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hcks
3y ago
1/ both shorting and arbitrage can and will happen as soon as you let people more or less freely buy and sell things 2/ people do it for their own (expected) personal profit 3/ at the market level, these transactions contribu
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hcks
3y ago
I never understood the point of Ubuntu. It always looked like a psyops to make nerdy teenagers install it on their grandmas laptop
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hcks
3y ago
> It’s a “Science enthusiast” only knows about Popper episode
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hcks
3y ago
What programs have you written?
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hcks
3y ago
LK-99 was actually an amazing litmus test. You can absolutely dismiss the opinions of anyone who acted excited about it.
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hcks
3y ago
Please explain the mechanism by which a short lived twitter craze among web developers will translate into increased “attention funding and research”
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hcks
3y ago
This makes 0 sense from a business perspective. Their moat is clearly in their brand, from what I've seen TotK game mechanics look frankly unoriginal and subpar
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hcks
3y ago
There’s always this point that engineers aren’t good at marketing but every now and then someone post an unsuccessful SaaS here and it’s always the idea that is garbage.
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hcks
3y ago
“Quantum” always lean on the side of bullshity (yes especially quantum computing)
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hcks
3y ago
It’s over. You WILL take showers in the morning. You WILL wash your clothes. You WILL commute to the office. You WILL chat with your colleagues at breaks. And you WILL be happy.
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hcks
3y ago
Huge red flag. What extraordinary thing did Canonical accomplish by the way? Making a Debian distro for first year uni students?
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hcks
3y ago
So ”3 large useful PRs” have the same expectancy as connecting with a recruiter on LinkedIn ?
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hcks
3y ago
> let’s invest even more time and resources on what doesn’t look at all like a dud
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hcks
3y ago
I mean when you see it’s the same kind of hype/people as crypto on twitter, that the legitimate experts are doubtful, that the original paper was very poor, that the authors weren’t able to provide more proof, that the field is full of
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hcks
3y ago
Contrary to bored laymen on the internet willing to believe anything for escapism, the stock market usually reflect the outside view base probabilities (~0% in the case of LK-99 being real)
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hcks
3y ago
You might want to checkout the many subreddit dedicated to crypto. Same energy
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hcks
3y ago
The smartest people are not obsessing over LK-99, actually
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hcks
3y ago
The consensus on HN is that it’s le epic exciting discovery. The consensus among physicist is that’s it’s likely to be a dud
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hcks
3y ago
You don’t understand. Real science happens on Twitter. Real scientists are the startup founders who make grandiloquent threads about Arxiv pre-publications. Academia doesn’t work at all. Actuallly, academia’s scientists are just jaded. We’r
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hcks
3y ago
- it’s an easy to make room temperature superconductor! - ok it’s hard to make but still RTSC! - ok it’s superconducting at 100K but its a novel class of SC! <= you are here - ok it’s not a superconductor but it still has interestin
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hcks
3y ago
How is it exciting? It invalidates the original claim. We already have better SC.
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hcks
3y ago
LLMs were never really academia
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hcks
3y ago
This is sad man. You’re getting excited at manufactured hype on twitter
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hcks
3y ago
Yeah, it's not complicated when you can make up stuff with 0 evidence and have no responsability anyway.
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hcks
3y ago
I never really got stack overflow. When I look for something I know, I find all the most upvoted answers kinda bad and/or suboptimal. Sometimes look like written by experienced beginners.
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hcks
3y ago
"Physics bachelor" "CEO of Juicero for coffee" Also this guy was the one shilling the paper in the first place and he’s now in damage control mode as he knows that it’s BS and doesn’t want to loose more credibility in th
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hcks
3y ago
It’s cringe, dude.
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hcks
3y ago
If it was the same but in LISP with horribly mapped keys and used by nobody you guys would be all over it.
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hcks
3y ago
It’s literally the same except Lab has a file picker, but it’s a meme for some people to pretend Lab is some sort of disaster.
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hcks
3y ago
Don’t waste your time, it’ll be disproved 10 times before your reactants get delivered.
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