mycologos

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by mycologos 3y ago
> The prof I was working with told me that this anonymous reviewer was probably the writer of those papers and asking for citation. I think this is mostly just a kind of fun way of complaining about reviewers. Having been a reviewer for
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by mycologos 3y ago
Note that the article specifies that these cartels mostly feature participants from bad universities in countries that have really whacked-out academic reward mechanisms that arose because some powerful central government force that doesn&#
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by mycologos 3y ago
I'm not a fan of the specific new pasta shape, but I like the brand itself, because they offer something that is hard for me to find elsewhere, especially in a ~normal grocery store: unusual grains in unusual shapes. The comparison wit
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by mycologos 3y ago
Birth rates decline pretty proportionally to economic development, arriving at well below replacement levels in highly developed countries. In light of this, it seems misguided to expend energy personally convincing people to have less chil
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by mycologos 3y ago
As you've observed, averages can be misleading because they're not robust to outliers. However, this seems most relevant to something like income, where we're interested in "most people" and don't care so much
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by mycologos 3y ago
I've bought half a dozen boxes from this company -- mostly for the weird grains in weird shapes -- and will probably buy more. Yeah, it's expensive for a box of pasta, 2-3x the price of "normal" pasta. But that differenc
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by mycologos 3y ago
A problem seems to be that smart jerks know that people would prefer to not be around them and therefore spend a lot of time/energy/intelligence making themselves organizationally powerful enough that people have no choice. I thin
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by mycologos 3y ago
There's a nice 2017 documentary about Voyager called The Farthest [1]. It includes interviews with many of the now very old team members, and they do exude (deserved) pride, and a still fresh sense of wonder that they pulled it off.
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by mycologos 3y ago
I think a "statistics" class could still help a lot of people without ever touching continuous distributions (which as you mention are more naturally built off calculus) or multivariate distributions (which as you mention are more
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by mycologos 3y ago
> He specifically wants to kick out all 'non-western' foreigners which is already a fraction of a fraction of the people who immigrate to the Netherlands Here is a page the Netherlands government with more specific numbers [1].
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by mycologos 3y ago
Knowing nothing about the technical merits of the two groups, it looks like the repeated interaction between Loeb's camp and their critics has been: 1) Loeb makes a bold claim about some phenomenon and attaches extraterrestrial life to
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by mycologos 3y ago
At the same time, it seems like some antidote is needed to the breathless, quasi-mystical hype that cryptic OpenAI claims seem designed to stoke. Demanding precise and substantive criticisms of something about which almost no technical de
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by mycologos 3y ago
The people inside a cult are not the most trustworthy sources for what the cult is doing.
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by mycologos 3y ago
> everyone I know at OpenAI (and outside) is a huge Sam fan Everyone you know is a huge Sam fan? What?
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by mycologos 3y ago
> I think they could have won in the court of public opinion ... [but] they tried to skewer him, and it backfired completely Maybe we have different definitions of "the court of public opinion". Most people don't know who
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by mycologos 3y ago
Bit more context as a CS researcher: Symposium on Theoretical Computing (STOC) and Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) are the two main computer science theory conferences, they're not random journals or something.
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by mycologos 3y ago
But it doesn't make sense for the journalist to have hubris about OpenAI.
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by mycologos 3y ago
"Most important company in the world" is text from a question somebody (I think the journalist?) asked, not from Sutskever himself.
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by mycologos 3y ago
A more plausible theory is that the training actually relies on a ton of human labeling behind the scenes (I have no idea if this is true or not).
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by mycologos 3y ago
(...I don't know what this means?)
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by mycologos 3y ago
I know, I know, it's possible to condemn and work against multiple problems at once, but it's just weird to me that there's so much more antitrust energy expended on free internet search that is very easy to not use than what
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by mycologos 3y ago
HN had a big memorial thread when Monty Python's Terry Jones died, but kept deleting/flagging anything similar for Kobe Bryant at the same time. Its logic around this is not consistent.
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by mycologos 3y ago
As Aphex Twin once said [1] : > I do get movitated [sic] by listening to other people now but I don't really NEED to do that. I could just lock myself away for days and get inspired by myself. That's my favorite way to do it. I
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by mycologos 3y ago
I think younger people have a much broader definition of "mental health". Somebody 50+ might say "mental health, like a mental hospital? no thanks", somebody in Gen Z might say "fr fr i always talk about how stressf
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by mycologos 3y ago
I want that too! But things need to be easy to use if we want to hear from the people who are just X nerds and not X nerds and computer nerds. I think that's something ads enabled, because it made it valuable to just have a lot of peop
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by mycologos 3y ago
> Kill advertising and the web will be fixed automatically and permanently Is the implicit logic here "kill advertising and the web will be like what it was before widespread advertising: mostly for and by nerds"?
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by mycologos 3y ago
As far as I know, an author is allowed to share the preprint of their Nature submission, e.g. by posting it on their website or Arxiv, without paying an open access fee [1]. The difference between the submitted and final version of a paper
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by mycologos 3y ago
I do computer science research and publish regularly (in conferences, not journals, since that's how computer science mostly works -- you write a paper, look for the soonest upcoming relevant conference deadline, submit there, and get
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by mycologos 3y ago
OK, I spent ~an hour reading parts I [1], II [2], and III (TFA). My perception going in was that comment moderation is very hard, and essentially impossible at scale, and that Facebook/Meta cannot credibly be accused of literally causi
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by mycologos 3y ago
In what sense is Costco an "abusive" company? They squeeze their suppliers, but their suppliers legitimately have other options. I'm not aware of any market what Costco is the only game in town.

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