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by pinko 1y ago
Nonsense. NSF awards are all public. If you could actually give enough examples of these "extremely large" awards to constitute 55% of the NSF budget you would have.
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by pinko 1y ago
Used to be so much better before the acquisition, but I agree, they were wonderful at it for a while and some of the UI remains.
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by pinko 1y ago
Craigslist!
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by pinko 1y ago
This is quite literally the opposite of true. Consumer Reports remains the shining exception to this practice, unlike Wirecutter, etc.
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by pinko 1y ago
Consumer Reports will also inform you of things like this in advance, if you look. (For this and 100 other reasons, It's worth paying for a digital sub.)
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by pinko 2y ago
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
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by pinko 2y ago
Every civil liberties infringement (e.g., warrantless search and seizure) comes in very handy for solving crimes. That's why the constitution specifically places limit on it, because you have to balance that with the loss of liberty
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by pinko 2y ago
Thank you for your work on this.
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by pinko 2y ago
> I will never wrap my head around why people would use AI for a use-case like this If your sociopathic goal is solely to trick someone into an in-person date at which they might be too socially insecure (or too desperate for companionsh
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by pinko 2y ago
Normally I'm an AI skeptic, but in this case there's a good analogy to post-quantum crypto: even if the current state of the art allows fraudulent researchers to evade detection by today's AI by using today's AI, their r
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by pinko 2y ago
In many disciplines, it is almost impossible to get oneself into an environment anywhere remotely as rich in collective expertise, resources, and academic-social interaction as a proper graduate research program. There are exceptions (e.g.
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by pinko 2y ago
Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores -- many of which started using "Hiper-" (spanish for hyper-) as a prefix in their names a few decades ago, to one-up markets merely named "Super-" [1] -
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by pinko 2y ago
Knowing quite a bit about the world of Costa Rican grocery stores -- many of which started using "Hiper-" (spanish for hyper-) as a prefix in their names a few decades ago, to one-up markets merely named "Super-" [1] -
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Traits That May Cease to Be Valuable(quarter--mile.com)
1 points by pinko 2y ago|1 comments
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by pinko 2y ago
This gets to the old saw, "knowing what question to ask is the most important thing". To the extent that LLMs can answer questions better than formulate which ones to ask , they may be inherently limited. We will see.
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by pinko 2y ago
I think you accidentally linked to the same video as the parent comment... I bet this is the video you mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-L7KOjyDrE
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by pinko 2y ago
This is an excellent, if meandering, discussion -- lots of great nuggets in there I want to follow up on. Thanks for sharing!
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by pinko 2y ago
Underrated comment.
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Amplification of Waves from a Rotating Body(nature.com)
3 points by pinko 2y ago|1 comments
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by pinko 2y ago
The acoustic flavor of "Amplification of electromagnetic fields by a rotating body" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41825906 ) h/t colanderman ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=coland
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by pinko 2y ago
Is the idea of a set-point settled medical/scientific fact, or still a disputed theory?
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by pinko 2y ago
Almost everyone involved knew it was a mistake, but was captured (directly or indirectly) by the profits to be made.
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by pinko 2y ago
If you had asked me five years ago if I'd be regularly ordering from walmart.com instead of amazon.com, I'd have thought it unlikely. But here I am -- I don't have to worry about counterfeits as long as it's sold &
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by pinko 2y ago
Can I ask it to show me all the photos taken with a specific camera model (e.g., my iPhone 6 vs my iPhone 13)?
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by pinko 2y ago
Yeah, I hadn't thought about their abandoned effort to scan every book and archived newspaper in the world in a while, but I bet they're regretting now that they didn't finish. A non-trivial amount of that physical media has
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by pinko 2y ago
A la carte menu: https://mytapscore.com/pages/specialized
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by pinko 3y ago
Your observation is so obvious that it should make you wonder whether you're making an insightful and helpful criticism -- or just failing to comprehend that not all sentences are literal, and rhetorical flourishes are a thing. For go
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by pinko 3y ago
I will also add, as an academic who works closely with hundreds of physicists, that although they are indeed typically smarter in one dimension, they are also considerably dumber than your average person in others. It turns out life is a
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by pinko 3y ago
not all physics is particle physics! gravitational-wave physics, for just one example, is not the least bit stagnant! and soft matter physics is amazingly fertile ground right now...
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by pinko 3y ago
per https://hachyderm.io/@bjorn3/112180226784517099 , "The only contribution by them to Wasmtime is a doc change. No actual code or binary blobs have been changed by them."

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