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For sure this bill exists because Google and Apple are in the position rather than Samsung and LG. Regardless, good if it makes meaningful change.

Coming from a bit different of a situation, I am at a government systems center that runs off customer funding rather than tax money, so we take clients. My group is being run shor…

She was in the Air Force a full term before she was a contractor, and the UCMJ is beat into you in the military. Also, being in an intelligence squadron stationed at Ft Meade no le…

That's a good point, though I think the time/generational factor may cause it to trend downward. My parents unhappily paid cable prices their whole life. I've never once paid for c…

I'd say there's two types of "variation" here that should be discussed separately. One is not working an average of 40 hours a week, and the other is being able to vary the times o…

Your phone still stays connected to a tower when it can unless you turn that off explicitly, else how would a call be able to come in?

I'm not sure the package problem is really a problem for beginners. Just within the last year firsthand I've seen people in undergraduate classes, in graduate classes, and at work …

I work at a government r&d/systems engineering center, and it's the same case here. The engineers who went through college with Matlab use that as their default (i.e., when the pro…

I appreciate you laying this out because it's something I have struggled with and thought I just didn't know the right way to handle it. For writing tests in a deep learning code b…

You're right, reproducibility is a problem in science, all science and not just ML (again, as you say), so I don't think that proves anything wrong with Python.

The US military way from the Vietnam War on is two metal IDs (dog tags) tied through shoelaces and around the neck. Tattoo is probably more of a surety for positive identification …

Where I work there is a bit of overlap because some projects want the dev environment to match the final environment, and Red Hat is basically the only player in the game for prod …

It depends what you mean by "easy" here, but if you define that as "throw a big enough network at it, and it'll figure it out on its own in training", the research cited shows that…

I honestly can't say I know if moving to opt-in would change police forces. I'd guess that military provisions of the GI Bill and training towards some tradecraft also help make th…

I was only in five years but saw lots of reports and made maybe half a dozen job-related (DOD order/Constitutional related offenses) and one EO-related. I'd say in general the like…

Former Marine here, and that's definitely true in this branch. I'll say though, those who think it will be better out almost always get out when they can. The limitation of those s…

My background is pure math; sorry if that wasn't clear. Even in that environment I have not seen someone use Sage over Matlab.

Graduate educational background in math here and working in software engineering and machine learning. Like your coworker said, I do my work in Python and libraries like Sympy/pand…

Given this, would you say your goal with Dexplot is to be a better Seaborn (and replace it given its dev state), basically the same usage cases but with improvements as you describ…

Thanks for this! I dropped plotly due to having projects on machines wtihout an internet connection. Have to try it again.

The argument seems to mostly boil down to this one part: "Coding books for kids present coding as a set of problems with “correct” solutions. And if your children can just master t…

In my opinion, the issue here is notation and a bit more. I did about eight years of college in math, changed paths, changed careers, changed careers again to ML/DL research, and n…

Why does this prevent that experience from happening? That's a genuine question, as I perhaps/probably don't know enough about the law to get it.

It would have been met with less scepticism and maybe some genuine concern if one of those "many" had written the article instead.

But this person is losing her "passion project", so it must not be worth the intended consequences. (/s)