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by leto_ii 4y ago
> writers who are way out of their depths and horribly wrong about what they are writing (e.g., Jared Diamond). Could you elaborate a bit? Myself I found his books quite compelling. I'm of course not an anthropologist, historian etc
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> What does the phrase “shake sugaree” mean, though? [...] The Grateful Dead’s song “Sugaree” references the phrase, but that isn’t very enlightening, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter were Elizabeth Cotten fans and just thought it sounded
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I think the idea is that gbt's are trained sequentially on the "residuals" left from the previous tree, while rf's are uncorrelated (can be trained in parallel, don't depend on one another). This means that in rf&#x
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A bear in the backyard – a photo essay(theguardian.com)
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> "Neo-liberal" social order was not at all dominant at that time. I meant our current time, not the time of the book's writing.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Conjectures and Refutations is the next one of his on my list :) After The Logic... I do however want to read Feyerabend's Against Method.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
With the risk of being unpopular I have to admit I have found what I've read of Popper to be seriously overrated. So far I have gone through The Open Society... and the better part of The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Open Society to
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by leto_ii 4y ago
While I agree that rail infrastructure should be improved significantly in Eastern Europe, if you look a bit closer you'll see that there are many other countries where the 5 hrs don't take you much outside of national borders, e.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
The poster did exactly that, it's about Lagâri Hasan Çelebi. It's not common practice to also add an explanation when posting.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Can confirm from Romania. I found this on YouTube, for ilustration: https://youtu.be/KctTo0yqMnU?t=34 (you can skip around, naration is in Romanian, but the idea is pretty clear). Things are pretty crazy. > Hopefully wil
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I think it's worth it if you calibrate your goals correctly. Personally I have a github.io that I tried to make presentable. I have it on my CV, but actually my main goal is to do little projects I like, not necessarily things I think
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Petrichor(en.wikipedia.org)
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Since I'm a complete noob at astronomy, I wanted to ask a couple of basic questions about the image: 1. What causes the bright flares/flashes around some bright starts/galaxies? 2. What are the elongated traces that look as i
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I've come across this kind of advice many times and I've learned to identify it for what it is: a recipe for a boring and ossified intellectual life. What works best, I think, is to go with what deeply interests you while periodic
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by leto_ii 4y ago
TLDR: yes it did, there's no phantom time; check with the Chinese, Persians, Byzantines etc.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
One pernicious side-effect of gatekeeping snobbery is that it pushes beginners to adopt techniques and tools that don't make sense that early in the game. To give a concrete example: personally I'm an interested pool beginner (~c-
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I hope one day all these countries, like Syria, will have their own museums to rival ours, and the peace and stability to enjoy them for centuries too. I find the British pretext that they're keeping (often stolen) artifacts for
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by leto_ii 4y ago
There were a lot of smart capable humans working for the Nazis as well. The issue is not so much the individual, as the social/economic system they're a part of.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> Not a pat on the back for the nicest place, but a meaningfully closer to objective estimate of how much will our employees hate us if we deploy them there Perhaps, although I imagine that IRL this kind of research might be bought as pa
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I think parent's point is pertinent. The ranking is reductive, but purports to be objective and all-encompassing. Personally I also find very well organized, well functioning Western European cities quite boring. I would take Athens ov
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by leto_ii 4y ago
First of all, I'm not sure who this index is supposed to help. The EIU puts a new version out every year, but keeps pretty much all of it paywalled - I can't imagine who would be willing to pay a few hundred euros to find out that
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I have actually noticed a similar thing going on with olives. Our cat would go crazy over them, and I don't think it had anything to do with mosquitos.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
While I am sure these kinds of abuses happen everywhere, I can't help feeling that a lot of them are exacerbated by the US model of healthcare. In my home country of Romania I sometimes almost have to ask my dentist to take my money. S
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> People can enter their names into this unique link to generate the hash of their name. If the generated hash matches, they'll be notified *you* are *their* crush Don't mean to be pedantic, but shouldn't it be "they
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I'm actually disappointed, going by the title I thought this would show which politician was bought by which special interest group :))
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> what made Sweden and Finland finally want to join now after all these years? Honestly I suspect that's just a momentary bout of mass irrationality (to put it politely). Both countries are completely safe, de-facto NATO members. R
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by leto_ii 4y ago
UPDATE COMMENT: I guess I should have known I was poking the dragon with this one, sorry for that. Just to clarify things a bit, here's my general position: 1. I have complete sympathy and respect for the Ukrainian cause. They are figh
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Like a lot of Romanians, I have a very dim view of Mircea Geoană as a statesman or diplomat. The fact that he somehow became NATO Deputy Secretary General only reinforces my suspicion that NATO is quasi-irrelevant as an institution distinct
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> - The average Californian lawn is ~500 sqm [0] > - Grass sequesters ~ 85g of carbon per sqm per year, or 42 tonnes per year [1] 500 * 85g/m2 = 42500 g/m2 - that's 42.5 kg, not 42.5 tonnes. I haven't checked your
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I don't think physical books are really a declining medium. As Taleb would put it, they're 'Lindy' [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

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