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by _Nat_ 4y ago
PDF of cited poll: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/l8ynsbxwgl/econTabReport.pdf Cited figures from Table-14, on (PDF/printed)-page-55. Looks like they polled 4 age-groups: 18-29; 30-44; 45-64; and 65+. The results fo
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by _Nat_ 4y ago
[Sub-randomness]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence ) (or apparently Wikipedia uses the term " low-discrepancy sequence " now) is one case where a random-generator is designed to make the
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by _Nat_ 4y ago
> It just seems interesting to see so many people shilling for Spotify by nitpicking about what they think the word "fake" means. It's moreso that folks just don't like meaningless claims or unclear writing. The artic
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by _Nat_ 4y ago
Sounds like they're " fake " in that they're apparently fictional characters who aren't explicitly presented as such. They're just branding-icons, like the mascots who make a brand-name cereal. And then like
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by _Nat_ 4y ago
> "I can tell you that is not protocol. The problem is there are two justice systems: 1 for poor people and minorities and 1 for rich people and generally white people. You see it when you are one of the few black agents. Everyone i
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Ya know, folks make up conspiracy-theories for fun. It's a major hobby, e.g. [the SCP Foundation]( https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ ) -- which has a colorful presentation, but is perhaps more honest about its fictionality
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The principle of " assume good faith " is essential to even basic conversation. In its absence, intelligent exchanges are fundamentally impossible. Which may be the case here?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> You JUST did the exact thing I am talking about. You equated having an incorrect understanding of science with believing Biden is a lizard man Elvis. I was concerned that, if I selected a common conspiracy-theory, folks who believe in
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> You can challenge incorrectness without condescension (and its usually more effective that way.) In short bursts, sure. Sorta like, if someone believes that Elvis is secretly a lizard-man who is now pretending to be President Biden, t
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Seems like a rough thing for folks who'd want to promote social-unity. Because scientists work by aggressively cutting down bad ideas. The basic mindset calls for being efficient-and-ruthless in identifying-and-eliminating low-quality
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Apparently the parent-commenter believes that the article is propaganda meant to discredit conspiracy-theory. Regarding: > I'm also missing a list of all those so called conspiracy theories which turned out to be true. They probably
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
So far, [this new search engine]( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/andi ), [" Andi "]( https://andisearch.com/ ), seems pretty neat. Looks like they're going for a better, AI-assisted
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The total for racial-demographics adds up to 90.25%. Rounding wouldn't seem to be enough to explain the disparity.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Probably easier to just observe that, if GPT-3 isn't reliably correct, then it's not consistent enough to simulate a Turing-machine and therefore isn't Turing-complete. As for loops: a Turing-machine could do infinitely many
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
For another example, [this story]( https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-... ) describes another zero-day that was allegedly found to have been exploited for weeks before discovery. Apparently
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
For a simple example, [integer-overflow attacks]( https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/intege... ) could be trivially prevented by always bounds-checking integers. For another simple example, [buff
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I'd prefer a [provably secure]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provable_security ) JavaScript-engine as a default. Or, if provable-security would be a bit much for a near-term project, something more heavily based
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yup, that's the current strategy. However, I'd prefer to have a secure JavaScript-engine that could be kept on by default, then enable a fast JavaScript-engine on a per-site basis. For example, I have an exception on here for Hack
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> Not much is known, at least publicly, at this stage about CVE-2022-1096 other than it is a "Type Confusion in V8." This refers to the JavaScript engine employed by Chrome. Is there a safer JavaScript engine folks can use with
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> Reproduction efforts saved us from that damage. [...] These efforts were not the damage. I'm pretty sure everyone firmly agrees with this.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Checks are good, definitely. And they help to limit the damage caused by stuff like fraud. You were right about that stuff. The point I think folks were contesting was the tone some may've inferred from [this comment]( https:/&#
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
There wouldn't be a point to reading papers/textbooks, buying equipment from others, etc., if you thought that it was all part of some elaborate deception. The general presumption would tend to be that other scientists are trying
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Then how do you trust the replication-studies? Just keep replicating them, too? The overall process assumes trustworthiness. The better that assumption holds, the better science performs.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
A lot of folks are just anti-war and are protesting the invasion for being an act of military-aggression.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It may not be a straight comparison, if professionals in Physics vs. Biology are considering those concepts in the context of their fields. Biologists can handle complexity more easily, because things grow. This is, biologists can do their
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Kinda hard to imagine a huge need for blockchain developers. I mean, practically speaking, what would such developers actually do? At current, it seems like a lot of folks who like blockchain are trying to find things to do -- seems like t
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
A good argument against X might try to show probable -- or, failing that, plausible -- consequences of X . But that video's too much like, " If they pass this law I don't like, aliens will invade, earthquakes will shake, a
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
What's that video supposed to be? I mean, it's just constant non-sense. For example: 1. The guy is apparently completely unaware of the laws of his home-country, comically confused about everything. 2. Apparently he entered the c
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
There's no Lagrangian in those 9-lines. Nor is there Quantum-Theory, nor the Standard-Model, nor General-Relativity. Nor is science there, really. Which is kinda my point -- those 9-lines aren't all of science.. unless, I guess,
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Those 9-lines don't imply all of physics. They don't even mention most of physics. A lesser problem is that they're not correct, either. For example, Line-5 suggests that entropy is never below the Boltzmann-constant. Whic

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