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by mkl 2y ago
I'm guessing you consider "vetting" to be confirming as correct, rather than the vetting that referees already do? In that case, how would anybody know about it to vet it? As soon as it's communicated to other research
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by mkl 2y ago
You mean like https://retractionwatch.com , the site that this very article is on? It's pretty popular on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=retractionwatch.com
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by mkl 2y ago
Academic papers have to cite related research to situate their contribution, even if they're not directly building on that research. When researchers can't reproduce a paper's results, they have to cite that paper when repor
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by mkl 2y ago
I really see it. It's not hallucinating as the imagined image is not in the real world. It's like a different input to the visual processing part of my brain (but both inputs work at once, a bit like looking at a different thing
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by mkl 2y ago
Quite a lot of humans don't think in language, or do only some of the time, see e.g. https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue... , https://www.livescience.com/does-everyone-have-inner
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by mkl 2y ago
> there was a tribe near Rurrenabaque that spoke Quechua?! (A language you would expect to encounter in central Peru, not there). Quechuan languages are quite widespread, including over large areas of Bolivia: https://en.wikip
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by mkl 2y ago
I think it's the shapes made by your mouth and tongue to make the sounds. Rounded to make b and ou and a, and sharp corners and tongue-palate gap to make k and i. The Wikipedia article mentions a little about this.
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by mkl 2y ago
I think it's entirely what we're used to. Mainly when I hear one the other way around it's a non-native speaker, but sometimes the inverted order is used for effect, e.g. A Song of Ice and Fire sounds off-kilter, like its
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by mkl 2y ago
I am quite curious about LinnStrument, but hesitant because of the price. How well has it stood up over time?
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by mkl 2y ago
No, it's editorialising. The original title "Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention" is 77 characters.
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by mkl 2y ago
Big discussion about that last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37087459
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by mkl 2y ago
I think you answered your own question there. Python is very accessible, very popular, and already widely used for GPU-based things like machine learning.
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by mkl 2y ago
Fascinating. I only knew this song as one of the centrepieces of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! , but this article doesn't even mention that.
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by mkl 2y ago
SyncThing. It can be run in both Windows and WSL on the same machine. If you were exclusively working in MS Office, OneDrive could work, but with anything else it gets really frustrating as it syncs when it feels like it - you can't f
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by mkl 2y ago
If they're in the same country, talk to a suitable lawyer. A letter from a lawyer may be enough to get them to stop. Follow thesuperbigfrog's suggestion too, but don't just link to their pages, quote them (maybe as screensho
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by mkl 2y ago
The person submitting puts in the title. Sometimes they mess it up, sometimes they break the rules and editorialise. No ML is needed.
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by mkl 2y ago
Read the first two words of my comment again. We're talking about the choice of Python for ML when CUDA came along, nearly 20 years ago. Upthread, alaties said: > Around 2007, the main competitors in the scripting space had a lot o
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by mkl 2y ago
That's a different verb, with a different meaning.
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by mkl 2y ago
In 2007 Perl (to outsiders at least) seemed deep in Perl 6's "redesign and rewrite everything" phase, with no end in sight and no predictable future.
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by mkl 2y ago
It's the verb vendor: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vendor#Verb
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by mkl 2y ago
Being able to hold the mouse button down is certainly much nicer. Not being able to see the examples while you are solving makes it harder than it should be though.
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by mkl 2y ago
I did https://arcprize.org/play?task=05a7bcf2 correctly, but one of the examples doesn't match the rule I used. Are the examples supposed to contain mistakes/noise? Did I find a bug? Did I get the rule wrong? H
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by mkl 2y ago
My niece, 3yo, at the zoo, spent about 30 seconds trying to figure out whether a pig was a cat or a car.
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by mkl 2y ago
https://archive.ph/p4iuu No real details.
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by mkl 2y ago
> Apple is already a vertically integrated AI company, and deserve a higher valuation. Why does the latter follow from the former? I guess the author has Apple stock.
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by mkl 2y ago
Evolution doesn't find "best", it finds "slightly better" and "not disastrously worse" repeatedly.
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by mkl 2y ago
I think they're referring to sillysaurusx. I won't link to the thread, but I don't know what they mean by "only thing of value".
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by mkl 2y ago
It's not grammatical. Reading the article parts of it seemed poorly machine-translated to me (and the whole thing seemed mostly a sequence of straw-men).
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by mkl 2y ago
> You would need a modern civilization with at least metallic tools to spread far enough and wide enough to kill off multiple major species. We know humans spread far enough and wide enough in stone age times. Big animals reproduce slow
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by mkl 2y ago
And New Zealand's other big birds (e.g. giant geese, harriers, eagles, swans [1]), after humans arrived. And elephant birds and giant lemurs in Madagascar, after humans arrived. And many large animals in Australia (giant wombats, kanga

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