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by chestertn 4y ago
I am talking about old papers that might not be widely known (i.e., have few citations) but present some useful results that I can use in my research. In my field, the latest papers are a bit "click-baity". They have interesting t
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by chestertn 4y ago
I tend to use and cite older works because they tend to be better written and reproducible.
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by chestertn 4y ago
I am filtering out because I am tired of Marvel, marvel derivatives, anything with a main character and superpowers. I do love international films and seeing what different cultures can create. I feel sad when they imitate the lowest that w
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by chestertn 5y ago
I understand that you guys want people to be open-minded. But there is so much space in one's mind. In this day an age you have to be selective and filter aggressively.
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by chestertn 5y ago
I saw the trailer. Looks like a Chinese Marvel movie with a wacky premise like Inception or what not. I think I will pass. I watched Drive My Car recently. That is a good movie!
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by chestertn 5y ago
Unfortunately, having a patent today is not synonymous with being an inventor. Like peer-reviewed papers, it has become something to display in your resume and hence gamified. Research has been taken over by careerists rather than idealists
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by chestertn 5y ago
Exactly
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by chestertn 5y ago
No, that is a serendipity. Emergent behavior is when the sum is more than its parts.
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by chestertn 5y ago
I noticed that as well. It is scary. There is this big push in academia to work in AI because funding. Many mathematicians are a bit fed up with AI because the paper of the fields tend to be a bit liberal with claims and they are not subjec
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by chestertn 5y ago
Sorry, oldest university in continuous operation in Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in... The universities that you mention are ruins. No need for the sarcasm.
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by chestertn 5y ago
This is a very colorful view of history. You can also see that the first university in America was built by the spaniards. The first university in Asia? Also, built by the spaniards. The earlier ships were a mixture of those "barbarian
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by chestertn 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_colonial_Spanish_Am...
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by chestertn 5y ago
I think non-ideal is an euphemism. Being negative in American media doesn’t look good.
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by chestertn 5y ago
I think you can buy apartments?
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by chestertn 5y ago
Has anybody read about insuline resistance?
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by chestertn 5y ago
The Nobel prize is 120 years old and I don’t think it can be awarded posthumously. > but got scooped, which sucks buts that’s how science works sometimes I work in science. It hasn’t been always like this and it is getting worse. Nobody
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by chestertn 5y ago
> I don't mean to trivialize Mojica's work, but at the end of the day if not for the later work of Doudna and Charpentier, Mojica's work on CRISPR would be unknown and irrelevant to 99.9999% of the world population. And if
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by chestertn 5y ago
He did not just "do important work". He discovered and described the CRISPR mechanism. Without CRISPR, there is no CRISPR-cas9. > showed how to use it as a DNA editing tool Don't we care about basic research anymore?
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by chestertn 5y ago
> The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson. The Nobel prize should have gone to Francis Mojica. Of course, he does not have all the PR machine that Doudna has, the futuristic T
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by chestertn 5y ago
Right! Unfortunately, because the feud between Catholics and Protestants at that time, the later seldom recognize the influences of the former and it seems that there were these “dark ages” until they arrived. See, for instance, the School
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by chestertn 5y ago
It is so dumb it might work.
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by chestertn 5y ago
How do you measure your RHR while sleeping?
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by chestertn 5y ago
Spain is not tropical
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by chestertn 5y ago
No, no. To China and the Ottoman Empire as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps#After_1492 https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by chestertn 5y ago
I have talked about this a bit more in another comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28936345 There are also possible contacts between ancient peoples in Europe and the Americas: https://en.wikipedi
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by chestertn 5y ago
A nuance here. Why is this important? Slavery was very common back then and the New Laws were revolutionary. The Ottomans were famous for their slave trade and did capture tons of Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by chestertn 5y ago
Yes, but they continued the Buddhism tradition (orally). The Vikings did not continue commercing and tell other people... hey! there are humans in this place! its a new continent!
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by chestertn 5y ago
Yes. Meaningless. 1492? Very meaningful. One of the most important feats if not the most important of what we used to call the Age of Exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery This led to global trade
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by chestertn 5y ago
Colombus was trying to find India and he explored the area trying to find proof that he indeed found India. Furthermore, Colombus brought an interpreter with him, Luis de Torres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_To
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by chestertn 5y ago
There are plenty of valid claims that many other civilizations contacted America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co... But it is meaningless since they did not write about it nor they stablis

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