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There's a term on the tip of my tongue and I am hoping you all can help me out. On GitHub, or with any open-source software project more generally, when one group of developers for…

It’s rare for a large fraction of grant money to be siphoned to a Dean’s discretionary fund. Typically some smallish fraction (maybe 10%, often significantly less) of indirect cost…

Do you know what would motivate this behavior? Naively, any rent is more than zero rent, so why let a unit sit empty?

The similarity you see between this DeepMind project, the DARPA program, and research in Tenenbaum's lab is not incidental: there's a steady stream of crosstalk and cross-training …

At many universities (in the U.S. at least), on paper, it’s the technology commercialization department that makes the call about pursuing patent protection and the burden is on th…

Can you share a sample email? It’s hard to comment without seeing at least the gist of what’s being written.

Also known as automatic differentiation or autodiff.

You say each letter separately; it’s an acronym and stands for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Here’s a good resource https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... , but a financial advisor who knows your situation and is familiar with local real estate may…

I have been seeing the word "cadence" used in technical settings more and more often, usually referring to the pace or rate at which a process is executed (e.g., software releases,…

This is an excellent example of why inferring causation from an observed correlation requires great care. Note that the study did not randomly assign valedictions to emails and obs…

The parent comment says that, of all the information-finding tools that hardly anyone uses, library resources are the best, not that library resources are the best information-find…

To boost profits you need to extract more value, regardless of whether you provide more.

The word "smarter" masks some of the complexity here. If you define it as "higher performance on a task widely considered to require intelligence", then we've had computers that ar…

The criteria for winning the prize depend more on the outcome of the research (importance) than its process (originality): "The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts…

See also “The virtues of moderation”. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjolt/vol17/iss1/2/

I've had good experiences with PQ ( https://pypi.org/project/pq/ ). Any event that generates a notification triggers adds an entry to the queue. Worker processes get entries from t…

FYI, Battery Park City is part of Manhattan and was designed in the 1960s to 1980s, with the land created during excavation for the World Trade Center.

Is there a usage error in the first sentence or has English lost the blog / blog post distinction?

Whether peer review is blinded depends on the field. Some of the major ML conferences like NIPS are blinded, but in general most journals are not. The reviewers see the authors and…