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What Makes People Act on Climate Change, According to Behavioral Science(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by dilawar 3y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 3y ago
Remind me of an article where three anthropologists were debating what does mean to be civilized. "Knowing one language makes us human, knowing more than one language make us civilised." is the only thing I now remember from that
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by dilawar 4y ago
Biorxiv provides HTML version a few days after PDF ia posted. Rxiv doesnt. AFAIK.
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by dilawar 4y ago
Thanks. ML noob here. I liked the insight that attention adds context, by modifying the distance in an embedding.
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by dilawar 4y ago
I'd be surprised if such incidences ratr is high in south India compared to Ganges plains. Delhi and its surrounding areas are infamous for such crimes, gig or non gig workers.
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by dilawar 4y ago
Other extreme is field medal in mathematics given once 4 years to encourage young folks to do mathematics. Every decade, he promote,encourage, recognize two and half people. By all accounts, they are already super motivated and accompolishe
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by dilawar 4y ago
Exvept for a few rare cases, IMO, awards given by your peers are the only awards worth celebrating.
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by dilawar 4y ago
obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
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Victory over big pharma opens door to cheaper tuberculosis drugs(theguardian.com)
5 points by dilawar 4y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
+1. I see nothing wrong in playing positive sum games. Mullvad will ptobably gain a lot if they succeed but as long public also gains a little, I am totally cool with it.
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by dilawar 4y ago
India's Unified Payment Gateway (UPI) is also created and managed by government. Private players are free to use the service and build products around it. It worked really well. Though I am more inclined to give more credit to people w
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Who’s laughing now? The Dalit comedians punching up against India’s caste system(theguardian.com)
5 points by dilawar 4y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
Look for Prof. Andre Beteille work. His father was French and mother a Bengali Brahmin (French had a few colonies in India). M N Srinivas has done a lot of empirical work on caste. Every student of anthropology study caste . There is a quit
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by dilawar 4y ago
Maybe you are from a higher caste!
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by dilawar 4y ago
Its very much alive, though it has changed a lot. https://www.epw.in/journal/2012/13/special-articles/peculiar...
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by dilawar 4y ago
I've tried so many of these solutions. These days I am using Notion and generating static site using loconotion. For me, writing outside Notion has become impossible. Notion AI does a fantastic job fixing my grammar and style. My Engli
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Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets(theguardian.com)
15 points by dilawar 4y ago|5 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
This was a sad read.
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by dilawar 4y ago
We have rules but tradition has be to follow person. If a powerful person say something and rules comes in the way, then expect that rules will be bent or ignored altogether. Rules are written often written in a way that leaves them.open to
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Do Trees Support Each Other Through a Network of Fungi?(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by dilawar 4y ago|0 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
Same here. Clippy and rust compiler made me switch to Rust from c++. Now after experiencing cargo, I find python to be insufferable (tooling, not the language).
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by dilawar 4y ago
A hell lot of computation inside a neuron (in fact inside any cell) is chemical in nature. Proteins interacting, channels opening and closing, membrane doing membrainy stuff.. In fact their is a AND gate which is entirely chemical in nature
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by dilawar 4y ago
obligatory, "written in Rust".
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by dilawar 4y ago
You may want to checkout pybind11 library. And checkout NIM lang too.
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by dilawar 4y ago
I dont remember who said it first. I have heard it from more than one good scientists, "You are as good as last year."
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by dilawar 4y ago
Kagi's universal summarizer: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.dougengelbart.o... Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework is a 1962 paper by Douglas Engelbart that outlines a frame
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Foundations of Data Science (2018) [pdf](cs.cornell.edu)
177 points by dilawar 4y ago|30 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
Huh!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGtKGX8B9hU
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A History of the FFmpeg Project(codecs.multimedia.cx)
105 points by dilawar 4y ago|24 comments
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by dilawar 4y ago
eLife needs a honorable mention here. They are doing pretty good job in open publishing and publish quality research. Now they are taking it up a notch higher and will publish all articles accepted for reviews. Its upto the OP to respond to

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