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by d0mine 4y ago
"Science advances one funeral at a time." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/
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by d0mine 4y ago
There are such things e.g., Pythonista 3rd party keyboard on iOS (android is even more likely to support custom keyboards).
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There are books on the topic e.g., "The End Of Physics" by D.Lindley. There are two questions: - whether there are laws that describe everything there is to know (e.g., the answer is yes for chess—there are rules that describe i
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by d0mine 4y ago
text is superior (as in programming languages, not natural language) in the general case but there may be exceptions GUI builders, mock-ups, diagrams, tricking non-programmers into programming (iOS shortcuts(yahoo pipes), Scratch/Alice
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by d0mine 4y ago
Do we have definite proof that the original SARS-CoV-2 hasn't escaped the lab?
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Unrelated, but in general, a deadline can be used as a tool: avoid unnecessary work, focus. Especially, if it is a soft deadline. It is not just for teenagers, there are whole books on the topic e.g., "The Deadline Effect" by Chr
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by d0mine 4y ago
38000km is just 10% of the current Moon-Earth distance and on the time scale of billions years, there are other things to worry: "the Sun will likely engulf Earth in about 7.59 billion years." https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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It is a classic just-so story. "Gould expressed deep skepticism as to whether evolutionary psychology could ever provide objective explanations for human behavior, even in principle; additionally, even if it were possible to do so, Gou
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by d0mine 4y ago
"the whole truth" suggests that the news while inaccurate in detail convey truth overall. It is not my experience: it is more of black is white and up is down. In other words, you are less informed after consuming the news, not ju
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by d0mine 4y ago
There are many people affected but perhaps is not enough to prioritize, the law seems appropriate to balance the scale https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics... .
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For reference, 6 sigma is one-in-a-billion case (one-tail): print(f"{1 - statistics.NormalDist().cdf(6):.1g}") # 1e-09 and 2 sigma is two-in-a-hundred (~2%). ~5% for two-tail case.
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by d0mine 4y ago
correct. I don't see where Lawrence Krauss claims otherwise.
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I've interpreted "imminent" meaning "about to occur" that is one-in-six chances of global nuclear war soon.
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I see trillion rea$ons of military spendings to convince the general public that enemies are all around. Though actually starting a full scale war is stupid—there is a non-zero chance that the human civilization as we know it won't s
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by d0mine 4y ago
> > Each experiment quotes a likelihood of very close to “5 sigma,” meaning the likelihood that the events were produced by chance is less than one in 3.5 million. > These words come from Lawrence Krauss, a highly respected the
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by d0mine 4y ago
I'm jumping around on the screen using <leap key> <where to go key> -> <hint keys> https://github.com/abo-abo/avy#avy-goto-char This UX does not break my flow (it doesn't require focus&#x
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by d0mine 4y ago
Google is a tool like a knife. If you don't know how to use it, you can cut yourself. In a world, there children can't avoid knifes, children should be thought how to use them safely. Google returning nonsense results can be expl
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by d0mine 4y ago
Your comment could benefit from some specifics and/or a link to the better (in your opinion) guide.
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It reminds me the chess memory experiment where more experienced chess players had much better recall of real chess positions than novices and the same recall for random positions (around 4 pieces). If it is the same phenomena then we may
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by d0mine 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595767
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by d0mine 4y ago
Actually, there is a recent ~"law"? (discussed on HN) that essentially forbids publishing research that may be misinterpreted by the pronoun people (i.e., any research can be banned).
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> your experience versus mine It is not how it works. A single counter-example is enough to refute your point. For simplicity (just the essence), imagine, you said: "I've never saw a white crow" (your experience) and I sai
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It is not true. I worked with many programmers that were productive and never read any scientific papers. It is enough that somebody on the team (me) reads them and provides the corresponding perspective.
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by d0mine 4y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful answer. It is more than my comment deserves. I agree with most you said. I had to look up what is "Kant’s Axe Murderer dilemma". I feel the same way that the best sci-fi is about us/our lives. Th
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by d0mine 4y ago
"bad feeling" is too generous. Microsoft is famous for its ubiquitous telemetry. It is not a suspicion, data collection is a fact. today. already.
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It is very sad that facts do not matter just populism
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Your metaphor would work if we discussed whether or not to contact some isolated tribe in Amazon. Then we could have discussed pro/cons of destroying someone way of life by introducing our civilization vs. turning a blind eye to the po
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The prime directive is not for peer civilization. Iran is not on a stone age (yet).
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There is a real example when a government spy actually led a terrorist organization: "Azef, a double-agent in the employ of the Tsarist secret police Okhrana, changed the Terrorist Brigade's mode of attack from firearms to dynamit
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It is obvious that Russia has abysmal chances against NATO (10+x population, economy, technology, war experience).

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