It wasn't really primarily about the generals. It was mostly about the captains (who are YOUNG) and soliders. It was the movies, not the books, that made LOTR a powerful tool for DoD. They didn't just know about it. It…
>> At the very least, tax payers need to stop bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors who scoff at their teaching assignments.…
If this is true then the universities will win the grants anyways, so why not adopt my proposal? (It's not, especially for disciplines like CS and math.)
In CS this is just false. Nearly all of the CS research we fund could be done in inexpensive office space with no administrators. The one exception is DARPA-funded robotics research, and even then it's only a subset. In…
1. He predicts "signs of life" by 2030, which is a (probably intentionally) vague statement. 2. He raised $20MM for an AI startup, which is fine and well but also makes him not entirely disincentivized from hype. 3. I…
There has been a real shift in the culture of academia over the last 10-15 years that coincides with what I'm starting to call "the rise of the Twitter Prof". The twitter thing is both literal and also a stand-in for…
> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed? For Computer Science: 1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most senior, gets their own N year funding. 2.…
Discord servers.
I agree. There are two different sets: 1. Actual deep learning researchers, actively doing research. I rarely hear nonsense about impending AGI or mass technological unemployment from these folks. They might express…
It's only your investments that are failing (assuming you are a US taxpayer). The servicers are paid to service; they don't own the instrument. You own the actual debt. Think of it as a particularly regressive tax --…
I've spent a lot of time with working for or closely interfacing with a half dozen academic institutions. I left academia by choice -- with multiple TT offers in hand -- so this isn't sour grapes. I am highly confident…
> The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC. I'm generally nauseated when I interact with American CS academics. Every time I attend a conference,…
Two confounding factors: 1. billed hours in the trades don't include travel to or from the worksite; if the plumber is 30 minutes from you and the job takes an hour, they're already down to $75/hr. 2. software…
Universities that offer doctoral degrees and have "Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Specifically, the 130 or so institutions listed here:…
I don't buy the attention filter argument. No one -- and I really do mean no one -- is going to read the entire contents of the proceedings of even just one of these conferences. NeurIPS -- a single CS conference -- is…
1. There isn't as much of a difference here as you think. Contractors do turn around and use components developed in public contracts for other consulting projects. Most commonly with other sovereigns, especially when…
It's the other way around -- academic R&D is just about the only type of government spending for which there's wide-spread support for openness and a lack of entrenched power against openness. The USG spent $6B on cloud…
User tracking and/or personalization tick 2-3 of your 4 boxes: UI - Logging mouse movement, keyboard events, and other types of attention proxies. Webhooks and/or Bottlenecks - calling out to either internal or third…
> But, yes, finally! I wonder why it took so long for someone to use these kinds of models to do the obvious. Conjecture: most of the people with $15K home rigs and the know-how to do this also have a lot of earning…
Totally agreed. Petite landlordism is causing is a LOT of economic damage to Gen Z and even younger millenials. It's a much larger problem than REITs, IMO.
> how’s Google Reader treating you? Are you able to control your Facebook or Instagram experience? LOL you started by asking me if I know what BFT even is and now you're going on a rant about totally unrelated things.…
That's marketing.
It wasn't really primarily about the generals. It was mostly about the captains (who are YOUNG) and soliders. It was the movies, not the books, that made LOTR a powerful tool for DoD. They didn't just know about it. It…
>> At the very least, tax payers need to stop bailing out student loan debt while simultaneously funding multiple annual week-long conferences in Hawaii and Europe for professors who scoff at their teaching assignments.…
If this is true then the universities will win the grants anyways, so why not adopt my proposal? (It's not, especially for disciplines like CS and math.)
In CS this is just false. Nearly all of the CS research we fund could be done in inexpensive office space with no administrators. The one exception is DARPA-funded robotics research, and even then it's only a subset. In…
1. He predicts "signs of life" by 2030, which is a (probably intentionally) vague statement. 2. He raised $20MM for an AI startup, which is fine and well but also makes him not entirely disincentivized from hype. 3. I…
There has been a real shift in the culture of academia over the last 10-15 years that coincides with what I'm starting to call "the rise of the Twitter Prof". The twitter thing is both literal and also a stand-in for…
> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed? For Computer Science: 1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most senior, gets their own N year funding. 2.…
Discord servers.
I agree. There are two different sets: 1. Actual deep learning researchers, actively doing research. I rarely hear nonsense about impending AGI or mass technological unemployment from these folks. They might express…
It's only your investments that are failing (assuming you are a US taxpayer). The servicers are paid to service; they don't own the instrument. You own the actual debt. Think of it as a particularly regressive tax --…
I've spent a lot of time with working for or closely interfacing with a half dozen academic institutions. I left academia by choice -- with multiple TT offers in hand -- so this isn't sour grapes. I am highly confident…
> The "cream" rising to the top is often less genius and more politically savvy with the right connections on the PC. I'm generally nauseated when I interact with American CS academics. Every time I attend a conference,…
Two confounding factors: 1. billed hours in the trades don't include travel to or from the worksite; if the plumber is 30 minutes from you and the job takes an hour, they're already down to $75/hr. 2. software…
Universities that offer doctoral degrees and have "Very High Research Activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Specifically, the 130 or so institutions listed here:…
I don't buy the attention filter argument. No one -- and I really do mean no one -- is going to read the entire contents of the proceedings of even just one of these conferences. NeurIPS -- a single CS conference -- is…
1. There isn't as much of a difference here as you think. Contractors do turn around and use components developed in public contracts for other consulting projects. Most commonly with other sovereigns, especially when…
It's the other way around -- academic R&D is just about the only type of government spending for which there's wide-spread support for openness and a lack of entrenched power against openness. The USG spent $6B on cloud…
User tracking and/or personalization tick 2-3 of your 4 boxes: UI - Logging mouse movement, keyboard events, and other types of attention proxies. Webhooks and/or Bottlenecks - calling out to either internal or third…
> But, yes, finally! I wonder why it took so long for someone to use these kinds of models to do the obvious. Conjecture: most of the people with $15K home rigs and the know-how to do this also have a lot of earning…
Totally agreed. Petite landlordism is causing is a LOT of economic damage to Gen Z and even younger millenials. It's a much larger problem than REITs, IMO.
> how’s Google Reader treating you? Are you able to control your Facebook or Instagram experience? LOL you started by asking me if I know what BFT even is and now you're going on a rant about totally unrelated things.…
That's marketing.