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by calf 3y ago
Subjectively to me the low notes sound almost fake, like a default GarageBand piano sound. Or like the thin, metallic notes of a harpsichord.
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by calf 3y ago
I listened to the Clara Schumann piece and I thought the low notes have a "perfectly tinny" sound, as if they were computer-generated on MATLAB. Or like a harpsichord. I assume that's the difference?
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by calf 3y ago
Yeah I'm not disagreeing with you at all, it's the Christianity and Hong Kong's post-colonial legacy. The mainland Chinese social order is secular. The technocratic state, the CCP, had a lot to do with that. I would actually
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by calf 3y ago
You should see the look on my parents' HK church friends whenever I unintentionally start talking about science, it's like I said a swear word.
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by calf 3y ago
Several years ago there was publicized a P = NP proof, and during our group meeting I couldn't help but audibly scoff, but our advisor just calmly downloaded the pdf and started skimming it. It was an object lesson for me. Keep an open
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by calf 3y ago
Who is this Andrecot person? Were they the one responsible for spreading the Sinead paper everywhere? I feel like unless they have a PhD or equivalent research background, they will make the mistake of reading too much into a single paper.
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by calf 3y ago
But do they define programming languages as conlangs though? Their examples are Esperanto and Klingon, as opposed to actual mathematical formal languages.
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by calf 3y ago
It's been a while since college physics, are classic superconductors quantum mechanical effects as well?
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by calf 3y ago
Could there be limitations to making a large piece of this crystal, so in practice it is never useful?
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by calf 3y ago
If some third party scoops a more reliable process that would seem unfortunate for the original group.
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by calf 3y ago
I'm sure we did but basically you're showing there is no critical theory bastion, they are a diffuse minority compared to most actual departments. And that tracks with my personal campus experiences, as well as the historical acco
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by calf 3y ago
They're just dog whistling about racism, because if you read their comment at arm's length, you would realize that it itself is a negative "modal" argument of the exact form that it seeks to decry.
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by calf 3y ago
What was it that you learned about in AI? Did they discuss stochastic gradient descent and overparameterization?
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by calf 3y ago
But a) and b) aren't really topics of learning. Which I want to point out as the root of the problem. Debate is not really about learning, not in the arts and sciences sense. I remember once an MIT lecture made the point that medicine
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by calf 3y ago
Where is this bastion of critical theory which I would like to visit? I've spent years in academia, admittedly in STEM but I saw little actual explicit critical theory. I was all alone discovering and reading post-Marxist texts, with n
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by calf 3y ago
Where was the argument, may I see it? I vaguely remember switching current and leakage current as sources of heat, but mircoelectronic circuits has been a while for me...
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by calf 3y ago
Are wild blueberries = huckleberries? I read that huckleberries are delicious but could not be domesticated, many attempts were made but failed.
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by calf 3y ago
I'll bite, your friend may be a professional scientist, but their response was simply "absolutely not". I had a biologist friend who had the same attitude toward eating raw eggs. The fact is the science has not looked at risk
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by calf 3y ago
My highschool science teacher told use Vaseline was an excellent moisturizer, she said to put in on after showering, when your skin is moist, for best effect.
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by calf 3y ago
Was eating Canadian blueberries today as they're in season, and thought to read a little about blueberries and found this article discussing the super-sized Australian blueberries that were going around social media in recent years.
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‘The best blueberry’: how a tiny North American fruit took over Australia (2022)(theguardian.com)
61 points by calf 3y ago|78 comments
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by calf 3y ago
I'm sorry, is there a reason for such a passive aggressive tone and dismissive remark? Specifically with the ellipses and the extra "I guess"? Most people would find that rude. What is it that you intend to communicate here?
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by calf 3y ago
No, you misunderstand, I am very interested in what scientists generally think of sous vide technology, and that's why I asked the question. I'm not the same commenter you had replied to.
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by calf 3y ago
I'm not scared, I read most of that paper, unlike some commenters
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by calf 3y ago
I was not aware sous vide isn't popular among scientists? Is this from personal knowledge or something someone said? There are legitimate molecular gastronomists - the French professor Herve This comes to mind, and also the American Do
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by calf 3y ago
Like a mason jar? I get that for certain foods, but for something like shrimp, fillet of fish, or a piece of chicken breast then that poses some challenges.
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by calf 3y ago
That was last week on hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36532812 Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food (acs.org)
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by calf 3y ago
I cook sous vide and utilize vacuum sealers, because I love the culinary results that can be achieved with a little bit of technology, but this is one thing that bothers me. Between this study and the other study last month, so-called food-
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by calf 3y ago
I read it was another employee, so maybe their impression got miscommunicated and the CEO assumed the worst - except without any evidence. Which is still bad behavior given that he hasn't addressed the recording evidence publicly. IIRC
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by calf 3y ago
Good idea, but my question would be whether cognitive context frames or relational frames are more computationally analogous to function calls or counting numbers. We know LLMs are still bad at counting, for example. (Hope the gist of my qu

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