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by derbOac 2y ago
This was cool to read about but the article is sort of lacking links to any kind of detailed report, and when I look for more elsewhere I can't find anything. Also, it's sort of strange there's no mention of aquafaba, even th
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by derbOac 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is controversial but here's my take: if your thesis can be so completely misunderstood on a cursory reading of a topic like this, it's either poor writing, or you're not writing in good faith, and ar
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by derbOac 2y ago
I had a lot of questions about similar issues, mostly surrounding the question of "what is the nature of 'subjective'?" The article deals with this a bit but not as much as I would like — maybe because of the state of th
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by derbOac 2y ago
So, the problem with these types of arguments is the evidence is often obscured by shell games with labels, or ignoring the elephant in the room. My research sort of straddles statistics, epidemiology, neurogenetics, and social sciences, an
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think the concern is more about sweeping black-and-white decisions about funding than funding decisions per se? Also, discussions about "living within your means" almost always lead to questions about "who?" and "
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by derbOac 2y ago
Freud and other psychodynamic theorists were basically the beginning of the idea within medicine and neurobehavioral sciences that people don't always have insight into their behavior. Too much has been made of them on the basis of car
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by derbOac 2y ago
They don't look the same to me but something about the models seems really oversimplified to me, in the sense that the variation they're modeling doesn't come anywhere near capturing real-world variation affecting sexual and
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Nanoscale imaging and control of altermagnetism in MnTe(nature.com)
1 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
I've never been able to get into The Shining — or much of King's writing — so in that sense I agree with you, and feel like maybe we're in the minority. You might ultimately be right about why King was unhappy with Kubrick&#x
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by derbOac 2y ago
> I think it is very logical to allow for vacuous truths. Doing otherwise would not be logical. I guess I disagree, although I don't mean that disrespectfully. Vacuous truth is one reason why nonclassical logics exist. The wikipedia
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by derbOac 2y ago
For me, this is one of those types of examples that illustrates the problem with logics allowing vacuous truth. It amounts to an assumption of an implied conditional ("If I have hats...") which is not always warranted. The "g
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by derbOac 2y ago
This is a good article. My impression is the way we think of scientific credit in general is broken. There's too much of an attempt to attribute credit to a small number of people. This might or might not have been more accurate at one
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Hard times token(en.wikipedia.org)
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by derbOac 2y ago
The blog post reminded me of my last laptop upgrade (Macbook Air) as well. I was perfectly happy with the old laptop, nothing wrong with the hardware for me, but software releases started depending on new OSes and then I couldn't insta
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by derbOac 2y ago
I used to live in the area around where the red delicious was first developed, and they are indeed very different from what people became used to. The original red delicious - assuming the local orchards have something closer to the origina
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by derbOac 2y ago
What I got from the article is that there's levels of rich, and always someone richer. Also, that a lot of stuff he felt in hindsight he should have paid attention to he dismissed as normal at the time because weird is normal in those
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by derbOac 2y ago
I wish I had your optimism about that still. Sturgeon's law is probably true, but I no longer believe that the best is recognized or preserved. The way I see things now is some sort of corollary: Sturgeon was an optimist, and the perce
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by derbOac 2y ago
That makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of the content provided by the recommendation algorithms, as well as human nature. A good recommendation engine, for example, would recognize when someone either likes a broad range of source
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by derbOac 2y ago
Title is a bit odd? "Warren calls for crackdown..." might be less confusing.
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by derbOac 2y ago
Yes, a lot of public universities have had them. My knowledge of them at the two places I'm familiar with is that they're being phased out. One of them they were literally slated for demolition to make room for some other faciliti
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by derbOac 2y ago
Yeah, I think caution is needed with a single study, especially with mice, when drawing conclusions about people. However , this study is suggesting that semaglutide causes more muscle loss than would be expected based on calorie change a
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by derbOac 2y ago
As someone with a lot of research experience in this area, I was expecting something more fluffy but this was actually pretty good. There's a lot of research into some of these ideas at the moment. The terms they use aren't necess
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Computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on X during the US election [pdf](eprints.qut.edu.au)
5 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
The problem, to me, is that today at least in the US there are a lot of areas where there are truths to criticisms, but then the response to it is gratuitous and equally problematic. This article struck me sort of similarly. Reason is an ou
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by derbOac 2y ago
From my perspective HL:Alyx basically made E3 moot. I mean, it's not E3, that's obvious from a number of perspectives including abandoned content and so forth, but it serves the same function as E3, which is to continue the HL uni
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by derbOac 2y ago
That line of inferential philosophy is very Jaynesian, for those who are interested.
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by derbOac 2y ago
The problem IMHO is a variety of US policies have artificially taken out that cheap market in all kinds of domains through protectionist policies like rent seeking, monopolies, and tariffs. So, for example, tariffs hurt the emergence of a c
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by derbOac 2y ago
Yes, the lack of discussion of tariffs in the article and even in these threads is a bit odd to me. The US has tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in part specifically to keep cheap Chinese EVs off the market. The complexities of this are
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by derbOac 2y ago
Trying to think about it, I think it was the dynamics of the "fast zombies". I think if you plunked me in a crude pixelated FPS with abstract enemies, but with the same sudden accelerating approach dynamics I probably would have a
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by derbOac 2y ago
I've played through HL2 and its expansions so many times as a kind of meditative relaxation thing I couldn't tell you how many times. I could never get used to Ravenholm though. Thinking about it even now years later stresses me o

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