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This makes sense. It's a "The way to Tara is via Holyhead" kind of thing.

Look -- as long as "data scientist" is a sexy job title, a lot of different jobs are going to claim they fall under that umbrella. I have an applied math background, and I'm fine w…

First, most poor people still don't live in projects. Second, I don't know if degradation matters more than material possessions.

I'm kind of the villain of this piece -- a relatively novice coder who expects to apply for programming-heavy jobs in the future. Here's why I think I'm not actually a villain: 1. …

There's a difference between optimizing for current conditions, and changing future conditions. Optimizing for current conditions: right now, a lot of the best job applicants have …

Secret I believe to be true: A good deal of experimental research is a cartel on resources and data. The "open access" movement in biology is not what programmers would think of as…

I think people should seriously consider that not all women want children. Women aren't idiots. We think about the tradeoffs.

Violence against women and violence against men are different. Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes, and especially more likely to be attacked by strangers. Viol…

I don't think "snake oil" is the right paradigm here. In ML/AI, lots of honest researchers are wrong; being a scientist who's wrong doesn't make you a criminal. That said: Hawkins'…

Read the paper; HTM's don't seem to do better than other object recognition algorithms at recognizing shapes, especially because there are visual properties it ignores (curvature, …

How much of this will work on a Mac?

Systems are your friends. 1. Track the things you want to accomplish. Joe's Goals is good for that. If your problem is working enough hours a day, track hours. 2. To-Do lists. I us…

The lowest stress, highest paying per hour job I can think of is tutoring high school students. $50 an hour is normal, $100 is possible in affluent neighborhoods if you have a good…

I don't have personal experience on this, but my take is that leaving school is a risk. Exceptional people can sometimes take career risks and win. The rest of us should avoid them…

I think the prevailing mood among people who think of themselves as "business people" is nowhere near risk-averse enough.

This is an example of something I've been wondering about for years. We have cryptography and cryptanalysis. But while we have machine learning, we don't really have an established…

Oh, I think so too. For a while that was what I wanted to work on, except that I figured Whitetruffle were too good to compete with. One critical part of a business like that is co…

The bottom line: go to school. I'm well aware of the drawbacks of academic science. I'm aware that some of the best progress happens outside of academia. It's not about that; it's …

http://www.knewton.com/ , education platform.

www.whitetruffle.com is the best I've found so far. It matches based on skills and a few other attributes (like location and whether you have a US visa.) I've talked to them, since…

Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying to get into that business myself, and it's good to know where the remaining gaps in my knowledge are. (For me it's the "logistics" part.)

Honestly, I think introductory courses are useful. This looks like a good program, and focused on getting you to the point where you can build something simple. At the risk of (gas…

Not in that case. I think it's really algebra that looks very different after the 50's.

BTW, I'm a she, and yes, that was my point.

I probably phrased it too strongly, but I'm legitimately confused. Something seems...unsettlingly short-term here. I shouldn't have called it a "Ponzi scheme." But perhaps "specula…