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by godelski 7mo ago
> B would be inconclusive against what you'd hope to be some kind of background Correct. And this is why scientists use null hypothesis testing. You disprove things in science, not prove them. I think that's why you&#
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by godelski 7mo ago
I gave the second example to try to avoid this type of response. It's not that hard to grasp. You don't need some fluid
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by godelski 7mo ago
You continue reading the comment and use the other version of a blank
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by godelski 7mo ago
Here's a very naïve example to help illustrate how you can do a "blank" (a control). Say you're testing a sample of water in a test tube. Repeat all steps in exactly the same way, but use distilled water. You can even do
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by godelski 7mo ago
Exactly. The reason mathematicians and physicists care about elegance is because they care about understanding things. Elegance, like you said, isn't about aesthetics, even though people seem to think they're synonymous. But the e
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> The problem is more about how it is reported to the public. Yes and no. From scientific communicators there's a lot of slop and it's getting worse. Even places like Nature and Scientific American are making unaccepta
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by godelski 7mo ago
I'm a long time vim user and terminally terminal as well. I also feel very mixed On one hand I'm really glad more people are coming over. There's been an explosion in TUIs and it's helping that people understand how impo
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by godelski 7mo ago
> Most technical people still will have some emotion in their prompts, say please or thank you, give qualitative feedback for no reason, express anger towards the model, etc. Worse, models often perform better when using that nat
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by godelski 7mo ago
> Nontechnical people simply don't have any idea about what LLMs are. We're on HN, a highly technical corner of the internet, yet we see the same stuff here. It's not just non-technical people... I think one of the
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by godelski 7mo ago
> Your question diverts it down a path where it acts the part of a former sycophant who is now being critical I think people really have a hard time understanding a sycophant can be contrarian. But a yesman can say yes by saying
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by godelski 7mo ago
I definitely don't want to say that it's easy, but it's not terribly difficult. Does take a shift in thinking though, but then it clicks. For reusing sketches, you can. There's external geometry and subshapebuilder. Doin
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I had to... rip it apart to figure out what it all meant! ;)
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I haven't tried it, but FreeCAD has scripting https://wiki.freecad.org/Python_scripting_tutorial Edit: Your website is quite confusing. Took me awhile...
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by godelski 7mo ago
A fun thing to do is take a picture and import it. Then you can trace it! This is best done on some kind of grid background but having a ruler (or two) is usually enough. One suggestion, print one or two layers first to check the fit. Itera
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by godelski 7mo ago
> For every customer who takes the trouble to submit a formal bug report there are likely many others who just live with it This reminds me of a fairly old but famous story about ignoring bugs from Linux users. I couldn't fi
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by godelski 7mo ago
> this often isn't nefarious. It's a simple cost/benefit analysis of spending time on something that one user is complaining about versus a backlog of higher business priorities. You can triage without closing tick
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by godelski 7mo ago
I think you've really misinterpreted my comments. I was more pointing out that the parent's assumptions were not accurate. Something it seems we agree on! I'm in no way suggesting people ditch school nor that school is useles
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Odd, because I hear so much about Firefox breaking. I'm a daily user so I don't know what they're talking about but still
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> I think there is a brain decay that occurs as people become more rich and powerful. My prevailing hypothesis is that as you advance in leadership roles there's a natural tendency to have the ego grow. After all, you have e
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Being aligned with the goals of an organization is different from being aligned with the organization. Do not conflate the two . See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. https://jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp&#
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by godelski 7mo ago
Yes, the "joke" only works because the implication is that the CEO is out of touch with the lives and working conditions of the average employee. It's pretty overt in meaning. Should employees be required to discuss things ex
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by godelski 7mo ago
As a non-web developer I'm interested if anyone can answer this question: If you're designing for <X> browser, how hard is it to make it work on <Y> browser? Answering with at least {Chromium,Safari,Firefox} Bec
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by godelski 7mo ago
Usually no. If you missed multiple yeah, but mostly they didn't care. Though they started to my senior year. You'd get detention or even suspension if you did it too much. It was especially problematic with us in the AP/IB pr
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by godelski 7mo ago
I'm responding to your comment. It is exactly as on topic as your comment...
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I don't agree with tracking kids but you're being silly. I ditched in high school and my parents didn't find out. This is true for plenty of people. Sure, it was 20 years ago but we had cellphones too. It's not like we w
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by godelski 7mo ago
There can be moral (or other) panics to real dangers. That doesn't mean cool heads don't lead to better solutions. People panic in fires, trampling one another trying to get out. The danger is real, but so is the damage caused by
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by godelski 7mo ago
Mostly I'm fine with journals and conferences but I think it's the prestige that has fucked everything over. I want reviews of my papers! But I want reviews by people who care. I don't want reviews by people who don't wa
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by godelski 7mo ago
I think your phrasing was good. A lot of people conflate a work being published is equivalent to peer reviewed and that "peer reviewed" means "correct". I think when you think about publishing as what it actually is, res
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by godelski 7mo ago
And this is really how it should be. Honestly the only thing I want arxiv to do is become more like open review. Allow comments by peers and some better linking to data and project pages. It works for physics because physicists are very rig
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by godelski 7mo ago
>> Be a bit more serious now. > The serious answer is in the next line. > ... > Again "Some totally different system could endanger people, but this one doesn't." >> If you want me to take

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