low_tech_love

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by low_tech_love 5y ago
Yes, the noise from my clothes dryer sounds exactly like a Deafheaven song, whenever I dry my clothes I get that song stuck in my head for ours.
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
Sure, theoretically you’re right, but in practice there are thousands of extremely well-qualified researchers being paid to assess such research plans. I don’t know if it’s reasonable to expect that the general public will simply start to e
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
Sure, I’m not against crowdfunding research, as long as there is a clear reason for it. For example, too much budget directed to covid is hurting other perfectly valid areas? Fine. Or, someone has a perfectly good research plan, but failed
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
Is there any history of things that were not funded via usual means in the past but ended being accepted and used extensively later?
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
Maybe, but why? Surely there is a reason why this was not funded via the usual means?
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
I know a guy who was given 3 months and lived 4 years without rapamycin. So…
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
When I see something like this, I always ask myself: “There is a reason why this was not funded through the usual means. Why?”
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
As a retro enthusiast, I've been asked "why bother with old technology" a few times and, in my opinion, the best answer is simply "because I like it". There are probably some underlying objective reasons behind that
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
When I browse around these courses, I see a couple of high-profile names teaching them, but it's interesting to see how the overwhelming majority of the teaching work is done by brilliant people who almost never make it to the spotligh
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Another World: Genesis(anotherworld.fr)
43 points by low_tech_love 5y ago|19 comments
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by low_tech_love 5y ago
On a side note, I love the idea of researchers writing “articles” in this format. No paywall, no complex two-column format, no PDFs. As a researcher myself, I wish this is what my “productivity” was judged upon, I’d probably have a lot more
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
There is a multitude of different papers coming out on each subject every day, most with small shallow contributions, and I need to keep up. When I do my own writing, I need to compare and state how I’m improving on them. Paper publishing i
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
“We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible.“ Damn, I miss the days when I had the opportunity to actually do that. As a researcher, nowadays I’m forced to skim over many papers a day without
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
By far the part I like the most is ‘You are not allowed to use your personal email account as a "hobby".’
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
I’m guessing it’s counting doses.
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
I’m pretty sure the author is right that, in some kind of game-theoretical way, the ”artificial boundaries” and a healthy nationalist attitude is for sure beneficial. The problem is that I think social media turned us all into extremists. Y
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
Almost everyone I know has been working 20-30% more than usual in the last year, are available basically at any/all times (and weekends), and getting the same salary. Plus, we're paying for the electricity of our work laptops now,
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by low_tech_love 6y ago
Wow, that article could have been written in 2020.
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by low_tech_love 8y ago
Cool, another GPU application that has nothing to do with graphics; isn’t it time we start building new hardware for these things?
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by low_tech_love 8y ago
It's clickbait; they don't say it, they imply it. It is said that Google employees were "told" to "stop" using the word after complaints. No context; it conjures up the image of people being censored and oppres
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by low_tech_love 8y ago
No, Google employees are not forbidden to use the word "family". I'm sorry but this is not HN-quality content. The whole thing is nothing but a sensationalist waste of time, starting from the clickbait headline down to the fa
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by low_tech_love 8y ago
How was a lawyer unnecessary? He was threatened after doing the right thing..!