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I'm of the unpopular opinion that we conditioned ourselves to pedestalize speed of acquisition as the most important evidence that someone is talented. I see root comments bringing up how the person the article is talking about was anything but a beginner because he was practicing to the point of obsession at a younger age.

Reading the post in isolation omits important details because it's hard to quantify how much of that knowledge he was learning was first acquisition and how much of that was synthesizing things he already know in a way that is different enough to be considered a new lesson to learn.

Also, a good point to remember is that direct 1-to-1 contact with a mentor also allows for tacit knowledge to be acquired, not only instructional (for reference https://commoncog.com/the-tacit-knowledge-series/). Meaning that, another argument that can be made when you read an exchange like in the article is that 1-to-1 learning transmits a better quality of tacit knowledge to the student than a catch-all instructional knowledge.

And the point of the university is to communicate knowledge that is "everlasting". I see the article and the diss of the university as something required for software developers and I mean it in the nicest way possible but you're missing the point. University isn't there to make you a good tool builder (because that's what ultimately software is, it's a tool meant to be paired with hardware in order to allow the user to do what they want).

We already know how to become tool builders, disregarding everything that makes software so different than making chairs, guitars and swords. Universities aren't there to make you a specialist into web, mobile, gaming development either. That's why you see self-taughts since forever like John Carmack dropping out of college once they learn as much as they want to, before they keep grooving on their merry way, ultimately banding together with others who share the same passion with them.

Universities will never replace real world experience, and real world experience cannot replace universities for what they provide, because their goals are different. Universities don't have to remove the metaphorical speed limits. Even some of the experimental private bootcamps who value depth acquisition of fundamentals end up simply forming layers of classes where people getting paired with others who are working on the same concept. But that's still another form of mass apprenticeship.
I agree with you on the value of a master's, but not about the some of the assumptions you make about the people who get them.

The most legitimate use of a MS degree is to move from one field to an adjacent field (eg math to CS). You know the basics, and you just need the advanced coursework in the other field.

A lot of people I have seen use a master's as a pure signaling tool, getting a high-profile University on their resume. For example, I have seen a lot of resumes with "BS from Unknown University" and "MS from Stanford/Harvard/MIT." In interviews, these students have not performed nearly as well as students with a BS from Stanford/Harvard/MIT, so I tend to discount the MS if I see this pattern.

Another common reason for the MS that I have seen is as an immigration tool. These people are usually pretty smart.
Why can’t I play it in background?
Indeed, the web was the "killer app" of the technology
In what world would Google receive criticism for giving back accounts to people who has been proven innocent?

Google's surveillance system and automated ban hammers are already bad enough. But the actions they took following the ban in this case is egregious and 100% indefensible. At the very least, Google could've reinstated their victim's account and issued a full sincere apology upon being contacted by the NYT. If Google has any care for their users, they'd do that for every people they wrongly reported who had their names cleared. Instead, Google doubled down, continued to treat their victims as criminals in their statement, and even leaked details about intimate photos in a blatant attempt to discredit the users they wronged.

No parent should ever have to go through what Google has put them through when trying to cure their child. Most of all, they should never have to risk losing custody of their child because their child went sick. They should never lose access to their whole digital identity because they didn't know any better than to rely on Google. Yet this is what Google did to these parents, full stop.
You clearly dont have children...
In college, I was able to sample a lot of computer science from building a pipelined cpu in verilog, algorithms, writing a multi-threaded OS, implementing animation engine in opengl, quantum computing, machine learning (lots of theory and lots of practice), group theory to name a few.

I thought my degree was a bargain at the state school I went to. Also majored in math. Both CS and math had so many interesting classes, I found myself wishing school was 6 years instead of 4. Work is hardly that cutting edge compared to what we learned in school, which woukd cover the latest stuff in the literature in some classes.

Most of all, I learned that getting stuck at problems is normal in college. You have to be patient, spend a lot of time and slowly make progress. That helps me immensely in my current job, esp. debugging complicated problems.
No, that's not mandatory. Actually, only the big, shitty, consultancy shops (Accenture, Deloitte, etc) look stricly for licensed engineers, mostly because, funnily enough, they're usually hired for much less than the average SWEs. Actually there's kind of a shared feeling in the industry that licensed software engineers are dumbasses.
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I don't think such a defensive response is necessary. Julia's claims have been rather lofty since the beginning and the degree to which they have been achieved is different to everyone.

