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   by derbOac 3y ago

   I love these people's work. At the same time I don't think any of this really addresses the root causes of the problems, which are career, university administrative, and field (i.e., recognition and attention) incentives. The whol
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   I'm not sure I like the way these types of articles frame things, because they tend to create strawmen arguments. I absolutely do not believe that "nice people finish last" as a rule, and I know people who have been very succ
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   I was a bit confused about how authors are supposed to bootstrap themselves into a following according to this article. Putting aside the long tail of book outcomes, do publishers really expect an author to already have a readership somehow
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   Yes! Thanks! There was another one that was posted here awhile ago that was different, but this one looks right.
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   This is so messed up. It shouldn't happen. If a company thinks some compensation is warranted, it should be given as pay, period. Sometimes I'm amazed at what contemporary society thinks is reasonable in terms of compensation norm
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   Tangential but does anyone have any recommendations for hex map generators? I seem to remember something like this posted on HN but was hex maps. When I search for them I get grid generators but not maps.
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   Nice. I always like to see civil twilight as well because it gives a sense of when it's actually light or dark but I can see how for something like this simplicity might be better.
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   Interesting fun read. A couple of reactions. First, I recently reread LotR after decades and was impressed by it. At the same time, I also felt like LotR was sort of a literary dollhouse for Tolkien: although there's a lot of complexit
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   by derbOac 3y ago

   I appreciate addressing this question directly from the perspective of arguments in favor of the practice. It basically answers the question of "why". However: None of these reasons seem to address the problem, they just offer an
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I'd have to say my favorites are 1. The Up series 2. Fog of War 3. The Act of Killing There's several on that list that I want to see now, though.
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    Does anyone know of any good resources on Kolmogorov complexity and fractals such as the Mandelbrot set? Or even on information theory and fractals? For some reason reading this article is making me wonder about the difference between the i
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    FWIW, my spouse works in rehab hospital settings and says tub accessibility is a big problem with lots of the much older and more modern freestanding tubs. Relatively thin, high sides are an injury risk for a lot of people. It's one re
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I've often wondered, if there are multiple different prints of an older film available, they could be averaged or something using modern ML or computational statistics. I get the sense that "unsupervised" methods are underuti
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I have to admit I'm a little confused by this. I understand network criticality in terms of autocorrelation and crosscorrelation, but it seems like they define deviation from criticality in terms of duration of neural ensemble rest per
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    Clearly better security is always better but sometimes I think there needs to be a different way of approaching identity validation etc. Like, maybe we need to assume everyone's records are leaked somewhere all the time? I'm not s
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I think what you're pointing out is often an indicator of good design. In terms of robustness but also the variation in interaction and use the design facilitates.
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I recommend seeing the play if you have the chance. It's a great experience, with a lot of relevance to the current day.
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I wonder about the historical trends in these types of zones. Presumably they didn't exist prior to the industrial revolution?
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    That's a good question. Some of these academic preprint/archive sites are experimenting with "a place for reviews". There's a couple of issues (I hesitate to say "problem" but it could be seen that way): 1
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I enjoyed reading this and think it makes some important points. There's an important way in which I mostly agree with it. However, in some important ways it's missing the point, and illustrates the importance of utility and not j
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    This has been on my mind the last few years and I've thought about writing an academic paper about it in one domain. I've sort of increasingly suspected that some domains might involve an intrinsic amount of stochasticity or uncer
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    Am I missing something or is there more than this single tweet that is essentially identical to the title?
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    That organizational structure has been called a pyramid scheme.
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    This has been written about in various ways in the academic and surrounding literature for awhile now. I'm not sure the language it uses does itself any favors but it does point to some interesting recent discussion and research. A lot
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I've often felt that a better version is not whether a person can guess that it's AI or a human, but whether people behave and feel differently with an AI or human. That's vague and covers a universe of criteria — mood, satis
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I was at a research colloquium once and this came up in the context of dieting. The author of that research was making similar statements, although the focus of the research was different. The problem I had with what they were describing wa
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    Cardoons are one of the things on my "bucket list of foods I've never tried", and reading you mention this makes me wonder why they aren't grown in the US. Or if they are, why they don't get distributed? Food &quo
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    One of my most hair-raising memories is dissecting marine worms. I remember a tub full of them. Makes me shiver even now even though that was decades ago.
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    I guess I feel like there must be more going on though? It's not clear why a weather message would have been hidden away like that. What I read about it suggested that the weather code system was more for telegraph message "compre
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    by derbOac 3y ago

    There's another article about it here: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-scie... An academic paper with the solution here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full&