EA-3167

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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Absolutely. Engineering is defined by it learning from history, it's an art build up from thousands of years of human attempts to alter the world around them. In a modern sense engineers inevitably require a certain amount of schooling
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I think it's telling that "Researchers cost more than any other aspect of research" seems to involve primarily math as inputs and outputs. Like I said the obvious outlier is theoretical physics because that tends to involve s
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Things you need to take into account that you've almost certainly glossed over: Safety. Human-robot interactions are generally dangerous and avoided, unless the robot is specifically designed to interact with people. In those cases you
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I think the US under the Trump administration is making a series of errors that do have consequences. I also believe that some researchers and academicians have sought positions in Chinese universities, although the numbers suggest a majori
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AAP: How pediatricians are navigating federal leaders' fearmongering on vaccines(statnews.com)
3 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
So applied math, math, applied math, applied math, and maybe some others. That makes sense, although I'd argue that at least in the realm of HEP theoretical physics has extraordinarily expensive kit compared to what scientists make. Se
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
That's a general observation/opinion, not evidence that it's a leading indicator of anything. There are far less indirect measures of "high-tech industrial progress" as well.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I've already been very clear, you simply seem unable or unwilling to read the word "net" in my posts. I appreciate that China is doing many exciting things and happily unlike many in both China and the US I don't see hum
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
What makes researchers in general a leading indicator?
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
All of the scientists! Oh my. No I didn't mean anything quite that fanciful, I'm referring to net migration between China and the US. Are more people leaving the US for China, or are more people leaving China for the US? It's
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
A good way to cut through competing accounts and noise to find "where do people want to live more?" is to look at net migration flows.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
What research works that way?
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
> "The paper goes on to make recommendations for AI companies and investigators, and these are well worth reading. The common theme is that people need to think more about why they’re doing certain techniques or using certain techno
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Outside of sci-fi, marketing proposals, and niches like "Elder care in Japan" there are very few humanoid robots. By contrast non-humanoid robots have been mass produced and used in industry for decades. Arms. Carts. Trollies. No
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Robots in labs already exist, but mercifully they're not hooked up to anything as unpredictable as an LLM. Robots tend to work best as specialists doing high-throughput, extremely repetitive tasks which nonetheless require a degree of
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
The key here is that it’s depending on the human inability to connect the sum of relevant knowledge, but said knowledge comes from humans. Theres going to be this field day of low-hanging fruit that ML can round up, but after that I suspect
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Life without vaccines: Americans need to understand what they save us from(statnews.com)
8 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
We have plenty of cases of people dying as a result of their social media use or someone else's, both in a somewhat direct sense (sextortion, other crimes that put the victim under immense pressure), or indirect sense (Mobs being whipp
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New 'treatment-first' addiction toolkit emphasizes faith, abstinence(statnews.com)
5 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Ocean acidification is much more complex than "less algae and less fish." In fact some algae and bacteria will have giant blooms partly as a result of that, warming, and Nitrogenous runoff. Giant blooms consume oxygen in the prima
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I keep waiting for people to understand that algorithmic social media communities that serve ads and harvest info are pure poison. The problem is that everyone thinks they've got it under control, for them it isn't a problem or it
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
That would certainly be a case of history rhyming, given Andrew Wakefield's motivations for the fraud he perpetrated.
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
This is a very... Hacker News viewpoint that I think is quite popular in tech circles, and literally unheard of for most beyond. I don't think this is a matter of raising awareness either, it's the usual disconnect between people
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
Saying, "Simply" before a generally extremely challenging notion doesn't actually make it simple or even plausible. Your idea is only simple if a critical mass of people who vote agree with you, and they don't.
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We know that splitting up the MMR vaccine could be dangerous(statnews.com)
10 points by EA-3167 2mo ago|3 comments
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I think there's some truth there, but the bigger shift IMO has been that companies, politicians and institutions have begun to notice that volume on social media doesn't translate to irl opinions. Left or right, social media is do
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I hope against hope that people started to realize that the problem isn't the platform, it's the entire approach. Who am I kidding, people just realized that Bluesky wasn't going to be the next big thing and so it collapsed i
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
We have strong evidence that the net effect on the economy isn't what you'd expect if widespread fraud was the problem many claim. The paper we're all discussing is one such form of that evidence. If all you have is a story t
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I think the issue here is that while the people here are aware of the history and "utility" of laws like the one above, most people aren't and right now "regulate social media, the internet, and what my kid does with com
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by EA-3167 2mo ago
I respect your principled stance on one hand, while on the other I’m amazed that someone as successful as you hasn’t learned that logic doesn’t dictate how governments work. Don’t make a target of yourself, there are countless ways for a go

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