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by contubernio 6mo ago
Secrecy is anathema to government accountability. It is not the same to film private persons as it is to film government agents.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
Silly management fads waste huge amounts of time and resources and generate all manner of perverse incentives. They entrench institutional mediocrity as much as anything.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
What is worrisome about this development, and corollary actions like the hiring of a CEO with a $300,000/year salary, is that the essentially independent and community based platform will disappear. The ArXiv exists because mathematici
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by contubernio 7mo ago
A Fields medal was awarded based mainly on this paper never published elsewhere: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211159
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by contubernio 7mo ago
It's not a simplification, it's wrong. Sqrt(square(x)) equals abs(x).
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by contubernio 7mo ago
Secrecy is anathema to governance accountable to the governed.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
US law fails to recognize real world practice. It's bad engineering at its finest.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
It would be a hell of a lot more functional to simply say directly what you want and mean. This sort of management is dysfunctional even in it's premises.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
Couldn't find blood oranges (sanguina in Spanish). Curious to know where they fit.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
The USA cares for no law, follows no law, and respects no law.
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by contubernio 7mo ago
Exactly. The solution already exists. However another problem is that the arxiv is creeping towards the old model ...
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by contubernio 7mo ago
There is not good evidence that peer review improves quality and there is perhaps some to the contrary (many predatory journals are peer reviewed). The arxiv (unreviewed) is among the most reliable sources available.
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by contubernio 8mo ago
In Spain the typical doorbell camera is illegal. In an apartment building it is illegal to have a camera on the door that points into "common" areas even though these are still private areas vis-a-vis the general public.
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by contubernio 8mo ago
In Spain a private entity can't put a security camera that points into public spaces ...
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by contubernio 8mo ago
"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department
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by contubernio 8mo ago
Only well written legislation backed by effective enforcement and severe and personal criminal penalties will prevent large corporate entities from behaving badly. Pledges are a cynical marketing strategy aimed at fomenting a base politics
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by contubernio 8mo ago
It is amazing how much narrative archaeologists construct out of a single poorly preserved bone and radiocarbon dating that happens to conform nicely with a famous historical mystery. One should maintain a healthy skepticism about this sort
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by contubernio 8mo ago
Those are qualitatively different issues. Newtonian gravity is very precise in a certain regime according to centuries of experiments. The issues with specific orngs are in many cases not even carefully analyzed.
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by contubernio 8mo ago
If practical purposes include simulating physical processes then the problems with orngs become quite important.
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by contubernio 8mo ago
Is this not what electrical engineers are for?
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by contubernio 9mo ago
For most people the set "the smartest people I know as adults" inludes no elite performers in any area.
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by contubernio 9mo ago
The abstract seems already highly tendentious. It acts like 90% nonoverlap (whatever that means precisely) between sets A and B is very small overlap, when at a population level it is huge overlap. If the set of yough high performers and th
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by contubernio 9mo ago
The problem is not just empathy. It is also ethics. The fine distinction between opting out of A and opting out of B described in the post served to justify ignoring the opt out request. That's lazy ethically. The entire US business se