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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Eugenics isn't the logical conclusion of the "leader caste" because we know that not only is it deeply unethical, it also doesn't work. We don't really know what makes someone "better", we don't know
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Awesome! Is there any kind of resource where you can meet people and brainstorm about a project you might want to develop? Is this resource one of the better places to do that? I'm new to software development (have so far only done sci
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Naming these two medical conditions "Depression" and "Anxiety" is pretty unfortunate. They are completely different from"feeling depressed" and "feeling anxious". Having depression or anxiety in the m
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
FBI should be worried about how the police is infiltrated by white supremacists [1] and their tendency to shoot people for no reason, I'd say that's a much higher security risk. [1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour&#x2
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
It definitely is on the part of would-be tyrants, but a popular shift to it is due to perceived failures. There's a really cool quote from the (second book of?) the Three Body Problem, which goes something like "alone in the empti
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Programming with Categories(youtube.com)
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
This has probably been posted before but since Category Theory has been popping up every once in a while I thought I'd share this. I'm just starting this and the instructors' [book]( https://arxiv.org/abs/
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
As a scientist I've written massive amounts of shitty code that turned out to be reproducible by lucky accident. Part of the problem are the tools: depending on the field, scientists either use Matlab, C++, Fortran or some other framew
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I think it was the unpredictable turns in weather.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
It was bananas. Glad it rained too because wildfires are the last thing we need with all the madness this year has been throwing at us.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
i'm glad to hear you've found something that helps you. I was joking about the messiah complex, though it is something my therapist has made the occasional joke about too when i get over-ambitious about things i wanna do (he did s
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Normally I'd go with the second, but I'm trying to learn physics as a hobby and, you know, technologically save the world with my messiah complex apparently, and I want to keep tabs on things that may be insightful to know about
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Man everyone seems to be talking about category theory lately and I still have no idea what it is except some general sense in which different types of mathematical objects can operate on each other (which is probably wrong). Looks like I s
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
China is determined to run itself to the ground
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Well, in my workplace for example, there'd be spontaneous questions that would move to the whiteboard, and ideas could be fleshed out and developed there. Also, research meetings and journal clubs would be lively and full of debate. Si
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
This just varies from person to person and workplace to workplace. Many people are fine without in-person interactions. Others go insane without them.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
In terms of gaining influence, sure, maybe they're ethically on par. But saying it's reasonable they're weaponizing space because "they need to counteract US capabilities" is a flawed argument. They could counteract
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
I think the need for an office depends a lot on the type of work that needs to be done. If you're working in R&D or science, for example, it's really (really) hard to make much progress alone, without people bouncing ideas aro
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
US military presence in space consists of spy satellites and military communications satellites. As far as we know the US hasn't put any space-based weapons up there. There's a difference.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
EDx has a Quantum Machine Learning course from UToronto. The first few chapters cover the very basics of QM and Quantum Computing pretty nicely.
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
as a neuroscientist it seems that sleep + dreaming is a lot more complex than that (and nobody really knows what either of those does). but in terms of learning and bridges to regression (DL) and other machine learning, my suspicion would b
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by Fishysoup 6y ago
Scientists, especially in biology (possibly psychology too but i don't know), do look at papers as data points and not conclusions. The "conclusion-minded" treatment of papers is a sad artefact of the publish-or-perish system
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
First thing I'm getting when I can afford to replace a toilet.
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
They'll only publish reviews for already accepted papers. This may help reviewers be (or at least appear) less obviously biased against the authors in the review process if the paper has a chance of being accepted. But it won't do
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Oh wow didn't know it went back that early, nice
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
They also blamed Greece for the bailout, which was a bailout of German banks. Yes the situation obviously isn't completely one-sided and there's more than one actor here, but don't pretend Germany is doing everything out of t
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Germany is obsessed with keeping the value of the Euro low to maximize their exports. That's one of the reasons they've been pushing austerity after the economic crisis, as keeping countries like Greece, Portugal etc. in a rut dep
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
We've known for at least a decade that astrocytes and other glia play important roles in synaptic transmission and learning, not just axon insulation and blood-brain-barrier related stuff. It's still unclear what most of their con
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Of course we should take what people and organizations say with skepticism adequate for their record and scaled by impact. Microsoft had the reputation of "malicious monopolizer" in the 90s and had to change a lot of things to sta
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
We always knew that neurons did way more than just integrate voltage and produce spikes. The problem with testing out what those things are has largely been technological. Only until quite recently have we been able to electrically isolat

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