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by jordanpg 4y ago
My point is that there is nothing magical about this model or that model. HEP experimentation is just exploring parameter space and seeing if our models hold up.
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I think a lot of commentary on this thread is losing sight of what the world "model" really amounts to in a scientific context. It's an abstraction. A bunch of math that just-so-happens to result in accurate predictions. Th
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by jordanpg 4y ago
This. This author, who should know better, is suggesting that the only "success" is a new discovery. This is patent nonsense. Every time a hypothesis is ruled out, and every time a hypothesis is ruled out with greater confidence,
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by jordanpg 4y ago
Thank you for this post! Violence in video games, if it must be present, should be a like a garnish: in vanishingly small quantities and hyper-realistic. The fantasy (as in ludicrous, not swords and sorcery) violence of modern gaming is ju
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by jordanpg 4y ago
Want to browse your favorite genre? Trying clicking Search, and then... scroll through and read 80 tiles, one by one, until you find the one you're looking for! You can't sort the list. It's not even in alphabetical order
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First JWST science images to be released July 12(twitter.com)
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First music I ever "streamed" and still excellent. Thank you, Rusty!
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I read the article, and still don't see what is being proposed. > we need to intentionally return to our traditional pattern of development, one based on creating neighborhoods of value, scaled to actual people. When we do this, we
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Fair enough; it's not a perfect analogy. The main point is the nature of the metrics. Getting into law school is the first part of the "interview." If you don't have the LSAT score, you won't get into a prestigiou
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SWE to lawyer here. The analogs of the traditional coding interview in the law school world are the LSAT and classroom timed memory tests. Both have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with being a lawyer or the kinds of activities that la
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The Unclear and Present Danger podcast covered this movie in their latest episode. https://jamellebouie.net/unclear-and-present-danger/2022/5/1...
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I believe the sociologists of the future are going to look back at this era and cite the manifest lack of meaning in human life as source of the ennui that is the subject of this thread. For a long time, religion filled this void, but for a
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by jordanpg 4y ago
See also Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari.
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Yeah, this is the detail that is almost unheard of in the US. Grades of tuna. The bright red stuff that is so common is a dim shadow of what is possible with tuna. On the other hand, cheap salmon is reliably good for the same reasons the ex
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Also a button to quickly show a random example to see what it can do would be nice.
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If industry leads regulation on this, I predict a Challenger-like disaster that sets the self-driving industry back by decades. A fatal school bus collision or something like that. I hope the companies making these things are calculating m
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Making these became trendy at my last company for a few months. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now. I guess I just don't see who has time for this kind of thing -- literally. I doubt very seriously anyone ever act
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Law schools put so much energy into these exam procedures! And all under the banner of preventing cheating and producing a nice curve. Now the technological arms race faced by law schools is how to get students to read anything in a world
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I'm not saying that these tests are not effective predictors of something. In fact, I'm sure they are. I'm saying that it's certain that they way they are administered leave a lot of people behind, and I don't thin
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Part of the problem I see with standardized testing is that the stakes are so high. Some fraction of the people out there just get nervous or have a bad day. Nothing about these high pressure situations really reflects anything important
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by jordanpg 5y ago
It's an inflection point. When AGI blinks into existence, what happens after that moment might be so instantaneously transcendent that we don't even have the vocabulary to discuss it. It's mostly useful for describing the tim
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Upgrading to Catalina has nearly knocked me out of the gaming scene altogether. It might be enough to ensure that my next purchase is a PC, despite finding Windows loathsome.
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I suspect that at the root of all of these companies with massive office investments insisting that everyone gets back to the office as soon as possible is something to do with taxes. Something like deductions that cannot be taken when thos
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by jordanpg 5y ago
The first-to-file provisions apply to applications filed on or after March 16, 2013. These were filed well before that date. Under the old first-to-invent paradigm, when there is a question of fact concerning who invented first, the USPTO
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Of course, there is a non-trivial cost to spending time dealing with this stuff, particularly the less likely outcomes. As with any risk assessment, one has to judge the probability of certain events and act accordingly. The thing that bugs
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by jordanpg 5y ago
Of course, something is lost when style is sacrificed for readability. To highlight this, consider making these same arguments about, say, music or art. And writing is indeed an art of sorts.
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by jordanpg 5y ago
At the risk of sounding a bit hyperbolic, it's also important for citizens living under a representative form of government to monitor the government for encroachment on liberties. The news is how this happens.
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> write a program that copies standard input to standard output This is pretty trivial in Java, just as in other languages. But most people don't ever need to learn the low level `System` methods needed to do it. To me, this highli
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by jordanpg 5y ago
How is this different from other free legal DBs like Justia and Casetext?
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by jordanpg 5y ago
My point is that folks should consider their tone and words carefully on this topic. There are a great many women out there who would like to be breastfeeding, but can't, for various reasons. And the amount of guilt and shame experien

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