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by andyxor 5y ago
The whole idea of investigating "spread of misinformation" in the current politicized climate is unscientific at best and agenda-driven at worse. You've got to take a political stand to declare something "misinformatio
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by andyxor 5y ago
if you swap the "left" and "right" labels you comment will be just as true (or false, depending on whom you ask). NYU has very strong reputation in hard sciences but their social studies are hopelessly left-leaning and
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by andyxor 5y ago
don't violate the TOS if you want to use a platform for your research also based on Edelson statement this research seems to be heavily biased before it even completed, favoring one political wing statements as "true" vs. an
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YouTube: From Concept to Hypergrowth – Jawed Karim (2006)(youtube.com)
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by andyxor 5y ago
Sci-Hub database/index is available here: http://libgen.rs/dbdumps/scimag.sql.gz and database documentation is available here: https://gitlab.com/lucidhack/knowl/-/wikis/Referen
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by andyxor 5y ago
all Sci-hub articles are duplicated via torrents, you can help by seeding the torrents https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... there is also some ongoing work moving to IPFS tha
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by andyxor 5y ago
I hope Musk values his self-imposed mission enough to not take that risk. If he actually takes that flight it would be the single biggest threat to the future of space exploration.
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by andyxor 5y ago
The author is a geologist at University of Vermont with no apparent connection to energy space except for his environmental activism. on a separate note, NASA had a recent breakthrough after decades of "paper reactors", building
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by andyxor 5y ago
the most successful "portable" nuclear reactors are those on nuclear submarines, they have been in continuous operation for more than 60 years with very few incidents "American naval reactors starting with the S1W and iterati
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by andyxor 5y ago
not sure what to make of the recent resurgence of anti-police articles (from 2017?) I'd think the current explosion of violent crime in all the major US cities should be enough to put an end to this insanity. Go and explain the idea o
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by andyxor 5y ago
It's funny seeing this on WaPo front page. Not long ago mentioning possible artificial source of COVID as a byproduct of gain-of-function research was a "baseless conspiracy theory", and you'd likely be banned for &quot
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by andyxor 5y ago
google or fb ads
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by andyxor 5y ago
it's going to be ready by the end of next year, next year
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Rifles, Humvees and tons of ammo: Taliban celebrate their new arsenal(cnn.com)
2 points by andyxor 5y ago|2 comments
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by andyxor 5y ago
Florida Man strikes again
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by andyxor 5y ago
If I recall a few years ago Chatroulette really needed a "Hotdog/Not-Hotdog" classifier. I hope they solved that tiny problem using big data.
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by andyxor 5y ago
Tesla bot is another marketing gimmick, but if someone going to invest in making better robotic arms, mimicking the mechanics of animal movement or inventing new flexible & light-weight materials and batteries, than regardless of the s
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Tesla Bot is the company’s troubled Autopilot system in humanoid form(arstechnica.com)
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by andyxor 5y ago
Not to take away from their brilliant engineering accomplishments, but SpaceX and Tesla were dealing with technically solved problems. We (as a species) have been to space, and we know how to build electric batteries and cars. These were at
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by andyxor 5y ago
You know more than you realize, and your brain does more than you know It’s been said that AI is surprisingly hard because a lot that’s happening is unconscious, and once you fall into the rabbit hole of chasing it AI becomes a perpetual “5
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by andyxor 5y ago
That’s a very good example) As for “best and brightest” that won’t help as in terms of understanding cognition we are in pre-science stage, missing that qualitative jump from alchemy to chemistry so to speak. all you need is a philosopher’
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by andyxor 5y ago
it’s a common mistake to extend expertise in one domain to other completely unrelated domains A good example is Noam Chomsky and his political ramblings
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by andyxor 5y ago
false advertising, that “AI” literally doesn’t know what it’s doing
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by andyxor 5y ago
Bullshit artists, but I hope some of that “AI” money trickles down to fundamental research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to bring us closer to understanding cognition
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by andyxor 5y ago
and probably the most expensive, I see them going in circles all day long in my neighborhood, fuel alone must have cost a fortune
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Knife-wielding man chases couple in San Francisco(kron4.com)
7 points by andyxor 5y ago|2 comments
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by andyxor 5y ago
after interacting with some wikipedia "mods" i got an impression it's a complete waste of time, kind of like talking to religious fanatics or nerdy leftists, they seem to have unlimited time on their hands and will DDoS you
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by andyxor 5y ago
i think it's better to have multiple versions of wikipedia articles, maintained via something like github repo the distribution would be via something like a search portal with ranking similar to Pagerank, or create an explicit mechan
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by andyxor 5y ago
most of wikipedia content is in public domain, how hard is it to "fork" wikipedia and start a new version without the army of their power editors and biased "admins", i.e. take an initial snapshot of the content as a se
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Switching System Revealed in Human Information Processing and Memory(neurosciencenews.com)
2 points by andyxor 5y ago|0 comments

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