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by fatbird 6y ago
I think it was less "who said this?" and more "who was the reviewer, how were they chosen, what guidelines did they follow?" Peer review in Academia is anonymous but has relative guarantees that the reviewer will have su
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by fatbird 6y ago
It sounds like, after pressing the point, she was allowed to have her manager read the feedback to her, without sharing the author or process by which feedback was solicited. So, not provided in written form, but the substance would be rec
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by fatbird 6y ago
A week before you go out on vacation, you see a meeting pop up at 4:30pm PST on your calendar (this popped up at around 2pm). No one would tell you what the meeting was about in advance. Then in that meeting your manager’s manager tells yo
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by fatbird 6y ago
True, but it's also the norm that peer reviewer's feedback is provided to allow the author the address issues. In Timnit's account, she received neither identities nor the feedback itself.
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by fatbird 6y ago
In Timnit's account, she said she asked for specific feedback so it could be addressed and the paper published; this was denied to her and is part of her complaint over which she resigned.
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is great and I wish I saw more like this. I've been picking away at Spider Solitaire so I can tell my parents to stop downloading dodgy apps and just go to my URL. Tiny jewels like this without obligation or advertising is about
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by fatbird 6y ago
Not the way Mongo does it. The way sharding works in general is that your data gets an additional key (unless it has one that works for sharding already), and a router in the stack does traffic control on the query to send it to the correct
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by fatbird 6y ago
You can do joins with queries that we call aggregation pipelines. They're super-powerful, And hot garbage for performance. Unlike relational indices on foreign keys, mongo simply... does a lookup for each doc in the pipeline step.
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by fatbird 6y ago
It doesn't tell you what standard was applied when finding no wrong-doing. "not legally actionable" might be the criteria, which doesn't mean that everyone will say "oh, there was nothing wrong there."
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by fatbird 6y ago
Everyone who has read this and then reads the NYT story will do the latter with the former in mind. As much as possible, they're anticipating what the story will reveal and getting their objections on the record so that a reader can&#
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by fatbird 6y ago
"[M]ore efficient and transparent" are at odds with each other. Transparency requires more process and scrutiny and inspection; more of these things increases project risk because bidders need to invest more money in getting the
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by fatbird 6y ago
The Japanese generals and admirals agreed to the attack on Pearl Harbour despite the admiral leading it reminding them that their own wargames showed such a scenario as leading to Japan's defeat--pretty much as what actually happened,
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by fatbird 6y ago
Apparently what got them kicked off was this: There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatal
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by fatbird 6y ago
On a continuing project with a company where everyone speaks Matlab as a second language, I succeeded in switching the guy writing Matlab code for the Matlab REST API to Python/numpy/scipy for the industrial analytics we need, sav
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is an incredibly petty complaint.
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by fatbird 6y ago
And what about reading the email exchange with the editors where they provide feedback?
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by fatbird 6y ago
Think of tolerance not as a virtue or an obligation, but as a peace treaty. The limits of tolerance become pretty clear then.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Sometimes tens of scalars per second is the sampled data. It depends upon your requirements for accuracy and responsiveness for alarms, threshold checks, etc. I work with paper making machines that only give us a profile every 30 second
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by fatbird 6y ago
Agreed.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Every time we say "in theory a competitive market could achieve the same goals," we find that the entrepeneurs don't have the same goals. The problem isn't the mechanism of capitalism, it's the naive belief that co
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by fatbird 6y ago
I asked a question like this on Ask Metafilter[0] and got some detailed answers. The consensus among metallurgists, rather than swordmakers, is apparently that almost everyone had crap iron to work with, and various techniques for dealing
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by fatbird 6y ago
Perhaps the NSA is acting like a digital immune system by provoking an immune response in our tech giants.
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by fatbird 6y ago
SPOILERS BELOW: It think this is an oversimplification. Mentats still had agency--both Piter de Vries and Thufir Hawat have their mentat schemes to kill the Baron Harkonnen. One of the big points of the Dune series is the indeterminacy of
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by fatbird 6y ago
Do they have any way of measuring the volume of effort at attempting to crack it?
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by fatbird 6y ago
In a strange way, Vim might be for you then. I've used it steadily for the last decade as my IDE, and I have a minimal set of plugins and an unimpressive .vimrc. I've put most effort into setting up very limited, low-key syntax
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by fatbird 6y ago
For many, it seems like his rehabilitation was bought with dirty money: 1. Earn a billion with brutal, unscrupulous business practices 2. Spend half of that charitably, keep the rest, and expect to be seen as a great philanthropist. Suddenl
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by fatbird 6y ago
I was curious, after writing this, how accurate my take was, so I did a bit more reading on it. Short version, accurate overall, but the more detailed story is much more interesting. First, in part, the intention of the Maginot line was to
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by fatbird 6y ago
The problem wasn't the Maginot Line, it was the assumption that the modern mobile forces that the French understood were coming, wouldn't be able to pass through the Ardennes. It's not that the French didn't foresee byp
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by fatbird 6y ago
Here's another problem with radical honesty: You think you're right, and say something that's going to be a painful but beneficial truth. But you might simply be wrong: you don't have all the facts, you're missin
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by fatbird 6y ago
It's like he created the latin wikipedia by converting English wiki pages into pig-latin. It massively misrepresents the language, and when you're talking about a language like Scots that's very little used, and possibly in

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