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by caddemon 3y ago
What is harm reduction though? The catch with severe addiction is that those suffering actively fight against treatment as a result of the disease. Is there a point of functioning at which we can force an opioid addict into treatment? Or is
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by caddemon 3y ago
Children and those deemed mentally unwell in a legal sense lack various individual freedoms though. There's always some trade off.
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by caddemon 3y ago
I don't think the denial relates to the guilt so much as it relates to the probability the person will be able to ditch this habit when they need to. Given that someone has an addiction problem, they're far more likely to overcome
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by caddemon 3y ago
If you dislike the size of your current phone, it sounds like you might enjoy the z flip.
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by caddemon 3y ago
I could absolutely see the flip style phone (small form factor and unfolds to normal size) being very popular. At the least it is convenient if you wear women's clothing, which roughly 50% of people do. Even an old-ish model of the z f
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by caddemon 3y ago
Well if you yourself are trying to publish in a scientific venue you can't always cite exactly what you want to cite. Though it's probably uncommon for a peer reviewer to ask for a specific citation to be removed, the review proce
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's also pretty clear that, unless research totally stalls, 100 years from now we will have articles discussing how various yet to be coined disorders were all lumped under the label "autism".
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by caddemon 3y ago
It can also come up in a more formal social setting if the Dr. prefix is on place setting or RSVP list. Before I was married I used to always RSVP with doctor just because I hated the Ms. prefix.
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by caddemon 3y ago
Eh I think it's different when someone senior in your field makes a general judgement that would apply to you. That's not at all the same as a random person on the street. I also think it depends on how subconscious you are about
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by caddemon 3y ago
I don't disagree but the statement is also weird from the perspective of objective reality in 2023. My old PhD program's current 5 year graduation rate is way below 50%. I think it's like 10% if you don't count the MD&#x
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by caddemon 3y ago
Not excusing the length of the OP's PhD, but I'm assuming you entered with a master's? In the US you typically start a PhD straight out of undergrad, and then the first entire year (and usually part of the second) are essenti
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by caddemon 3y ago
That's an interesting theoretical argument but in practice the much larger reason is that a negative result is not sexy. Regardless, I don't agree with this philosophy when it comes to the functioning of the scientific system. A f
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by caddemon 3y ago
The biggest issue is that 30 years ago the odds of getting a tenure track position if you stayed in academia were much higher, and you often didn't need to do a postdoc for more than a year or two at that. I'm guessing PhDs were m
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by caddemon 3y ago
Arresting that guy will help solve the vagrant problem. It won't solve the homelessness problem, and that's definitely a hugely important point. Most people who become the vagrant type of homeless have serious underlying mental il
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by caddemon 3y ago
I think there are 2 separate issues here: 1. The silent majority of homeless people that are suffering and with the proper services could get back on their feet, but they are not actually having a day to day impact on the general population
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by caddemon 3y ago
In SF/Bay Area there is definitely a separate issue besides just the shrinking middle class. SWEs that by all other metrics would be solidly middle class if not upper middle are having a hard time finding affordable homes there. The on
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by caddemon 3y ago
Even top public test high schools like Stuyvesant in NYC have an attitude towards their students as if it is daycare. Just look how they acted when teachers were calling out sick en masse during Omicron. They cancelled many classes but forc
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by caddemon 3y ago
I hate academic trend following as much as anyone, but is it really true people are not employable in this space if they don't understand mathematical foundations? Sure, they're not getting a job at DeepMind, but it feels like the
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by caddemon 3y ago
It really depends how good the course is, with well-designed problem sets/project prompts you can't really fake learning (assuming you actually complete them). Is it going to be totally exhaustive of everything you may need to kno
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by caddemon 3y ago
This was written by young undergrads with no actual research experience and a random visiting lecturer who is obviously trying to career climb (and had it backfire). Certainly there is bad research produced by MIT but I'd hardly call t
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by caddemon 3y ago
It graded itself, so that explains that lol
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by caddemon 3y ago
I agree with the ideal you're speaking of, but the lecturer that uploaded the paper was promoting it on Twitter in a way that really isn't consistent with that sort of intent. This entire scenario seems like a failed attempt to ma
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by caddemon 3y ago
I mean if the dude submitted the work without the permission of the actual lead authors that's a pretty big violation, which also could explain in part why the methodology was so bad.
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by caddemon 3y ago
I mean I think peer review kind of is fundamentally broken, but at the same time this phenomenon isn't necessarily a sign of it. Even within technical papers, let alone pop writing or internet discussions, many of the claims citations
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by caddemon 3y ago
I've heard such mixed things about Bard lately, I wonder if it depends on the application one is trying to use it for? And yeah there's definitely good reason to work on scalability but they are charging such a cheap rate to begin
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by caddemon 3y ago
If that happened it would indirectly change the incentives anyway, because everyone would start being required to release data, so bad practices that are currently incentivized would become impossible. However I think it would be better to
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's never going to be a guarantee, but it's also implemented very shittily at present. There's a difference between what peer review is and what it should be. It makes sense to look at it realistically in day to day practice
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by caddemon 3y ago
It's also possible to be functionally bogus while doing everything 100% by the book. If you control things super well you can inadvertently make your result so narrow that it's basically meaningless, at least with the way the scie
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by caddemon 3y ago
Yeah that makes sense for some products/companies. It just seems short sighted for OpenAI when they could be solidifying a customer base right now. If they actually degrade the product in the name of "tuning" people will just
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by caddemon 3y ago
I bet there are people purposely screwing with it, since they designed it to be 2 sided when you get paired with a human. The actual Turing test is not supposed to be this way, though it still relies on at least some assumption of good fait

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