Without defining more precisely what succeeding and the timeframe means it is difficult to know what OP was after but the fed example stands well on its own.
And Thomas Moore -> Tommaso Moro.

But this happens to Latin names as well, Marcus Antonius is Marco Antonio in Italian and Mark Antony in English.

In Italian there is also the (derived) "marcantonio" with the meaning of "big guy".
They did but the cracks are showing. China with their great firewall. Even Western countries censoring stuff. Russia making sure they can function independently because they'll probably be sanctioned one day.

It's far from one happy family.
Just prepend each announcement with Crikey and append it with mate, and you're good!
Home offices, like most well used areas around the house tend to evolve organically as time goes on.

Without any preplanning, mine has a small wooden posable 'artists' hand that I fiddle with during calls, a small metal Twinings Tea vintage delivery truck, a Kinder Egg Batman figure who protects my router, and my guitar (see other comment).
> What makes you think you know how other people consider those words?

When I say “they consider”, I don't propose that I know what's in people's minds. My experience is that people don't talk about their time as something they choose to allocate in a certain way. Rather, they talk about it as if it's fixed, like laws of physics.
What if I use Huawei phone, which is banned from using Google services? Obviously, China will have all my info, but they can't (yet) ban me from boarding US trains for low social rating, so what do I care?
It's messy enough it's likely to end up a Supreme Court case in US (and I wouldn't want to be a party to it).

Europeans will probably preempt that with legislation.
And I don't really disagree with you. I think Covid proved that childcare is indeed a major component of school. I doubt that a public school or all but the most expensive private schools have much ability to tailor education to the individual needs of children.
I wonder if this has value for commercial pilot training.

i.e. Instead of sticking them straight into a proper simulator, you loan them 15k worth of consumer tech for home. Not as a replacement, but as intermediate step
> There is no ultranationalism

Wait for the next EU lawsuit against Google, you will drown under all the comments claiming it is an attack on American companies.
Nowadays you can buy a NAS and plug it into your router and then click the install nextcloud option and you have it running, then you add the app on your phone. Its no where near as difficult to get these level of capability as it used to now that Docker is integrated in a user friendly way in a lot of NAS software.
I’m not someone who thinks the setup of the NHS is untouchable, I currently use and prefer the Dutch system. But I’m not convinced the NHS needs changing as much as it needs proper funding.
We are never going to get a serious debate around reforming the NHS until people move on from only comparing the UK to the US. There are many other systems that work - people only need to look across to Europe.
Oh my. I'd rather tell myself that you're trolling, than lose my last scraps of faith in humanity.
Okay, but what if you don't know your password and your password manager is offline or you don't have access to it on your phone or the phone ran out of battery or... I assure you we can find a similar amount of cases where passwords would fail. It's mostly novelty phobia.

We're used to one way of working and have our setups for that. We don't want something different but not because it's worse. It's just different.

And even more, when you have a problem with your password, what do you have to do, yes, email for the most part.
> much simpler explanation: Covid infections increase risk of other health issues.

Or even a simpler one: The discouragement from doing sports that was lockdowns and curfews, encouraged asthma, obesity, breathing interior paints too much, couch potating, mental breakdowns, social isolation, lack of parties, lack of pleasure in life, looping on negative thoughts, eating butter and sugars by buttloads, and not being able to see doctors when needed. Also, loss of work, stress of uncertainty, requirement to change careers for hospitality people.

It’s incredible how much we neglected humans during this whole “let’s protect humans from THAT ONE DISEASE” psychotic episode.
That’s what I used to believe. Circa 2000 the advice was ‘do what Yahoo! does’ and that was good, but when I revisited that in 2006 I found that Yahoo’s signup and login process was deformed by the need to discourage users from responding to phishing attempts —- a bank needs to be concerned about this but it will hurt the login for other sites that have higher iq users and aren’t big enough that spamming everybody is a good tactic.

I worked on one site (a chat service for Brazil) that had a 20% success rate for the login flow at first that we got up to the high 80s by tweaking this and that. Later I worked on one aimed at scientists that was in the low 80s before optimization.

