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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I remember the first time someone pointed out this lack of bug splatter to me and I was a bit scared about humanity's fate, but then someone else pointed out that our cars are a LOT more aerodynamic now. Not sure which side to land on
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
Publishing a record of rejections and reasons is a very interesting idea! I will be adding that to my "deserves more thought" pile!
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
Arxiv will accept a rendered pdf, no source files required. Are any special features unlocked if source files are uploaded?
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I have come to realize that when we do a peer review for Journal X, all we are really doing is protecting the journal's reputation by helping weed out substandard papers. There seems to be a belief that the peer review process is like
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
This math is not adding up for me...isn't import warp necessary? So you only 6 more characters to write as wp. And anyway, to me savings in cognitive load later when I'm in the flow of coding is worth it.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
People seem to like watching what other humans are capable of. AI can play X better than humans (where X = chess, go, tic-tac-toe, ...), yet we still prefer to watch human vs human. I think the same will happen with music too. We'll ha
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
The problem with the "supply and demand" argument in this case is that the demand for apartments is essentially infinite. People absolutely NEED a place live, so it's not just a normal, rational transaction. Companies know
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I am quite surprized how few people are proposing to make art or music. Is this why artists/musicians can't make money, because so few people enjoy it? I always thought it was the digitization and easy access that allowed us to en
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
Quarto FTW! I uses pandoc to translate between formats, is almost effortless to use, and seems to be growing very fast.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately, and come to the same conclusion as the quoted Eugenie Reich: “It’s not a mystery or pathology why somebody who’s under pressure in their work might misstate things to their supervisor”.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I too always got the impression that 'cancellations' were spearheaded by young, leftists. Not sure where gender comes in to play though.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
Nobody seems to be talking about the fact that the AI behind self-driving is trained on real driver behavior...but real drivers are pretty terrible! The fact that your car hugs the right side of the road is because that's what real dr
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
This is a really interesting idea! Wow. I love when I hear something that totally filps my worldview. Sensor fusion and enough AI could almost certainly do this.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
I am so happy that the author of this piece clearly states, right up front, that ElMu did not actually found Tesla! The marketing aimed to perpetuate this misunderstanding has always irked me...and led the entire world to believe stupid th
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
For sure. I also find I have to update my rubric to give more/less part marks, which also requires going back. It takes about 10-15 papers grades before things settle down.
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by 2cynykyl 2y ago
This is a great idea! Next time I mark a stack of exams I will also note the time of day that the mark was entered. I can then cross-reference this with how long I have been sitting between breaks, since my last meal, etc, etc. Unfortuna
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Too few nerds are willing to admit this. I use git all-day-long, but need to check stackoverflow to use the command line for anything more complicated than switching branches...and I'm ok with that. I save my brain space for more use
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Between laughing, then forgetting how to breath, then laughing at that, I nearly passed out. Thanks!
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
You missed a great opportunity to hide a cheat right in the title! "The *Best Python Cheat Sheet"
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Do you think that maybe your dire world view might be caused by force feeding yourself a steady stream of rage bait articles while you are supposedly "escaping" reality?
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
There is absolutely no way a dentist is going to apply a treatment that is essentially certain to put them out of business. This is a crazy as a software engineer developing a tool that writes code...oh wait.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
This! I'm actually amazed how rarely it gets brought up, even among my techsavy friends. It literally seems like a perfect win-win for everyone...except ad companies. Queue conspiracy theory: they were clearly the ones that coined t
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
This is exactly what an AI pretending to be human would say!
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Another way to look at the problem of LLM-generated garbage papers is that it doesn't actually change anything, because serious researchers in a given field already didn't trust work coming from unknown labs in shady journals. Res
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
You just doxxed yourself as Dan Ariely :-)
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
There is a general feeling in STEM that when someone's presentation is a bit too slick looking they actually undermine their message and raise suspicions about their motives...like people start to feel like they are hiding something.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Does 13,000 stars on github count?! Seems like a lot to me, can't believe I've never heard of it.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
Same here, been about a month. And it really locks up, though it does a good job of reopening all my tabs.
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
I had a bit of a eureka on this subject this afternoon: when looking at scientific fraud and who to blame, we (as a society) tend to focus on who stands to gain if the fraud is successful, but instead we should look at who stands to lose th
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by 2cynykyl 3y ago
> you are just as responsible as the first author for errors or fraudulent research I know what you're trying to say, but I think you're making it too black-and-white. There are two nuances I'd like to point out: Firstly t

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