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   by derbOac 1y ago

   I'm skeptical of this for several reasons, not the least of which is experience being around people who weren't bathing for a long time. Every single time I read about this, it's the person adopting it who claims they don&#x2
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   It's been decades (?) since I read the paper, but I think the questioner is key for multiple reasons, especially if you consider a generalized iterated version of the Turing test as it develops into the future. I think the general idea
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   Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won't Tell You(propublica.org)

   5 points by derbOac 1y ago|0 comments
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   I had the same question about N-player settings. My intuition is the more players, the more competition and the more chaotic the dynamics, and the harder it would be for any strategy like they describe to emerge. But intuitions can be wrong
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   The Fog of War is a documentary that underscores this well.
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   The most interesting thing for me was this: "Nevertheless, as part of the process of writing the paper, they found a solution to the problem (slightly different from theirs) had been obtained by Hall, thirty years before Erdos even pos
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   Entertainment is illustrative. There have been controlled studies (e.g., https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.... ) showing that there are sort of chaotic social dynamics influencing popularity, i
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   What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?(news.artnet.com)

   87 points by derbOac 1y ago|39 comments
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   by derbOac 1y ago

   I wasn't sure whether this was appropriate for a separate submission or not, but it puts a slightly different perspective on things: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/trump-argentina...
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    This sort of thing would be comical if it weren't so blatantly and corruptly protecting meat producers. The reason the term evolved is because it works well in meaning. You don't have to like veggie burgers to see what's goin
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Can anyone comment on the translations of Krasznahorkai's works into English? Every time I read a translation of highly regarded literature I can't help but wonder if I'm getting some inadequate rendition that is missing some
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Ok so what do we do? I'm serious. I'm sick of this corruption.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I agree completely. My own experience in watching citation patterns, not even with things that I've worked on, is that certain authors or groups attract attention for an idea or result for all kinds of weird reasons, and that drives ci
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    The "real reason" people "freaked out" about Trump dismantling agencies is that he was and has been ignoring the law by fiat and not executing the law as is his constitutionally defined role. It would be one thing to vet
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I much prefer Bluesky to X but have had a hunch this was coming due to everything I've read about the practicality of running a Bluesky protocol service. I still think there's room for something better technically. Mastodon seems
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I'm most familiar with pharmacy and psychology as examples, although I think there are probably many other fields as well, maybe diagnostic radiology for example. I'm also aware of research on surgical specialists in areas of the
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    In my opinion, we need to increase the number of admitted MDs and the number of residency spots. But more importantly, we need to also stop thinking of MDs as being necessary for a procedure or set of procedures, and focus instead on actual
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I guess I had the opposite reaction sort of? I'm not sure I was expecting to disagree with it but I was skeptical that they could make a reasonable argument, and came away thinking that their core argument was fundamentally sound, even
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    But isn't there silencing across cells?
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Why polygraphs are used at all today is a mystery to me.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Yeah, I think usually the recommended time is an underestimate for me, but it depends strongly on the brand and type of pasta. I usually treat the recommended time as a ballpark of when to think about monitoring it closely if I'm busy
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    IMHO the problem usually isn't the degree history, it's putting providers in situations where they lack the requisite training, or are understaffed in general. So you have, e.g., complaints about incompetent PAs being put into rol
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Others have kind of mentioned a lot of things I might anyway, and it's hard to summarize what I think is necessary. But to summarize, I think there needs to be a deregulation of licensing or practice laws to allow other types of provid
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Aside from the S-versus-exp issue, this area is one of these things where there's a kind of disconnect between my personal professional experience with LLMs and the criteria measures he's talking about. LLMs to me have this kind o
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    For what it's worth, the dataset they used does in fact have measurements spanning 30 years of adulthood, and similar papers from that dataset leveraging the longitudinal data have found similar conclusions. Why it happens is less clea
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    My impression is a lot of US health care problems are caused in part by a sort of unholy combination of restricted competition and access, together with profit driven market participants. So you end up with this marketplace constricted by o
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I appreciate the rigor being asked for in this article, but I wonder sometimes if the typical clinical trial data will go far enough. "Someone is depressed, is randomly assigned to a therabot, decreases more in a measure of depression
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    By that metric all of science has failed, or at least the biomedical fields. Psychology looks like particle physics compared to fields like dentistry, and not a lot different from a lot of biomedical fields. Psychology is just the messenger
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    I guess we need to start colonizing other worlds then.
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    by derbOac 1y ago

    Yeah this is the sort of thing I'd want to read the primary studies of, and they'd better be rigorous. I doubt they are.