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by dash2 1y ago
Beware of Frontiers In... journals. They do not have a great reputation.
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by dash2 1y ago
The raw numbers don’t seem to address gp’s point. Indian migration started earlier than Pakistani migration, so you’d expect more second+ generation migrants among Indians. Edit: sorry, I didn’t realise you meant migrant flows. That is rele
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by dash2 1y ago
Or maybe they’ll just watch one minute videos via satellite connection…
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by dash2 1y ago
I guess my children will never see the night sky without tens of satellites flying through it. Irrespective of who wins the space war, I’m sad about that.
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by dash2 1y ago
The ecosystem is just R packages, right? There's also RStudio integration with e.g. rmarkdown, knitr, quarto etc. but presumably all of that can also come in positron.
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by dash2 1y ago
I just want to make a fun 3d model of my dog! It's like complaining I haven't taken a professional photography course when I snap photos of my kids.
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by dash2 1y ago
What if I don't want to spend a few weeks learning Blender? What if I just want to spend a couple of hours and get something that's good enough?
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by dash2 1y ago
I'm not sure about the assumption that science is context-free. Maths maybe, but a lot of practical science has tons of unformalized contextual knowledge that is "handed down" by practitioners. It's one reason why replic
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by dash2 1y ago
Maybe not... given its Price/Sales ratio, it's pricing in about 10 years of 30% growth. It's a great company (bracketing the ethics issue which has produced a lot of boring discussion here). But even a great company can be se
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by dash2 1y ago
OK, interesting hypothesis. So, I wondered how it would do with "Why should cultural historians care about ice cores?" which indeed requires gluing together ideas across areas. I asked ChatGPT 5 on Thinking mode: https:/&#x2
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by dash2 1y ago
I found chatgpt happily translated my questions about Cagayan De Oro into Bisaya, which my wife verified was pretty good.
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by dash2 1y ago
Yeah, I mean, how do they identify the causal effect here? It's obviously not easy, because polluted areas are also poor areas, and poor people live in poor areas (and have other problems). It would be nice if the article had mentioned
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by dash2 1y ago
They missed OpenAI Codex, maybe deliberately? It's less llm-development and more vibe-coding, or maybe "being a PHB of robots". I'm enjoying it for my side project this week.
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by dash2 1y ago
Man soll den Flüchtlingen aus Deutschland keine Träne nachweinen, eh?
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by dash2 1y ago
Perhaps this is the modern version of "every company ships its own org chart"? Maybe Gemini's priorities are those of a Google engineer, Claude's are those of an engineer at Anthropic....
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by dash2 1y ago
I mean, there are three serious top level AI companies, and the only thing they're competing on right now is the quality of their frontier models. Or arguably their ability to raise cash, in an extremely "buzzy" market....
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by dash2 1y ago
Spending grew about 8% a year under New Labour on average, which doesn't seem like sabotage to me.
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by dash2 1y ago
I wonder if the gap between perception and reality, from that recent study, is because AIs are still so slow? The modern equivalent of https://xkcd.com/303/ might be "Waiting for the agent to complete!" So th
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by dash2 1y ago
> Maliciousness, incompetence, and accidents all look EXACTLY THE SAME from a replication perspective. Why do you think that? If something fails to replicate it, you can investigate the original paper, and then there may be very clear ev
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by dash2 1y ago
It's easier to see your own society's faults. The NHS also has waste, most obviously the deadweight loss caused by queuing. I know someone who went back to get treated to her own country. Not remarkable except that country was Ukr
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by dash2 1y ago
Not necessarily. You only have to overcome the dilution on specific dimensions. Suppose everyone mates only on intelligence, and marries a person of exactly equal genetic intelligence to themselves. Then there's no dilution per generat
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by dash2 1y ago
Your first paragraph is obvious. Your second paragraph is not generally true. Neither have anything to do with what I said.
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by dash2 1y ago
Yup, take a look at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01062-7.pdf
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by dash2 1y ago
That's extremely likely. Indeed, for (a) ethnicity and (b) geography, it's obvious that these correlate with ancestry; people tend to marry within their neighbourhood and within their clan. That's one reason why the principal
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by dash2 1y ago
Unless there's very strong assortative mating...
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by dash2 1y ago
One example is that elite families before the Chinese revolution became elite again after the Deng reforms, even though the revolution itself was so redistributive (and repressive) that they became poorer than average during the revolutiona
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by dash2 1y ago
I have read the book, and also several of his other papers :-)
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by dash2 1y ago
That's an obvious alternative hypothesis, but Greg Clark has done quite a lot to support the genetic hypothesis, though never directly with genetic data IIRC.
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by dash2 1y ago
Yes. But if you're suggesting that you could treat differences with cousins as random, the way we can treat differences with siblings, then no, because of assortative mating; e.g. if my cousin's "good genes" came from my
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by dash2 1y ago
Wish granted: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/05/18/202...

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