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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
https://archive.ph/1jOby
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Not in the BBC breathless: "Second death linked to potential antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease Woman’s brain hemorrhage while receiving Eisai’s widely heralded lecanemab heightens concerns overs its safety 27 NOV 2022•8:00 PM•
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Stanford president’s research under investigation for scientific misconduct(stanforddaily.com)
9 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|3 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Most of my friends and colleagues in string-adjacent fields --I doubt anybody would lately admit to doing string theory proper-- have the integrity to begrudgingly confess that string theory is Mathematics done poorly. My guys are health
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Is PG implying that SBF is bad at writing, and by extension, thinking? If he is, then I surmise that certain forms of thinking may not be helped by writing long essays, for example, thinking about how to manage public opinion or emotions.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220102223330/http://www.antarc...
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Lost treasure, a la <<Cryptonomicon>>, or King Solomon's mine?
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Reminds me also of Orwell's Godwinning parallel: "I offer you struggle, danger, and death..." https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein...
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I don't know man, his posts seem saner than the median here. “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
There's another crypto figurehead who is prominently in the EA tribe: Vitalik Buterin. I would characterise both as elite but not upper class (as in, regularly going to old money dinner/rave parties). I don't know which of th
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Musk: SB-F 'Set Off My BS Detector' When He Approached About Twitter Investment(decrypt.co)
5 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|0 comments
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Cathie Wood Says Fed Policy Ignores Deflationary Signals(bloomberg.com)
2 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|0 comments
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Regulator denies asking FTX to prioritize withdrawals for Bahamian clients(cointelegraph.com)
5 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|0 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
GP probably meant young people deciding to go into physics after reading these articles. I'm a physicist and many of us were massively influenced by the pop-sci books we read as kids before we knew better. You don't get specific r
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I suspect the mechanism goes something like this: Reviewers prioritize their time above all, and after that correctness，leaving novelty in last place. If a paper comes from a unknown lab it tends to get greater scrutiny because a famous nam
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
What is your discipline? I'm in physics and double blind peer review is not the norm.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Chatted with him at a party.. he does have that vapid Hollywood angle down (which Elon aspires to as well it seems). Who are the other ones? XG Wen, Marin Soljacic? I haven't met them, just that their publicized results in my opinion
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A Bayesian Probability Worksheet Posted by Terence Tao(terrytao.wordpress.com)
3 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|0 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
any updates on the driver issues as brought up in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYSeT-T5ukP
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Yesterday (before this came up on HN) I came across in my daily paper chase a follow up paper from the lead author Ranga. Looks like the same fossil superconductor, but they manage to add another sensational detail: the superconductor is c
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
What if Apple made a 1500 dollar electric Mini (car)? Might just work. I have seen some comments here saying that all the money in the world can't buy you a better mobile phone. If Apple is able to generalize that to another product cl
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
WASM via SwiftUI/objC?
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‘Like Star Wars’: World’s first flying bike, made in Japan, debuts in the US(youtube.com)
2 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|0 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
The exact same plan appears in Neal Stephenson's recent climate scifi Termination Shock, but executed by a archetypical tech billionaire. title itself refers to the catastrophe unleashed by terminating sulfur emissions. https:/&
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Scientists propose plan to refreeze poles with atmospheric sulfur dioxide(news.sky.com)
5 points by kalimanzaro 4y ago|2 comments
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I dont know: both guys seem to enjoy playing the asshole for laughs. The picture at the top suggests that he could really complete the look by pairing a full suit with a mohawk.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Title to this live should now be updated https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60037657 "How Liz Truss won the Conservative leadership race"
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
https://archive.ph/cikWE It's a response, from yet another Oxford Physicist, to the other FT article currently on the frontpage.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Link to the actual article by the Oxford Physicist. https://archive.ph/0VB0K Valuation over value.
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Indeed, you are right, most innovations are more about timing and adoption rather than invention. I think though that the point about shrinkage is the large change between casting and room temperatures (and maybe during pressing?); the dif

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