bjornlouser

"My girlfriend and I like to guess where other tourists we see on the streets are from..."

This is part of why some people don't get out more... the creepy people watchers.

Maybe someone in the near future will create an analog to the first person shooter, a first person labeler, that will keep some of these folks on the couch.

Exactly. It's a trick interview question since the minute you deliver this report on 'Loyal Customers' someone will want to increase the complexity of the 'unique' page visitation constraint to include information that will never be available in the log file.

had to look that one up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/32x2ml/what_does_м...

"Scientists at Klick Applied Sciences in Canada, working with faculty at Ontario Tech University in Canada, trained the AI using 267 voice recordings from people living in India.

Roughly 72 per cent of the participants (79 women and 113 men) had already been diagnosed as nondiabetic. The other participants (18 women and 57 men) had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

All participants recorded a phrase six times per day for two weeks, resulting in a total of 18,000 recordings. The scientists then pinpointed 14 acoustic differences between those with and without type 2 diabetes."

Why strike when you can sabotage? Can't they accept crypto anonymously and use those funds to publicize their demands while crippling the company from within?

EDIT: the sabotage may already be happening... the NYT iPad seems extremely slow and buggy.

In my experience the probability of dog poop getting scooped by the owner goes down if the dog is off leash.

I wonder if he is holding that umbrella to aid the model in recovering the 3d scene/scale from the reference images.

"Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is 'noctalgia'"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14685

"Please don’t even get me started on the college grads who brought their parents with them to the interview, or, worse, had their folks follow up with me. I wish I was kidding."

What happens when a candidate shows up with their parents? Is it a 15 minute and show them the door, or do you assume you are being recorded and tread carefully?

It might prove difficult if Chris has been at IBM for over 20 years.

"'Growing as an engineer' means becoming a better engineer, and becoming a better engineer (directly or indirectly) means getting better at using your skills to create business value."

Learning how the Excel model worked and then reimplementing it would have been a better example of 'getting better at using your skills to create business value'.

If there was a supplement you could feed your cat that allowed it to speak a few words like a parrot there would also be endless chatter about the use of that product. It’s amazing.

‘Meh. Let me know when your cat can recite T.S. Eliot’

> This person, imo, deeply does not understand what is happening in these situations.

"... But all of the older relatives insisted we did not, suggesting that instead we see the sights in San Diego, that we take the kids to Sea World ..."

I think you're right. Her relatives were hoping she would guess that they didn't want her to bring the kids.

"The APIs that developers will have to justify do things like see file timestamps or look at system boot times, among others. In Apple's words, these apps can be 'misused to access device signals to try to identify the device or user, also known as device fingerprinting.'"

From Story 77:

"... Here is a good subject for an argument or debate: Are we any happier with all these inventions than people were a thousand years ago without them?

Life is faster and more exciting; but it is more difficult and more dangerous. Instead of enjoying a book curled up in the corner of a sofa by a crackling fire, we leave a steam radiator and go out to the movies. Instead of singing or playing the violin, we turn on the graphophone or the player-piano and miss the chief joy in music, the joy of making it ourselves. Instead of the jogging drive in an old buggy behind a horse that goes along through the country-side almost by himself, we speed on in dangerous autos, to which we must pay constant, undivided attention or be wrecked..."

from the article: https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/278437235

"... The overall market range for roles in this area of Netflix is typically $300,000 - $900,000.

This market range is based on total compensation (vs. only base salary), which is in line with our compensation philosophy..."

The icon they designed for the 'Adversarial examples' category gave me a chuckle

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

Mentioned in a comment of that MO question is Thurston's "On proof and progress in mathematics" https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9404236

At first you might be scared to trust your gut for lack of experience.

Soon after, you may be afraid to embrace your newly developed intuition about baby’s needs out of respect for traditional parenting roles.

Then there will be something else… there will always be something you find to worry about, most of which won’t matter at all.

Ah yes, because people won't pay for software that has a few bugs.

I think this is marketing for the app 'Little Musician'

They used a technique for water segmentation described in an earlier paper [1]. The validation dataset for that method goes back to 1992...

"All applied images have 30-m spatial resolution and were acquired during October 1, 1992 to October 31, 2018. The period was set with regard to the availability of the validation dataset"

[1] Yao, J. Wang, C. Wang, J.-F. Crétaux, Constructing long-term high-frequency time series of global lake and reservoir areas using Landsat imagery. Remote Sens. Environ.232, 111210 (2019).

"But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and [ignore ChatGPT]. The purpose of this article is not to change anyone's mind, but to reassure people already interested in [unassisted writing] -- people who know that [writing in isolation] is powerful, but worry because it isn't widely used. In a competitive situation, that's an advantage." -- slightly modified PG drivel on Lisp http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Netflix could add a qrcode that updates a few times a second above the scrub bar so that external apps could sync their audio...

"As you go through life, take time to monetize the roses."

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/issue-cartoons/cartoons-s...

"ultrasonic sounds can affect human perception. It is just not perceptible via the exact same mechanism..."

talk about unconvincing

The main difference (to my untrained ear) is usually interpretation of tempo

Take Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata Op. 19, 2nd movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT9qe_euX8g (Sheku & Isata)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZwD-Jq554 (Ax & Yo Yo Ma)

You have a different relationship with depressed clients than depressed coworkers and mangers.

From the NYTimes reference in that wikipedia article:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/01/science/0401-...

"Many of the numbers that measure the performance of hitters, pitchers and fielders are familiar to every fan. But now attention is being turned to a genus of baseball creature rarely examined through statistics: the manager, who sets the lineups, calls for hit-and-runs and otherwise turns the cranks of in-game strategy.

Aside from won-lost records, few metrics quantify what these men actually do and the tendencies they exhibit. But an associate professor of statistics at Swarthmore College is trying to set that right, quite literally putting a face on managerial performance.

The mathematician, Steve C. Wang, applied a method called Chernoff faces, in which data points in many dimensions are presented in a form that people react to more intuitively: the human face."

"Unfortunately, this interpretation completely misses the random forest for the decision trees."

Nice one Andrej!