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by nis0s 2y ago
Meant to say “release code”, not “research code”.
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by nis0s 2y ago
I was speaking more to something which happens with some consistency even in a random system. For instance, waves hitting the same piece of rocks over and over till the rocks take on a certain shape.
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Scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault(bbc.com)
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by nis0s 2y ago
I wonder how random it is truly given that the environment something resides in shapes and changes it. For instance, imagine if there is some sort of environmental variable (temperature, humidity, light, or more) which produces an indiscern
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by nis0s 2y ago
Seems cool, but small nit: many times scientists publish basic research or foundational science, which becomes useful overtime via a process of different teams looking for some piece of knowledge out there to build something. In AI/ML,
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by nis0s 2y ago
> With basic research, you often have to wait for decades before you can tell if the work was important or useful. But because funding needs to be available before the work is done, you can't base funding decisions on the value of t
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by nis0s 2y ago
Whoever is paying for it, usually. Ideally, the existing body of knowledge helps find the next set of questions which need to be investigated. If your funding source doesn’t like your current set of questions, you reframe them or find a new
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by nis0s 2y ago
If it’s important or useful, then it will get funded. Though, some topics will seem political, scientists should do work that’s available, and approach it with an open mind. It’s important to divorce politics from science.
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think an AI-enabled recycling solution is sorely needed, but you’re right that if there’s a worldwide culture of using less efficient fuel, then anything else one does is useless. Climate change isn’t necessarily due to human activities,
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by nis0s 2y ago
The onerous burdens are put in place to foster discussions like this blog—ridiculing people for following the rules put in place by political losers, who seek to make people do ridiculous things so that their political opponents can be made
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by nis0s 2y ago
> Testing this hypothesis requires (a) understanding human psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments, (b) showing that East Asians and Inuit possess these traits, and (c) making the case that the existence of these traits in modern
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by nis0s 2y ago
The claims are poorly substantiated, it’s not enough to make assumptions about something and read about it. You must directly validate a claim by rigorously defining the traits in question, and then find some way to perform measurements—ind
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by nis0s 2y ago
> Because I think it’s important that we mingle some Voltaire in with our Seneca, and remember that stoicism’s invaluable advice for taking better care of ourselves inside can–if we fail to mix it with other ideas–come with a big blind s
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think the company calculates how much you’re using vs. what you’re paying for your subscription—it seems that’s one way to handle excessive querying, but it’s a lazy way to do it.
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by nis0s 2y ago
Feminism is as old as society, so it’s not a movement per se, but a philosophical framework for thinking about gender issues in society. Like any other philosophical framework, it has branches and subsets. On average when people think Femin
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by nis0s 2y ago
I haven’t read this book, but this quote highlighted by the reviewer is very concerning, > “feminism means freedom, it means the right to be […] incoherent “, p. 71 My sincere wish is that fifth wave feminism can unshackle itself from ba
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by nis0s 2y ago
I am judging it from today—if the founding fathers developed that framework today, Enlightenment ideals would rationally lead them to include everyone based on the progress of social thought up to this point. I won’t hold their lack of soci
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by nis0s 2y ago
What kind of problems can it solve better than traditional software and hardware?
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think it’s better to provide raw data and your hypotheses (in some manner) to third-party reviewers in a double blind fashion. If third-party reviewers cannot confirm your hypotheses, then it’s better to go back to the drawing board. Some
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by nis0s 2y ago
I don’t dispute anything you’re saying, I just don’t understand what frame of reference any leader or policymaker at that time could have used to do anything differently. What country at that time was some paragon of social justice or progr
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by nis0s 2y ago
Corporatized research is a safe bet and guaranteed to succeed—whatever it’s producing is often based on some fundamental truth. The risky research isn’t meant for corporate endeavors till it clears some threshold which readies it for commer
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by nis0s 2y ago
The most direct way that the U.S. government can control inflation is via layoffs of federal workers. Private companies are jumping on the bandwagon to get rid of hires made during more booming times. The fact is that higher interest rates
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by nis0s 2y ago
That’s not a fair or reasonable thing to point out given that few countries at that time gave slaves or women voting rights. The U.S. was one of the first majority White countries to give Black men voting rights in 1870, after France did so
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by nis0s 2y ago
I don’t know, unless I see it in action, I am inclined to say Manus is either marketing or psyops. Edit: I am trying it now…for the one question I looked at, it seems to be hallucinating some references, but got others correct. But it didn’
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by nis0s 2y ago
For secular and democratic nations, multiculturalism isn’t inherently dangerous if there are principles and ideals around which newcomers to any nation can assimilate and integrate. America attempted that to some degree of success with its
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by nis0s 2y ago
I think this vision is more ancient, but I don’t want to influence anyone to think one way or another. I think this blog did a good job of trying to find different perspectives: https://dailynous.com/2021/02/22&#x2
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by nis0s 2y ago
Why wouldn’t it be a good thing? I am not being argumentative, but I am sincerely curious. To me “good” is letting human cognition seek out its limits, and to understand reality and fundamental truths. We cannot do that by confining ourselv
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by nis0s 2y ago
This is a law that says you can’t harm another person, not necessarily that you can’t be unhealthy.
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by nis0s 2y ago
The question is wrong. It’s not about going to Mars, it’s about having a long term plan for space colonization and exploration. The best time to start this was two decades ago, the next best time is now. It would make sense to pilot habitab
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Compressing Human Knowledge(prize.hutter1.net)
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