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Humans are really good at taking a vague description of a task and using a small number of examples to disambiguate it.

For example, "sort all of the folders, so that it Alan goes before Amy, etc". The rule ("sort") is pretty ambiguous, but one simple example in the context gives enough information to realise you probably mean alphabetically by first name.

Is there something like this example that could be combined with NLP to make things like these "intelligent assistants" we have now much more useful for data processing tasks?

It would be great to describe data manipulation to a machine the way that I would describe it to a colleague: give an overview of an algorithm, watch how they interpret it, and correct with a couple of examples in a feedback loop. Currently describing such things for a machine requires writing the algorithm manually in a programming language.
The Toyota hydrogen fuel-cell car has a high price and not so great performance, so it's safe to say that the answer to your question is "not good enough for a car, yet".
lol. for the 50 years prior to the law change (~2007) people weren't declaring bankruptcy after college to avoid the debt - but of course the debt was a reasonable amount back then compared to income and other debts. It's not that strange tuition has close to doubled after 2007, while only increasing near inflation before.
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In the case of the University of California system, it's almost 1:1 substitution, declines in per-student funding being matched by increases in tuition. Partly due to actual cuts to the UC budget since 2000, and partly due to funding not keeping up with increases in student numbers. The state government mandates these increases in student numbers, but in recent years has not been willing to fund accordingly.

The mandate is that the UC system is required to offer spots for the top 12.5% of the current year's in-state graduating high school seniors, so this mandate obviously expands if university-age population increases. Which to be fair is sensible: it makes sense for the state university system's size to be roughly proportional to the size of the state's university-aged population. But then you should fund it proportionally too.

Here are some numbers I put together a few years ago (not updated since 2012): http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt

Which is not to say overpaid administrators aren't also sucking out more money than they should be. The UC Office of the President (UCOP) is currently being deservedly raked over the coals by the state auditor, and I would not shed a tear if UCOP's budget specifically were cut. But in terms of big-picture trends, the state's per-student funding declining from $30k/student in the '70s and '80s to less than half of that in 2012 is a pretty good first-order explanation.
Couldn't you trivially harden against single byte overflows by just changing your malloc implementation to add one to the requested allocation size?
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My experience was similar to yours. I immigrated from Russia at a young age so we had very little money. I attended a great college mostly on scholarship. My mom had always taught me to work hard and pick a major carefully, taking into account ROI.

Thanks to merit-based scholarships and need-based aid, I graduated with minimal debt, despite attending a private college with a $45k per year sticker price. Thanks to a proper choice of majors, I made good money right out of school.

I'm always puzzled when people claim that one needs to come from money to succeed.
Now where have I heard that before?
Hmm, could be! Maybe explicitly specifying a newer standard might do the trick then. I'll try a few things.
> Because it doesn't necessarily have to cost that much.

Makes no sense to me. Any person who thinks something is more expensive than it can be; can start his own college and win over the market while making a lot of money.

How can a person claim to know the value of other people's labor ?
> I'm considering suggesting my kids go to local community college for 2 years and then university to finish their degrees.

I really wish I had done this. It would've saved me $20,000+. It's a great option, especially if you're in a place with a good community college system with guaranteed admissions agreements (e.g., Virginia).
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Why are you referencing the obsolete rfc? There is no restriction to object/array for the JSON text in the current rfc https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159
Then these people probably should not go to college in first place and instead become plumbers or car mechanics.
This Ferrari point is especially apt because many of the commenters here are stating that no, their college professors and lecture experiences weren't better than YouTube offers, but look at all the great people I met and interacted with!

This perfectly fits your Ferrari fallacy: When you own a Ferrari, you're part of a highly-exclusive social club. "Well... No, my Ferrari didn't actually earn me more money, per se, but it let me hobnob with so-and-so, and look at me now! Totally worth the crippling debt!"
jvm is an impressive thing but so is gcc and clang and they have time to crunch harder and are not constrained by lack of value types or lack of unsigned ints or lack of explicit SIMD instructions and on and on and on
Well, here he says that kotlin is better than java, not that statycal typing is better, so it's not an argument in favor of one of those "all frog legs and calf brains and truffled snails" languages;)
In the 00's (and admittedly, an anecdote), we were told to "follow our passion" and weren't given much guidance on college affordability (community college for gen. ed. requirements vs in-state vs out-of-state / private). No emphasis on ROI or cost, at least at my school.
As much as I love Blender, I don't think Blender is very good for "design". It lacks parametric solid modeling primitives and operators. I've tried many times to do architectural modeling in Blender. It's good for sketching and rendering stuff like that, but not so much for "design". It's just not streamlined and is missing too much fundamental stuff. Some day, I'd love to see Blender improve in that regard! Someone recently made an addon called "archimesh". There's also "sverchok", a parametric modeling plugin. I suppose that could be used for design. And of course, if you're writing your own python scripts, the sky's the limit.

