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Nice idea in theory; in practice, it might be tricky to have the organizational incentives aligned to make sure such a course is rigorous enough to be useful, rather than yet another worthless and trivial humanities requirement (at my large public research university with a strong CS program, faculty essentially compete for students based on how little work their gen ed courses are---no joke---and our required CS ethics class was similarly light).


And not just rigorous enough, but also engaging enough that even the "apolitical" students find it interesting. (The students who naturally find an ethics course interesting are the ones who will still find it useful but ultimately need it least.)


Perhaps, then, we should stop calling CS programs strong when they only specialize in churning out obedient code monkeys.


Please don't confuse the US with our government! (or, rather, with the subset of people in our government who happen to be talking at a given time---there are many levelheaded, effective people working in our government who never enter the spotlight)


I try to avoid painting with a broad brush wherever possible, but I was also trying to be sufficiently succinct. There is, of course, good to be found within the US government. Although, to an outsider, it feels like one has to look much harder to find that good now adays.


Google the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty. It makes it trivial for American entrepreneurs to move to NL


Yes.. GP is correcting _Egyptian_ to Palestinian


My networking lab class (at a top5 school) used AWS, with the reasons that it's more widely used and better documented than GCP or Azure.

Tip: You get more free credit (by like 50% iirc) if you sign up for AWS Educate via the github student developer pack than if you sign up directly


Pandoc doesn't go from PDF to anything afaik


My sister is in Tulsa and has a _very_ nice 4+2 (or maybe 3+2, idr, but it's a well-built, big house on an acre); it cost her $250k. Where I live (central Illinois, 200000 person metro area), prices are even lower.


My reference is Madison/Minneapolis where I’d respectively price a decent 3br at 250/350 in cheaper areas.


Having two objectives (eg, offense and defense) doesn't preclude sometimes making decisions that trade a setback in one of the objectives for an advance in the other.


so they’re equal, it’s just that one is more equal than the other?


> Once you have an accurate model for a lot of classes it's much easier to add new ones with just a few samples.

This is pretty cool. Do you know of any good references for stuff like this? Not sure what the right topic name would be: online learning? streaming?


This is known as transfer learning, see [0] for an approachable example.

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/examples/transfer-learni...



Transfer learning


Thanks for the replies!


I know very little about US law and even less about German law, but I think GP was referring to contracts of adhesion, which are less enforceable in the US too, afaik; even if the laws are far stronger in Germany and have different historical origins, maybe there's at least some spiritual similarity between the protections?


While it's true that contracts of adhesion are less enforceable in the US than other contracts, they're still very enforceable.

In particular, if there's some evidence that a consumer clicked a check box saying "I accept the terms of service" on a web form before submitting it, where a link to the full terms of service was offered and the check box was not checked by default, US courts will uphold far less friendly terms than German courts will.


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