Balgair

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by Balgair 3y ago
Rao's The Gervais Principle would argue that middle managers are essential. His interpretation of them is that they act as the carbon control rods in the nuclear reaction of capitalism. Prior to their invention, we had workers and ow
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm nearly certain that your's is the only field that does anything like re-experimentation then. I'm in biotechy fields and it's a totally different beast out here man.
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by Balgair 3y ago
For 'lay' people here on HN, I just want to make a quick point: Peer-review does not mean that the reviewer is re-doing experiments or re-running analyses. They are only reviewing to see if the paper merits inclusion in the journa
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: Can software based systems engineers please call themselves software systems engineer . I've been a 'traditional' systems engineer for many years and when searching for jobs (or with recruiters), it's always a me
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by Balgair 3y ago
I do this with family too. Our natural accent is a mix of the many places our family has lived and a fair few words that have stayed with us that most people don't use. It's ours and we love it. But I don't expect other peopl
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by Balgair 3y ago
Over the pandemic and thereafter my family has had a lot of deaths in it. So, I've been forced to think about it a lot, to sit with others over it, and to just deal with a lot of the mundane parts of it too. Death is horrible. It makes
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside: Elon's got this all wrong. The checkmarks and other pricing tiers only weed out the dupes and conmen. Traditionally, a list of people that are dumb enough to do really dumb things and that have disposable income is very valuable
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by Balgair 3y ago
If the US does default, then Biden probably will use the 14th amendment. Unfortunately for the Republicans that are trying to play brinksmanship, that will make Biden look like a hero. A huge economic disaster occurs, doesn't matter wh
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by Balgair 3y ago
Care to share some of those examples?
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Why Job Searches Suck(businessinsider.com)
6 points by Balgair 3y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
Fellow Slug here. They had grades by the time I went there and I used them for grad school applications. But, they still have the narrative evals (Please be right!). My evals were critical for my grad school applications. All the PIs that I
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by Balgair 3y ago
I love this AI cheating detection stuff. Mostly because it really gets at the root of the issues in education. Like, fine, you have made some system where cheating is impossible. Great. But have your students learned anything? If educators
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The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy(youtube.com)
2 points by Balgair 3y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
You have to pay to clap for other people : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdqrFa6pWLA (starts at ~7min mark) What brain worms do the folks at Meta have? You're just trying to get this thing off the ground and you
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by Balgair 3y ago
Ice Cube admits to just chucking D-batteries at other drivers in his younger years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Za8BtLgKv8 Maybe a carton of eggs would achieve the same message? Don't want to do what those kids in
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Elon Musk Picks NBC’s Linda Yaccarino as New Twitter CEO(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by Balgair 3y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'm sorry, Plato wasn't thinking about the effects of the written word on social issues over time and space?! The whole point of his writing all it down, the very literal foundations of ~2500 years of philosophy and the bedrock
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'll share my perspective on cheating here too, as it may be a bit unique. My HS had a huge cheating scandal erupt near the end of my senior year. The short of it was that many of our parents worked in tech and those skills were taught
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Musk's attempt to monetize Twitter has failed(boingboing.net)
9 points by Balgair 3y ago|2 comments
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AI recreation of 500 pounds of pasta in the New Jersey woods(boingboing.net)
2 points by Balgair 3y ago|2 comments
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by Balgair 3y ago
> Any "living" being that is designed by a human is inherently subhuman (not clones; that is another matter entirely). Perhaps 'abhuman' would be a better word, as the prefix of 'sub' implies lower or lesser
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by Balgair 3y ago
Aside from the very cool graphics seating arrangements, there is one super key passage: "I’ll be honest: I used to think the idea of a House of Representatives that large was crazy. But new artificial intelligence tools might actually
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Can the Capitol hold a much bigger House? Yes, here’s how it would look(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by Balgair 3y ago|1 comments
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by Balgair 4y ago
PBS Eons on YT does a good job of diving into the many and extreme phases that Earth has seen. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4&list=PLi6K9w_Ubf... Also, Darwin wrote a lot about the extreme var
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by Balgair 4y ago
I think that it's not going to be a country as much as a region: The Indian Ocean. India is set to double in population by 2100. Africa is set to quadruple, with East Africa growing a lot too. Indonesia is already very populous and wil
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by Balgair 4y ago
Yeah, I'm waiting for film makers, like Werner Hertzog, to take all the Ukraine footage to the cinema. 'Cleaning' it up to get past the artifacts and jitter and confusion to a real message. Editing all those hours of gopro wi
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by Balgair 4y ago
Related: Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old [0] is a great counterpoint to the general idea put forth here. If you've not seen it, do yourself and ANZAC Day treat and watch it this evening. It's from just before all th
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by Balgair 4y ago
I think it comes down to a 'trust thing'. Managers have to prove to their reports that they are trustworthy. Until the ICs know that the manager will actually listen, let alone do anything, without the ICs job becoming more at ris
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by Balgair 4y ago
The unique geography of the Isthmus of Perekop into Crimea actually makes it so that 31 tanks really could turn the war. At it's narrowest, it's ~4 miles wide (~120 yards per side of each tank), flat as a pancake, no cover or so m
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by Balgair 4y ago
I'll add my story to the list here: One Intro to Physics (for majors and engineering) professor was the toughest and reveled in it. The class, in general, was a weeder class, so we all knew going in that it was meant to be overly hard.

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