I think with a couple basic improvements, Blender could crush as a design tool:

1) Comprehensive solid modeling tools, including quality measuring tools for volumes, surface areas and lengths.

2) Some kind of plugin or extension to allow for composable, parametric "widget" type object groups. So you'd have a parametric wall section composed of parametric material pieces. The window unit would be a parametric composition of parametric subcomponents, like layers of glass, a tweakable frame, etc. A window widget would know to boolean cut through a wall. Archimesh does this kind of thing, but it's buggy and still in beta, and not so general purpose. Maybe Sverchok and some python would do it.

Along with Blender's excellent constraint and modifier system, these would go a long way.

Edit: I Just remembered that there was (and maybe still is) a long term push for "node based everything". I think this might fulfill #2.
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To be fair, there may have been really good reasons for it back when Android devices had 500 Mhz single-core CPUs with 32 or 64 Megabytes of RAM.
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I definitely agree that rapidly rising education costs are a huge issue and need to be addressed. However, most (67%) undergraduate student loan amounts are for less than 20K[1]

At 6.8% interest and 10 year repayment that comes to about $2,761 per year, with interest that can be paid with pre-tax money. Yes, thats a hefty amount to many, but earnings with a college degree are still much more than enough to offset that burden.

Furthermore, 42% are for less than 10k.

The student loan debt crisis doesn't seem like all doom and gloom just yet.

[1] https://trends.collegeboard.org/student-aid/figures-tables/d...

Yes its from 2015, but I can't imagine the distribution has changed so much that it is irrelevant. According to Wikipedia, 39.9% owed less than 10k in 2012 [2].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loan_default_in_the_Un...
Looking at the total dollar amount of debt makes a good headline, but is simplistic. With lower interest rates, households are spending far less to service their debt than they were in 2008. The article only mentions this briefly near the end.
Nim has a beautiful syntax, I feel a bit like i am getting the expressiveness and ease of F# but with much better performance and nice small executables instead of byte code that needs a runtime. c interop being easy and no cost is also very nice.
The rationale is that you can't take away an education the way you can repo a house or car. That and something about doctors borrowing a couple hundred K, then declaring bankruptcy to discharge it after graduation.
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Rule 110.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scientific-credit-...

Apologies for the link quality.
I'm not trying to comment on whether or not education should be a right, I'm just saying that believing it should be given our current system has had some negative repercussions.
$13.6 trillion is a ton of debt (literally?). At the same time, I think debt versus net worth is a more descriptive metric.

Back in 2008, household net worth (HNW) was about $56 trillion, so household debt was about a quarter of HNW. With HNW at about $93 trillion, reaching $14+ trillion in household debt doesn't sting as much.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/z1.pdf

At the same time, interest rates are still near historic lows, and may assets have appreciated because of this. I wouldn't be surprised to see real estate drop a bit as the Fed raises rates, which would take a chunk out of HNW.
And AT&T before them. (Bell Labs)
Not at all the same. They're way past demo and have proven effectiveness repeatedly.

Comparing pre-alpha with fielded is no comparison. Nuclear weapons haven't been going on and on about how great they'll eventually be.
GNOME isn't really part of GNU these days.
For Filipino domestic workers, its a deliberate choice driven by lack of work opportunities at home.
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It will be interesting to see if there is an uptake by employers of (cheaper?) employees who have gained knowledge/education via free/cheap online courses.

In my experience of a couple of CompSci online courses they appear to be as effective (if not more) in imparting knowledge and skills. When employers can identify this and start to treat completion of these these courses with the same level of importance as from a "real" university then maybe things will start to change.

