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by numbers_guy 3y ago
World impact is not how Nobels are won. If that was the case Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg and others would all have multiple ones. I honestly do not see this paper as being in the same magnitude of brilliance as a typical Nobel would b
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Where the left goes wrong with their narrative is when they present issues like the gender pay gap in a way that implies that men and women are two separate groups competing against each other. That is not at all what happens in reality. In
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I do not think these two facts are linked. I don't think the US economy is growing faster because they have a less regulated healthcare system. If anything one would intuitively think the opposite should be true. That with a better saf
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
A Ph.d is mostly cheap labour for the relevant research institution. I wouldn't count that as a cost to society unless the work done is not useful, in which case it is not the Ph.d graduate but the research institution that funded the
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
But ChatGPT is already useful if you use it correctly. I don't try to make it write my code. I use it as an expert knowledge system. If I need a specific BASH command or I want to figure out how to do something in some badly documented
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Why is the sourcing of nuclear fuel never talked about as a problem? France needs to maintain boots on the ground in Africa to protect their uranium mines. The German public, amongst others would be extremely against that level of direct im
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The Saudis have been paying lots of professors buttloads of money to pretend they are associated with Saudi universities. Recently I have been seeing professors at western universities claiming a dual appointment with some Saudi university
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Those working environments already exist, but maybe you are not interested in them. People with ADHD are advised to do jobs that require one to be on their feet. Sitting behind a desk is unfortunately one of the worst things you can do if y
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The vision is to create a synthetic fuel that is cost competitive with fossil fuels, (without any subsidies/carbon taxes if I'm reading that right).
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Seeing the US economy _just_doing_things_ is a thing of wonder. Even European companies prefer to setup shop there instead of having to deal with all the nonsense and bullshit in the old continent. Making me really jealous, not gonna lie.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
What lacks in Germany is not GPUs. In fact cluster time is abundant for researchers at top tier research institutes or unis. What lacks is private investment. The whole economy is controlled by a bunch of old fucks who have no clue about an
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
> but I think it will feel good to curb even my small driver's footprint. No if you drive so little, buying ANY car is going to increase your driver's footprint, by a lot.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
With regards to global warming, one important task is to more accurately and convincingly measure the cost of climate change. People are already working on this topic, but all the work is quite napkin-mathsy at this point, and of course hea
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The alternative would be to say that Americans are worth more than Chinese (and Europeans and everyone else) and have a God given right to emit twice as much.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Both machine learning and quant. finance are extremely extremely competitive. Having a math Ph.d does not cut it. It is mostly irrelevant actually. For quant. finance, if you have top grades from a highly respected university, that might ge
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
I find pretty much all politically active environmentalists to be economically and sociologically illiterate. Proposals range from, "let's turn off the economy", to "let's reduce the standard of living" or &quo
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
In theory the carbon would be sequestrated from the atmosphere. In practice that is very energy intensive.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
> The priority should be reducing needless and wasteful consumption. In an utopian world I would agree with you. I find consumerism ugly as well. However, without consumerism there is no economic growth. Without growth no capitalism. Wit
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Going just by your description this sounds like they are doing operator learning. It's actually a very old idea. The proof that started operator learning is from 1988 I believe. Mathematicians have been playing around with the idea sin
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Being forced to upend your life and relocate far away every four years is also not a positive aspect of academic life.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
I just explained why climate action is not being taken. I am not making any statement on the matter. And I don't know what phone sanitizers are.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
I think it is fair to allow poorer countries to catch up.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Fairness has value in itself. To me it is just as important as climate action. I am not convinced that making myself poorer as an example would have any impact at all, without the rest of the world playing along. And in any case it is unfai
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The role model nonsense, I never got that. How is that supposed to do anything. As for the comparative wealth, I already earn 1/3 of what I would in the US, my home is smaller, I don't own a car and I have no A/C. And now I s
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
I agree in principle. The reason we are not doing this is because it would destroy the economy and when that happens basically everything falls apart. We would still have enough food and essentials for everyone but loads of people would be
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
If those policies were global it would be fair. Doing it only in Germany is just making the Germans poorer.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
Olaf Scholz would never be a viable US presidential candidate, either. He's too short.
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
The children of the elite are not studying CS at TUM. The parent commentator made a good point that gymnasiums is where a lot of elitism happens, but I was talking about universities and I do not think we were talking about the same "e
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
I was just watching a podcast interview in which a British-German professor employed at an Ivy League university in the US, was talking about the elite universities in the US, and how there is no equivalent in Germany. [1] The interview is
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by numbers_guy 3y ago
They still did their shaving stuff until a couple of years ago.

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