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by frankling_ 5y ago
I agree: it helps a lot with the practical issue of access to knowledge. But from a taxpayer's or academic's perspective it wouldn't hurt to also eliminate the exorbitant publishing/licensing fees.
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by frankling_ 5y ago
What I'm proposing is to convince the same people that currently take care of the reviewing and selection process for an established journal to do the same thing for an open and independent variant of the same journal, which is run alo
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by frankling_ 5y ago
That's not a way around publishing at the established venues, it's done in addition to it. Everyone still submits to the established journals and conferences because this is what is being evaluated for career advancement and fundi
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by frankling_ 5y ago
I'm not suggesting to publish every paper twice. The author submits only to one of the two journals. If it's the original journal, the article appears exactly as is common now, behind a paywall, and that's it. If it's th
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by frankling_ 5y ago
The main issue is that currently there's no way around publishing at the established journals and conferences, because of the reputation they've built up. Funding and career advancement hinge on publications in these venues. If we
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by frankling_ 5y ago
In essence, you're deriving an "ought" from an "is" [1]. I'm not convinced that the presence of an inborn instinct X justifies a "right to X". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is
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by frankling_ 5y ago
That's a great point. If they didn't, it's clear what their actual risk assessment is.
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by frankling_ 5y ago
ft off last time and just continue from that point onwards. The essential part is to leave something over for next time, instead of finis
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by frankling_ 5y ago
What would be an example use of the word free that you would find appropriate?
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by frankling_ 6y ago
Nope, it's really annoying at this point. Try doing a search on Google Scholar for "considered harmful" -"go to statement considered harmful". "About 53,000 results."
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by frankling_ 6y ago
I'll skip the usual list of personal anecdotes about PA failing in surprising ways I've never seen in 15+ years of using Alsa, but I will say that since a few applications have started depending on it, "apt-get purge pulseaud
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by frankling_ 6y ago
Alsa has had software mixing via dmix since 2003. https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page_News
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by frankling_ 6y ago
Don't worry about it, it was close enough to get your point across.
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by frankling_ 7y ago
I recently reread Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan" and was really surprised to notice to what degree Adams drew inspiration from that book. He did acknowledge it as an influence [1], but some ideas my naive self had attribute
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by frankling_ 7y ago
This is one reason I prefer simple guitar pedals to VSTs and such. With their instant response and tight controls, pedals feel like solid tools you can build muscle memory on. When unzipping plugins and awkwardly dragging sliders with a tou
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by frankling_ 7y ago
Insightful comment. Similarly, competitive people prefer and create highly structured environments and situations, where it is clear what to min-max for and where they stand on the highscore list. Nuance and soft qualities go out the window
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by frankling_ 7y ago
That has never been true: on NVIDIA hardware the 32 threads of each Warp run in lockstep, certainly not all threads. And starting with Volta, each thread even got its own program counter and call stack.
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by frankling_ 7y ago
I'd really love to see this plotted as a histogram of the age of founders of the top N companies according to some metric, and maybe even founder's age vs. some monetary evaluation after a certain number of years.
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by frankling_ 7y ago
Good point, a lot of work really falls below the threshold where replication would still make sense. However, I do think there is a lot of incremental, piecemeal type of work that over the years could amount to a decent step forward. It&#x2
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by frankling_ 7y ago
Some ACM conferences are now handing out "badges" that mark papers where the associated "artifacts" are publicly available or have been independently reproduced or replicated: https://www.acm.org/publicat
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by frankling_ 7y ago
They list the well-known machine learning trends of the past decades, then say they don't know what's next. "Maybe it'll be something other than deep learning in the next decade." The title should be appended with &
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by frankling_ 7y ago
Just as an exercise, it would be beneficial for you to make your argument explicit. You would notice that it falls apart/there is none.
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by frankling_ 7y ago
I don't follow that line of reasoning at all. "Killing in the name of religion" would be to protect or spread some sort of metaphysical belief. The equivalent would be something like going to war with another country to build
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by frankling_ 7y ago
I guess this goes into definitions of consciousness, which I don't have the background nor inclination to do. But if we define it, as the grandparent does, as "first person experience of reality", then there is something spec
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by frankling_ 8y ago
Looks interesting, but reading the text is nigh impossible on my phone due to excessive javascript acrobatics.
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by frankling_ 8y ago
I fail to see how the package management in a Linux distribution could be considered a walled garden. Commonly it's cited as the exact opposite of that (see the table here: [1]). What type of freedom are you missing in something like D
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by frankling_ 8y ago
Not sure how much these terms mean nowadays, and you could even say that the left/right positioning game is identity politics in itself. Maybe it's more interesting to consider whether the ideas have merit.
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by frankling_ 8y ago
Yeah, for some models, especially small-scale ones, it can be hard to get a performance gain. There are actually ways of avoiding the locking, e.g., by staging the desired actions and then carrying them out afterwards, resolving conflicts a
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by frankling_ 8y ago
As for the performance aspect, these kinds of simulations (typically using fixed time steps and with per-agent decision-making) are a natural fit for many-core devices. We recently did a survey on that subject [1]. There is a lot of work be
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by frankling_ 8y ago
Honest question: what do you mean by "communists who run US campuses these days"? Is this about bureaucracy, or particular leftist views being upheld, or something else entirely?

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