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I've (co-)organized parties of varying sizes (N=2..50+) and I would say volume hasn't been the top problem, ever. - As hosts, the main problems are finding a suitable date to hold the party, chasing attendance confirmations and ge
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Reviewer (Scientific Expert) for the EU (since 2009) here. The probability of getting a Horizon Europe grant allegedly (not official stats) is about 8.5% according to some friends, which may seem low. You need to write 70 pages following a
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+1
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The "Il" in Il-Malti is like "al" in Arabic, which Maltese is closely related to as was pointed out above. Arabic (language): al-‘arabiyyah (الْعَرَبِيَّة).
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I use questions around this pipeline in interviews. As soon as people say they'd write a Python program to sort a file, they get rejected. Arguably, this will result in a slower result in most cases, but the reason for the rejection is
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Perhaps we could say we don't know whether the human biological substrate is required for mental processes or not, but either way we do not know enough about said biological substrate and our mental processes, respectively.
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You might want to limit this to geek-frequented bars in Silicon Valley only, as it is using strangers for your own financial benefits without reimbursing them for their feedback. Also consider that disclosing your work in public means subse
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Companies often downplay the amount of software modifications necessary to benefit from their hardware platform's strengths because quite often, platforms that cannot run software out of the box lose out compared to those that can. By
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This is a good point. I paid many movies on iTunes, and there's no way to access that content anymore, certaily not from my Linux (main) machines. Also, people who "bought" 1984 on Amazon only to see it disappear from their K
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I remember when people laughted off the valuation at the time of Google acquiring YouTube.com ($1.65 billion). With the benefit of hindsight, this was a wise move that has payed enormous dividends, and more benefits no doubt still lie ahea
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There have always been fanboy "camps" feuding each other, from "What's the best programming language?" to the never-ending "What's the best text editor?". Brian Kernighan tried to port his famous soft
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Mac OS 9 was written in Pascal, and so was the Berkeley P-System, a portable Pascal development environment from the 1970s, featuring a virtual machine that influenced the later JVM. Apple's Lisa OS was also implemented in Pascal.
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I love the EU. There just isn't a better place to live (having lived in other places like the UK, US and CH, and visited many countries). For example, when I meet European researchers, each has some things to bitch about their own gove
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A very important but much-neglected part of a CEO's tasks is succession planning. (Perhaps charismatic leaders neglect it a bit on purpose because they enjoy being portrayed as irreplaceable.)
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> How does this stuff get published "published" only in the sense of "self-published on the Web". This manuscript has not or not yet been passed the peer review process, which is what scientist called "published&
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I agree with the "writing is thinking" part, but I think most would agree LLM-output is at least "eloquent", and that native speakers can benefit from reformulation. This is _not_ to say that I'd suggest LLMs should
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- A spray that turns whoever gets 10 µg of it in their face into a peace-loving anti-fascist, pascifist individual. - A piece of malware that destroys all social media platforms so people can hang out with their friends in physical reality
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It's easy enough to wrap some open source software in GUIs that closely resemble proprietary software (cf. LibreOffice as an example).
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FORTH has some elegance and it's so simple that it is tempting to implement it. However, no language should permit defining the value of 4 by 12, as there is no situation in which this can bring more good than harm in the long term. An
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> ... should be offered by universities. Yes, but remember the onus is on the student to figure out how they learn best. Tertiary education is no longer about spoon-feeding (adult) students everything. Since the parent mentioned a book,
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> One really important factor is the grading curve, if used. I never use it to grade, because it is empirically unfair. The further you move in the educational system, the less people's aptitute matches a Gaussian or "normal&qu
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That may require some experience, which you can obtain gradually by reading lots of papers, some good, some bad, to see how they do it. Eventually, you can tell if an experiment is suitable for showing strong support of the RQ or not. (And
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I strongly agree - I started teaching from slides and shifted more and more to blackboard and chalk. I found that they can also be combined well by showing a slide that gives some guidance where "we" are in the material, supplemen
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Yes, me too, I was expecting either Smalltalk or LISP machine GUIs. Having said that, some old TUIs were clearer and faster even on weaker hardware. This should be a lesson for us today. Color transitions and animated icons flying over the
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Algorithm R (Rich). 1. Play the lottery. [not recommended, but shown for completeness] 2. Invest in crypto currencies (we are just after a craw; excellent time to buy). 3. Trade FX/shares/derivatives. 4. Write and sell some softwa
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You are right in saying that discoverability has suffered much, by hiding scrollbar and similar changes. Also, you need to move the mouse precisely to a particular spot to re-enable the scrollbars, there is little wiggle room, which may may
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Hardware and software are of course equivalent, as every computer science (but not every philosopher) knows. D.R. Hofstadter posited that we can extract/separate the software from the hardware it runs on (the program-brain dichotomy),
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Agree. How would one use/access graphics and GUIs with overlapping windows from it?
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..but then again there is open source ERP, too!
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It makes sense to own your own medical data rather than handing it over to big tech/FAANG.

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