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by Peritract 5y ago
This is how Musk works, and people keep falling for it - he whips up excitement with wild claims, then after the flurry of investement/excitement, walks back the claims with 'new' realisations. He pulled the same trick with b
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by Peritract 5y ago
> Why should individuals that live for themselves and don't share the same values as you do suffer because of your decisions? This is an argument against eating octopuses. Why should they suffer because of your decisions?
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by Peritract 5y ago
There isn't a correct plural for 'octopus' because it's a Greek word filtered into English by way of Latin and so you can make a reasonable argument for basically any option. If language evolution followed strict deter
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by Peritract 5y ago
'Arbitrary' code in this case is your 'any code on a clients machine'. A vulnerability that lets someone run arbitrary code means they can run whatever code they want ; that's what makes it such a problem.
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by Peritract 5y ago
Mimicking birds wasn't necessary for flight. However, understanding them absolutely was; we didn't end up taking exactly the same route to the sky, but we absolutely learnt from birds on the way.
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by Peritract 5y ago
I have a very different experience; when I code, it feels similar to mapping out a conversation or constructing a narrative, and this is how I teach it to my students. I've met people who view it as mathematics or philosophy or a bunch
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by Peritract 5y ago
I absolutely agree with this. My background isn't at all mathematical, but I've ended up working with machine learning. As part of that, I naturally want to understand what I'm doing, so I try to read the papers/textbook
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by Peritract 5y ago
Nazism is a genocidal ideology; it's fundamentally evil. The individual reasons for a specific person to ascribe to such an ideology are complex and worthy of study, and if the quoted statement had been 'any individual member of a
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by Peritract 5y ago
Defining science without reference to the scientific method sounds far more concerning. 'A discipline that uses the scientific method to investigate hypotheses' doesn't seem like a loose definition to me, and it definitely do
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by Peritract 5y ago
Absolutely; I'm not disputing that in general, psychology is harder to pin down - any experiments are on something vastly complicated that is really hard to isolate. As a formal discipline, psychology is still relatively young, and so
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by Peritract 5y ago
Psychology uses the scientific method to investigate and understand the world; it's a science. It's sometimes poorly done, but this is true of all the sciences; malpractice and poor rigour in particular experiments don't inva
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by Peritract 5y ago
It's not particularly front-and-centre, but it's all over various discussion boards if you go looking for it directly. I'd like the debate to be more visible, personally, particularly whenever the argument gets deprecated for
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by Peritract 5y ago
Regardless of whether the flag was applied deliberately by an employee, or by an automated process, it's still showing up as 'Apple recommended' on their official support forum: any way you slice it, Apple is recommending exa
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by Peritract 6y ago
> Predisposition is unambiguous and well-defined I agree; it isn't just about what you want.
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by Peritract 6y ago
You're galloping away from your own point here. You said that the research shows that men are 'more naturally predisposed' towards the sciences. It doesn't show that. The only thing in that article that addresses any kin
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by Peritract 6y ago
'Predisposition' is not solely focused on your inclinations. It's absolutely absurd to say, for example, that a genetic predisposition towards cancer is desired by anyone. What we *know* is that there is no aptitude problem p
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by Peritract 6y ago
The linked article says the exact opposite of what you are claiming: > The issue doesn’t appear to be girls’ aptitude for STEM professions. In looking at test scores across 67 countries and regions, Stoet and Geary found that girls perfo
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by Peritract 6y ago
Fairly well-established, but not widely accepted; discussion around language models tends to ascribe all sorts of complex capabilities to them without evidence.
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by Peritract 6y ago
The latency issue seems to be a bit of a myth; every discussion of Stadia is filled with people who assume it's a problem, and multiple Stadia users saying they've never encountered it.
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by Peritract 6y ago
> The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard, Dr. Friedman said, were “social justice warriors.” They were considered a threat to one of the core beliefs driving the discussion
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by Peritract 6y ago
Genres are complex and fuzzily-defined, but they're definitely both useful and widely-used. You don't have to make it incredibly strict and granular, but subgenres give an easy way to say 'these works are similar', and t
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by Peritract 6y ago
Sure, but I think you have to draw a line somewhere between proximal and ultimate inspirations; modern Regency romances are very like Heyer (albeit generally much more explicit) and rather unlike Austen. We subdivide modern fantasy into &#x
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by Peritract 6y ago
Georgette Heyer is the originator here, not Austen or the Brontës. Obviously those authors do have imitators, but the focus and aesthetic is very different to modern Regency romances.
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by Peritract 6y ago
The author isn't wrong about the entry barrier into programming. However, they are wrong about almost everything else; 'Node in a browser', as the author uses it, is just a string of half-understood terms thrown together. Iro
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by Peritract 6y ago
Only if you're going to include all the time & energy spent creating BERT's precursors as well when calculating its cost.
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by Peritract 6y ago
The README says "The goal of the project is to provide machine learning for everyone, both technical and non technical users"; that definitely sounds as though it's intended for non-technical users.
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by Peritract 6y ago
Focusing solely on positive outcomes of a study and ignoring criticisms of/flaws in its premise is not really in keeping with scientific rigour.
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by Peritract 6y ago
Remembering the solution to a problem isn't the same as solving it. Testing if people can regurgitate solutions is at best pointless.
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by Peritract 6y ago
Teaching online is like flying blind; you have so much less information than you do in person, and can't read body language, get an immediate overview, check in on students in the thousand tiny ways that come without thinking in person