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by ppod 7y ago
Yes, this is the point I was trying to make. The article criticizes the nature of the discussion here, and I think it is fair to say that the criticism is tied to negative stereotypes about engineers. Often this is framed as "punching
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>The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, It's a good article overall, but it would be nice, just for once, to read something in a mainstream "arts and culture" outlet that
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I thought your comment would be a good GPT2 prompt so I tried it. First result: The fish will have to be delivered right at the time they are needed, since our current technology is geared towards delivering fish at the beginning and then m
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There is a good piece out today by the sociologist Kieran Healy about shooter drills as ritual: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2019/08/03/rituals-of-...
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I agree with you, and I think it is telling of how warped this debate is by normative viewpoints that such a high percentage of reference sources and arguments come from one highly independent and active source (gwern). Aside from the detai
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Your analogy would be accurate if people had spent the last century claiming that artificial transport was impossible, and then continually redefining what counted as transport until the concept was incoherent.
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>It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all
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I see the German Humour Facility has joined us.
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They put the Precise Timing Facility in Italy ?
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>Can the amount of light shining on it lead to different results? Then you can show a little movie by shining more and more light through the glass using it in reverse. I don't think movies, but some monotonic changes should be poss
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I wonder could you do something like this with liquid crystal to enable some learning.
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Dataset of Physical Item Checkouts from Seattle Public Library(data.seattle.gov)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
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>We find that over 98% of the money was returned, so doesn't seem to be the case that people are contacting the owner but pocketing the cash. Is that 98% going back to locations that had contacted you? I'd be interested in the
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What's the point of your first sentence? >Wanting to keep the money never incentivizes contact. It could in combination with the authors' hypothesis of not wanting to view oneself as a thief. Under that condition, the likely be
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What is it about Chinese society that makes you say that? Not having a go here, I legitimately know nothing about it. If stranger-trust is so low, what societal branches does trust hang on? Is it family, business, political, local..? Is it
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Very nice and unintuitive main finding. I wish there was a separate condition where they sent a second experimenter back to the location of the hand-in to ask for the wallet. Just waiting for a contact leaves some room for unpredictable eff
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Good point. This is where public online reviews come in. It's a bit tricky with amazon, because for some products different sellers source slightly different versions of the product (or just knock-offs), but in theory open online revie
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This article conflates all research in the "social sciences", when in fact methodological practices vary widely within disciplines and sub-disciplines. Within each field, there is a "qualitative" literature, much less su
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I don't know that much about Peterson, but from what I understand he would be aligned with believers in progress like Pinker, and therefore not "reactionary". The article doesn't have to be perfectly balanced in criticis
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This article is a bait and switch. It starts as though it has a general point to make about the idea of the public intellectual, when in fact the real purpose is the simple, everyday attack on those who have different political opinions to
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>This testing exists today, but it’s only used in patients who show strong resistance to pharmacological intervention. It should be standard. Is it possible to do this kind of thing oneself with 23andme style SNP tests and a google schol
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It's not "whataboutism" to point out that this level of incarceration is not unusual. It is being portrayed as unusual in the article, when, in global-historical terms it is statistically perfectly normal. The small number of
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There's a new leader in Ecuador, more US friendly, and they leaned on him with the IMF --- they got a huge loan just as they gave him up. It does seem that he is a bit of an asshole, but I don't think it's conspiratorial to t
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>It also makes people not want to go there if they don’t have spare change. I think it fits the philosophy. They aim at customers that have a mindset to go out and save. They are prepared. They're willing to work a bit to save money
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It's fascinating how neatly being politically conservative or progressive lines up with the corresponding architectural view. I like brutalism, but I disagree with the removal of Scruton from that position, it seems political. What ann
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This has been tried. The code looks kind of plausible, but doesn't quite compile. Some of the other examples (Shakespeare, Latex, wikipedia source code) are pretty good at a structural level. http://karpathy.github.io/2
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> test data should be balanced or they should correct for this in the analysis. Why should it be balanced? It should be the expected natural clinical class distribution, no? The humans have priors about this too. If anything, it should b
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I'm not criticising it for being overwrought, rather that it is self-consciously attempting to be "elegant" in an unnatural way.
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Did anyone else find the writing in this post almost unbearable? It's deliberately showy in a way while also seeming self-conscious about being perceived as pretentious. The predictable dig at modernist architecture is exactly what I e

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