The only thing I can see that will challenge this is the cultural indoctrination that seems to be part of the more esteemed universities. How much of the decision to employ somebody from a Harvard or MIT is knowing that the employee has been indoctrinated to think in a particular way?
I think it's going to hit housing hard (again), but probably not anytime soon. A lot of my friends have student loan debt that will never be paid off. They either can't get a job that pays enough to pay it off in a timely fashion or they choose not to grind for 5-8 years to pay it off. Instead, the plan is to do as little as possible for the next 25 years until it's forgiven, and try to keep as much cash off the books as possible so they can live a life worth living. I can't say I blame them. We can probably ride the debt train for the next decade or so, but at some point there will be too few buyers with capital because they spent the last two decades intentionally not building assets.
In practice, json is much easier to work with on the command line because of jq.
I'd like to understand this better. There's two villages. A businessman from village B comes to village A and buys a store from Bob for 100$. Bob keeps the money for a rainy day. Where is debt increasing?
This is why I want any ML device to be able to explain itself. It could train on your before-and-after examples and come up with a list of what it thinks you want it to do.

For your example, it could list:

“Remove interior spaces from each item”

or it could say:

“Remove the middle character from any 7-character strings to make them 6 characters in length”

You would be able to do something with that.
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The question is, how much of what you've learned in college actually contributes to your ability to work in the industry? They may all be useful skills in theory, but do you actually use them much? And those that you do use, did they have to be acquired in college, or could you have acquired them in the industry?

Anecdotally, I am a software developer without a degree (I did some college, never finished it - but I can't say that I took anything useful away from it, certainly not anything related to my day-to-day job). I've learned some of the things that you list on my own, and I haven't learned others (like electric engineering) - but that didn't prevent me from finding a good starting job, and working my way up through the ranks.

So, while not disputing that STEM degrees are useful and offer something that industry experience does not - do we actually need STEM degrees for everyone in the industry? or even for the majority?
The assumption there is that higher salary is the #1 consideration. My metric is a blend of salary, lifestyle, and risk.
> Because there isn't a way to take back the knowledge/skills/information learned while in college.

Time does that anyway, you'd be surprised how much you forget when you don't use it everyday. Plus the knowledge get's stale. A university degree depreciates just like everything else.
What about the distribution of net worth vs debt? If the two are balanced, I agree with your point.
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The change in HNW is not distributed evenly; the increase in individual debt is anti-correlated with increasing individual HNW.
re: yet

Is the work in progress? If so, please tell us where.
com.google and google.com also point to the same page.
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> a podcast might want to use this field for each of its hosts, or possibly even guests

I'm going to pretend this is about music artists in a music library, but the logic is exactly the same for podcast hosts:

You tend to want fields like this to be singular, so that the field can be used in collation (i.e. "sort by artist.")

If you have multiple artists for a track, usually one can be designated the "primary" artist—the one that people best know, and would expect to find the track listed under when looking through their library. Usually, then, the rest get tacked on in the field in a freeform, maybe comma-and-space delimited fashion. The field isn't a strict strongly-typed references(Person) field, after all; it's just freeform text describing the authorship.

But as for hosts vs. guests, that's a whole can of worms. Look at the ID3 standard. Even though music library-management programs usually just surface an "Artist" field, you've actually got all of these separate (optional) fields embedded in each track:

• TCOM: Composer

• TEXT: Lyricist/Text writer

• TPE1: Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)

• WOAR: Official artist/performer webpage

• TPE2: Band/orchestra/accompaniment

• TPE3: Conductor/performer refinement

• TPE4: Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified by

• TENC: Encoded by

• WOAS: Official audio source webpage

• TCOP: Copyright message

• WPUB: Publishers official webpage

• TRSN: Internet radio station name

• TRSO: Internet radio station owner

• WORS: Official internet radio station homepage

That gives you separate credits for pretty much the entire composition, production and distribution flow, which usually means that each field only needs one entry.

Would be great if people used them, wouldn't it? Maybe the semi-standard "A feat. B (C remix)" microformat could be parsed into "[TPE2] feat. [TPE1] ([TPE4])"...
Which is fine, but my comment was addressing the right to education.
You can always handle the orientation change manually if you want to. But if you don't want to bother, restarting the Activity seems like a reasonable default.
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With the explosion of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the ever decreasing cost of storage and compute, and the apparent disregard for individual privacy on the part of both government and industry, which rights would you include in a "Bill of Modern Rights"?
I was bringing up the contract issue somewhat separately to point out that it's not a criminal issue like the parent claimed, as far as I know. I wasn't saying breaching your contract is OK, sorry if that was confusing.

