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by activatedgeek 5y ago
Fair enough. I don't quite care about obscure and beautiful theoretical problems. I am looking for new developments that have shown promise to make big practical impact. For what it's worth, I am no linear algebra definition polic
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
A question for the more informed: "What are recent developments in linear algebra?" Perhaps, we can broaden the scope and include numerical/randomized linear algebra. I come from a machine learning background, and the most re
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Moral Machine(moralmachine.net)
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Not even trying: the corruption of real science(corruption-of-science.blogspot.com)
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The Mountain to Climb(oliverwkim.com)
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The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing and self-assembling(sebastianrisi.com)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
"Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" by Andrew Steele (2021) For a very no frills account of the current state of anti-aging research.
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Moral Machine(moralmachine.mit.edu)
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The 1991 Project - Mercatus Center at George Mason University(the1991project.com)
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Glass: A new photo sharing app/community(daringfireball.net)
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf](ias.edu)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
I suspect, this may be far too common for anyone who lives a "checkpointing" style of life, i.e. once I achieve this, I will pursue this ambition. I've realized this sort of checkpoint-based planning is not helpful for the lo
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
> Modern research is incremental. All research is incremental. Even though in context it appears to speak to the right idea, I just want to make sure the casual reader doesn't emphasize too much on the "modern" part. Thi
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The Global Normalcy Index(economist.com)
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Official Data on the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme in Malaysia(github.com)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
This article is odd. I use pre-rendered KaTeX with remark [1], plus their stylesheet on the client side. All of the article seems more specific to MathJax than the title seems to convey. [1]: https://remark.js.org
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People of the Pandemic(peopleofthepandemicgame.com)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
Season 2 of the Extremities podcast [1] talks in some detail about this in 6 episodes. I absolutely love the presentation, and it gets delightfully better with each season. Strong recommend! [1]: https://anchor.fm/extremitie
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
Perhaps, you may enjoy this collection - "The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations" [1]. I think it has quite the variety, and may help you distill a broader sense of where things are headed (and find people to re
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf](ias.edu)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
> UN is a joke. I just finished reading "Washington Bullets" [1]. (Part of) It is a crash course into how and why institutions like UN, IMF etc. are they way they are. And honestly, I just feel paralyzed after reading the book.
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The Optimal Amount of Hassle(collaborativefund.com)
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
I don't quite understand the value of using a LaTeX editor in JupyterLab. For most purposes, JupyterLab already supports a subset of LaTeX within the Markdown cells. Perhaps, the objective is to make JupyterLab the IDE for everything.
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
Oh wow! I totally missed all the alchemy and theology studies he was into.
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
In this particular case, my argument is more along the lines of what this "team of experts" does is a conscious choice throughout. Black swan events can probably describe a lot of things, but my understanding is that an individual
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I think the key statement to realize here is this, > Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts. Off the top of my head, I vaguely rememb
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
While this article focuses on a niche, tiny wins are a universally applicable concept. I think they are a powerful abstraction. I recently finished "Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything" by BJ Fogg [1], which talk
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by activatedgeek 5y ago
Vavilov was such an extraordinary individual. While he was imprisoned in 1940 for defying Stalin-era leader Trofim Lysenko for his Mendelian beliefs, his collaborators protected the then largest seed bank in the world during the Siege of Le
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I don't quite agree with this reduction. A good reference textbook is specifically designed to convey a clean linear story of the otherwise ugly conceptual development of research ideas. Notes are personal. Textbooks are a deliberate
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I think these notes are great, and Vitaly certainly seems like a great person from Twitter (been following for a while now). I just want to spell out the obvious - the biggest (and probably the only) beneficiary of such structured notes is

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