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by ajarmst 5y ago
I've not read the original report (and am unlikely to), but this quotation: '“WSPR is like a bunch of tripwires or laser beams (graphic below), but they work in every direction over the horizon to the other side of the globe,” Mr.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
They should perhaps revisit their title, then.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I'm not sure that "killer robots with lasers that can be field-trained to identify specific targets" would be quite the blessing that everyone seems to think.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Readers of this would likely find some of Jonathan Haidt's (viz. "Positive Psychology") research on disgust and elevation --as extremes of the same emotional continuum and potentially linking moral emotional reactions to e
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I'm not qualified to comment on legal issues and contracts. In the case of EULAs, my understanding is that no contract where you surrender fundamental rights is valid or enforceable. But even then, I'd want a lawyers advice before
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Only one of those groups is having their time and effort squandered. To me, it comes down to whether someone is being harmed. Researchers use statistics and anonymized demographic data on large populations all the time. You could argue th
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by ajarmst 5y ago
TLDR: Yes, but deceiving a subject about the details of how they are being studied is different from deceiving them about the fact that they are a research subject. Yes, this happens all the time. But note the salient features: (1) the sub
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by ajarmst 5y ago
It's an insightful review into some of the issues and regulations around this. I'm not American, so our local rules are different, and I resigned from my institution's IRB several years ago, and these issues have become more
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by ajarmst 5y ago
There are some relatively minor issues with this apology that appear to already have ample discussion here, and I'll not repeat it. I want something more: I want to hear from the sponsoring faculty, research ethics board, and editors
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Not sure. I expect that editors at such journals tend to assume that studies with an institutional sponsor will be held to professional standards by the sponsor, or take the authors' assertions at face value. I suspect that reviewers
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I'm much more fascinated by the languages that made both lists. Any language (Haskell and Scala as well as---inexplicably---HTML, SQL and Shell programming) that makes both a 'most dreaded' and 'most loved' is pro
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by ajarmst 5y ago
It means they either lied to the IRB or the IRB is absolutely incompetent. Possibly actionably so. I've sat on an IRB. This experiment would have been punted on initial review. It wouldn't even have made the agenda for discussio
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I used to sit on a research ethics board. This absolutely would not have passed such a review. Not a 'revise and resubmit' but a hard pass accompanied with 'what the eff were you thinking?. And, yes, this should have had a
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Related, from the "most people don't understand their shoes" file: it's pretty rare to see a proper heel lock on athletic shoes: https://www.gearpatrol.com/fitness/a696423/extra-lace-eyelet...
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by ajarmst 5y ago
My brain initially parsed "meta robot" as "megarobot" and I was really excited until I got to the last part of the sentence.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I'd also suggest that cellular automata are now an important area of theoretical Comp Sci (and a number of related fields). Wolfram's contribution in that area compares quite favorably with the pioneering work by Von Neumann and
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Wolfram did speculate that 110 would be Turing complete, although others proved it. Particularly in the Maths, an insightful but as-yet unproved assertion can be at least as valuable as its proof (hence all the Mathematicians who are justi
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I'm a fan---I even own a copy of the gorgeous hardcover edition of A New Kind of Science . However, this should be understood in context: Wolfram has been claiming that this approach would generate revolutionary changes (a paradigm s
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by ajarmst 6y ago
ksh93 supports both completion and history. I lost interest in looking before uncovering information about versions of ksh more than thirty years old, but neither feature is mentioned in descriptions of differences between ksh93 and predece
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by ajarmst 6y ago
ok, I'll bite. What current Unix systems ship with a default shell that supports neither command-completion nor command-history?
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by ajarmst 6y ago
One hopes that the author didn't need me, a stranger, to tell them that this site is missing most of the fundamental features of a shell. Feedback is valuable, but strangers aren't going to visit something that clearly doesn'
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by ajarmst 6y ago
That the quality of someone's work doesn't matter because they don't care about it or expect it to be useful isn't a particularly compelling argument.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Cool. It's probably not an original idea, but it's good one. I might even steal it from you at some point. Good luck with the project.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
This is pretty late in the cycle for O'Reilly to not realize that the adaptive 'algorithmic government' he is describing would result in government optimized for clicks and highly responsive to weaponized performative umbrage
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by ajarmst 6y ago
No command history, no tab completion. One assumes that "shell" is aspirational rather than descriptive. It's an interesting idea, but if you present what appears to be a shell interface to users expecting a shell interface,
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I'm fine with that restriction. But that isn't the axiom of antisymmetry. That's the axiom of antisymmetry plus a rule that holds that equality implies identity (which would be typically described in terms of the axiom of e
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by ajarmst 6y ago
If we agree that the axiom of extensionality applies, then the restriction of no ties is implied. I don't think antisymmetry is necessary or sufficient for it.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Ok. But I still don't agree that the property of antisymmetry implies or requires that restriction.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I keep getting bounced out of the flow by the author describing the relation A<=B as "A is bigger than B". I get that the order relation is arbitrary, but that's just irritating. Perhaps using "precedes" rather
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by ajarmst 6y ago
The sentiment certainly isn’t original. The phrasing sounds like me, though. I can get pretty pedantic.

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