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by adw 3y ago
Another entry for "things which make one feel old" (it definitely is a reference to that, and it absolutely needs explaining, but...), especially because: a) I can't imagine more than a single-digit percentage of people on he
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by adw 3y ago
The k8s world is Go Central, so that probably has a lot to do with it.
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by adw 3y ago
The author is putting words in performers and presenters' mouths, so I read this as the absolute opposite. (Also, check out the rest of the site; this is a religious right-wing culture-war organ, so I am confident in my read here.) &
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by adw 3y ago
> While that is definitely important, don't overlook structure. Yep, you're right – but the two things are connected, in that the structure of Western classical music is absolutely tied in with the idea of _resolution_.
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by adw 3y ago
The whole stunt-hot-sauce phenomenon is exactly that.
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by adw 3y ago
Yes, exactly that bit. This is a cultural-conservative screed in Sunday dress.
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by adw 3y ago
> I don't think it's about simplicity at all I'd go further and say that "simplicity" is the wrong way of thinking about it. Arguing that Western classical music is more complex or requires more understanding — a
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by adw 3y ago
The assumption that music the author doesn't like must be a — likely political – statement is, let's just say, revealing and itself highly political. People appear to enjoy things which are bitter, or ugly, or complex, or an acqui
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by adw 3y ago
Me too. (I miss the Carlton.)
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by adw 3y ago
Apple was built on a lot of peoples' ideas, some original and many borrowed (like all companies); Steve Jobs' gift was for editing. SpaceX is an entirely unoriginal company (really good execution, though). The genius of SpaceX is
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by adw 3y ago
Yes, resulting in Andre Geim ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Geim ) having the best possible scientific resume: - the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for frog levitation: - the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graph
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by adw 3y ago
The big software unification driving this has been chemists moving to the (post-)DFT methods the materials people had to use, even for some of their small molecule work. Oversimplifying wildly, a lot of small molecule chemistry is driven by
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by adw 3y ago
I’ve published in computational solid state. My doctorate is, on paper, in earth sciences (mineral sciences!) and you’re going to find all of the materials science department and a few engineers in the vicinity too. Solid-state is one of th
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by adw 3y ago
Not really. Think of this as being analogous to public key/private key crypto; it's easy to check a signature (simulate a structure), it's extremely hard to forge one (design a new material ab initio).
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by adw 3y ago
The way I'd characterize it is that they're usually _directionally_ (and mechanistically) correct. On something as sensitive as a band gap the error bars are larger; if the DFT simulations said "yeah, no way this has band den
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by adw 3y ago
I know some DFT (*), but very little superconductivity, but I read through Sinéad Griffin's preprint and there was nothing in there which looked weird from a methodological perspective – and the methods (and software) she is using are
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by adw 3y ago
Or Jocelyn Bell Burnell (who is alive; that was a truly outrageous piece of theft.)
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by adw 3y ago
The question isn't _neural_ networks, it's _physical_ networks (and power, and cooling, and racking, and deployment, and and and). Actually marshaling enough compute to do anything is a serious real-world-moving-atoms endeavor.
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by adw 3y ago
Nate Silver? More like Nate Bronze. (Enough of the cheap shots). He's a mid-level data scientist who writes competently and has turned that into a very successful contrarian/thinkfluencer career. The work is mediocre, but the resu
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by adw 3y ago
If, let's just say, every little (feature of the checkout software) helps — if you follow my drift — the architect of that system is a mate of mine. I've never worked with him (I know him through music stuff, not tech stuff), but
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by adw 3y ago
If I were starting from zero knowledge, I'd choose Postgres, but you're not. Unless you require on particular database extensions (full-text search, PostGIS, etc), or you're operating at the kind of scale where all bets are o
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by adw 4y ago
There’s more than one definition of disability. Getting any kind of financial support is extremely hard, but getting ADA provision much less so. Most people with a chronic disease which affects your life will have at least some protection f
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by adw 4y ago
Some mixture of MPI, NCCL, Gloo, and whatever proprietary stuff TPU clusters do. All of these are basically either trad-HPC in style or literally from the supercomputing community. Interconnects tend to be Infiniband or the like, which, aga
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by adw 4y ago
That's really the divergence Norvig points to between Bregman's two cultures. And there are plenty of cases where we have had essentially purely phenomenological models in physics (I mentioned this in another thread, but Landau th
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by adw 4y ago
You're confusing _scientific_ theories (rebuttable empirical statements formalized typically through mathematical models) and mathematical theories (statements of fact derived from an axiomatized system). Chomsky wants linguistics to b
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by adw 4y ago
> What is the "model" in Newtonian gravity? F = G * ((m1 * m2) / r^2), plus, yes, the concepts of distance and inertial mass. G (and the bounds on the precision of our measurement of G) is derived by fitting from experimen
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by adw 4y ago
Newtonian gravitation is absolutely “we propose a model, we fit it, here is the result, here are the error bars on _g_”. Einsteinian gravitation is a better model. It fits the data better, that’s how we know. These are models, exactly in li
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by adw 4y ago
I’m assuming Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, but it’s new to me too
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by adw 4y ago
(Note that “winning at horses” is not significantly different from “winning at hedge funds”.)
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by adw 4y ago
It really isn’t, but not in the way you think. Starting a business is a _demonstrably_ worse idea than informed gambling. Winning at horses is much lower variance, is easier to learn, and depends enormously less on accidents of upbringing a

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