NotOscarWilde

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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Rephrasing the gist of your argument: The professors are overloaded, so they cannot do a thorough job when they are on a hiring committee. Therefore, we should use the existing structures that make it trivial to rank applicants, with the un
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
It really depends on your field; as far as I am aware (I am a PhD student in theoretical CS) even Elsevier and Springer do not go against preprints on arXiv.
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
There are a lot of steps a university can take, even without a risk of getting sued: * Cut 25% of your journal subscriptions to the worst offenders and keep cutting every year with some smaller percent. * Publicly recommend to all scientifi
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> Any movement that focuses on one section of society (KKK, feminism) inevitably drives intolerance. If a section of society is marginalized and persecuted in the society as a whole, a movement to equalize things is bound to crop up. B
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> Inertia, mostly. I agree with inertia, but I want to add a few more details from experience that could shed a bit more light onto it: * There are not that many open journals around (see e.g. [1], probably slightly outdated); plus the
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Indeed. I am still a Galaxy Nexus user and a quote from a Google Support page (which doesn't exist anymore, it seems) pains me to this day: > "Galaxy Nexus, which first launched two years ago, falls outside of the 18-month upd
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> But more and more I hear people say they feel justified pirating anything not on netflix As somebody from a "2nd world & irrelevant" country (Czech Republic, we are in the EU), the situation is: * Netflix launched here
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Indeed! The question is: are we ready to drop the requirement of listing applications everywhere? The department where I am studying is big on graph theory and other theoretical CS concepts, and I always feel a bit uneasy when we write or r
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
But if a company wanted to make sabbaticals or science-focused internships more interesting for people on the academic career tracks, it probably could ease their confidential policies and design such internships so that said academics can
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I am not an expert either, but it is unlikely you ever had the right to share the files in any way, especially as it seems the error had still the standard license, but with cost of 0.00. I am quite annoyed by this revert -- especially by t
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Elaine Levey, Thomas Rothvoss - A Lasserre-based (1+ε)-approximation for Pm∣pj=1,prec∣Cmax http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07808 People are very excited about graph isomorphism being solvable in quasipolynomial time, but the
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
I like this anecdote because it contains a non-sexist but inappropriate statement. It also shows that there are at least two possible mindsets: * I talk to my coworkers like they are my mother and your colleague's * I talk to my cowork
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Good work! We have a black MacBook from the same era at our house; my girlfriend uses Ubuntu on it as her main computer. Should have thought about blogging about it! That 32-bit EFI with 64-bit CPU is a real curse for installing recent Linu
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Forgive my inexperience with alcohol (I have never drunk it and I am not from the States), but bitters as defined here [1] seem to be alcoholic -- therefore a bad choice for anything but after hours, leisure drinking, right? [1]: https:&#x
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Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time I [video](people.cs.uchicago.edu)
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
The term "puzzle hunt" was actually not invented by this thread. The closest event to the Czech puzzle hunts which is popular in the States is probably the annual MIT Mystery Hunt [1]. (Note that it is also older than the Czech va
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
The biggest one (TMOU) had 2074 people (in teams of 5) this year at the online qualification round. 1074 people passed to the actual puzzle hunt. For a intellect based hobby event for Czech-speaking people, I'd say those numbers are pr
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
To be more specific about the timing, it is 20 hours as in "starting Saturday afternoon and ending Sunday noon". I agree that it's tough on parents who cannot leave for a weekend here and there; the organizing teams are usual
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
To cool down some of the optimism in this comment section: Microsoft is still accepting cash for practically every Android phone made because of their patent threats, or did they change their ways in this regard as well? (I am genuinely cur
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> Simoms bought a license from the closed source academic authors, and gave them to every academic institution in the world The article only mentions academics from North America in this quote [1]. Where did you find the information a
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> But I also do not approve on taking action that would result in folks I do not know getting exposed. Folks have a right to their own lives. I do not think there is such a right, because what you are describing is (in probably many ca
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Closely related is https://usesthis.com/ , which focuses more on text description of people's working tools and habits than screenshots. Joey Hess' interview [1] was particularly memorable. [1]: https:/&#x2F
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
I share your sentiment, but Google Chrome is better only in terms of performance [1], it fares worse in both privacy and extensibility (no ad blockers/addons on mobile Chrome). For people like me, who want: * a free software browser *
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
> People are complaining about the length of time (...) All that stuff is avoided by losing weight. I strongly disagree on the point of time. It is important to realize how slow actual weight loss is. By my naive googling, losing 1kg o
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Notice that arXiv does not need any money from its users; it is fully funded from academic/private donations and it does not seek to maximize revenue. Authorea is very different; it has a very tough pricing model where you have to eith
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Note that there are some projects that are related to this, for instance a social network for scientists [1], a Github-like site for article creation with public comments [2] and some unknown third party comment systems for arXiv [3]. (I ju
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
I would really like a more comprehensive answer from somebody close to the source; you more or less say "it does not have it because it has not happened yet". Note that arXiv has features that many previous repositories did not ha
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
As a related aside: Does anyone know why arXiv has no system of public comments or (even better) a public peer review system built in? Whenever this topic comes up at a (CS) conference, everyone is for that, and yet, arXiv is functionally t
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Already in the TLDR there is a figure of speech used to attack a point: "accidentally or deliberately". In neutral speech, there is no need to bring that up, as everything is either accidental or deliberate. Yet people use this to
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by NotOscarWilde 11y ago
Right, ILP is a great tool for solving NP-complete problems relatively fast (depending on the solver, but there are some very good ones out there). However, as a theoretical tool it probably is not that exciting unless you're ready to

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