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My understanding: 1 = "do all of you have a ride (perhaps shared)?" 2 = "do each of you have your own ride?" So if Bob, Jim, and Jane are all riding in Bob's car then "y'all have a…

> maximizing prediction accuracy is inherently unbiased This assumes that you're actually maximizing prediction accuracy, rather than taking the easiest route toward sufficiently h…

> I'm not sure that neural network based AI can do that though. Generating human-readable explanations from a machine learning algorithm or NN is probably an impossible problem to …

Definitely.

Misaligned incentives combined with poor oversight/training? I can't imagine this is actually a recruiting pitch that's enshrined in company policy.

WRT CS, my comment was meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive. FWIW I agree with you, but what I said is largely true of CS curriculum in the US. I'm not sure whether I agree wi…

That largely depends on the depth of the engagement. Reading Das Kapital should be an exercise in critical thinking, regardless of one's political persuasion. For example, where in…

Economics is also the source and home of some of the most bullshit-prone theories and explanations. That's why I ultimately dropped my Economics major. It's full of people that got…

Scientists may lack resources and proper incentives, but it's pretty bold to claim that they lack the ability to propose new testable/semi-testable theories...

It's really useful to distinguish technical fields from engineering and especially natural sciences fields once you get past K12. STEM is not actually a very coherent grouping. Alm…

On the contrary, the answer to such a question perfectly illustrates the sort of critical thinking that is taught in a history degree program but not necessarily in a technicaly de…

Technical fields -- especially those closer to technology than to natural science -- can also be extraordinarily ideological. Both in curriculum and (especially!) in culture. For a…

> I find this true today as well. It has literally always been true, since the very beginning of the country.

> "brilliant computer scientist" or "will cure cancer," These are already covered by eb-2 anyways.

No, because as a nation we are actively investing in each funded Ph.D. we train. If we have too many PhD's then we should decrease the number of PhD's the federal government funds.…

> In many thousands of cases, you are also wrong about buying the degree: research grants to universities fund those students' tuition and stipends, in exchange for good work. I th…

> So? So, the point of these programs isn't citizen enrichment. The point is job training. Consider: philosophy is also intellectually demanding, but I don't see "Philosophy for Al…

Most important reason: a lot of potential reviewers wouldn't like that model for a variety of reasons. Reviewing, generally, isn't prestigious or well-rewarded. So potential review…

There's a difference between losing engineering talent and not being able to get engineering talent.

> we should fine Boeing because their planes aided in 7/11 Those gas station corn dogs are a crime against humanity but a fine seems excessive.

> If you discount all the hypothetical environmental costs that at best guess are just that, guesses That VW's behavior caused some environmental impact is not a guess. The guess i…

Meh. Terms of art will always borrow and re-define colloquial language. Do programmers aspire to 1984 because they re-appropriate the word functional? Defining an explicit list of …

Ostensibly facial ticks or whatever. Actually country of origin and maybe skin color / attire. That's the function of pseudo-science bullshit -- you can ignore civil liberties and …

The term "terrorist" doesn't have a single fixed meaning. It's context-dependent. Pretending it's not context-dependent willfully misinterprets the speaker. A lot of words function…

Could you link to something that verifies your claim? I don't know German well enough to find something on my own (sorry).