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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Only people are final consumers in every production chain, not corporations. (Even if indirectly, say, by driving on a freshly built highway.) So people’s everyday decisions could have a major impact, if collective. Often it’s very hard to
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Equations are math. They can be used analytically with pen and paper. No need to turn them into code.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Ultra-endurance cycling is an entirely different discipline, just using the same vehicle. For anyone who's not familiar with it, see Beaumont's around-the-world record: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
There have been past claims of quantum advantage that so far always turned out to be rather questionable when the details are discussed.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
> serve people You wanted to write “shareholders”, right?
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Do you actually have any backing for these claims, or is this all pure speculation?
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In what sense is it good that a company can make profit through a business activity in some country, but instead of paying the tax there, it pays it somewhere else?
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
The forced divergence for political reasons might be true for the Balkan languages, but not for the Central European ones. The only artificial force in Czech has been the attempt to get rid of the German influence, and judging by the huge s
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
1. I didn’t say that sex is binary, just that it’s objective. You’re male, female, or intersex, and this is decided by objective facts. Gender is not. 2. Transgender is not new. But the broader public debate about the distinction between se
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
I think your last paragraph hints at the root cause. Many people simply have a trouble seeing gender purely as self-image since it has originated from sex, which is objective. And this development is quite recent.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Not in Czech or Slovak. [edit] Ok, apparently it used to be so, at least in Czech, but I had to look it up in a dictionary. Not present-day use.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Cancel culture is just a modern form of ostracism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Science is built on deference to authority. You cannot possibly derive all known physics laws yourself, or verify all the known biology yourself. You have to trust to a certain degree all the scientists that came before you, collectively. Y
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
There are a few works that try to put deep learning on some theoretical basis, I like this one, for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00810 This goes beyond mere intuition, but it is also still very far from a “compl
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
I didn’t read the article. But seeing this kind of plots on a linear rather than log-scale is borderline misleading.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
Are supposed to, but doing that would require so much more work than is usually being put into it now. Especially in the first rounds, it would be impossible to review all candidates/proposals thoroughly without having staff dedicated
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
That’s how it used to be. The reason behind the shift is the rapid increase in the amount of research output in the past decades. The reason that “arXiv + quality check” won’t work is that the amount of research funding and permanent positi
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
FWIW, it already made it in the Oxford dictionary: https://www.lexico.com/definition/yeet
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
What’s nice about Yadm is that the mental model is so simple that it’s impossible to forget—just a Git repo with worktree in ~.
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
When I do peer review, I don’t think of it as providing free service to the publisher, but as providing free service to the scientific community. I’m indirectly paid to do so by my employer. IMO employers of scientists should strike deals w
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by jhrmnn 5y ago
The reason I’ve felt a strong distaste for ads since being a teenager is that ultimately they rob me of, or try to mess with, my free choice
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
That residential property is increasingly bought as investment by both small and large players and this is one of the factors driving prices up is a fact. See for example Figure 1.3 here [open access] https://link.springer.com&#x
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
For practical purposes, functionals are just infinite-dimensional functions. In practice, a function is always represented numerically using a finite basis (grid, splines, Fourier), so functionals become just high-dimensional functions. At
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
One argument is that the approximate models of nature we know of (general relativity, electrodynamics) are very simple. So it seems that the underlying unifying theory shouldn’t be some huge complex monstrosity. But maybe it is
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
Isn't it clear that the website is to be taken as a piece of art besides also having some information content?
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
Another iteration: table#hnmain { padding: 0 -webkit-calc(42.5% - 25em); } table#hnmain > tbody > tr:not(:first-child) > td > table { padding: 0 7.5em; } table#hnmain div.comment { word-break:
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
Better yet: table#hnmain { padding: 0 -webkit-calc(42.5% - 23em); } table#hnmain > tbody > tr:not(:first-child) > td { padding: 0 7.5em; }
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3-line CSS to make Hacker News narrow for Safari's custom style sheet
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
Another way how to characterize the "context of [deep] machine learning" is that it is the regime of high temperature (stochasticity) as a result of small batches and/or large learning rates, and/or the regime of high m
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by jhrmnn 6y ago
AFAIK, this strand is different because of the number of mutations. See figure 2 here https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...

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