gowld

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by gowld 3mo ago
A PhD is a doctor of philosophy. Science is a natural philosophy. Philosophy is a broad, vague category.
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by gowld 3mo ago
> Search all government auctions in one place, *know what they're worth before you bid* So the blog post contradicts the entire premise of the site. This is just an ad for their valuation service.
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by gowld 3mo ago
An option to disable animation and show the paper links in a simple list would be helpful.
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by gowld 3mo ago
It's amazing that business would tolerate paying staff to build products on one person's prototype hobby language.
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by gowld 3mo ago
"wrong" or "random" is not the same as "fiction" "non-fiction" doesn't mean "correct".
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by gowld 3mo ago
arXiv enables peer review! arXiv users are the peers doing the review . "Peer review" has existed for centuries before journals created their own bad for-profit version.
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by gowld 3mo ago
Your comment is not responsive to the comment you replied to, which was a critique of point 19.
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by gowld 3mo ago
Have you tried reading the news? Perhaps the shoplifters are less iportant to the surveillance state than the people protesting government abuse and getting chased around the country to their workplaces and vacation hotels?
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by gowld 3mo ago
The ads are getting shoved regardless. The content of the ads are based on personalization data.
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by gowld 3mo ago
Google doesn't make money from you "paying a cent". They make money from you paying advertisers who pay Google. So the relevant metric is how much you spent on Google advertisers.
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by gowld 3mo ago
Geometry pictures are absolutely not "rigorous definitions". For 1 thing, pictures of lines aren't finite in extent, and pictures of points are finite in extent. Some of Euclid's proofs are wrong , because they relied o
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by gowld 3mo ago
Words are like atoms. We also have sentences (molecules) and paragraphs (structures) and more. Complexity matters.
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by gowld 3mo ago
Please define "conscious". Please give an example of an interaction with an animal that suggests that the animal is conscious, but not using language. Challenge round: Please demonstrate that conscious animals are not using inter
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by gowld 3mo ago
Congress should end the AMA guild's chokehold on linking "Medicare" to medical training at all. It's a complete grift.
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by gowld 3mo ago
How can you tell when you are reading a paper?
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by gowld 3mo ago
Were you first-author on an unsupervised project and paper, or did someone stake their reputation on your work?
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by gowld 3mo ago
Publishing a study does not show "a foundational understanding of statistical methods and to be able to critique studies." It's literally the opposite!
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by gowld 3mo ago
Residency is a guild (aka, anticompetitive trust) designed to limit the medical workforce and drive up doctor salaries. It needs artificial metrics to ratonalize the increasing salaries as being for "increasing talent".
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by gowld 4mo ago
That's not true. Islamic finance forbids indefinitely growing interest. Sharia finance agreements involve fixed fees or equity shares. Late penalties can be collected but must be donated, not profit. In all cases, the borrower never ow
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by gowld 4mo ago
and Chinese courts are ruling that using Claude is fair use.
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by gowld 4mo ago
It was already digitized. He wanted to make a version without security and privacy protections. He also copied Friendster.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Insane how? Google had already done it, and it's pretty clear that if someone wants to buy for $1B, it might be worth more than $1B.
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by gowld 4mo ago
2017 was shortly before Google stopped being afraid of being pegged as an AI killbot company.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Most human tasks. Earth-movers and mining-trucks aren't human form.
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by gowld 4mo ago
AI watching videos of humans seems an incredibly inefficient way to solve acrobatic balance. It is just physics and engineering. The hard part is in the materials and assemblages for enabling complex and subtle movements and the fine motor
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by gowld 4mo ago
The insane valuation is for Elon meme vibes and the "vision" of "colonizing Mars", not any of the products.
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by gowld 4mo ago
A content-free 2nd "paragraph" like this turned me off immediately. > But in the current dev tools gold rush, if something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. The people who are interested in RTK and in criticism o
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by gowld 4mo ago
What if you don't grow intellectually and just slap together a PhD thesis that no one reads?
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by gowld 4mo ago
More specifically, the CEO said that users are "dumb f*cks" for submitting data to Facebook, the predecessor of Meta.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Why do those "other people" get a free pass to be "in love with the power of administration"?

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