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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Fun fact: the people in that international body (The International Seabed Authority) are very close to the mining industry https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-19/gold-rush-... >Mining firms ha
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
'The Policeman's beard is half-constructed' is a collection of poems from 1984. They were generated by Hidden Markov Models, handpicked from thousands and slightly edited by humans. Not much has changed in those 38 years :)
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Isn't that what Shkreli tried in his defense, that none of his investors actually lost money? It didn't help him either
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
John Deere saw this coming a long time ago; they've locked down the data their tractors generated with iron bars. Lots of previous HN discussions. Now they make bank based on that data, they use their customers' millions of hours
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I did my undergrad in one of the many German universities where the main building was a 'schloss', an aristocrat's huge mansion, similar to OP's manor. It was the worst building for teaching, as ballrooms are flat so you
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Thinking about this more, I'm so baffled by this decision. EA touts itself as the best strategy for giving as they present themselves as a rational force evaluating all approaches, then going for the 'best' one. Buying a mult
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
If you have calculations about costings, it seems absolutely nonsensical to go for 'stately country estates' owned by British royalty, 'one of the loveliest houses in England')[1]. The gardening costs alone will be astro
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
This feels kind of arrogant? People working in many customer-facing entry level jobs do emotional labor within organisations that no AI-training has even taken aim at. If glorified chatbots could do their work receptionists would've di
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Robert Caro's The Path To Power. It's the first volume of a set of biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson, but it's so much more an exploration of how power works and shapes. Caro is obsessed with power (thus the other classic: Car
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Google Search switched to transformers (NLP) to understand search queries, which led to a certain boomer-isation of Google search. Full English questions work much better now. https://blog.google/products/search/se
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
>By then, you've probably lost most of your imagination anyway. I've recently left academia after ~10 years to work on more blue-sky-stuff in industry, and this rings so true. It took me a few months to unlearn academia'
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Plus, Holmes was judged to be guilty, the sentencing will be this week: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/14/theranos-...
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
>I will say, make sure your supervisor is a nice person who does not place their career above all else. I was lucky with that, and I think finding such a person in academic is increasingly difficult. Never do a PhD with a supervisor you
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
IMHO why companies don't push the 'step away and let the problem gestate in your brain' message is that it blurs the lines between 'payable time' and 'free time'. For my creative work, a lot of solutions o
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
You shouldn't base your ethics on what the law is - lots of unethical things are or were legal.
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I wouldn't work for Shopify for ethical reasons. They continue to help far-right sites like Breitbart or Daily Wire make their money. Quote: https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/1552090373283090432 >Reminde
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Is it? I don't see that difference. Rust has 0.82% front page, Lisp has 0.35% of the front page. https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/?q=...
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Case in point: >Magpies Help Each Other Remove Tracking Devices, Thwart Scientists https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/331977-magpies-help-each...
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Why are these questionable papers? Academics are forced to publish as many papers as possible. The system pushes their own to go for the smallest publishable unit, people will find a way to optimise for that, and who are we to blame them fo
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
Just 4 days ago Nature Genetics had a really cool perspective on why nobody else did the experiments on inheritance Gregor Mendel did: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01109-9
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
That's a good point! I've been reading up on various books Sam and other 'meditators' cite, and he does seem to have a nice approach where he takes 'the best' from various schools of thought and meditation, acr
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
I use Waking Up for guided meditations (if you can stand Sam Harris). There are a few promo code around Google for a few free weeks. It's a 'how to meditate' course followed by daily meditations, with a bunch of podcast-style
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by a_bonobo 4y ago
>Be very wary of survivor bias when looking back in time, especially when there is a risk of nostalgia. Case in point: MTV of the 80s would play little to no black music. There's a famous 1983 interview bit of David Bowie where he a
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Really cool system. >If you move, your compensation won’t change. Starting in June, we’ll have single pay tiers by country for both salary and equity. I wonder how that will look like in practice, countries differ enormously in required
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Yes, there is lots of ageism. If you don't have a Professorship in your 40s you're out, you'll rarely get a position. I've seen rare cases, but then you'd have to be really successful in your non-academic job - for
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
In many places the time-since-PhD is also relevant to opportunity, so if you are 5 years post-PhD but you were unemployed for 2 years or outside academia, you count as 3 years post-PhD.
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
Yes, it's postdoctorate, but it's the only academic job for people in their ~30s. It's the equivalent of an early/mid-career programmer. There's just no other title so they're all called postdocs, even if (rare
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
I wouldn't say that science is flooded by careerists, it's kind of the opposite - the scientific system demands you to be this way. There are exactly 0 jobs for undergrad BSc in most countries, especially if you want any kind of l
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
One should point out that OP's author is also behind 'Web3 is going just great', a time line/news feed of all the various rug pulls and scams https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by a_bonobo 5y ago
>The waste is secure People don't remember the Hanau scandal of the 80s/90s. It was the 'Atomic village' of Germany, home to the two largest nuclear companies of Germany (one was, funnily, called Nukem). Their manager

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