timkam

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by timkam 3mo ago
Indeed. Also, companies with a genuine and socially at least somewhat useful business model prefer focusing on customers buying their actual products as the main revenue source. The state- and EU-driven funding ecosystem is so convoluted th
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by timkam 5mo ago
It may not be sloppiness. Consider the official statement as shared in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47789061 . The ministry of defense will issue an 'exception' that generally applies. Presum
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by timkam 1y ago
What would be a balanced perspective? Perhaps that oAI may now be another "boring" startup in that it is no longer primarily about moving the technology frontier, but about further scaling while keeping churn low, with margins (in
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by timkam 1y ago
Couldn't one interpret "magical systems thinking" as a fallacy that people may commit when applying systems thinking? More broadly, I find some of the comments here rather harsh, also considering that many observations in the
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by timkam 1y ago
They do not allow this any more. So _that_ problem has actually been addressed.
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by timkam 1y ago
> That's not as inspiring as it could be, but it's a lot better than the tech industry overall. I regularly see both worlds. What I find more troubling in academia is that it is difficult to openly talk about how flawed the sys
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by timkam 1y ago
It is well-known that top-conferences had and still have many problems. Some examples: There used to be the problem with authors adding new co-authors after acceptance, aka "selling seats". There is a debate about how many papers
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by timkam 1y ago
This is an interesting perspective, and I assume your definition is the technically correct one. Still, many SEs receive substantial compensation in RSUs, direct stocks, shares in startups, et cetera. So also from this perspective, there ar
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by timkam 1y ago
Well, for the time SEs are substantially better paid than working-class jobs, they are not the working class. For now, this applies at least to some regions, not only within the US. I agree in that I have at times felt some level of arrogan
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by timkam 1y ago
The narrative reflects a broader cultural shift, from "we are all in this together" (pandemic) to "our organizations are bloated and people don't work hard enough" (already pre-LLM hype post-pandemic). The observati
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by timkam 1y ago
Is it really that LLM-based tools make developers so much more productive or rather that organizations have found out they can do with less -- and less privileged -- developers? What I don't really see, especially not big tech-internal
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by timkam 2y ago
Why is it a terrible take? You first have to understand a community in order to reform it. You can't just say "I actually have no idea how to do research in this field, have not contributed anything substantial, have no money or s
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by timkam 2y ago
You are introducing a straw-man argument here (that obviously ignores basic facts about population sizes of Sweden and China, so it's wrong on both meta- and object-level). But following that line of reasoning, Sweden is not an ethnost
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by timkam 2y ago
In the ethno-nationalistic sense, Sweden is not a nation state. In its current reality, Sweden is ethnically diverse and it (partially) covers the homelands of several peoples/"nations" in the ethno-nationalistic sense. The l
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by timkam 2y ago
The historic reality begs to differ: Sweden covers large parts of the traditional homelands of non-Swedish people. Current reality differs as well, obviously. No matter how you twist it and turn it, the argument can only make sense for a hy
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by timkam 2y ago
Based on practical experience, NPS is garbage because: 1) Even with stable mean and median, NPS tends to vary month over month, at least for my B2B settings where samples are probably much smaller than for B2C. Then, management goes nuts be
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by timkam 2y ago
Without knowing the specific context: I think this really is a good example of how errors should be disclosed. We need to acknowledge that scientists/academics are human; even very competent mathematicians make mistakes and some of the
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by timkam 2y ago
The Corchado issue is merely an extreme "black and white" case, whereas the overall problem is more nuanced. E.g., there is no clear line between an implicit citation cartel and a group of thought-leaders in a small community. And
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by timkam 2y ago
> performance doesn't matter for the staff to be paid. That's not the case for the people who are in the key phase of establishing themselves as academics and who are generally not on permanent contracts. And for tenured staff,
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by timkam 3y ago
Note that "false positives" may appear in the Google Scholar results for such queries. For example, a high-profile AI researcher shared a screenshot of https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=202
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by timkam 3y ago
I would still assume that with apps like Snapchat, there are inherent problems on meta-level (from an E2EE view) because for the users, Snapchat is essentially a trusted third party, providing governance/management features. But it can
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by timkam 3y ago
Sorry, to refine my comment: what typical B2C messengers and social media apps sell as end-to-end encryption does not help. Is this correct?
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by timkam 3y ago
The article somewhat suggests that the guy used the airport's wifi. In this case and assuming that the wifi network supports government surveillance by design, end-to-end encryption does not help.
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by timkam 3y ago
What I disagree with in the article is the _I never make mistakes_ attitude; it could be worse, but I still think it's good to discuss. The author writes that because they are "serious", they can essentially rebut all critici
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by timkam 3y ago
If so, let's start with the former (god) and point us not only to the proof, but also to the theorem and the underlying definitions. There are many logicians with a scientific interest in god, religion, and related concepts. Why not be
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by timkam 3y ago
A well-intended interpretation is: the parent comment advocates for a society where there is substantial language diversity even within smaller geographic regions. This makes sense from many perspectives, because forcing people to speak the
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by timkam 3y ago
Sure, but we are talking about research teams here, not about an ops or compliance team. Central research tends to be detached from the business units but does not provide any of the 'consistency' benefits. Central research makes
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by timkam 3y ago
Fully agree. Central functions of these types do not scale. Even with more mundane objectives, like operational excellence, organizations have learned that centralization leads to ivory tower nothing-burgers. Most of the resources should go
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by timkam 3y ago
I think you should be able to try out their model by signing up here: https://app.aleph-alpha.com/
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by timkam 3y ago
Aleph Alpha: https://aleph-alpha.com/ , raised more than 500 million USD: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-06/german-gi... , which makes it a notable effort, I suppose.

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