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At the top level companies and governments want to build AI products so they have an adaptable workforce and they don't miss the boat. At the middle level managers want to build AI products so they appear innovative and get promoted. A
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How was this posted both 2 hours ago and also on the 15th? I got really confused when someone said something about "monday morning" but all the timestamps read 15th.
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direct link to the map: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
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It's harder to find someone in an elite university who completely lacks the technical ability to do their job. Of course they still exist. But the advantage of hiring from one of those schools ends there. For every "top 10 univers
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How much do people care that you went to a top 10 college? I'm sure it depends on your field: in mine (academic science, which is as plagued by name-dropping and elitism as any) the thing that matters is the last thing you did. Of co
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I was going to ask why people don't like IRC. As someone else commented it gets the job done, but while I know there are better things on the market now I don't really know why e.g. Matrix is practically superior.
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Do we still teach kids that planes fly because of Bernoulli's principle? I remember learning about it and wondering why newton's 3rd law wouldn't suffice. It's pretty obvious that the wings push air down and it's no
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A bartender mocked my brother for getting Aspirin for his broken arm. "man you got nothin', you should get some oxy for that!" I'd been living outside the US and this in my first few hours back on US soil. A few hours la
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I'm sad that the PDF doesn't use hyperref. When you get used to clicking a few links to to the a cited reference the whole scroll-to-reference, copy-paste to google, scroll to paper song and dance seems a lot less fun. Probably a
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Sounds like this would massively simplify converting scientific articles back to HTML or text. Seriously, I know of one experiment that has O(thousands) of papers as latex source, which they publish as PDFs and which (more recently) they co
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They have speed cameras all over Europe too, but the speed limit is often 130 km/h (about 80 mph). Most of the population of the US lives in states where the speed limit is 70 mph or lower. Obviously this is an oversimplification, Swit
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well that's around 2 baths for the entire world
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This means that journals can't prevent you from uploading a preprint though. A few publishers do this [1]. Even if the upload isn't enforced it means the restriction can't be either. But it's odd that the paper must be
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I've heard of this kind of thing happening when faculty are based in a developing country and they hire a post-doc who has to live in, say, Switzerland. When they live in the same place, definitely smells a bit weird. But hey, could ha
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I agree. Journals have been publishing "responses" for ages, so there always has been a "comment section" of sorts. But it could be so much easier! Personally I haven't really seen or been involved in a response. It
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Yeah sorry I was being overly oblique above: I know a lot of academics who learn about a lot of results via twitter. Personally I don't do it, but a lot of people in academia do. I'd consider twitter a feed, and one driven by a pr
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I think the ideal future for science publication would be something like: - some database like arXiv for most all the results, obviously mirrored a few places - multiple frontends like this! - no more journals: replace journal review with a
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A lot of my colleagues either: - read arXiv (the algorithm there is pretty simple, but it's a feed of sorts), or - follow twitter accounts to learn about new results So, like it or not, a lot of people are getting their feed from algor
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I agree. This is a rare gift of truth and honesty in advertising. You might not like what the industry is doing but don't kill the messenger: they just gave you a short glimpse behind the curtain. The company will keep the same goals e
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Did they pull the add?
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I wonder how many people will overflow to -127 years old before we fix the 8 bit signed ints (and if life expectancy ever gets that high).
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We all knew a guy who would never stop talking. Maybe in college. Some people thought he must be very smart, and would listen to that guy for hours on end. Most people eventually got annoyed / board and left. But he kept going. The thi
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I went looking for an arXiv link for this paper and found the one you linked. Kind of weird that this new paper is only on the group's website [1] and not on the arXiv. [1]: https://www.tuwien.at/fileadmin/Assets&#
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I promise you, in particle physics it is seen as somewhat suspect. But a very careful analysis with machine learning costs a couple PhD-years: it would be even more suspect to forgo an improvement on a 400m dollar experiment. As you say
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link to the original paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02516
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I'd like to know what education reformers would say to the subtitle > Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need. It seems needlessly confrontational, and misses what the article is about. The article
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I can't wait for the next explosion in "bigfoot" videos: wildlife on the moon, people hiding in shadows, plants, animals, and structures completely out of place. The difference will be that this time the images will be crysta
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If you want to use your image for anything that needs to be factual (i.e. surveillance, science, automation) the up-scaling adds nothing---it's just guessing on what is probably there. If you just want the picture to be pretty, this is
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Even streaming a film in the original language can be hard. If you want to stream the English version of a Hollywood movie, you often can't do it from your country. It might only be distributed in e.g. German or Italian.
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I regret having a mac all the time. For me getting a new laptop is coupled with getting a new job, and I never want to spend the first month on the job debugging drivers. Self-inflicted FUD has been the only thing keeping me in the mac ecos

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