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The real question is why schools like Khan Academy aren't accredited?

Why can't we have free online courses for everyone, where the only costs are the actual free market costs that go towards staff required for administration, courseware development, instructors, and test proctoring?

Why should a college degree from an online university cost a fortune, if the course material remains mostly unchanged from year to year? At the end of the day, all you need is the educational materials, someone who help guide you through them, and then a test to prove that you learned the material. Why isn't that good enough??
Tiktok users embarrassed him in Tulsa.
Python Dependency Injection – Testdriven.io
Oh gotcha. That’s an interesting way to draw the line and I appreciate the distinction.
The ship of Theseus has already sailed.
Well if someone on reddit said it convincingly it’s settled.
BTW: In the EU you have "14 day cooling off period" that gives you a right to return items bought online.
“ Another comparison: at the time (early 2000s) multiple people in senior level positions in European companies mentioned to me that in their opinion, having an MBA from a top US school was equivalent to a degree from a top Italian economics school like Bocconi University”

HBS and GSB have much more brand value than Bocconi university. Whether the economics education you get is on par is debatable but it’s clear one of the selling points of an elite US MBA is the signaling.

I’m skeptical of the claim that Bocconi university has anywhere near the signaling effect of HBS/GSB.
Millions of people have received & participated in Starbucks Rewards offers powered by Haskell.

Millions of people have bought things from Target stores whose inventories were planned by Haskell.
And they are still elected by the people. Just because senators are not proportional to the number of constituents and instead proportional to the number of states does not mean they doesn't represent the people - they represents the people of a state but in a non-proportional manner. You haven't made any points against that since I pointed it out, and it completely negates your original point, so I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by noting the Senate is more powerful. They are, in some respects, but that's irrelevant as to whether they represent the people. Also, Congress has quite a few unique capabilities as well, such as oversight, impeachment, the ability to declare war. Powers are split between the two parts of the legislative branch.
GraphQL, as far as I know, has been gaining immense popularity as of late. I've never used it in a professional capacity, but its great in that you can shape the types of API responses returned from a single endpoint -- very different from how REST does things. The ecosystem is growing pretty quick too, I've been enjoying playing around with Hasura which can generate a GraphQL API from a PostgreSQL DB you point it to.
There's a Star Trek novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!) where IIRC they explore how the transporter is sort of destroying the original you and recreating a new one somewhere else. It's a legit philosophical question, but practically speaking, the people who use the transporter don't feel like they're longer themselves. They just feel like they've moved.

That's fiction, of course, but what the characters experience is what I'd expect to happen in real life if a transporter did exist. If a structure (human) is destroyed and recreated identically at some other location, I don't see why that should be any different than moving the atoms over while preserving the structure.

And I don't see why things would be different if you created the same structure (or an isomorphic one) inside a computer.

Of course, I'm assuming that what makes you you is simply the structure and how it operates as a system. That's definitely a philosophical question, but I think if its answer is what I expect, then a perfect recreation of you is you.

And yes, this raises the question of whether there can be more than one of you. (Which I think the Star Trek novel also covers.) I don't think this cloning presents a philosophical barrier, though. I think it's similar to calling fork(). The only observable differences come from the kernel intervening to change the pid and fork()'s return value. There's nothing fundamentally unsound about the idea of splitting into two and both being "you". Although there are definitely things that are unsettling about it.
> Go outside and look at the real world and you will see the ground has little pebbles and bits of mud and all this stuff that gets kicked around

We are getting better. Like snow deformation in RDR2, for instance(works even in a PS4).

But random bits of debris that can get kicked around - and subsequently inspected - no. That's a problem.

> No video game will let you inspect the leaves of plants to look for little bugs, the way reality will

That's an easier problem than tracking all the debris. Before you inspect, you have no idea what will be there - the computer also doesn't have to and it can be optimized away until there's an observer.

Think heisenberg uncertainty principle but for virtual worlds.
> I am turned off as well from the abstractionauts in the software world

Is there any way you can give examples of this in Haskell?

If I'm just blind to them by now I'd like to know, but most "abstractionaut" criticisms I've heard seem to ignore the pragmatic ideals driving the reasons for the abstraction and ignoring inherent complexity.
Sleep isn't death, or a pause button; exter-conscious brain activity is still you.

Sleeping doesn't generate petabytes of data elsewhere in space.

Sleeping doesn't have a mechanical "scanning" process which takes time to read across a brain.

Sleeping doesn't have a mechanical scanning process with measurement errors, approximations and simplifications.

Sleeping doesn't abruptly disconnect trillions of body cells.

Uploading doesn't use biology or Penrose and Hameroff's microtubules.

