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by laretluval 6y ago
Conferences of this kind would not allow major revisions unless they were requested by the conference's reviewers.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Presumably there would have been time for discussion if the paper had not been submitted a day before the deadline.
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by laretluval 6y ago
She demanded to know the identities of anonymous internal reviewers of her paper, or else she would resign. Google accepted her resignation. What is the evidence that this has to do with the content of the paper?
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by laretluval 6y ago
“Dark matter” just means it’s something that behaves like matter wrt gravity.
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by laretluval 6y ago
It could be a numbers station but (1) the known numerical messages are very short and (2) that wouldn’t explain why there is a buzzer.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> The ISS in particularly was driven in large part by a desire to keep ex-Soviet rocket engineers gainfully employed and not seek employment with rogue states looking to rapidly develop a missile program. Is there any documentation of th
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by laretluval 6y ago
Seems to be a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
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by laretluval 6y ago
Correlation or causation?
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by laretluval 6y ago
If it's a good PhD program then they will pay you to attend. No need to take out loans.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Electronics are full of fire retardants like these.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> our government is full of confused people I don't find this at all hard to believe.
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by laretluval 6y ago
What is the evidence that professional licensing would help? Even the most skilled programmers produce bugs. Professional licensing would only raise the barrier to entry for a well-paying job.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Academia doesn't pay as well as industry in terms of money but it does pay well in terms of status and ego supply. Couple that with a bit of self-delusion and it's a recipe for crackpots who can't believe their beautiful idea
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by laretluval 6y ago
If you want your child to eat their peas then you should reward them for doing it.
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by laretluval 6y ago
The fact that they're trying to optimize doesn't mean that it's effective. Psychologists don't know much.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Engaging content spreads even if it isn't boosted. That's what engaging means. Facebook's algorithms might amplify the dynamic, but by how much?
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by laretluval 6y ago
Some proportion of civilizations would develop to the point that their signals are detectable to us (this is a parameter in the Drake equation). Since we haven't detected anyone, there must be some problem in reaching that point.
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by laretluval 6y ago
What part of that was left unaddressed in 1997?
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by laretluval 6y ago
Sounds like the justifications for the Iraq wars.
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by laretluval 6y ago
The Eye of Sauron is a great motivator.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Goebbels had a literature PhD and became the Reichsminister of Propaganda. Humanities education does not guarantee a moral outlook.
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by laretluval 6y ago
You can transfer faces from non-pornographic videos onto pornographic videos.
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by laretluval 6y ago
I think your downvotes are entirely because you used the word “problematic” which some people feel is often used to shut down debate. A shame, because your link pretty convincingly shows that the article’s claims about the Inuit are simply
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by laretluval 6y ago
What is the definition of indigenous?
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by laretluval 6y ago
Boring, unchanging syntax is a plus.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Expect universities to fight this hard. Fees from international students make up a huge portion of their budget.
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by laretluval 6y ago
Maybe Twitter isn't uniquely the worst at this but it's certainly in the top 5.
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by laretluval 6y ago
One perspective is that humans weren't meant to communicate so broadly and with such low costs. The result is the emergence of toxic dynamics that are usually held in check by the difficulty of communication, which raises the cost of s
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by laretluval 6y ago
This was the kind of reasoning that led gun makers to develop safety mechanisms. It isn't clear what a similar safety mechanism would look like for an ML algorithm. Modern ML algorithms are nothing more than generic pattern extractors.
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by laretluval 6y ago
> As a result, How was causation established?

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