derbOac

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by derbOac 3y ago
But they don't do that with physical books.
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by derbOac 3y ago
I get so frustrated by these games. Publishers should lose copyright to every work they do not offer in perpetuity with every purchase in every format, and there should be no postsale restrictions on any item beyond what is implied by copyr
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think I was thinking of the reMarkable 2 tablet somewhat when I wrote that but I was thinking more in general. I know Kobo also has a new eink reader that's supposed to be good for note taking.
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by derbOac 3y ago
I have this same issue. I usually save things in a "to read" bookmark folder that gets synced across devices, or leave them in open tabs that are accessible across devices in Firefox. If I don't read them after awhile I just
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think smooshing might work with kids: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-expert-reveals-fascinating-lin...
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think you're articulating something about this proposal that bothers me. The thing about the actual separators is that an editor could and should probably display them as they were intended, as data separators. It should be a setti
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by derbOac 3y ago
How safe would something like this be? It has a lot of appeal to me but I'm already getting nervous about battery fires as it is.
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by derbOac 3y ago
I thought it was a little odd the article didn't mention jumping spiders, whose cognition has been studied a fair amount (probably not as much as bees though): https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind
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by derbOac 3y ago
Sometimes I feel like there should be a daily rating index of how different recommendation or search systems are doing, a sort of "sentiment index" for recommendation and search system efficacy. I was just thinking about this last
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is why I think US medicine should be deregulated, especially licensing laws. Everything you're describing is screaming monopoly and artificial lack of competition. If providers of class X are too busy to see you, then there's
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by derbOac 3y ago
Except there's studies showing increasing turnover in academics and exiting being unrelated to research quality metrics. There's also research showing pretty clear seniority effects on grant receipt. You're raising a good poi
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by derbOac 3y ago
I always think it's like hiring a plumber to make money for you rather than actually replace your leaky pipe. At some point if everyone does that homeowners are making a lot of money but everyone has corroding plumbing.
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by derbOac 3y ago
The problem though is that the purpose of research is to develop new information. Building a house is an engineering and construction problem, more akin to a medical procedure, where you might want a tried and true method by an experienced
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Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines(arstechnica.com)
5 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
From the paper: "causally closed levels can be efficiently controlled from just macroscopic interventions, without needing to intervene on microscopic conditions." I think that's stating things causally rather than predictive
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by derbOac 3y ago
That article is highly recommended by me to anyone thinking about it. Hilarious but also makes its point.
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A Microbe from Yellowstone's Hot Springs Could Help Feed the World(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I had the same reaction? We don't actually care at all about what happened in the two experiments per se, we care about the information provided by the experiments about future or other events. If somehow we learned that both experimen
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by derbOac 3y ago
I suspect most rewarding careers will always feel challenging; it's the converse of feeling boring.
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by derbOac 3y ago
Our land-based internet with a different [large] ISP went out about 18 hours before this stuff with wireless started, and is still going on. We've been getting similar contradictory messaging the whole time, and they seem confused abou
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by derbOac 3y ago
I've been following this for awhile. Not my area of expertise but it seems like such a solid project. Curious to hear about any experiences using it or thoughts about how it could be improved, extended, or compares to other systems in
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Welcome to the New 'Good' Economy, Where Millions Get Left Behind(vice.com)
13 points by derbOac 3y ago|14 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Interestingly, I was listening to a podcast once and they were interviewing a researcher with Heinz who said one of their R&D goals is developing tomato varieties that are sweet enough to be used in making ketchup without added sugar. I
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by derbOac 3y ago
For what it's worth, I sort of read that as "universities incentivized to maximize profit or income", not literally formally for-profit universities. Sort of a biting remark about typical university motivations, not literal.
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by derbOac 3y ago
Reading through them is fascinating. For example: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Electrical-Experim...
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by derbOac 3y ago
That was sort of my reaction to the article too, like the assumption that "your users want to pair up such as to stop using your app" is an obviously incorrect assumption in many cases. It also occurred to me that there's als
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by derbOac 3y ago
I was just thinking of Star Frontiers; something about the typography reminds me of that. Very nice.
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is fun. A couple of things: It's a bit confusing because I wasn't ranking anything, I was voting for things. I thought I was going to rank the three things I selected, for instance. Some explanation of this might be helpful.
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by derbOac 3y ago
True, but if you get enough people to do it repeatedly theoretically you could also model accuracy as a random variable. So then you get an overall population estimate of accuracy as well as a model of the heterogeneity among individuals. S
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by derbOac 3y ago
Their Figure 1 is why we keep having these discussions in society. It's grossly misleading and not what a scatterplot for a 0.46 correlation looks like. I know what the figure is, it's just done in a way to overstate a case and ig

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