tlibert | 5 years ago | on: MacBook and iPad production delayed as supply crunch hits Apple
If politicians are incentivized to protect jobs that’s a good thing, no?
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tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
Next stop: telepathy.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up
“Sold as” != “proven as”
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
Arthur C Clark has addressed this general point in his first law:
“ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
Yeah, those morons at NASA'S Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory sure have no idea what is a good use of their time.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
To pseudo-quote quote Clay Shirky: nothing will work, everything might.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
Correct, apologies for being cryptic.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
Well, the weavers did fight back on their own behalf.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
Clearly one of us has more faith in automation.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
We all can eventually be replaced and should be careful what precedents we establish now. “First they came for the warehouse workers...”
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy
Got locked out of Amazon account weeks ago, requires a phone call to fix. That tiny bit of friction has gotten me off my last few Amazon purchases and I’m grateful for it.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan
They’ve had nukes for a while, unfortunately this could be viewed as the patient approach.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: U.S. fears China attack on Taiwan
Electoral results speak conclusively to their relatively small numbers.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: A professor declined a $60K research award from Google
Lots of luck in academia, he’s taking a risk at assistant level.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: A professor declined a $60K research award from Google
Money is to fund research, not personal use. Job security highly dependent on bringing in grants.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web
So out law web scrapping entirely?
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
I’ve had several such burritos when I lived in NYC.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
Real Solutions (tm) are indeed nice, but hackers get shit done - this is an utterly shameless hack, and I do it myself.
tlibert | 5 years ago | on: Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures
Faculty member at a top-tier CS school. For most of the faculty where I am, an hourly consulting fee in the range of $500-1000 is reasonable. If you take the low-end of that range ($500) x 3 hours of class time per week ($1500) x 12 weeks of class you get $18,000 worth of expert time. Multiply that by three classes and you get $54k of value each semester, so even with non-trivial tuition it is still a pretty good deal. Likewise, FAANG et al recruit very heavily from our school so there is additional value-add.
I personally came from modest means and have a ton of outstanding student debt and was hesitant to go the faculty route precisely because I think the higher education in the US can be financially exploitative, but there are places where the high tuition is in fact a bargain based on market rates for the expertise. Likewise, nearly all faculty at top-tier CS schools can make way more in the private sector - we do this job because we really enjoy mentoring and work hard to make sure our students get the best education possible.
tlibert | 6 years ago | on: This Article Is Spying on You
They initially approached me and I pitched an idea I thought they'd reject out of hand (an op-ed about tracking on the page you're reading). I thought they wouldn't get back to me after that, but they did, and they were wonderful to work with.
Otherwise, I don't think process has changed, it's mainly about personal contacts, being accessible, and taking the time to talk to people and explain the tech in a way the target audience understands. My rule is if a journalist doesn't understand my research it's because I'm not explaining it the right way. I get annoyed when academics complain journalists get their work wrong without making an effort to actually talk to any.
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