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by bloaf 5y ago
OR if someone is going to fabricate results, they fabricate them in a direction that they expect others will find interesting.
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by bloaf 5y ago
Another issue: If you frame your goal as "stop the spread of disinformation" rather than "convince people to return to the fold," is this result even perverse? If you can make all the people who believe in crazy conspira
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by bloaf 5y ago
You don't need a humanities degree to document your local coal mine's history or contribute to your local art culture. You do need a STEM degree if you are going to serve your local community as e.g. a doctor or an engineer. I&
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by bloaf 5y ago
I too suspect "data oriented programming" is just array programming rebranding itself.
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by bloaf 6y ago
To anything with read access to your chosen storage filesystem.
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by bloaf 6y ago
It feels nice and clean, but also like it is leaking the list of sites I use.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Could we just make something that spams the FLoC algorithm with garbage so we get put in random interest cohorts?
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by bloaf 6y ago
I do that where I work because we have an internal git that is wide open, but packages from the outside world need to get whitelisted. More controversially: With a few (<10) lines of code in your setup file, you can make an install-able
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by bloaf 6y ago
Economic slowdowns have historically been associated with increased life expectancy, despite their impact on mental health: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00210-0
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by bloaf 6y ago
My personal experience is that establishing a good exercise routine helps with the diet a lot. If you're pushing yourself fitness-wise, you start to notice the impact diet (and sleep) has on your performance and select for foods that
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by bloaf 6y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. When I see a slogan like "don't be seen as misogynist" my brain fills in "don't be seen [by whom?] as misogynist." Is Stallman actually impeding the FSF's mis
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by bloaf 6y ago
You asked "where did you find Andy mentioning anything about a new kind of ideological purity?" I answered with a line where he specifically demands the FSF get rid of people "perceived" as misogynist. I.e. apply a moder
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by bloaf 6y ago
> Of course I would rather that the FSF wouldn't allow itself to be seen as an essentially misogynist organization. So clean house, FSF!
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by bloaf 6y ago
So many of these nonprofit software orgs seem to be run like small town churches. Board members are selected through some combination of ideological purity, zeal, and nepotism rather than any sensible measure of competence or efficacy. And
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by bloaf 6y ago
US lab shut down temporarily due to inadequate waste sterilization. They were infecting monkeys with ebola? https://wjla.com/news/local/cdc-shut-down-army-germ-lab-heal...
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by bloaf 6y ago
I saw something like that years ago (I think someone had done it in matlab?) and was recently struggling to find it again. Thanks so much for posting!
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by bloaf 6y ago
You can take that up with the authors: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271714033_Political...
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by bloaf 6y ago
I have some unprofessional sociological suspicions, so I will lay them out as assertions with this caveat serving as the blanket qualifier. First, some observations: 1. Research has found that the probability of conspiratorial thinking is
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by bloaf 6y ago
The Canadian paper, National Post, seems to have a discussion: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/here-are-the-wr... However, I have seen some disagreement among different news sources about what exactly
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by bloaf 6y ago
That's not my reading. I think they are saying that models which *can* over-fit the data in both theory and practice, appear not do so when there are in fact generalizations in the data.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Microsoft seems to be wandering around in the same field, with their slow expansion of dotnet & Blazor.
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by bloaf 6y ago
The witches in a witch hunt are "guilty" of making their communities uncomfortable, but we are perfectly comfortable pointing our fingers at the intolerance of the communities rather than the idiosyncrasies of the witches.
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by bloaf 6y ago
There is a difference between indifference and dispassion. Because of the author's long career and varied experiences, he is able to see that most issues are not black and white. The problem is that high school kids are not academica
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by bloaf 6y ago
Came here to ask about the Powell method. I find Powell is typically what engineers come up with if asked to optimize something "by hand" without a mathematical model of the system they are optimizing. https://en.wikip
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by bloaf 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson
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by bloaf 6y ago
That is the level of understanding that the NYT piece seems to be promoting, but it is not at all my point. The point of the quote I posted is that these "deviationists" do not jump on bandwagons of any kind, be they good or bad.
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by bloaf 6y ago
I think the real summary of Scott Alexander's community was written 80 years ago. https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ > Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant pro
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by bloaf 6y ago
Virtually everything is interconnected [0], but some regions are more connected than others. All the producers and consumers know how much it costs to ship to/from different hubs, including Asia and Europe, and will do so very quickly
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by bloaf 6y ago
I'm not even confident about the "many could read it" part. Most papers are full of obscure jargon, and occasionally fields of study will just re-define words for their own purposes.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Natural gas prices have been absolutely wild the past few days. https://www.naturalgasintel.com/weekly-natural-gas-prices-so... If you're not used to their bizarre units of volume the key takaway is this: Quantities

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