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If they started an ML company that applied for grants and failed to supply the required information, it would be acceptable to inquire about their expertise.

Academic experience does not equal Industry experience.

They are equally-weighted opposites.

If you cannot see that, you are the problem.

Came here to say this. Kudos to the author.

day 1

"Order by text, because the web is old fashioned... but carry around several napkins all day!" is hilarious.

Good luck. Sincerely.

shhh. it will hear you.

100%.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Undergrad pen-test homework assignment that someone paid actual money for. Most people got C- or worse, one guy got maybe a B-.

The "reports" are absolutely hilarious. Even better, the blog post "analysis" is worse than the pen-test reports.

It reads as unintentional satire.

Person with a software-hammer tries to hit the nail of basic psychology, motivation, and happiness. Misses.

Shame on me for reading it though.

For sure.

I guess the new definition is "somebody can technically purchase for this price, even if it is 1 out of a million, and requires a blood sacrifice".

I am not a marketer, but I assume that is the definition they are using.

This isn't cool, but....

Every slide that has a price has the keyword "From" right before it.

"... one implied assumption at the foundation: people absorb knowledge by reading sentences....as we’ll see, it’s quite mistaken."

Delicious irony. Tell me about this in your text-only blog post.

It isn't abstract art if it is generated from a deep net.

The emotion and intentional abstraction of imagery no longer exists.

However, a deep net can absolutely generate more literal artworks, such as portraits, scenery, etc..

Certainly fits the qualifications of the post. Judgement aside.

This sounds exactly like Twitter, and many email newsletters.

Tip in cash.

This is assuming that the stated 74% number is true. Fool me once...

A similar book, used in a few grad-level courses on software defined radio. It includes a good amount of MATLAB snippets and exercises to highlight the math.

Software Receiver Design: Build your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_Receiver_Desig...

I see where you are coming from. Perhaps my original wording didn't do justice to my thought process.

I agree with your take about STEM majors being pushed due to both ROI potential and/or market demand for skills. I also agree that this is an unhealthy approach to education. However, I don't see this changing. I see it as the fundamental motivator of education for many people. Likely, the people to which I am referring are not readers of this site, who are of the highest skills in their respective fields (most likely technical).

I am interested in your opinion that "university does a decent job of making people credentialize in generally important concepts" but then following with your personal interest (later realized) in an education based on (and in) philosophy.

I think this actually reinforces my point, because the motivator is the credential, or some creditable skillset. This is the economic utility motivator I was referring to, rather than a more abstract education in philosophy or other arts. The skills gained from these more abstract educations are not as highly valued by their economic potential, however they could actually be more beneficial to both the person and society as a whole.

I agree that 'education' is critically important.

But it is important to clarify: education in what is important.

I think there is massive difficulty in forming any sort of consensus approach to define a proper baseline of 'education' that works for everyone. Our school systems are frankly not designed for it, and it seems a utopian ideal that they may be 'corrected' to do so. Considering the diversity of motivators and systems/tactics used for schooling across cities/counties/states and the content that is covered/ignored, is it realistic to attempt to measure a 'baseline of education'?

To me it comes down to structuring a better formal definition of 'education' at a societal level. Economic utility is the obvious motivator in today's society, which pumps up many fields of 'education', but hinders the perceived importance of other fields. Some forms or fields of education that are not covered in our modern schooling systems may actually improve the education baseline, and vice versa with some content currently covered.

Alan Watts - The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - The Wisdom of Insecurity - Psychotherapy East & West

Herman Hesse - Siddhartha - The Journey to the East

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Seneca - Letters to Lucilius

Daniel Quinn - Ishmael

The management community at the apartment complex I live in (Wash. DC) has issued notices to all residents about parking bikes/scooters physically on their property. The main point being to avoid blocking ingress and egress points into the buildings themselves, but also gives the private property owner a way to force the problem onto the City.

This leads to large groups of bikes all colocated on the nearest sidewalk, safely in the public domain. From a practical standpoint this is an issue when the sidewalk gets fully blocked, although it is not an everyday situation.

it is quite ironic, considering the topic of the post

Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan

The Book: on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

The Limits to Growth - Donella Meadows

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

Donella* Meadows is the author of #3

Great primer for folks unfamiliar with systems engineering.

Up front, cool app. I really like this idea as a means of quick storage.

Not sure about the grocery list use case. You have already input your items and they are still visible in your message conversation with Nina, making the response back from Nina redundant in nature.

I tend to email myself article URLs from my phone to my laptop, so I think I will try using Nina for that.

I generally think this is a good way to openly share advanced research results and engineered technologies with the goal of implementation in mind. It makes some very cool technologies and information available and actionable to more people. I think that alone is positive.

But you are right, nothing can go unbounded.

Let us hope commercial success won't change the motivations of the organization...