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by dash2 2y ago
Is this maybe what some cognitive scientists call "pseudo-profound bullshit"? [1] I'm open to being persuaded otherwise. [1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
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Behaviourally modern is thought to be a bit more recent, isn't it... partly because of evidence like art!
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"The discovery pushes back the time that modern humans first showed the capacity for creative thought." Hmm. The very simplest model you could have of this would be the German Tank Problem [1]. If discoveries of X (e.g. art, hunti
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by dash2 2y ago
I feel like this is one of those moral dilemma things where: * It's probably really bad that BG is glorifying violence and murder and threatening witnesses * It would be better if he stopped * It's completely understandable that h
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by dash2 2y ago
This comes up a lot in genetics. One crowd says "polygenic scores for education don't tell you much, because look how low the R-squared is!" Another crowd (including me) says "polygenic scores for education are a big dea
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by dash2 2y ago
There are many reputable analysts who agree with my analysis. Here's one: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/... . Here's another: https://heinonline.org/HOL/
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I'm an academic, and I use markdown, because I don't want to do my own typesetting . I want to write a paper. When I open my document I want to see: title: Title of article author: Author Name not 300 lines of backsl
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It was a slur against collaborators with communism, not against social democrats: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/08/22/useful-idiot/
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You are hoping to replace the fact that society exists and the economy exists within its context. There is no other way to prevent people from networking to get jobs and promotions. You've also now stretched the concept to include nume
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Markdown. There is some exaggeration in my "Notepad", but the fact is, Overleaf lacks many features of a decent modern text editor, starting with a decent menu bar, all wrapped in the awkwardness of using a web browser as the main
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Overleaf is an example of academics' Stockholm syndrome with respect to LaTeX. It's a not very good web-based text editor with none of the basic features you'd expect from your text editor. Think Notepad, but online. But thes
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Is there a way out of this dilemma? Are there any decent APIs for UK data, by the way?
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Huge missed opportunity here to name the library "vampire-squid"... From the README this looks like a piece of advertising to developers about what GS does, more than anything useful to the outside world.
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Diagnosed by a doctor? I'm terribly sorry, but this just sounds like a long word for "I find it hard to be likeable". So do I, but I don't think of it as a disability: it's a part of my character, which to a reasona
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When you say "disability", what do you mean exactly? Is it a specific disease, or do you just mean "I find networking difficult, and it feels immoral"?
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Professor Charged for Operating Multimillion-Dollar Grant Fraud Scheme(justice.gov)
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Windows is being replaced by Apple? Or doing the replacing?
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The "Capture" trait looks very like the following proposal for a "Claim" trait, motivated by very similar pain points: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/06/21/cla
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What packages belong together? Learning from R code samples(hughjonesd.github.io)
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Can I suggest one extra piece of advice? Take up singing! It's a great way to learn to breathe and strengthen those muscles. Plus, it is one of the most fun and bonding things to do in a group.
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Right. It's fine for him to be as cowardly as everyone else! But then he's not a hero who speaks truth to power, unlike say Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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Here's Edward Snowden heroically waffling about "nuance" when asked why he hasn't spoken out more about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On a crypto website. He became a full citizen of Russia in autumn 2022, by the wa
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I agree with this. I wonder what it would take to let R spread beyond its niche into a more popular data science language. My worry is that with polars coming along, Python is catching up where it's behind, and staying ahead where it i
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by dash2 2y ago
Sort the digits to 'wxyz', where each letter is a 0-9 digit. 'wxyz' - 'zyxw' = 999(w - z) + 90(x - y) w - z is between 1 and 9, since w > z (we have ruled out numbers like 1111). x - y is between 0 and 9. So
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1% is my guess, and I'd call it a maximum. There is also a trade-off: when you use numbers, most people won't look up the reference at all. This means they simply don't know who deserves the credit. Or they may think a refere
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"Fundamentally, the problem with this is that it's actively encouraging guesses to override the communication of ethically required citation information." This is silly. 99% of the time, if you cite Autor et al. (2013), it&#x
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German unemployment is 3.2%. US unemployment is 4.0%. Neither of these are at all high by historical standards. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press&#x2F
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That seems weirdly low given AI hype. Why is OpenAI worth more than ten times more?
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No, I think that is pretty bad. I mean, it's awesome that a computer can do it, and the concept of tweaking the Poe story is fine - but I suspect that is a choice made by the prompt engineer. As for the lyrics, throwing in the ember af
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by dash2 2y ago
Controversial take ahead. If, as an artist, you don't want AI to eat your lunch, there's a simple solution: produce art that is better than AI. It doesn't seem surprising that the AI band here is in the metal subgenre. Some m

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