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by maegul 4y ago
Which gets to my point about the bias of chess.com. Surely they have an interest in making this look like one awful offender, a bad apple essentially, and not that they’re profits come from a broken sport.
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by maegul 4y ago
I don’t know about those games … but isn’t the incomplete/hidden information a fundamental difference from chess and how easy it is to cheat?
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But are they even useful in training for a player? Are they essential for improvement and competition?
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea, it definitely seems a bit suspicious and unfair, which fits frankly with the sport going through growing pains on this. Seems like you gotta beat Magnus for your cheating to matter?! Snark aside, Magnus’s behaviour makes some sense, h
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by maegul 4y ago
So page 9 from the last paragraph is interesting. Chess.com basically indicate that apart from Hans, a number of highly rated players (including higher than Hans) have been caught and admitted to cheating. I haven't gone over the repo
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by maegul 4y ago
So Copilot is its own topic of discussion, but in so far as it and this sentiment are relevant to this thread, I think there's a serious issue here and one particularly relevant to that of Copilot in general. At some point, I think we
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by maegul 4y ago
Yep. And as sibling comments have stated, the advertising “life blood” of the internet is very much a deeper root cause. A perhaps overlooked aspect of this “post-pandemic” moment we’re arguably in right now is how we can RE-assess our rela
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by maegul 4y ago
Hmmm … feels like a lot of missing the bigger point here. Xonsh, IMO, isn’t about hating bash or loving Python. It’s about making a new language (and shell) that tries to bring what’s good about a nice shell to Python so that when we hit o
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by maegul 4y ago
We might be stuck with streaming as a “medium” for the time being. In line with your comment, I was wondering what the modern video rental would be. Blockbuster weren’t just sub-leasing their movies, they owned the physical copies. And any
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by maegul 4y ago
Surely waste is a problem with everything modern humanity does. Surely there’s an argument to be made that our waste budget ought to have a dedicated portion for the arts? Plus, what are the numbers on alternatives? How much “waste” or poll
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by maegul 4y ago
I was thinking the same thing as I was reading the code but realised that I'd worked out what it was doing pretty much as I was critiquing it. Not sure about the "pn" in "@pn" though ... does it come from something
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by maegul 4y ago
I wasn’t aware of the cheating for money. Do have a source? As for codification, criminal leniency for juveniles, which is widespread, gets you pretty close. For chess to have its own codifications, I think, as Magnus clearly does too, that
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Interesting. I don't have quite the same impression. To me it feels like they're generally well spoken but with a decent amount of a casual or conversational style. In essence, I'd bet it's a relatively clean and effic
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Fair. However Hans's defence was that 1) he'd never cheated in professional contexts and 2) he was young and stupid. These seem like fair qualifications to your proposition.
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by maegul 4y ago
For me, this weakens Magnus's case. Obviously there's more information that isn't being disclosed, and until the definitive information comes to light we're all going to be left in the dark. Nonetheless, addressing this
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by maegul 4y ago
With schooling/education, I suspect there's a potential trap for any society where the "norms", should they entail sufficiently large institutions, as they do now in the West, can become excessively "sticky" an
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by maegul 4y ago
Having gone through a similar thing myself at the same age, I’ve since come to conclude that most education on offer just isn’t for me. I want to learn things well, not just well enough for an exam in an efficient time frame. Corollary: I w
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by maegul 4y ago
Not trying to nitpick here, but does anyone find it strange that a webpage/website like this doesn’t have a graph of the data, but just a poorly designed table? Is this a trend I’ve missed … some sort of post-D3 nadir of a datavis hype
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by maegul 4y ago
I'm sure different fields have different dynamics, and in some what you describe here might be viable and accurate. But my own impression and experience is that your statement is naive. The key thing I think you miss is that researche
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by maegul 4y ago
Agree. I used to think double blind was an obvious requirement for a good peer review system. Your “theatre” take is aptly harsh I’d say. Also hard agree on publishing reviews. It seems to be the only viable modification of peer review that
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by maegul 4y ago
I was referring to the notebook-like "part" of the interface, where JupyterLab is a notebook interface with IDE-like components wrapped around it (file explorer, terminal etc). The ObservableHQ interface, for instance, I'd cl
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by maegul 4y ago
Yes, the Data Science culture around maintainable code does seem to be reaching a critical level of toxicity (in some environments at least). In line with a nephew comment of mine, I feel that bringing the immediate interactivity or iterati
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by maegul 4y ago
I feel like the BYODiscipline problem with jupytext could be solved with relatively rudimentary text-editor plugins. I've started rolling my own little plugin utilities and, so far, I have a (very) rudimentary notebook-like interface i
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea ... it's weird to talk to some types of neuroscientists who speak as though a particular neurotransmitter is an actual psychological phenomenon (beyond just short hand, IMO). So focused they are, it seems, on the therapeutic develo
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by maegul 4y ago
I believe your quote is from the article posted here. I was talking about the paper, which I only read lightly. Checking now the Results section of the paper, they do address how conservative the relevant genome site is, extracted below (em
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by maegul 4y ago
Thanks! Can’t help but wonder how conserved the relevant site actually is. I wonder because targeting such a site seems to me like the premise of this kind of research: find “mission critical” highly conserved genes and then clinically ta
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by maegul 4y ago
So, from the article: > Once the virus has bound to ACE2, it must complete a final step: fusing its outer membrane with the membrane of our cells. This throws the door open to infection. Using a novel live-cell imaging platform, Alex Kre
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by maegul 4y ago
Key flaw with this is the presumption that the required mutations are not already present in the population. Even if they are rare, it is a facile process for natural selection to make said set of mutations dominant. If a small amount of
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by maegul 4y ago
> now that https://github.com/noib3/nvim-oxi has come out, I am going to use it even less. Woah, interesting ... provided there's success and uptake with this ... I'm imagining it could lead to a really sl
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by maegul 4y ago
Nice work ... really like these! Personally, I could see myself tweaking the palettes to have a bit more saturation and maybe even have a particular hue palette or have the hues centre around a particular value as you do with the "warm

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