Some tweaks from a long time ago are:

1. Put something like ‘we sent a message to <b>your.email@somewhere.net</b>‘ on the post-registration form where they are likely to see it if they make a mistake. Today forms are likely to ask for your email twice to catch this, annoying as it is.

2. Put a form field for the registration code on that form, we found that oriented people towards looking for a registration code. We still sent a link to click on but we found that users preferred to type the code into the form which was fine with us because they succeeeded.

3. Always store the current URL that the person clicked ‘register’ on and store it in the database so they end up where they started after the process is complete.
But let's ignore the blairite solution to sell the land and get further into debt and refuse to take more money from the populace or detach NHS funding from state pensions...
> The context doesn't matter.

That is possibly the most idiotic comment I've read on this thread. Of course it matters.
Shame concentration.
As a basic consumer storing somewhat not important things on Google is potentially risky for the content on it but you aren't paying them anything so its probably worth the trade off. For a business or for something you pay for Google's support is atrocious and its not worth the hassle given all the horrendous failure modes it can put you in. One thing Google consistently is teaching people is do not pay them directly as they don't know how to treat their customers.
A systemic risk to national healthcare systems is that they can be underfunded (or overfunded) in a way that private healthcare can’t because individuals are more diverse and make decisions more attuned to their individual situation. People have different preferences for how and how much they would choose to invest own healthcare, and if everyone is forced to bear one another’s bills, there will inevitably be people who are unhappy with the group’s decisions. Since it’ll be a compromise of different groups, I can imagine it’d be destined to frustrate both sides 90% of the time.
One person I'm speaking to claims that the NHS hires too many bureaucrats who are impossible to fire, and who he believes provide the doctors with too much paperwork. He suggests that instead of paying those bureaucrats, the money should go to doctors, nurses and equipment. He claims that the NHS gets about the same amount of money - GDP-wise - as other European countries, while underperforming them. They already hire >1 million people out of a population of 70 million, and paying them more is unsustainable.
That hardware outlook would have been rational in those days. The popularization of computing was a double-edged sword and commerce corrupted efficiency. It's no good selling people reliable PCs with easily replaceable parts if you want to make money on hardware and software. Today in a triumph of marketing and needless consumption people buy laptops for no apparent reason plus phones more powerful than their old laptops and PCs are becoming edge-cases. Each OS release refuses to work on older hardware. Even Linux drops support. On PCs you can plug in extra processors but only your modern-day prototypers/prototypists (software developers), oddballs like film post processing houses, scientists and gamers tend to bother. It's reaching the point even screens can barely be purchased without corrupting advertisements, internet connections and spyware.

Can't say I follow your whole line of reasoning but I agree the faddishness of, say, frontend environments does favor a, say, LISP implementation with code generation to exploit the next app-market with rejigs of yesteryears' algorithms. Classic games, utilities, etc. Just a new target layer and profit. Let the deployment environment evolve and invest in something abstract enough for inherent stability.

Some of the better facets of today's environment are popular enthusiasm for technology, easy and fast connectivity, and nominal availability of funding. I agree that systems thinking tends to be learned through implementation and maintenance, not taught.

Speaking of drinks, I need a drink: for tomorrow I am scaling a drink dispenser.
Yeah my local doctors' surgery had massive posters in its windows during the lockdown that basically said 'go away'. If you braved leaving your house and going to them, you'd be put off again before you got to the doors.
Indeed; the reason people exonerate it is that the Tories have been threatening the population with a dismantling and privatisation of the NHS for over a decade now, and that's not what anyone wants. People want the NHS to work, to be funded and managed appropriately. A primary reason it doesn't is the Tories crippling it.
The first part of 18.02x (Multivariable Calculus) is open at the moment, not for certificate, but the autograder works. The second part starts next month

https://www.edx.org/course/multivariable-calculus-1-vectors-...

https://www.edx.org/course/multivariable-calculus-2-surfaces...
Is Publishing About Art or Commerce?
> subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman.

Isn’t that also a description of breastfeeding?
Do you think Sheriffs carry rhetorical guns, or do you not realize that they enforce evictions?
It still blows my mind that these guys weren't Southern boys but from California.

