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by odyssey7 1y ago
There are so many more ways than that to starve and sabotage a burgeoning researcher, ensuring they never take root.
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Well, I’m not sure I’ve seen that pattern quite so much, but if you’re seeing it, I would speculate survivor bias. The people who stay around are the ones who were good enough at the game to stay around.
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I think ideally academia needs to evolve to be open to everyone and worshiping of nobody. Pop in to publish your article, return to whatever else you had been doing after. Repeat. University professors are rarely that innovative or good in
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I looked up the compatibility table: https://caniuse.com/cross-document-view-transitions Safari has supported this on both desktop and iOS since last year. But I had to look, because the article makes it sound like Chrome a
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Python is extremely dogmatic in its opinions. Both its objects and its lambdas were intentionally made too difficult to enjoy. There is a depth limit to recursion that is artificially imposed so that programmers will not use recursion. The
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Python is neither object-oriented nor functional. It’s pythonic . It was popularized by academia because it’s good for beginner programming assignments, and unfortunately the legacy of object-oriented Python in academia forced ML to inheri
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I’m currently enrolled in an online MS program, and I had never struggled so much in courses. The lack of social component might be what’s causing that. The material is mostly a recap of undergrad and things I already knew, so the coursewor
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I would reframe this and ask whether psychiatrists should be spending a lot more time understanding the patient’s immune system history and other factors. Brain fogs and other symptoms are understood by many patients to be modulated by othe
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A hasty incorrect assumption that I revised on new information is obviously not the same as hard data on radiation doses and cancer implications considered over weeks. The “could save my life” odds were not very clear and the risk of cancer
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Okay, this sounds more serious than I thought. But then, why was someone able to walk into that room with metal around their neck if it was clearly so life-threatening? Anyway, I’m complaining as someone who personally has turned down recom
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It’s wild that the bottleneck keeping us from buying more MRI machines, achieving economies of scale for a no-radiation way of viewing soft tissues in high resolution, is supposedly the specialized technicians, and here we had a technician
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You’re right, it’s not good for math, but unfortunately we have the legacy of AI / ML being entrenched into that ecosystem, with no clear leaders as alternatives.
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The only reason I would use Python is for its specialized AI/ML frameworks, and unfortunately those force you to go with OOP.
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As a mathy person myself, I find the OOP leaning difficult to think about. Better equational reasoning, better lambdas, fewer side effects to worry about, avoiding mutation so that I can define something and still know what it is later duri
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The problem is millennials having fewer children, not wealthy people having fewer children. Millennials are historically notable for having both fewer children and less wealth than prior generations at the same age.
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What if we just made people financially comfortable and secure again? The axis is "feed and breed" vs "fight or flight." And stop making people move away from their families for a shot at financial security. Having famil
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It seems inevitable.
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Gosh, thanks for laying that out more clearly for me. I'll try giving Apple Maps another go.
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Python needs a better dictionary. Also, Python needs better names for things than dict .
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I don’t know much about this market but that context would be relevant.
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What makes Monadic DNA monadic?
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I love this turn of phrase. It quite nicely evokes the difference between how the reader thinks vs how the LLM does. It also invites reflections on what “sentience” means. In my experience — make of it what you will — correct fact retrieval
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The persistent popularity of discussing how AI is supposedly bad for the environment actually gives me the opposite impression. Ever since reading Ryan Holiday's book, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator , pop
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Recursion isn't about writing functions, it's the foundation of scalable systems. Deep learning with backpropagation? That's the chain rule of calculus applied recursively over a network, as described by Rumelhart, Hinton, an
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Linear recursion vs tree recursion.
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It’s more a book than academic research. The funny thing about books is that authors in free societies are allowed to self-publish whatever they want. The norms are different and, frankly, more democratic and with less gatekeeping.
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It would be nice if arXiv included a small-layout pdf or native epub option for e-readers. Now that they serve the Tex files and are experimenting with HTML, it feels like a natural step.
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Here is the compatibility table for ECMAScript 6 features by vendor. https://compat-table.github.io/compat-table/es6/ Chrome is currently unable to support a feature that was added to JavaScript in 2015 for ECMASc
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In theory, this presents a form of competition that should drive the tolls down to an equilibrium level. Though, theory doesn’t always play out perfectly in practice.
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A language that isn’t memory-safe can definitely hurt. AI needs more security, not less.

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