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ps901

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    Comment #36188418

    I don't quite see why it should be contradictory. Yes, teaching imparts already existing knowledge. But on the one hand, there are not only pure fundamental lectures, but also semi…

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    Ask HN: Is my career as an HCI researcher a dead end?

    Briefly about me: I hold a M.Sc. in Applied Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction and have been working as a junior scientist for HCI and applied AI at a German research …

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    Comment #36130753

    It might be helpful to view this from a scientific research perspective. UX research is more about how things should be done to provide a better usability for the user. Like, gener…

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    Comment #33029246

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    Comment #32916026

    China is in fact a capitalist country, despite the "Communist" in it's party's name.

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    Comment #32891613

    I once was spending large amounts of money on physical tech books, mostly on new programming languages or frameworks. However, I felt that by the time I was buying them they were a…

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    Comment #32684638

    Gotta love to be bombed by missiles made by 'girls'.

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    Comment #32395550

    Look at you, now you're the one commenting stupid.

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    Comment #32217962

    Maybe a quick look to Germany might help. The 9 Euro ticket was / is a great success on its own. However, the more important thing is that people are now actively talking alternati…

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    Comment #31723703

    I think one important prerequisite for sentience is grounding, i.e. the ability to store and retrieve information, e.g., the dialog state, knowledge of the world but also individua…

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    Comment #31723655

    To my knowledge only humans and some species of monkeys are referred to as sentient. So I imagine insects aren't, at least when applying the general definition.

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    Comment #31370232

    Then why do frozen pizzas exist in Italian supermarkets?

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    Comment #31370190

    I can't click none of the links in the footer of your slide menu, such as Imprint (Firefox and Edge testet)..

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    Comment #31202979

    In Germany we have two distinct college types: Universities of Applied Science (polytechnic) and Universities. They both offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees; however, they do dif…

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    Comment #30935157

    I use Zettlr ( https://www.zettlr.com ) for all my academic writing. It's a Markdown editor that also supports Latex and exports to various file formats including Latex PDF using p…

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    Comment #30899336

    In my opinion, the major disadvantage of visual programming environments is the inexpressibility of complex structures respectively programs. I was doing research on a VP myself an…

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    Comment #29571075

    It's always strange to see recruiters expecting developers to spend their spare time developing, contributing to open source or maybe leading a community. How would you do that, gi…

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    Comment #29339976

    I'm working mostly on HCI (human-computer-interaction) related topics and natural language, so no experience on image segmentation.

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    Comment #29321025

    I'm currently in this position. I'm a non-PhD (junior) researcher for AI and ML in Germany. I would say at least 50% of my research coworkers "only" hold a Master's and no PhD. How…