Uploading doesn't have a physical embodiement.

Uploading runs a simulation.

Uploading is a different place in space with a wildly different configuration of matter and energy.

Consciousness has not been proven to be a) purely information processing or b) possible on an electronic Von Neumann state machine. (I'm not saying it isn't, I'm saying "of course it is, what else could it be?" isn't proof - especially when a popular part of uploading arguments is the ability to simulate arbitrary things or fake parts of the experience to the point where you won't notice anything is wrong; taking a position where simulations can be OK because we can do that to make them be OK, but that can't be happening right now because nothing seems wrong, is weird).

You don't have to believe in a soul, quantum woo, or human exceptionalism to observe that part of the universe doing something and part of the universe doing something which looks to humans like doing something else, are different.
That's just another user process. So everything else will continue. You have to let go of your macro kernel mindset if you want to make sense of the timing in a micro kernel environment. Blocking threads is fine. Just make sure that you don't do that sort of stuff in your UI thread and you won't even realize there is such a thing as disk or network IO.

Mouse, keyboard, screen. Those are the things that should run at high priority. Everything else can - quite literally - wait.
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There's always slack in the system though. E.g. because of the randomness of when orders are ready let's say there's an average 15 minute wait for all the drivers, when things are running at full capacity.

Well if you use this then you get, say, 2 minute waits, and since you're paid per-delivery, you make a bit more each day -- maybe you make 25% more deliveries.

On the flip side, then drivers not using this might see their average waits grow to 20 or 25 or 30 min.

For Amazon it's all the same though.
Another problem is how the money is allocated. State schools' budgets used to be mostly general funds, but now they're overwhelmingly non-general.

Even if they're getting the same amount of money, that money is already earmarked. If it doesn't cover all their expenses, they need to figure out how to monetize their assets to make up the difference.

Universities have gotten much better at finance out of necessity.
immediate substitution is just incremental substitution done very, very fast.
A lot of comments seem to be from people who aren't aware that Amazon's delivery network kind of sucks in huge swaths of America. If you're not in a major metropolitan area, Prime delivery took about a week pre-Covid, and things have only gotten worse since then.

Compare Walmart store locations [1] to Amazon fulfillment centers [2] and you'll see that delivering from their stores enables them to cover a lot of rapid-delivery territory where Amazon just isn't.

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2 https://truthout.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/02-Amazon-Wa...
Yes, was thinking Challenger; where the SRB's that <parent> mentioned were relevant. Columbia I saw on TV with my toddler, who's a sophomore in college now.
I don't mean to disagree with you (definitely harmful) but how is one supposed to make money building open-source postgres tooling? SaaS doesn't seem like a good fit here, nor do many other models.
I've had this happen to me b4 and honestly I got a third opinion... But truly, u just gotta trust yourself. you know your body, so if a doctor is telling u things that ur unsure of, u needa ditch them.
1. I have pretty much a pure programming background. No previous experience with speech or machine learning when I was hired (but that was long ago).

2. The software engineers in the team have a variety of backgrounds. I think I may be the only PhD, and my subject was not relevant to the job. Plenty of people with bachelors (for visa reasons, non-US employees tend to have higher degrees). Machine learning knowledge helps, but is not strictly required. For the data scientists, on the other hand, advanced degrees are a definite plus, and so is some specialization in a relevant subject.

3. The most important thing to know about Siri's internal working is that we don't talk about Siri's internal working…

If you randomly would like to learn something to improve your chances of working at Siri, a machine learning class (e.g. Ng's and/or Hinton's Coursera classes) could definitely help.

4. There is still a lot of engineering involved, and often by the time a formal schedule is worked out, the scientific discovery part has largely been solved. Sometimes features end up not working out and have to be pushed back. What helps for Siri is that a lot of the complex functionality is server side or in updatable assets, so iteration is a possibility.

5. That's above my pay grade, really. What I learned the past few years is never to bet against deep learning being able to tackle a particular problem, but I can't shake the feeling that we'll discover limits some day.
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> KISS > DRY

I'd agree elsewhere, but not for tests. Non-DRY tests often means that there's an ad-hoc similarity between a series of tests.

Without DRYness, as time passes, domain knowledge fades away, and more maintainers touch the same test code, it becomes quite likely that this similarity will be broken. Which is a perfect recipe for false negatives: one fixes one test but not all other tests, which might start exercising a useless code path due to drift.
Most things people enjoy in life you would be hard pressed to find a distinction between it an addiction.
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Recent? Buddha taught all this 2500 years ago
Well, speak for yourself and the companies you've worked for, but that hasn't been my experience at all.

