agnosticmantis

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India cuts internet near New Delhi as hundreds of farmers begin hunger-strike(news.sky.com)
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Google trained a trillion-parameter AI language model(venturebeat.com)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
I wonder how many downvoted you because they understood the sarcasm but they agreed with the non-sarcastic interpretation of it.
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Working with Your Hands Does Wonders for Your Brain(psychologytoday.com)
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Labor vs. Capital: Continuing the Meritocracy Trap Debate(lpeproject.org)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
This makes me wonder how important or useful rigorous / axiomatic arguments for intuitively true “facts” are. As far as applications are concerned, it seems like the physicist’s math (what Feynman calls Babylonian math as opposed to th
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Scientists leaving research for other careers in science are still scientists(pnas.org)
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On the Superiority of Sociology to String Theory(bactra.org)
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Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible(npr.org)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
Do you know of any sources that explain the connection?
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How Money Laundering Works in the Art World(artandobject.com)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
> It's not a political statement if it's factual. I think “The COVID-19 pandemic was avoidable. Any responsible country would have invited world health investigators to Wuhan within days of an outbreak.” is counterfactual by de
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Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly(sciencedaily.com)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
The fact that very little of his term is left and that everyone, including his former allies, are abandoning him, make the story less surprising in retrospect. But yes, these are hard to predict times.
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DNA seen through the eyes of a coder(berthub.eu)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
I agree. The penalty on the user of AI would in turn incentivize the user to penalize/reward the AI developer. But I’m not sure if it’s reasonable to require every user to be able to assess the long run accuracy of a statistical system
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
Are the creators of these algorithms penalized for their false positives? I think the confidence levels returned by these algorithms would be quickly calibrated if there was some strict penalty for high-confidence false positives.
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Science and the Decline of the American Academy(heritage.org)
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How to Adapt to American-Style Self-Promotion(hbr.org)
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by agnosticmantis 6y ago
Despite an almost universally accepted belief outside academia that entrepreneurial activity is a positive driving force in the economy, the accumulated evidence remains largely inconclusive. The paper positions the increased interest in en
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Political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research(semanticscholar.org)
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The slowest convergent series doesn’t exist(mathoverflow.net)
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Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Killed in Attack(nytimes.com)
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