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rocketflumes

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    Comment #35555887

    I love this idea in principle, but when our school ran something similar to connect grad students who didn't have the opportunity to socialize due to covid remote work, I got a fee…

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    Comment #33700940

    saw a fascinating video on this topic awhile ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CKltZfToY

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    Comment #29973972

    This series on YouTube has some fairly easy arguments on the Earth being a sphere w/o using any math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHqBy92iGM

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    Comment #24210464

    I think OP meant "teleoperation" - controlling a robot from afar

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    Comment #23372905

    On the issue of bias - I'm not confident that paid news is necessarily less biased than news that relies on clicks and ads. Two potential issues: 1) A news agency might be further …

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    Comment #21388939

    I can't comment on China and other fields, but in the US for AI and robotics, in which I do research / publish in, there is definitely a growing trend of an over-emphasis on novelt…

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    Comment #21334911

    won't big players like FB benefit from this? It seems more likely that people would port data from smaller networks to bigger ones than the other way around.

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    Comment #18748456

    data.gov is great but it seems like the most recent activities/updates were prior to 2016...

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    Comment #18322521

    A PhD is not only about solving some specific problem. It is more about learning how to solve problems, and more importantly, choosing what problems to solve. Having a PhD should m…

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    Comment #18077044

    I understand that the scope and scale of the technology transfer agreements may be unreasonable, but surely these foreign companies aren't "forced" to oblige? I'm not sure if it's …

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    Comment #17587286

    for more on that subject - check out this recent RL and OCT survey by Ben Recht, also from UC Berkeley: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09460