At both of the companies I've worked at we got a yearly "merit-based" increase depending on how your manager ranks you vs. your peers. The increase is anywhere from 0-5%, and the manager can only recommend their top employees for the high (5%) merit-based increases. This is on top of other increases (such as promotion-based increases), btw. I've gotten several pretty high merit-based increases back-to-back, and those +5% really start to compound with other forms of increase (promotions, bonuses, etc) after a few years.
Right now you and I are having a parasocial relationship. Or what else would you call internet forums? Theirs just pays better.
Are you a GPT-3 bot trained on a bunch of pseudoscience?
The "zwo" for 2 also stuck out. It's a common variant but my understanding is it's not the most proper word. As someone else said, maybe partly chose for phonetic distinctness.
No, 15 years ago the online platforms were based on things like number of links and user reactions. It's recently that they moved into whatever glues people best into the screen. They didn't measure the latter one well enough by then.

The one problem is that what glues people better into the screen is stuff that makes enough people angry, so they look and discuss, and enough people confident on something they think is a non-mainstream opinnion, so they share it. That's an almost perfect filter for conspiracy theories.
I don't think that criticism is warranted for this article. It seems quite careful to me. It says nothing about a therapy except that it's too early to talk about a therapy. It states facts and no promises are made. The only breathlessness here is that the local scientists are super excited.

Headline: "Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research study finds honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells"

"Key points:

- The research was published in the journal Nature Precision Oncology

- It found honeybee venom was effective in killing breast cancer cells

- Researchers say the discovery is exciting but there is a long way to go"

Last paragraph:

"Dr Duffy did not want to use words like breakthrough or cure, stressing this is just the beginning, and much more research needs to be done.

"There's a long way to go in terms of how we would deliver it in the body and, you know, looking at toxicities and maximum tolerated doses before it ever went further," she said."
I worked as tech support at a major university in the US in the mid-90s in the College of Business Administration as an internship. The way it works is you get a budget. If you don't spend all of your budget, you get less budget next year. No department wants a lesser budget. This resulted in all professors, most who only use Word and Excel, to get $4000 brand new, top of the line Dells every year. I know, I had to set them up and deliver them.

This probably isn't how it works everywhere, but it's certainly the case in some places. This was a large public/state school.
And for games, SOMA is probably the best example.
How is that aggressive pricing? Those are the same prices they have used for previous generations.
That's what many use Instagram for now, though, just a vehicle to their OnlyFans account.

Unfortunately, the OnlyFans "creators" have also flocked to reddit and spam it relentlessly. So bad that quite a few subreddits have had to ban "sellers" who were drowning out the other users.
> Applications written in haskell you can run on your computer for doing something other than programming is still a list that you can count on your fingers.

Before you make such strong claims, you should at least try and validate they're true. Please stop spreading this lie.
I'm not sure how your argument actually contradicts the argument of the article. State support for public universities declined while state issued loans to students increased. Both would seem to facilitate higher priced private universities and work together - if you just have student loans, student might still prefer lower priced public universities. If you just defund public universities without the massive expansion of student loans, many student might be not be able to attend university.

Also, I get the figure of inflation-adjust college education cost doubling over thirty years. You can spin that as "only slightly beating the cost of living" but education is a major part of society's expenditure of resources and so such a doubling, over a longish time is still majorly important.
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Microsoft Researcher Single-Handedly Surveys TheSOTA in SignLanguage Recognition
Malicious extensions are a likely culprit. This is the ultimate irony of the whole WebExtensions debacle; browser vendors wanted to stop the extensions from interacting with the browser because maintaining that interface is work, so now the most trivial extensions will request full access to all websites so they can inject scripts. To bring back "backspace navigates back" I have an extension that needs just that.
I'd settle for the Mac being smart enough to let me resize each external display to its actual physical size, so dragging between them works. Apparently, Apple thinks it's perfectly OK to assume that all your displays have the same pixel density as your laptop screen - FAIL!
You're right, I shouldn't likely be distinguishing the Ti series (although it is usually a 'toc' generation, like the just announced gen, as Ti variants were not announced).

But that does leave the 16xx generation which was released wholly on its own, in its own year.
I can only begin to imagine the uncanny valley that is an AI version of me outputting GPT-3 text.
Yes, checked their site, it doesn't seem like they want their candidates to use Django.
Thanks PyDanny
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You completely missed the point. The author said pick two out of three. High quality, low cost, universality.

As you say, you can have high quality, and low cost. But European university isn’t as universal as north american universities are.
Nothing sensitive about what you just described? Seems like with that info you can start making intelligent answers to security questions or possible rainbow table look ups.
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