The reason these posts aren't being filled is that they're almost exclusively looking for AI researchers with postgraduate degrees. Admittedly, knowing the underlying math is incredibly useful if you're focusing on the core functionality of a library or trying to eke out that last bit of precision, but for a ton of applications, having some number sense and an understanding of core statistical/linear algebra principles is more than sufficient (i.e. you don't have to know how to solve by hand, just have an idea of what the numbers are supposed to look like and be able to tell when something's not right). You don't need a postgrad degree to do this, or even a Bachelor's (though you might have trouble convincing a company of this since they seem to be looking for PhDs). I expect that as need increases and more people of varying levels of education start messing with ML for their own projects, the system will move towards certifications, analogous to the cybersecurity industry.

/s Now that that's out of the way, PHP is probably one of the great democratizing influences on the internet. Should it have been designed with security in mind from the get-go? Yes. Is it inherently bad? No, and there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with it. I think a more restrictive default configuration would go a long way (and also help to discourage poor coding practices), and a lot of issues have been addressed in the newer 7.x versions. There's probably good money to be made in converting PHP 5.x sites, and in most cases, it'll be an easier job than rewriting the whole site from scratch in {javascript flavor of the month} or .NET, not to mention probably more affordable to small businesses.

What's the point of having an oppressed populace if you can't monetize their clicks?

Good point. Slashdot needs to go all bumpstops, all the time. Lets cut out the silly news aggregation aspect of it and turn it into a single-topic soapbox, as it was originally intended to be.

Don't ask me. I'm still bitter they shut down my Basis Peak. Yet another awesome thing that Intel decided to pull the plug on after buying and dabbling with it for a little bit.

Something Something Network Investment. Something Something Title II. It's pretty hard to claim that you WANT to invest in infrastructure when you're suing to breach a contract that said you'd invest in infrastructure.

aww crap someone beat me to it

I believe the appropriate phrase is "Yo Dawg"

Are they ok with automatically generated and mailed reports, or do they expect you to manually predigest the information and draw conclusions for them (with pretty colors and maybe a cute animal picture at the bottom)? The first is a perfectly acceptable and legitimate request, the second, while extremely common, is not.

For large swathes of developing and 2nd world countries where street vendors loudly hawk their wares, There's a mindset SPAM is not quite the nuisance that we consider it to be here (we have much more subtle ways to get our advertising in your face after all). Many newer and even established businesses don't understand why their email gets blocked when they send out to contacts that didn't sign up to receive emails. After all, they've got a great thing and they want everyone to know about it, and they consider it more of a nuisance when their "perfectly legitimate unsolicited email" gets blocked. Dubai is most definitely NOT a 2nd world country (at least if you're a native) but recruits a lot of its laborers and even lower paying white collar jobs from countries that are less well off.

Funny, a lot of the caliphates in the history books largely thrived because they encouraged math and social sciences, not to mention chemisty and physics.

The major problem with online learning is that 99% of them are lectures. Even when I was in school, I'd just read the textbook during lectures; I learn better from textbooks than I do from lecture videos, and we all know how dry textbooks are. Now something interactive and engaging? That would be fun. Even break the material into bite-sized text chunks, or maybe infographics, with regular quizzes, and it would be better than the current "stare at a video of a guy lecturing for an hour".