realradicalwash

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by realradicalwash 6y ago
> As far as I am concerned main stream journalism has sold its sold and it cannot die fast enough. To be replaced by what though? How will one get the right input that is needed to create and inform one's opinion?
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
this constant urge to check your phone, I don't think it's much different from an OCD. OCDs constantly interrupt the normal flow of one's thought processes with obsessive, intrusive interjections ("you are dirty", &
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
if transactions were done in btc, each transaction would amass the typical fees - which are pretty high at the moment. converting btc to fiat to pay your visa card bill at the end of the month would be one transaction per month. that's
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Bitcoin was created with the use case currency in mind and it was used like that by the earlier adopters. I think this is what OP was pointing at with "Many have forgotten why we used cryptocurrencies in the first place" and certa
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Nice to see some active learning around here. To add a data point from a less successful story: In one of our research projects, we used AL to improve part-of-speech prediction, inspired by work by Rehbein and Ruppenhofer, e.g. https:&#x2F
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
We are dealing with 5+ papers that are fraudulent and another 5+ newer papers that are most likely fraudulent, too. That is, there have been 20, 25+ reviewers looking at those papers. Their job was to carefully read them and double check th
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
> driving a huge battery around will burn more fuel and driving around two engines. also, equally important, having to produce two engines gives hybrids an extra co2 footprint even before their first km. this way, the total co2 footprint
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
The academic 'controversy' aside -which I think is BS, at least as it is presented in the article-, two things truly amaze me: 1) How beautiful of a city Wuppertal was in 1902. I have been to Wuppertal about 5 years ago, and it&#x
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
being in academia myself, this hits home so hard :/ the field picks some rockstars, which imv is to a good extent based on charisma, and then goes with that. one of 'our' rockstars has pushed a certain hypothesis for more tha
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Great article. A snippet from the conclusion that I found particularly interesting: "History of science all too often highlights "superstar" scientists who have illustrious careers, overcoming great obstacles and resistance t
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Aren't other countries that have already ratified UP in violation of those agreements, too? I.e., how is this about Germany in particular and not about the European patent system itself?
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
I am hesitant to take the lack of the ability to embed as a fact. My impression is that Everett had a theory in mind when he surveyed Piraha and that he sought to confirm his theory. That is, I am worried that this account is subverted by &
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
> how can you call it social "science" if you can't reproduce it? NB: this is not specific to the social sciences. psychology, cognitive sciences, medicine(!), and other fields have a 'replication crisis' also. t
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
think about steam whatever you want, but they've done some real fantastic work there with their linux support. the other day i installed forged alliance -from 2007, only supports win natively- on my linux machine and it was easy as pie
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Meanwhile, the academic job market, certainly in my area, ie linguistics/computational linguistics, has collapsed, too. A colleague did a similar and equally nice analysis here: https://twitter.com/ruipchaves/statu
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
indeed, an increase would be good. however, it is worth noting that China and the US are in different situations. the US spends about 2.7%-2.8% of its GDP on R&D and China is catching up to that, according to wikipedia: https:/&#x
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
this is nice, and a clear step forward. but more is needed to fix a semi-broken system. because publication bias is one thing, but there is also something like a _reception bias_. there are already null result journals and workshops. it is
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by realradicalwash 6y ago
Just to be sure that the passage is not misinterpreted (not saying you do, OP): This was not said to excuse the Germans from the responsibility of facing their history. I can personally be not guilty and yet, by being part of a society that
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
you can tweak the settings to higher maintenance and higher interest rates. but yes, even then, it becomes too easy after a while. would be nice if the settings allowed it to make it even harder (extra high maintenance costs, 6% interest ra
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
civ 5 can be different with the right settings: when I played on deity, half of the time it has been a struggle until a few rounds before victory (conquest).
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
Isn't this the perfect application for ASR technology? Instead of fiddling around with buttons, or worse, a touchscreen, you could just say "Honda: heat up", "Honda: heat two down", "Honda: aircon off". I
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
i've been using DDG for a few years now. i generally like it a lot. however, i have decided to stop using them for image search. their filters are just not good enough. two examples: I've searched for some kind of speedo (jammers?
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
not sure this is all due to self-agency. China has also threatened them over Huawei. the UK is really between a rock and a hard place
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
the "best" in 'best places to work' is pretty vague. it's based on employee reviews and a lot goes in there. what is best for those who have left reviews? social atmosphere, pay, career path, etc.? it most likely di
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
here is a breakdown of the country of origin under the waterways theory: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WO-AV462_OCEANS_9... I am not sure the new research is letting consumers completely off the
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
the conservatives seem to be way ahead of the others when it comes to modern technology/media. we've seen physicists being hired to plan where to knock on doors [0], very targeted social media ads based on proper data analysis, an
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
so a categorical variable got mixed up as a numerical one and produced misleading results. to the credit of the authors, they released their data sets. -- however, i suspect that proper data exploration and visualisation would have prevente
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei I see lots of accusations, but very little evidence
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
my criticism is not aimed at her at all - but at the media. and yes, she emphasised this elsewhere, too, which imv shows what a great and humble person she is.
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by realradicalwash 7y ago
this is hard to say, tbh. first: by alluding to Ive, you insert a gender component. i don't want to make this about gender - which is what happened itt. as mentioned, i think the difference in focus is because of geo-cultural reasons.

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