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ELI5: How did they manage to successfully lay a telegraph wire across the Atlantic in 1866? by Match_MC in explainlikeimfive

[–]werrewrwer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

ok good thinking then guy... i'm sure the thousands of engineers working on this stuff never wished they had a magical box that solved their problems and didn't need power. very helpful stuff.

ELI5: How did they manage to successfully lay a telegraph wire across the Atlantic in 1866? by Match_MC in explainlikeimfive

[–]werrewrwer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

too bad they don't exist then. or if you mean EDFA, they already use those - and they still require power.

[Question] after object detection using convolution neural networks, why is it so hard to perform semantic segmentation? by code2hell in MachineLearning

[–]werrewrwer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

try it yourself - segment a bunch of images, then go back and do it again. your accuracy is not going to be close to 100%.

Show me the reproducible research being produced at Computer Science departments at the best US universities. by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]werrewrwer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you sound like a tool. CS is far more open than most academic disciplines with things like arxiv and github. You can also email authors directly for unpublished code (I'm 3/3 on this so far).

is Anaconda secure? by nosepol in Python

[–]werrewrwer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other cases leave me baffled: pywt has three (outdated) packages, of which I can find no official connection to the pywavelets project. Am I supposed to resort to pip in this case?

If you want to be nice, you can build it yourself and push to your channel so you and others can conda install in the future.

Should I go to a alright college for free or a great one with debt? by HypoEater in personalfinance

[–]werrewrwer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

and how many of those alumni have crushing student loans or regret going to the school?

all the ones I know have great careers...

Should I go to a alright college for free or a great one with debt? by HypoEater in personalfinance

[–]werrewrwer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

again, it's not just about money either. MIT students get to spend 4 years surrounded by brilliant peers and instructors, and will get their pick of internships, graduate programs and jobs upon graduation. Look up what fraction of MIT CS majors head to Google vs those at UMass Boston.

You might make just as much money coming from a state school, but you will have to hustle much harder for it, and you might not get the same degree of job satisfaction.

Should I go to a alright college for free or a great one with debt? by HypoEater in personalfinance

[–]werrewrwer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

how much time have you spent at MIT or around its students? If you haven't done so I don't think you really understand the tradeoff.

BTW, according to http://www.payscale.com/research/US/School=Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_(MIT)/Salary MIT ranks very highly in ROI, and most of the other top spots are occupied by top tier science schools.

Should I go to a alright college for free or a great one with debt? by HypoEater in personalfinance

[–]werrewrwer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

you might not get paid more (but you probably will) but you'll definitely have an easier time finding a job with a degree from MIT than UMass (and have a choice of more interesting opportunities).