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by jcattle 7mo ago
That's not entirely the case in Germany. Applicants need to give a lecture which is public. Usually members of the student union will be present and will have a say later within the hiring committee about the quality of teaching. But I
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by jcattle 7mo ago
What is the equivalent of correspondence today? I guess back then each letter had a cost, in (delivery) time and money, so you better make it count. My guess is that these correspondences were often interesting to read because they had to b
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by jcattle 7mo ago
You are aware where neural nets originated? Who came up with the concept of backpropagation to train them? Sure, nowadays this whole field is pushed forward by industry. But I would argue that for most technological advancements the foundat
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by jcattle 7mo ago
I guess the point of a three year window is to be able as an ecosystem to at some point adopt new language features. When you have some kind of ecosystem rule for that, you can make these upgrade decisions with a lot more confidence. For ex
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by jcattle 7mo ago
Hahaha, oh boy.
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by jcattle 7mo ago
Well, keep going with asking people "how are you" until someone gives you a black eye. Then you can stop. I would assume that before that happens your natural death would come first.
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by jcattle 7mo ago
All of these have to be told light-hearted, as observational "jokes". Not like you are actually annoyed. You're just making light of a situation. "I guess the bus is just never on time here, huh" (Stuck in line at t
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Yea, of course they wouldn't inject that when going to a car wash. If the question was: "I want to go to a cafe 50m away. Should I walk or drive?" I would hope that all of my friends would answer quite a bit more pointed than
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by jcattle 8mo ago
That is kind of my point. Outside of a few fields (some branches of chemistry certainly being one of the exceptions) will someone pay you to do your research. I just pulled up the newest published math paper from arxiv. No one except univer
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by jcattle 8mo ago
I have to be honest, I do not understand what you want to say with your comment. My point is that outside of fields which can somehow make money through research, not much scientific progress is made outside of universities. I don't se
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Who in Industry is making meaningful progress in the field of maths? How about astronomy? Particle Physics? Psychology? Sociology? I'd wager that I could name basically any field which does not have immediately obvious and proven ways
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by jcattle 8mo ago
> Elsevier had no reason to stop this If Elsevier had no reason to stop this, why did they stop this?
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by jcattle 8mo ago
One of the reasons why in Germany universities were able to collectively negotiate better open publishing deals with Wiley and Springer, but Elsevier just flat out refused to agree to any better terms for three years. (See Project DEAL: ht
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by jcattle 8mo ago
And none of this is on the order of magnitude that consumer automotive would have. The EU requires every new car to have Autonomos Emergency Braking. If LiDAR becomes cheaper than radar, this is a potential market of millions.
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Because due to rotation the earth bulges outward at the equator. The actual term is "Equatorial bulge". Due to that "equatorial bulge" you are further away from earths dense center, than at the equator. And due to the in
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Yes, the mass and you distance to it counts. And one of the biggest influences on that mass in absolute terms is earths very dense inner and outer cores. Due to the "equatorial bulge" (actual term) you are further away from that
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Just a fun interjection from my side: The best way we have at the moment to systematically measure groundwater reserves (and depletion) is via proxy of gravity measurements. The only thing on earth which is heavy and mobile on short time-sc
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by jcattle 8mo ago
If you weren't accounting for earths rotation, the area with lowest gravity would be near the equator due to the larger distance to earths center.
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Just as an example: I think I've even read this opinion piece before but with everything going on with AI in this moment my first thought reading the headline was: "Ah Interesting, I'm wondering how learned tokenized semantic
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Have you done a blind test before? A group of friends and I have done a blind test of around 10 coke brands before. The only ones you could reasonably tell apart were Pepsi and some dubious organic cokes. But of all the ones that actually t
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Are there other similar tutorials like this going into fundamentals of model architectures for example? Something like https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/ for example
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by jcattle 8mo ago
I recently had a bug where I added some new logic which gave wrong output. I pasted the newly added code into various LLMs and told it the issue I was having. All of them were saying: Yes there's an issue, let me rewrite it so it works
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by jcattle 8mo ago
You are thinking too one-dimensional. The goal of these easy beginner friendly issues was to get new contributors which can learn the ropes and hopefully contribute and engineer larger things. Of course these beginner friendly issues are p
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by jcattle 8mo ago
It seems your opinion is that the current AI should be treated like a human. I think this is a fundamental difference which we won't be able to overcome. > Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds. Let&#x2
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by jcattle 8mo ago
AI ignored a contributing guideline that tries to foster human contribution and community. PR was rejected because of this. Agent then threw a fit. Now. The only way your defense of the AI behaviour and the condemnation of the human behavio
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by jcattle 8mo ago
You comment reads very AI generated. From the, it's not X it's y, to the overdramatization of completely normal events (i.e. key infrastructure providers are notified of CVEs before they are disclosed so impact is minimized)
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by jcattle 8mo ago
On auctions, you do not have to provide a payment method to bid. So once you won an auction you still have to pay the agreed price. Only after the buyer paid, does the seller get the shipment address. Depending on the buyer this can take lo
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Let's also see the differences: On github you can always see the interactions. On ebay, once a sale has been made, you have no idea what happens next. On Github you always have all the artifacts of where the reputation comes from.
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by jcattle 8mo ago
Just a thought: Around the world, most* online classifieds pages have site-wide ways to provide feedback on interactions. Ebay has stars, Germanys Kleinanzeigen has :) :| :( etc etc. Maybe something like this could be useful for open source
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by jcattle 8mo ago
> It is fair and reasonable to demand that environmental regulation justify its existence with hard, scientifically verifiable data or else get chopped Here is a strawman for you: studies for regulation A show that it is successfull in i

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