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> I speculated that this poor performance might be caused by the newline bytes (0x0A) punctuating every 60 characters of sequence, breaking the hashes used for long range pattern matching. If the linefeeds were treated as semantic charac
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>> Yes, but this means existing studies can't be relied on… > Exactly my point with this line of thinking: It’s used to argue that you can’t rely on any studies, therefore it becomes a free license to reject everything and inj
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> Yet if you want to set your threshold for evidence so high that nothing short of a large scale RCT will answer the question you can ignore all of this, because such an RCT will never be produced for obvious ethical reasons. Yes, but th
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> "Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a core symptom of a number of common psychological disorders and may be a modifiable process shared by many psychological risk factors that contribute to the development of cognitive impair
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> [ ... ] and instatisfaction [sic] for the users In-what? Unhappiness with a statistical outcome? Discouragement with events in one's home state? Based on the many other uncorrected typos in the example SVG, I suspect that Inkscape
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This reminds me of the Pet Rock ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock ) from pre-Internet times. The difference is the Pet Rock actually existed, and people actually bought them. Update -- the Pet Rock is still out th
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The article makes many good points, it's written by someone who knows how to write an essay, and it mentions Linux. Technology-adept people will always have ways to avoid the prevailing swamp of dark patterns, but that's not corpo
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Wait, what? An email address harvester that expects people to volunteer? And that tries to get the sender's geographical position along the way? The stated purpose could be served without requiring an email address. It could also be se
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Such a shame. In an otherwise well-written article, the author mentions Cooley and Tukey's discovery of the FFT, but without mentioning that Gauss discovered it first, among others, each of whom approached the same idea from different
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> Surely you’re not trying to draw some conclusion between an entire countries modern day medical field and a theory a person proposed in the 1800s, right? That would depend on whether anything has changed since the 1800s. But that'
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In principle, those being accused of a conflict of interest in the creation of DSM-5 could argue that, because the DSM is science-based, it's open to impartial statistical analyses and comparison with established scientific theory that
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Yes, you're right -- a reload cured it. I'm accustomed to the old Internet, where Web pages were smaller and page deliveries were more reliable.
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Don't let specialists detract from your enjoyment of Quanta-level articles. This one is well-written, makes no egregious errors, and only omits one important fact. And that fact is ... All this talk about exponentiation, tetration and
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Hmm, what a shame that the LaTeX content wasn't properly rendered in the linked article. When I noticed this I assumed someone had forgotten to include the MathJax JavaScript library, which, when present, converts LaTeX notation into p
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> I think that $10 million is a great answer for "how much money is more than you'll ever need". Years ago I lived on $40 per month, after building my own cabin in Oregon -- wood heat, kerosene lanterns. Then I bought an A
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A key turning point in Woz's life was when he crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza, fully loaded with friends and luggage, from a runway that was too short for the aircraft load and air temperature (high temperatures require longer takeoff r
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One might say, "benzodiazepines have a similar effect to alcohol", or "benzodiazepines have an effect similar to alcohol." The second construction is clearer in its meaning.
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> Are there examples of non-life formations like this on Earth? What are they called (how can I see some)? The technical term is "dendritic." No suggestion of life. The next time you see a lithium-ion battery fire, you can impr
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> * coral shaped rock The technical term is "dendritic". It's sufficiently distant from nature to avoid suggesting a living organism.
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I wish there was a scale that quantifies the degree to which an article headline struggles to attract clicks at the expense of accuracy. Looking further, I find that the JPL source article ( https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images&#
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This pales when compared to my favorite grammatical annoyance, a common perverse construction, for example "... similar effect to ..." when "... effect similar to ..." is actually intended. This misordering is so common
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This is my new video, meant to support an earlier linked Web page at https://arachnoid.com/3D_Printing_Prusa_Core_One . This video is a deep dive into the Prusa Core One, plus some general 3D printing content. Among other th
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Discover the Prusa Core One [video](youtube.com)
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I have a canonical test for chatbots -- I ask them who I am. I'm sufficiently unknown in modern times that it's a fair test. Just ask, "Who is Paul Lutus?" ChatGPT 5's reply is mostly made up -- about 80% is pure in
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> The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey until reaching the destination. What a shame -- their basic premise is grievously mist
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> Can I safely assume your expertise in the history, philosophy, and practice of science is the result of graduating from one or more specialized programs? I can't believe what I'm reading. Science rejects authority. If you wer
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> ... Randi was a positively harmful influence on logic, so I feel justified in pointing out that Randi was a force for irrationality. You mean, by posting a one million dollar paranormal challenge ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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Apparently so ( https://library.ctstate.edu/c.php?g=1318271&p=9694905 ). The link includes some obviously pseudoscientific projects, as though the list was meant to ridicule the field. A Google search for "recent par
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Great -- another paywalled article, one that makes arguments available elsewhere without commercial barriers. A paywalled article isn't necessarily more valuable than its alternatives, only more expensive. Eventually the entire Interne
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> This kind of misinformation is often recycled in journalism and reference literature [ ... ] Including this article, whose preferred outlook quickly becomes clear. This can all be resolved by objective research programs having strong c

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