throwawaysocks

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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
My understanding: 1 = "do all of you have a ride (perhaps shared)?" 2 = "do each of you have your own ride?" So if Bob, Jim, and Jane are all riding in Bob's car then "y'all have a ride". But if all t
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> maximizing prediction accuracy is inherently unbiased This assumes that you're actually maximizing prediction accuracy, rather than taking the easiest route toward sufficiently high predictive power. Not-so-hypothetical: you c
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> I'm not sure that neural network based AI can do that though. Generating human-readable explanations from a machine learning algorithm or NN is probably an impossible problem to solve in full generality. However, for many partic
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Definitely.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Misaligned incentives combined with poor oversight/training? I can't imagine this is actually a recruiting pitch that's enshrined in company policy.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
WRT CS, my comment was meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. FWIW I agree with you, but what I said is largely true of CS curriculum in the US. I'm not sure whether I agree with you regarding math. I think pre-requisites should re
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
That largely depends on the depth of the engagement. Reading Das Kapital should be an exercise in critical thinking, regardless of one's political persuasion. For example, where in the software industry is the labor theory of value a r
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Economics is also the source and home of some of the most bullshit-prone theories and explanations. That's why I ultimately dropped my Economics major. It's full of people that got into the field precisely due to their passion for
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Scientists may lack resources and proper incentives, but it's pretty bold to claim that they lack the ability to propose new testable/semi-testable theories...
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
It's really useful to distinguish technical fields from engineering and especially natural sciences fields once you get past K12. STEM is not actually a very coherent grouping. Almost all CS programs are relatively flat, but many scien
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
On the contrary, the answer to such a question perfectly illustrates the sort of critical thinking that is taught in a history degree program but not necessarily in a technicaly degree program. After reading enough about the history of math
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Technical fields -- especially those closer to technology than to natural science -- can also be extraordinarily ideological. Both in curriculum and (especially!) in culture. For a perfect example of true ideology in action, look no further
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> I find this true today as well. It has literally always been true, since the very beginning of the country.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> "brilliant computer scientist" or "will cure cancer," These are already covered by eb-2 anyways.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
No, because as a nation we are actively investing in each funded Ph.D. we train. If we have too many PhD's then we should decrease the number of PhD's the federal government funds. But as my original parent observed, paying hundre
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> In many thousands of cases, you are also wrong about buying the degree: research grants to universities fund those students' tuition and stipends, in exchange for good work. I think your parent was primarily referring to masters
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> So? So, the point of these programs isn't citizen enrichment. The point is job training. Consider: philosophy is also intellectually demanding, but I don't see "Philosophy for All" educational initiatives. I think
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Most important reason: a lot of potential reviewers wouldn't like that model for a variety of reasons. Reviewing, generally, isn't prestigious or well-rewarded. So potential reviewers need to be kept as happy as possible. Internet
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
There's a difference between losing engineering talent and not being able to get engineering talent.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> we should fine Boeing because their planes aided in 7/11 Those gas station corn dogs are a crime against humanity but a fine seems excessive.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> If you discount all the hypothetical environmental costs that at best guess are just that, guesses That VW's behavior caused some environmental impact is not a guess. The guess is only to the extent of the damage. > it would
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Meh. Terms of art will always borrow and re-define colloquial language. Do programmers aspire to 1984 because they re-appropriate the word functional? Defining an explicit list of "terrorist organization"s may or may not seek to r
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Ostensibly facial ticks or whatever. Actually country of origin and maybe skin color / attire. That's the function of pseudo-science bullshit -- you can ignore civil liberties and pretend you're not.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
The term "terrorist" doesn't have a single fixed meaning. It's context-dependent. Pretending it's not context-dependent willfully misinterprets the speaker. A lot of words function like this. E.g., "believer&qu
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Could you link to something that verifies your claim? I don't know German well enough to find something on my own (sorry).
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
That's an excellent example of a technical truth.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> prefer Dominos IDK. I order Dominos a lot because I sometimes work weird hours and literally nothing else that delivers is open. That doesn't mean I prefer Dominos. I definitely don't. But it delivers to a large geographi
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
But the stickiness of geography for finance and autos are very different. Replicating a segment of London's financial sector in Frankfurt is easier than replicating BMW/VW to UK.
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
Exactly! Britain vehemently protested the US invasion of Iraq while France and other EU countries egged them on. \s
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by throwawaysocks 10y ago
> My argument isn't that "professors are paid too much." Well, okay. > It's that we have too much higher education. This seems well-covered in other threads. I'll just say two things: 1. A secondary educa

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