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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Several major world powers right now are at the endgame of a decades-long campaign to return to a new Gilded Age and prevent it from ending any time soon. Destroying the public's belief in objective truth and fact is part of the plan.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Fraud is just marketing in the 2020s now.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
It's certainly ironic if an article about slop leads with a tired old glob of pseudoscience slop and the author doesn't realize.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Moreover you can manipulate your results by disingenuous prior choices, and the smaller sample you have the stronger this effect is. I am not sold on the FDA's ability to objectively and carefully review Bayesian research designs, espe
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
The application of Bayesian probabilistic reasoning in general (as described in this video) is not the same thing as "Bayesian statistics" specifically, which usually to modeling and posterior inference using both a likelihood m
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
You can make your job in general a passion/hobby/craft but that doesn't mean you have to work more than your fair share for your employer to be a competent craftsperson.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Facebook groups tend to have this, at least in the USA. Reddit too in bigger cities/towns.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Small team does local journalism, motivated locals donate to keep it running. It's that simple. Some people are happy to donate $20 a month to their favorite Twitch streamer or open source project, and other people are happy to do the
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
> the product is produces is not worth what it costs to produce it Utility provided is not equal to willingness/ability to pay. We should stop thinking of journalism as a product to be sold and more of it as a public good. That&#x27
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I think that only holds if company ownership is not close with company leadership. Is a "subscriber owned" newspaper model possible? Like how co-op stores are at least nominally owned by their customers. I could also imagine a sys
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Modern-day patronage is kind of different from a subscription. It's a lot like a "pay what you want" subscription model, but people seem a lot more generous when you express it as a "donation with early access to premiu
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
This is extra ridiculous even for "capitalism". It would be like if Carnegie Steel somehow could have prohibited people from buying their steel in order to build a steel mill. And moreover in this case the entire industry as it
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I think the concern for the AI companies is that they're going to get sued into oblivion if they ever get found out. The bigger concern is not the AI companies doing it themselves, but insiders finding it in the chat logs and selling i
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Might makes right.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I don't think this is a person, it's probably an automated account.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
It certainly looks AI generated. Huge amount of academic "boilerplate" and not much content besides. It's broken up into chapters like a thesis but the actual novel content of each is about a page of material at most. The Gho
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
No, but I think this was novel at the time for being able to model espresso puck dynamics well enough to produce a testable/tasteable prediction that led to a big shift in how coffee hobbyists think about espresso.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
If I'm not mistaken this is the original "turbo shot" paper.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Still smells like malicious anti-competitive lobbying by the AI industry.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Who's "we"?
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
> all they had to do to label a cow “free range” or “grass fed” was change the finishing stage to a lower density configuration instead of those abominable feed lots you see along highways. This is a material win for humane treatment of
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Right, it's entirely possible that landlording in practice has so many opportunities for abuse that it's irredeemable despite its potential for benefit in certain cases. I don't know if I agree with that, but at least it&#x27
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
"Rent" has a few specific meanings in economics, but charging a tenant rent isn't necessarily economic rent. The economic rent is more like the difference between your actual monthly rent and some hypothetical idealized marke
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
The actual value of a landlord is insulating the tenant from financial risk, charging a predictable rent and absorbing the costs of repairs and maintenance. That's a lot of value for some people, but it also comes with problematic ince
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
The actual value of landlording is offloading financial risk. The tenant pays a stable rent including a premium in exchange for maintenance, repairs, and not having to sell a home in order to move to a new one. I just can't bring mysel
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
That might be true on Stackoverflow but not on other network sites like Cross Validated, which was killed by splitting the community into multiple SE sites and longtime users quitting in protest over various policies and not being replaced.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Em dashes are also historically a useful writing tool in English going back 100+ years, and plenty of real people use them.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Per capita is simply the total quantity divided by the total population and doesn't tell you anything about the distribution thereof. Imagine a lord with an annual income of $100 from 10 serfs, who each pay $10 in annual rent to the lo
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
I think 80% of my Youtube ads are either outright scams or AI generated ads for questionable "as seen on TV" style products.
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by nerdponx 9mo ago
Is digital stop in frisk run by a shadowy corporation better or worse than physical stop and frisk run by the police? Maybe it's better, but I'm not sure we should be ready to cheer it on either.

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