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by esfandia 6y ago
Saying "Joe Schmoe is wrong about X" doesn't imply "Joe Schmoe is wrong about everything". In fact it helps advancing and encouraging debate when someone can say "Joe Schmoe is wrong about X" AND admit &qu
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by esfandia 6y ago
Research is literally predicated on showing results that are better than the state of the art. Without that judgment on other work there can be no progress in research!
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by esfandia 6y ago
According to the linked article, it took only 2 reports to lead to an investigation and to the decision that the CoC was violated. So a vocal minority, when not ignored, can sometimes have a big impact.
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by esfandia 6y ago
"Arguments are not soldiers" is so very well put. Unfortunately if you don't choose a camp you often end up in the cross-fire.
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by esfandia 6y ago
Is it reasonable to consider using Discord as an online forum for residents of a condo building? I'm looking for something cheap/free, easy to use and to set up.
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by esfandia 6y ago
Slashdot does this to some extent. Moderators are invited to choose from a small subset of tags. The most used tag by the moderators is listed next to the comment's karma. Your idea would be a generalization of what Slashdot does, and
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by esfandia 6y ago
https://www.protopage.com/ which doubles up as a nice web portal (I know, how quaint!)
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by esfandia 6y ago
Shouldn't university libraries be that public utility?
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by esfandia 6y ago
Yes, I thought maybe it was another article written by GPT-3.
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by esfandia 6y ago
The logo of Marcel Robbez-Masson, a fairly big company specialized in producing gold jewelry, is the beast of Gevaudan, a neat way to trace to the company's roots in the Lozere region where the beast's legend originated: http:&#x
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by esfandia 6y ago
Very neat! How much work would it be to write ROS bindings so you could control robots easily with it? Googling around, I found one team that has done it with Pharo: http://car.imt-lille-douai.fr/category/software/
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by esfandia 6y ago
Iran managed to get over a first wave, but they had to re-open prematurely because their economy is in the toilet partially due to economic sanctions.
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by esfandia 6y ago
I seem to recall the Aiwas tended to have EQ on the front, sometimes lined up diagonally. My first "Walkman" was a Toshiba (so technically it wasn't a Walkman) model from 1984, one of the first that came with a FM/AM cas
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by esfandia 6y ago
If I recall correctly, when you used both headphone jacks, the volume would get weaker.
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by esfandia 6y ago
Wouldn't datalog be more suitable than SQL in this case? And in case the DB you want to query offers SQL only, I imagine there are datalog-SQL bridges available somewhere.
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by esfandia 6y ago
So we have hand-curated directories, and we have social networks. Put them together and you could have a scalable, crawlable, searchable, customizable and non-gamable decentralized indexing system. Just don't know why nobody has come w
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by esfandia 6y ago
Fair point. There's a sweet spot to be found between full-on crowd-sourcing and giving all the power to 2-3 blind reviewers. Maybe limit the participants to be the members of the technical committee? Or maybe expand it to include membe
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by esfandia 6y ago
A couple of ideas I've been mulling over for a while: - the quicker but less rigorous way: set things up like a forum like HackerNews, let the crowd-sourced upvote and comment system work its magic; make the karma/reputation point
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by esfandia 6y ago
Interesting at least to me: one of the article co-authors is Garry Kasparov (I imagine THE Garry Kasparov?).
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by esfandia 7y ago
Have you considered sending this as a letter to a medical journal? I know it's not a "scientific article" per se, but many journals have a section dedicated to letters. For example, CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
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by esfandia 7y ago
I like the idea in principle, but it raises the bar for the quality of the review that is going to be published, and might thus discourage people from accepting to review papers. It is hard already as it is to find peer reviewers! We'r
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by esfandia 7y ago
> Rather, you read material like this for perspective. It's a way of training your brain to look at the same set of observations in an entirely different way. Then when you're faced with actual facts in your own life, you can a
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by esfandia 7y ago
With that rule, the "leading zero" problem in the article should have been caught properly as well. Why wasn't it? edit: I guess because "01" isn't a valid token.
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by esfandia 7y ago
Actalk [1] provided actor-like asynchronous communication on top of Smalltalk. [1] Briot, Jean-Pierre. “Actalk: A Testbed for Classifying and Designing Actor Languages in the Smalltalk-80 Environment.” ECOOP (1989).
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by esfandia 7y ago
Karaoke with the most obscure songs!
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by esfandia 7y ago
My Yahoo! is still useful. That's my customized web portal (I know, antiquated word), where I collect and access my RSS feeds. I also use Yahoo Mail and get my sports updates from Yahoo Sports.
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by esfandia 7y ago
> experienced enough that your struggle is to make choices, not to get things to work. I think you summarized beautifully the difference between design ("make choices") and implementation ("get things to work"). Am I
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by esfandia 7y ago
It would be interesting to do the exercise for universities. At a very high level, universities* are incentivized to enroll and produce more and more graduates, to reduce the drop-out rate, and to retain a high quality of output. How should
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by esfandia 7y ago
As a user I also now need to keep up with the updates more frequently. Either deal with a more frequent risk of getting an update I don't like, or get nagged more frequently with annoying pop-ups to update if I don't want to, or t
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by esfandia 7y ago
I don't think it's fair to compare 'Refactoring' and 'Design Patterns' based on their respective number of pages. They are both catalogs, but they are cataloguing different things. A design pattern IMO is harde

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