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Ask HN: Term for Forking Because of a Schism?
There's a term on the tip of my tongue and I am hoping you all can help me out.On GitHub, or with any open-source software project more generally, when one group of developers forks a project because they are unhappy with its direction, it is sometimes times informally called… what? The term is generally used to describe the act of creating a new project from an existing one, due to...
Re:Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? (2020)
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:18PM (#32595936)
It’s rare for a large fraction of grant money to be siphoned to a Dean’s discretionary fund. Typically some smallish fraction (maybe 10%, often significantly less) of indirect costs (which, depending on the funder and the negotiated F&A rate may be anywhere from 0% or nearly 100% on top of the direct costs that fund the research staff and materials, etc.) goes back to the subdivision overseen by that Dean to do with as they please. Everywhere I’ve worked, that amounts to a few (low single digit) percent of total costs being used in the way you describe. And many places return none of indirects to the unit overseeing the PI and so then it’s a cool zero percent.
Re:Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
on Thursday July 14, 2022 @11:36AM (#32097423)
Do you know what would motivate this behavior? Naively, any rent is more than zero rent, so why let a unit sit empty?
Re:DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby
on Monday July 11, 2022 @09:45PM (#32064587)
The similarity you see between this DeepMind project, the DARPA program, and research in Tenenbaum's lab is not incidental: there's a steady stream of crosstalk and cross-training between machine learning researchers who engineering artificial intelligences and cognitive scientists who reverse-engineer human intelligences. (Note, for example, that Peter Battaglia, one of the co-authors of this DeepMind project, was a postdoc with Tenenbaum.)
Re:On the use of a life (2020)
on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:41AM (#31988768)
At many universities (in the U.S. at least), on paper, it’s the technology commercialization department that makes the call about pursuing patent protection and the burden is on the PI to report all potentially patentable inventions before release so that the university has time to make the determination. In the case you describe, they’d in principle find you in violation of that policy, but in practice can’t because they don’t know about it unless you tell them.
The One Million Impressions Dataset
Deep models of superficial face judgments
Shadow Banning, Astroturfing, Catfishing, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Best way for someone to reach professors to get into a PhD ...
on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:55PM (#29573559)
Can you share a sample email? It’s hard to comment without seeing at least the gist of what’s being written.
Re:Julia 1.7 Highlights
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:23PM (#29400293)
Also known as automatic differentiation or autodiff.
Re:People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own
on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:38PM (#29310018)
You say each letter separately; it’s an acronym and stands for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Re:Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to Back Home Loans of Nearly $1M as Prices ...
on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:57AM (#29241996)
Here’s a good resource https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal..., but a financial advisor who knows your situation and is familiar with local real estate may be better.
Ask HN: What is the etymology of "cadence” in technical settings?
I have been seeing the word "cadence" used in technical settings more and more often, usually referring to the pace or rate at which a process is executed (e.g., software releases, data dumps, meetings).What is the etymology/origin of this technical sense of "cadence"? (Part of me fears the answer might be Peloton…)
Re:Closing email with “thanks” gets the most replies
on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @10:18PM (#29021575)
This is an excellent example of why inferring causation from an observed correlation requires great care. Note that the study did not randomly assign valedictions to emails and observe the causal impact on response rate. Rather, they observed a correlation between the sign-off chosen and the response rate.
"Thanks" garners many responses because people use it in emails that make reasonable requests with a good chance of response.
My favorite valediction is still "I am, &c.," which is short for "I am your humble and obedient servant". Not sure whether my colleagues appreciate it as much as I do...
Re:Ask a Librarian
on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:22PM (#28897553)
The parent comment says that, of all the information-finding tools that hardly anyone uses, library resources are the best, not that library resources are the best information-finding tools; there's no contradiction between what the two of you have noticed.
Re:SpaceX hits $100B valuation after secondary share sale
on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:10PM (#28802273)
To boost profits you need to extract more value, regardless of whether you provide more.
Re:AI Is No Match for the Quirks of Human Intelligence
on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:50AM (#28747467)
The word "smarter" masks some of the complexity here. If you define it as "higher performance on a task widely considered to require intelligence", then we've had computers that are smarter than humans for at least decades. If you define it as "higher performance on every task widely considered to require intelligence", then I'll take that bet, please.
Re:Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:38AM (#28747311)
The criteria for winning the prize depend more on the outcome of the research (importance) than its process (originality):
"The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- – -/ one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine …” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)".
Re:You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation
on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:32PM (#28688685)
See also “The virtues of moderation”. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjolt/vol17/iss1/2/
Re:Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
on Sunday August 29, 2021 @11:00AM (#28347229)
I've had good experiences with PQ (https://pypi.org/project/pq/). Any event that generates a notification triggers adds an entry to the queue. Worker processes get entries from the queue. The queue is stored as another table in your database whose structure and content is managed by PQ, though you can always read/write to it if you want. PQ handles the concurrency.
Re:It's time to ban cars from Manhattan?
on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:17AM (#21172175)
FYI, Battery Park City is part of Manhattan and was designed in the 1960s to 1980s, with the land created during excavation for the World Trade Center.
Re:Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy
on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:29PM (#20340304)
Is there a usage error in the first sentence or has English lost the blog / blog post distinction?
1k CGI Doppelgangers
Re:Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting the new Nature journal
on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @03:26PM (#17182214)
Whether peer review is blinded depends on the field. Some of the major ML conferences like NIPS are blinded, but in general most journals are not. The reviewers see the authors and affiliations and the editors see everything.
Learning a face space for experiments on human identity
Visual quantitative literacy test 0.4
On doppelgängers and perception
Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement L...
on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:46PM (#15863121)
The misdirection is being used as a rhetorical device — you're supposed to feel a brief confusion when you get to the colon; it's then quickly resolved.
Re:DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment
on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:56PM (#14972443)
Calling a group of women "you guys" is different from calling a person of unknown gender "guy" because in the former case the gender-neutral usage is the only possible interpretation, whereas in the latter it might either be gender-neutral usage or an assumption of the commenter's gender. Given that this ambiguity is nearly always a distraction from the primary purpose of the conversation (as it is here), rightfully or not, pragmatically it is better to use terms that steer clear of it. See Bryan Garner's Modern English Usage for fuller advice on safely navigating this linguistic and sociocultural terrain.