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Also, this? https://twitter.com/SamiraEKahou/status/940085885101412352 I don't get why anyone but the wife herself should be offended by this.

It's silly you're getting downvoted for this well-articulated and insightful comment. I think much of the negativity towards DS from the programming community is because the Data S…

I never saw it that way before -- but as someone who found programming in their early teenage years too, this sounds very familiar. I still feel a sense of excitement when I learn …

Analyzing data and deriving meaning from it is exactly what we, in science, mean by discovering something. Though from what I've gathered in recent discussions about Nobel prizes, …

Not really, see e.g. the 2012-2013 financial crisis in Cyprus, there was no "army" to enforce that people got all their money back... [1] The only thing that keeps the system worki…

>> It is only worth something because other people say it is worth something That is actually the very definition of most currencies currently in use [1]. Money is actually just a …

>> others will do just a monkey job using magical APIs. Isn't that what most of modern software development is like already? Many common use cases have been implemented in framewor…

Creating features has not been automated by Deep Learning at all. Even for image recognition tasks, where your "features" are simply the pixels of an image, there's still lots of p…

> annoyingly out of place Agree. I can't take an article seriously when the author is too lazy to type out Facebook.

https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/stop_en

I live on ~30% of my income, which I would consider a modest "upper entry level developer" in my country. I don't feel like I sacrifice anything, though it is true that I'm lucky t…

> Even the calmer takes on this are anthromorphizing the machines too much and attributing intelligence to the complete lack thereof. Exactly. I haven't read the details of the imp…

Would it implode if the conjecture was disproved?

On the other hand I think it's quite strange that a talented entrepreneur and a physicist, among others, are considered as a source of expertise in a field they have nothing to do …

Somewhat related: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/artificial...

Not sure how to feel about this; but I also don't consider myself a women who suffers heavily under period symptoms. If I feel bad enough that I can't do my work properly, I would …