Ramble Tamble remains one of my most earliest memories listening to my dad play CCR's Cosmos Factory from a cassette tape as a kid, and still one of my favorite rock songs and albums.
The first time I tried this simulator, it looked like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrB5sQtrvA

Of course, that was not on an RTX 3090.
If you're actually curious, you won't insult the only person who can satiate your curiosity.

But, you're not "curious" in good faith. You're a verbally abusive ideologue.
Academic Values: Personality and Preference in the Ivory Tower
Obviously no one can pay attention to everything

But given that premise, should we not first do away with snippy comments like "why don't they just [..], it's not that difficult"?
When you show this to the manager, he will choose between 1) having several reports that he can easily supervise and keep busy, 2) lose some reports and instead having you become a defacto sort-of-equal in discussions about the process.

Managers hate the second option because it's a step backwards in their careers.

Managers with a stake in the business will be more reasonable.
I also think there were some companies that use gpt3 for analyzing text, like reviews or posts (for analytics like do people talk about a product in a positive matter?).

To add, github copilot is a really clever autocomplete that makes some mundane tasks much quicker. Things which are too small for a library but are still fairly often used can be "typed" more quickly.
Hopefully this should change over the next few years with both iOS and Android adding support for FIDO Passkeys.

It's not new tech, but now that two huge players have put it in the hands of millions of users, it should pick up speed.
I think you're the rude person. GP wasn't being sarcastic, they were showing you why they think that taking your notational convention to its logical conclusion, you end up with the notation we have today.
>Unfortunately without a change in government we’re not going to get those and people are seemingly more concerned about refugees arriving by dinghy than health care.

One can be concerned about both.

If we ever had a socially conservative and economically progressive government they would stay in power until they died. I mean in the US they literally had to add an amendment to make sure it didn't happen again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the...
This week Google will release the new Helpful Content algorithm update
A friend once summed it up nicely this way: "I love CCR but dude I was so bummed when I learned they weren't actually swamp people, they just wrote songs about being swamp people."

On the other hand, you don't necessarily have to see something first hand in order to be able to channel its energy into art. There are plenty of great paintings based on secondhand descriptions of events and locations. Or consider the song "Country Roads"!
What applies to music, which I consider heavenly, do not apply to every field in life. Taking loads of music without limits may be harmless, even good, but some other things, nah! You gotta Love, really Love what you do, to speed up like that. It makes no sense otherwise.
Why jump to it when simpler explanations exist?

Delays in diagnosis or no diagnosis at all is likely a more fitting explanation.
...what about friction (i.e. biological equivalent of cell repair as well as diffusion of material flow into individual cells) as an energy consumer (to mention just one blatantly missing piece in the summary). This article description of the concept is so cherry picked as for me (a lay person in biology) is utmost skeptical that this is 'model shattering'.

In fact, there is so many nature papers with solid network-based physical models explaining 'precisely' (in statistical sense) why physics fully constraints metabolic rate, its relation to total mass, heart beats, urine mass production, number of offsprings, length of circulatory system, nervous systems, etc.
Imagine you enter a bunch of raw facts, like a bullet point list; and then the tool converts it into beautiful prose, and produces different output for different audiences.
For example, see https://www.slovensko.sk/sk/na-stiahnutie

It is the portal for Slovak republic. You are supposed to have your national ID card, which is a smart card. To use it, you need a smartcard reader and an application, which basically listens on localhost and is kind of a intermediate between your browser, the pages than need authentication and the department of state, which handles IAM.

That application runs on Windows, Mac and Debian (9,10)/Ubuntu (18.04,20.04)/Mint (19.20) (it is not open source). Other distributions are not supported, forget ChromeOS.

It is quite onerous. You have to enter your PIN for smartcard about four times, before you see the content of the inbox.
PoW is magical in that these actors are strongly incentivized to secure the network. PoS is not the same.
What if it's related to vaccination?

Do other countries that implemented same the measures see the same pattern?

Do other countries which did not implement those measures are free from this problem?

Seems like relatively easy questions to answer, no?
That’s the thing that tends to keep me from getting into simulators. There’s always some suspension of disbelief involved. I never care enough about the core loop to get lost in the detail of it, so I end up picking apart the world around it.

I did however get the feeling when FS2020 came out that the line between map and territory is getting a lot fuzzier.
People are now testing Tesla's 'full self-driving' on real kids