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I get so many contacts from recruiters that I'm never going to follow up on almost any of them. Is salary information absolutely essential? No. But if I'm not pretty confident talk…

Thanks for this. I read the title, and my thought process was: "I agree". Then: "There's no way the study backing the article is good enough to draw meaningful conclusions. This is…

The issue I have is that when people talk about the dangers of automation they never compare them to the dangers of non-automated driving. They always make it sound as if automatio…

I feel like this angle is massively overplayed in articles about autonomous vehicles. Is automation paradox a real issue? Absolutely. But at present, all the evidence seems to indi…

> This is a cohort study conducted over 15 years. You can't really criticize it only based on those numbers You absolutely can. Scientific studies should be judged on their potenti…

This article is just fear-mongering and speculation. No facts are given to support the title, and the proposed solutions to the problem (which is never established) are vague to th…

This is the best guarantee any company ever gives. For smaller companies if something becomes too expensive or hard, they just go out of business. For larger companies, they have t…

I'd add that there's a big difference between having a non-CS degree and having no degree at all. With a non-CS degree it may be a little harder to get an interview, but if you can…

The tone of this article makes it sound like it's a bad thing that Facebook and Google won't be much affected by this law, but I don't really think it is. The reason the big player…

The title of this article is pretty misleading. There is no confirmation that the cell-site simulators disrupt emergency calls. Rather: > Harris Corporation claims that they have t…

Repeating a study if, and only if, the study failed to provide the desired result is the most basic p-hacking technique there is. If this isn't p-hacking, I don't know what is! To …

My own experience was that part of the problem was that there was no intellectual challenge. I actually suspect that if PhD programs were a little more intellectually challenging d…

> PhDs are intellectually demanding, and not everyone will be able to finish. In the US between 41 and 78% of people who start PhDs have finished them after ten years, depending on…

To be fair, input devices are a pretty serious issue here. Probably the single most common operation I do on code is search it. If I can't type what I'm searching for easily, that'…

I've had the same thought. Where is the skepticism coming from? I've noticed a lot of articles lately that talk about how far off self-driving cars are. That said the articles all …

The substance of this article can be sumarized as "I talked to a bunch of people at a convention, and some had concerns, ohh, and I wrote a book about how I'm skeptical of driverle…

I'm pretty sure the scale of the problem is large enough to make a manual approach completely and utterly impractical.

> I hope my feeling of relative safety is justified, but I'm not a security expert(?). If you want to be properly paranoid, you should consider getting a VPN. If you're not hiding …

> I wish that if they’re gonna downrank “good” pirate content then they should do the same (or worse) for the bad/malicious ones. I'm pretty confident they'd like to but it's a tri…

I'm a little dismayed that someone would be willing to make use those factors and then claim it's about the best place to work. It's so obviously off point that I can't even buy th…

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right. I've asked a dozen or so questions, of for every one of them I've gotten an answer that seems related to to the words in the question, but not i…

> It's a public standard that they're setting for themselves. I'd like to really draw attention to the "for themselves" part here. Yes, this is a public document, and of course it …

> You see, when you make any argument, you always omit the infinite number of things that don't support it and focus on the few things that do. No. When I make an argument, I try t…

> Hi, it appears that "sensationalist garbage" triggered quite a bit of a discussion. Yes. Sensationalist. > I also omitted Cruise automation and a bunch of other companies, perhap…

I've always understood the claim that deep learning scales to be a claim about deployment and use of trained models, not about training. The whole point is that you can invest (sub…