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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, the only variable is yield.
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by analog31 1y ago
Will the beans get any sun?
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by analog31 1y ago
The two crops are corn and soybeans. Everything else is decimal dust. I'm not sure how much sense it makes to mix them within a plot, as opposed to mixing them by crop rotation. Also, all of the crops have to be herbicide resistant to
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by analog31 1y ago
Two of my friends who farm already have self driving planters and harvesters, controlled by GPS, that lay down different kinds of seeds and fertilizers depending on location within their fields. The farmer is there to fix things.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, the voters do all sorts of stupid things, yet are still collectively smarter than an autocrat at promoting human welfare when their democracy is reasonably robust. It takes more than just the failings of voters -- it takes a concert
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by analog31 1y ago
In some sense, yes. I've seen portions of works by people like Newton etc. You had to be a philosopher to read them, much less understand them. In a lot of cases, the same "material" that we learn today required someone to co
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by analog31 1y ago
As it stands, I have a hunch that the people at the top of governments tend to be among the more highly intelligent. I'll even give that to our leaders, but also to the leader of Iran, etc. If nothing else, the intelligence required to
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by analog31 1y ago
Yeah, a hidden scroll bar makes a UI unusable if you prefer a touch screen, as I do.
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by analog31 1y ago
Just a minor quibble. Terminal based UI's weren't completely memorized. Many of us had a reference card taped to the wall, or a list of commonly used commands. It was an acceptable way to extend the limited information density of
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by analog31 1y ago
It's like anybody else managing their workload. Professors assign the papers to their grad students to review. Overworked grad student feeds it into the LLM. It doesn't matter if the work is novel, only that it produces something
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by analog31 1y ago
Sure, the enjoyment of food involves etiquette and aesthetics. When I learned to cook (from my mom), she said that a knife should never enter the salad plate, and if it does, the cook should be embarrassed. Of course I'm influenced by
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by analog31 1y ago
I realize this is an employee-centric forum, but playing devils advocate, if these are otherwise good employers, why does it matter?
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by analog31 1y ago
This doesn't explain why the currencies of different countries behave differently. In my view, money is a technology. People use a technology if they find it to be useful. I know this sounds circular, but bear with me. A "major&qu
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by analog31 1y ago
Oddly enough, I've read that the clay was originally re-usable, and the ones that are preserved were baked in accidental fires. Kind of a weird opposite meaning of book-burning.
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by analog31 1y ago
Ironically, the technology that amazingly still works after 40 years is shown in front of a shelf full of books.
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by analog31 1y ago
I think the appeal of the RPi has to do with the amount of online tutorials that beginners can understand, and the experience of assembling something from pieces.
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by analog31 1y ago
Just an odd aside that occurred to me: Would you buy a calculator that hallucinates wrong answers part of the time, but gets enough correct answers and "partial credit" to earn you a certificate for being competent in math?
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by analog31 1y ago
This is my experience too. My meetings tend to be presentations of results. I invite the bare minimum of people who are likely to be interested, and like you, end up with a full meeting room plus others connecting online, often all over the
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by analog31 1y ago
And in my case, the NSF.
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by analog31 1y ago
True, I hadn't thought of that. I'm spoiled by Python. ;-)
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by analog31 1y ago
The first thing that occurred to me is that if a number is missing from a list, the sum of that list will fall short. But I like XOR's.
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by analog31 1y ago
It was probably an omission. Fill it in, and it makes sense. I believe the NIH is larger than the NSF. In addition to funding research, these agencies also fund education, both directly and indirectly.
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by analog31 1y ago
Because Capistrano was booked?
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, it seems like virtually everybody supports education reform. Of course we differ on the details. ;-) Private sector does play a role to some extent because they decide who they want to hire. They could stop requiring degrees, or def
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by analog31 1y ago
It wasn't all that discretionary so long as the ruling faction was executing laws in good faith.
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by analog31 1y ago
Research and education have always been intertwined because graduate education involves working on funded research projects. My physics PhD was funded by the NSF.
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by analog31 1y ago
>>>>> Before we go any further, let me be clear: this isn’t about sides or ideologies. Support for education and research should be as fundamental as clean air or safe roads. It is part of the shared infrastructure that holds
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by analog31 1y ago
As recently as I've been in an apple store, the goods were out for people to touch.
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by analog31 1y ago
Likewise, is there evidence for this? Maybe our most "effective" altruism is in fact to pay taxes in a liberal democracy after all. Painting with a very broad brush, the US is the most charitable country in the world, yet we lag b
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by analog31 1y ago
The pitfalls of floats were taught when I was a college math major. That was in the mid 80s.

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