research / publish in, there is definitely a growing trend of an over-emphasis on novelty research that disregards reproducibility in favo
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by rocketflumes 7y ago
won't big players like FB benefit from this? It seems more likely that people would port data from smaller networks to bigger ones than the other way around.
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by rocketflumes 8y ago
data.gov is great but it seems like the most recent activities/updates were prior to 2016...
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Shopify Watch Black Friday Cyber Monday Happen in Real Time(datastories.shopify.com)
3 points by rocketflumes 8y ago|0 comments
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by rocketflumes 8y ago
A PhD is not only about solving some specific problem. It is more about learning how to solve problems, and more importantly, choosing what problems to solve. Having a PhD should mean that the person is capable of making consistent progress
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by rocketflumes 8y ago
I understand that the scope and scale of the technology transfer agreements may be unreasonable, but surely these foreign companies aren't "forced" to oblige? I'm not sure if it's on China that many companies find i
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by rocketflumes 8y ago
for more on that subject - check out this recent RL and OCT survey by Ben Recht, also from UC Berkeley: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09460