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by _0ffh 3y ago
I'd rather take my chances with the coin flips than with the politburo.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Nope, he didn't. You're getting the wrong message here. That publication is necessary to arouse his interest doesn't mean it's sufficient to make him believe anything. Those are different things. Peer review for publ
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Ha, I've been talking about the same topic with an experimental physics professor friend of mine. He was just not interested at all, like "I've seen stuff like that so many times before, I'm not interested at this point.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
>After the change, it becomes a stronger (yes, there is such a thing) superconductor the cooler it gets Do you mean the tradeoff between temperature, field strength and current? Like, if you lower the temperature, the SC will be able to
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by _0ffh 3y ago
> Frogs can do that too One even did that on the cover of Nature, iirc.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
To add a concrete example: Randy Hulet at Rice claimed BEC first, then Wieman and Cornell at Colorado, then Ketterle at MIT. Wieman, Cornell and Ketterle shared the Nobel. Hulet was passed over, because his data was judged insufficient to e
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by _0ffh 3y ago
If it's about the Nobel, no it doesn't make sense. There's been more than one Nobel where the author(s) of an earlier paper were passed over in favour of a later paper because it was insufficient to conclusively prove the cla
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Yeah, but that is quite amateurish. Just having the paper out first does not establish priority for the Nobel. What you need is the first paper with solid proof . It has happened more than once before that the guys with the second or third
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Yeah, self-deception is a distinct possibility, and it would certainly not be the first time for something like that to happen.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Rushing out the second paper was a mistake and not a good look for the group. It would have been enough to force the retraction of Kwon's paper, and even without a retraction it's very unlikely it would have counted for anything w
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I know it's a triviality, but you've got a typo in "Hardware-agmostic" you may want to fix.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
>> they do not have scientific knowledge of the background theory One of the co-authors of the 6-author-paper, Hyun-Tak Kim, is at least answering questions about superconductor theory on Quora starting five years ago, whatever that c
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by _0ffh 3y ago
IIRC Israel even produces enough fresh water to establish a flourishing export business.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I've done some experimentation in my time, and in my experience fruit flies positively love actively ongoing fermentation! So I've settled one a mixture with sugar and yeast in addition to water, surfactant and vinegar or cider. A
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I heard it's one movie, once in the jungle and once in the ocean.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I keep seeing "if (some_boolean == true)" and it kind of grates on me.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I wrote a bespoke backtracking solver for a specific class of problems. Would love to use Z3 or something, but frankly, I wouldn't know how to systematically translate problem instances to solver constraints. It's essentially a ki
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I don't think the spending is really a problem, but possibly the many work-hours of brilliant minds that might be more fruitfully employed working on different problems.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Re the pricing I see all prices given per hour (which I think is sensible), but I can't find what the granularity of usage measurement is. Assume I try something out on a GPU server and I realize I made some wrong assumption in my code
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Agreed.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
I would submit that the question if humans as a species are bipedal is not concerned with the question if any individual specimen happens to have two legs. (This is not meant to imply that no consideration should be given to the exceptions,
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Are humans a bipedal species? Just asking, because some people are born with a different number of legs.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Absolutely! "Irresponsible" doesn't even begin to cover behaviour like that!
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by _0ffh 3y ago
That certainly looks like a problem. Personally, I wouldn't go near anything like that anyway. On one hand it seems prudent to me to consider the likely consequences of your actions, even long term, although such projections should be
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by _0ffh 3y ago
That's Utilitarianism of the kind that e.g. Eliezer preaches. Which leads to the question, are all longtermists really utilitarians like that? (The article seems to insist, even while acknowledging that at least some explicitly say the
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Personally, I swear by recursive descent parsing mixed with TDOP for expressions. Since I've tried that combination for the first time I haven't looked back.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
My experience is that in big companies people stick just as much to the rules (or "processes") as any LLM would. You wouldn't want to know how often sensible and straightforward requests get obstructed because "there&#x2
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Add to that, that in Germany fuel taxes are crazy high in comparison to the US.
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by _0ffh 3y ago
Good question. The study by the DIW was broken by FT Germany and some quotes found their way to other news outlets, but I can't find the original study so I can't comment much on their methodology. What I can say is that at least
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by _0ffh 3y ago
This was about Germany, not the US. According to a study drivers pay ~200% of what they "consume" for normal roads and about ~400% for the "autobahn".

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