My main beef is with what we do and don't call a privacy violation. If your issue was that use of your information or identity by someone else (especially to make money) entitled your to fair compensation (or otherwise it shouldn't be done simply because of unfairness), I would agree with you. If your claim was that a PERSON (or their machine) obtaining any new information about you is a privacy violation, I would get that too. But you're claiming a machine that can violate your privacy merely by indexing and displaying things back to YOURSELF that it already knew. That makes no sense to me. No one is gaining any extra information about you when a computer indexes information it already has, so while it might be unfair, it simply cannot be a privacy violation.
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It only works if you're developing, and already have a low standard of living. Once you have living standards that require a relatively high level of income automation becomes a more economical alternative to human laborers.

Moreover shipping costs already serve as a natural protectionist barrier, yet we still outsource manufacturing jobs.
I'm sure he and his siblings were pretty sympathetic, which is why the tried to defend her from their parents and help her with her duties. This made their mother angry because they would take their Lola's side.

This is actually quite typical of kids (especially in asian cultures?). Being timid and following your parents orders wholeheartedly are so ingrained it's criminal. The children could only do so much as young teenagers; I question the eldest more because he was 20 and has noticed the slavery for a while yet didn't do much to help their Lola (or maybe he did, the author just failed to mention it).

Regardless, it seems like you're being unsympathetic to the author and his siblings. You don't know what they've been through: poverty, fear, abandonment, humiliation, anxiety, etc (speculations). It's a whole lot easier to judge someone's situation based on your current status and upbringing. Just because you think you would've been more resolute if you were in his place doesn't mean that you actually would have been. Remember, this is a family from Asia in the 60-70s.

Not an attack. Just a reminder to put things in perspective.
No doubt. However, if the single byte off the end is reliably accessible, then programs may come to rely on it by accident. If a program is allocating n but using n+1, then a single-byte overflow would access n+2 and the problem repeats. Better to have that single byte off the end be reliably crashy to touch, but not exploitable.

You'd also incur substantial space overhead for small allocations in many cases. I'm not familiar with Linux's implementation, but on the Mac, for example, all allocations are a multiple of 16 bytes. It's common to allocate 16 or 32 bytes for small objects, so padding the allocation by one byte will bump you up to 32 and 48 bytes respectively.
I'd venture a guess that helpful and savvy parents matter as much as (if not more than) coming from money
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe a star is 1/65536th of the network, not 1/64th. Perhaps you meant to say 1/64k?
It says google promoted so I doubt it. the ones that are ads say Ad in a little box near where you click.
> $13.6 trillion is a ton of debt (literally?)

IIRC, in $100 bills, $100 million is a ton. $13.6 trillion is 136,000 tons of $100 bills.
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"JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs", I'm curious about how people feel about this statement from a creation vs consumption perspective.

I'm currently creating an API where I'm asking devs to post JSON rather than a bunch of separate parameters, but I haven't seen this done in other APIs (if you have, can you point me to a few examples?). I'm curious what others thoughts are on this. It seems that with GraphQl, we're maybe starting to move in this direction.
Do you know if there is something similar which can run against stocks traded on the Japanese markets? I would love to write a pre-screener for myself.
Obviously that eases the process but some people follow through and some don't. Some have big dreams and some just invest for themselves only. I can think of loads of rich people who aren't out there starting companies to push forward space exploration, car technology, tunnelling machines, etc. He has pretty serious runs on the board now.
If you are more on the side of accepting punctuated equilibrium, then this isn't true. Organisms will evolve to the local optimum and then stay there. By definition, since most mutations will result in lower fitness.

It's only when the environment changes (rise of mammals post dinosaur-extinction) or the organisms themselves change environment (Darwin's finches) that you get the rapid rates of evolution to find the new optimumm.

Some obvious analogies of these two situations in tech are the rise of the Internet (Microsoft did change, but struggled), and the rise of the smartphone (Apple came from nowhere to a position of dominance).
I truly don't understand the USA sometimes. Don't you guys know that in Europe higher education is free? Well where I'm from there was a very low nominal cost but my father was a public servant so cost was waived, I literally studied CS for 0 cost. And these countries are able to afford it all! Magic!

I don't understand how people in USA are not aware of this and literally rioting in the streets. At the very least swing public opinion and voting. Don't even start talking about the we are americans we don't like taxes BS, you really think being a young adult with a 200K student loan and a $6K deductible for healthcare insurance is better than an extra ~5-10% of tax? It's truly mind boggling.
My mistake. I mistook his blog post discussing it [1] for an initial announcement of it, even though it links to an Intel announcement.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/48429.html
I wonder if one of the computers at Mar-A-Lago has a copy of Trump's tax returns stored on it.