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by papeda 6y ago
I agree that plenty of people have been too cavalier about slapping together some models, predicting something, and calling it a day. On the other hand, it's not like fair sentencing or fair loan recommendation is a solved problem for
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by papeda 6y ago
This complaint pops up over and over again on HN. A lot of people like writing that "paints a picture", or like fancy GUIs, or want a website with a bunch of bells and whistles, or small talk without much real information. HN, in
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by papeda 6y ago
Slightly tangential question, but I have seen at least one proposal [1] for "malpractice insurance" for cops. The claim is that this would shift expenses for bad policing settlements from taxpayers to bad actors -- a bad cop attra
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by papeda 6y ago
> More generally, I find that some AI researchers and practitioners with strong theoretical backgrounds tend to dismiss this kind of paper as "merely" engineering. I think this tendency is misguided. We must build giant machine
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by papeda 6y ago
Yup! Deliberately fostering phytoplankton growth using "iron fertilization" even has its own Wikipedia article [1]. The idea is that iron, not nutrients, is a limiting factor to phytoplankton growth in some areas, so we could boos
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by papeda 6y ago
I click on your link and the video looks suspicious, but I also have no clue who made it or who all those people are. Rex Chapman has a checkmark next to his name, but so do plenty of vacuous trolls. Inserting violent actors seems like a go
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by papeda 6y ago
> All carbohydrates become sugar, sugar elevates insulin, constantly elevated insulin leads to diabetes. But my understanding is that some carbohydrates get turned into sugar more slowly, and this "flattens the curve" of blood
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by papeda 6y ago
You may be interested in a long series of YouTube videos put out by Chicago Reader called Key Ingredient. In each video a different pro cook from Chicago makes a dish with a different key ingredient chosen for them by the previous episode&#
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by papeda 6y ago
I saw similar advice from a very different source a couple of months ago. It was a book about exercise with the following advice for stretching: don't go until hurts, but go until it's slightly uncomfortable, then try to relax the
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by papeda 6y ago
> This omnipresent cult of the body is extraordinary. It is the only object on which everyone is made to concentrate, not as a source of pleasure, but as an object of frantic concern, in the obsessive fear of failure or substandard perf
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by papeda 6y ago
I'd guess there are plenty of people in high-rent areas who'd need larger and more expensive living quarters to work from home long-term.
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by papeda 6y ago
I agree with the main idea. Two nitpicks: 1) the random invitation to join your mailing list mid-way through the article is jarring 2) it's funny to get to the end of the article and suggest reading Seneca when, as far as I can tell, &
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by papeda 6y ago
I agree that the multi-year publication timelines for journals are in general silly. I agree that keeping up with a field by reading journals doesn't work. If by editorial review you mean "the editor alone decides", I don&#x2
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by papeda 6y ago
> However i would beg for highly-technical reviews, providing harsh theoretical and technical feedback, which i guess would come from more experienced or expert reviewers than postgrads or myself. Grad students are plenty capable of writ
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by papeda 6y ago
My understanding of the payment strategy is that it would be targeted at people who already qualify as experts but are on the fence. For example, I know postdocs and young faculty who would like to review more as a kind of community service
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by papeda 6y ago
> We should be trying to maximize the growth of knowledge, not minimizing the number of wrong papers, which is what max(s/n) leads to. IMO, filtering out noise is a big part of maximizing the growth of knowledge. I cannot read every
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by papeda 6y ago
I'm surprised that many people automatically assume "you should cite this paper" means "you should cite my paper". I tell reviewers to cite papers all the time. They're almost never my own papers. They'r
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by papeda 6y ago
Peer review is flawed, but I don't think it's broken . For context, I'm a late-year PhD student in machine learning theory, and I submit almost entirely to conferences, which is the norm in my field. To me, the big problem i
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by papeda 6y ago
Your points are mostly fair, though I'll push back on one. For context, I'm a late-year PhD student in ML, but I primarily do theory. > Reviewers might not have relevant expertise to judge whether a paper is good or not... Find
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by papeda 6y ago
> Israel had the year of Jubilee, where every 50 years debts would be forgiven How would this work? Wouldn't people just not enter into contracts near that 50 year mark? Is it randomized?
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by papeda 6y ago
If anything, I think the AMC exams are more vulnerable to prep than the SAT/ACT in the following sense: I think a bright and disciplined kid who does lots of self-study (e.g. using the free Khan Academy SAT materials [1]) has a decent
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by papeda 6y ago
Maybe there are two type of soft power. The first type is where a company makes a globally popular product. The second type is where a company makes a globally popular product that is recognizably "of its country". TikTok is the f
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by papeda 6y ago
Serious question: is it a soft power win for China if most non-Chinese users don't think of it as a Chinese product?
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by papeda 6y ago
My takeaway was more that fresh eyes and expertise in a related field is a powerful problem-solving combination. She's clearly smart, but I'm reluctant to call anyone a genius if it causes us to view their success as, say, wondrou
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by papeda 6y ago
Her CV [1] lists her job title as Assistant Professor. Also, this quibble seems to drastically miss the point of the article? [1] https://sites.google.com/view/lpiccirillo/research/cv
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by papeda 6y ago
> Generally in the US there's no career path to becoming a tenured professor. It's true that, in general, there are far more graduating PhD students every year than tenure-track faculty positions. But I think "no career pa
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by papeda 6y ago
Heh. I also wonder if Jordan's mentality would have let him take full advantage of the 3. This is pretty much just conjecture, but it's hard for me to square staying out and playing the math on 3s with Jordan's aggression and
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by papeda 6y ago
> > The article even mentions the NBA Finals game where he made 6 threes in the first half, just because. The 6 threes are a little weird because Portland insisted on guarding him with tons of space, essentially daring him to take wha
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by papeda 6y ago
I'm not sure random draws are even better from a zoomed-out "total welfare" score. People get lot of value from preparing for the future and believing good things will probably happen, especially when it comes to their kids.
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by papeda 6y ago
> The adage "Popular does not equal good" has never been more relevant. Eh, it depends. It's not true that popular ==> good, but I think there are plenty of areas where it's more true than it used to be that good =

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