RupertEisenhart

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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Too little too late. Academics pay through the nose for the right to publish open! Stick it on the arxive.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Elsevier basically. They are always everyones bogieman. Predatory publishing houses. But yeah academics love piracy;)
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
see my comment above, TL;DR if you have 32TB spare and an internet connection, you can have your own Library of Alexandria in your living room.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
This google search[0] will provide a list of interesting papers about piracy. They seem generally to support what I think is something like the majority consensus here: - piracy does some harm to sales, especially of new books, but can incr
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
This was the best non-technical review of the idea I have read, would recommend: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.881363 If you ever saw an unbreaking egg, you would have bigger problems!
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
The big bang explains it on a cosmological level, the sun drives it on a local level. Because basically all our energy is harvested in the process of entropy relaxing from the sun, via earth, to the coldness of outer space, we are in a loca
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Let me confirm the long stretches thing. I learned DF by setting aside two weeks and playing ~16 hours a day. Was a piece of cake. It's not the kind of game you can pick up with an hour here or there.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I wasn't calling out you specifically, more explaining my attitude here in general. Sorry for not being more clear about that. > My question would be, why not use humans? At what point would the "very high expected return"
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
The problem I have with this discussion is it pretends to treat animal welfare as an absolute, when in fact nobody does that or believes in that (apart form militant vegans perhaps). There is a lot of biomedical research out there killing a
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Presumably they are utility maximizers who assume that the 'standards of care' for animals won't actually be rigorously enforced. Humans sue.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Scale matters. There are multiple orders of magnitude difference between the things you are comparing. You get one or two orders of magnitude just from the lifespan of animals-- a pig in a factory will spend up to a decade suffering, musks
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
> How do you effectively shift from that negligent approach to the careful diligence demanded when testing with people? Presumably as easily as people turn from casually eating beef to raising their children without suffocating them at t
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Reminds me of Kim Ki Duks comments on the animal cruelty in The Isle[0]: "In America you eat beef, pork, and kill all these animals. And the people who eat these animals are not concerned with their slaughter. Animals are part of this
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
The the Pokémon game, it's insane. I played it for hours once.
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I don't want to take away from the seriousness of this but > we are in the midst of a new mass extinction event. mischaracterises the reference they link: > Biologists now suggest that a sixth mass extinction may be under way, g
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Primary school teacher, into to python, intro to anything (I even quizzed it for a while on Hindu philosophy, perfectly fine responses). Though Codex is a better into to python once you know how to set up an IDE, this would get you going. W
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Not sure what your point is, but agriculture needs to change dramatically in the next couple of decades. Human civilization/all life that wants to keep existing also needs to change dramatically in the next five billion years but I thi
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Your references seem to back me up, and not the person I was replying to? Eg: "There is evidence showing an association with certain types of food processing and poor health outcomes (especially highly- or ultra-processed foods). This
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
For some reason there is no reply button on the other replies. Maybe the evidence for meat doesn't generalise, but the idea that fresh vegetables would retain some sort-lived structures that start to break down once processed seems pla
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Are you a climate change denier? Are you unaware of the changes that have happened in the last ten thousand years?
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
This source says differently [0], at least for meat. Do you have any evidence or reasoning? [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18444144/
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Are you trying to say, Alexa should be funding the synthetic language nerds over at Lojban[0] or the Universal Networking Language[1]??? That would be a fun universe. [0] https://mw.lojban.org/index.php?title=Lojban&setl
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
So, this makes sense from the perspective of writing code professionally for a company. I don't buy that the risk is significant for an individual programmer, but I suppose it is plausible that lawsuits could pose a threat to a large o
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Do you mind explaining why? What do you think will happen? This is a serious question, I'm apparently just unaware of the horror-stories that can come out of breaking copyright. (Not from the US so..) For me its most useful for helping
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Strong agree. For all the evidence and talk about 'the microbiome is a newly discovered organ', people sure do struggle to look beyond the surface reading of the research-- yes, all the research in this area is research about shit
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
There was something like this going around in ~2008, it was a plugin bar that turned the internet into a game, you could leave mines and portals on websites that would take you to other websites, so people could add their own hyperlink laye
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
This. You should read up about how recaptcha worked in the early days to do 'authority of the masses'. (I don't know any particular sources, maybe these methods are properly defined now in some framework.)
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I do agree about the multithreading, but I think better menus will probably make quite a big difference to the playability. I'm looking forward to getting into weapons and armour and more of the army screens that I never bothered takin
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
I used dadbod[0] and the following in my vimrc[1] to do a similar thing, only I haven't make the shortcuts for sending a block yet. Looks nice though, maybe I'll try it out sometime! [0] https://github.com/tpope&#x
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by RupertEisenhart 4y ago
Hard agree until-- Copilot changed all this for me. Even using ffmpeg, now I just open a .sh and describe the functions that I want in comments and fiddle with what copilot gives me. Copilot is at it's best writing dumb little shell sc

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