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by rhelz 3y ago
> failing to learn from elementary criticisms Well, the ability to conform to the conventional wisdom of the field isn't necessarily a skill which promotes scientific progress. You know what skill does? The ability to ask the righ
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by rhelz 3y ago
WRT to lack of a skilled workforce, here is an interesting anecdote. I remember back in the late 90's, Intel had to fire most line workers in their FABS, and hire people with Ph.D.'s in solid-state physics. I actually knew one of
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by rhelz 3y ago
We probably are all familiar with the Fermi Paradox, but Issac Arther noticed it has a very interesting implication: Claiming that an alien probe has visited the earth is NOT an extraordinary claim. Under very weak assumptions (basically
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A replication crisis, and scientific fraud on a truly epic scale.
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Yeah, even if the hypothesis is refuted, why is this humiliating? This isn't kindergarten, its not like having your hypothesis refuted gives you cooties. No moral culpability accrues to you. What's humiliating is what's
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by rhelz 3y ago
Think of it more like a constraint satisfaction problem, rather than an optimization problem. There's no such thing as "the best" carrer, but there are lots of carrers which would be successful. Also, its rare for a career t
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by rhelz 3y ago
What I'm wondering is where was my Enrico Fermi to warn me off of some of the bad paths I went down :-( It would be heartbreaking to be told that what you are working on could never succeed--but not anywhere's near the pain you fe
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by rhelz 3y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Also, probably anything written by Freemon Dyson would be worth reading, just to see how a top-flight might engages with the subject matter, if nothing else.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Very nice. I can even read the Declaration of Independence, as archaic and unfamiliar as the text is. If you are having trouble with it, try this: "Use the force!!" By which I mean, forget that its written in a very small font,
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So....the more problems we ignore, the less anxiety and depression we will have, and the happier we will be!!
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by rhelz 3y ago
> high-brow comment You say that like its a bad thing :-) > all worse off than before. Let's stipulate, for sake of argument, that is true. Coffee shop owners are selling less coffee, delivery drivers are getting paid more per h
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by rhelz 3y ago
$26 for a cup of coffee, hand delivered. Is that an outrageous price? Compare with a circuit board I designed and had manufactured in China, and shipped to my front door for $10. The difference, of course, is that my order wasn't the
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by rhelz 3y ago
Hmmm....her best move might have been to write up the data-fudging she did, but in the form of a proposal to do an experiment, fedex it to herself, and put it, still in a sealed envelope, in a safety deposit box. What was the experiment? W
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by rhelz 3y ago
Just listening while doing nothing else is soporific, but I can imagine finding this invaluable if I had a long commute to work.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Sure, if there were not price controls, the shelves would have been full of toilet paper.....but a large segment of the population wouldn't have been able to afford to buy it. I don't know if you've ever been so poor that you
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by rhelz 3y ago
You ok bro? I mean, lets put these two of your statements together: > If [yada yada] then unemployment would not be so low. Which seems to indicate that you do believe unemployment is low, but > the numbers mean the same they have
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by rhelz 3y ago
The question of whether social sciences are sciences is subtle to answer. If we take Francis Bacon's method as more or less what a science is, then, in order to be a science, we need to be able to do experiments. Experiments are obje
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Scaling is trivial You are obviously not a golfer....
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by rhelz 3y ago
The distinction between 1) and 2) is very helpful, thanks for that. I really wonder whether we know all the costs associated with storing co2 underground, for geological timescales.... > energy from a nuclear power plant to make jet fuel
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From the abstract: "The analysis uses meta-analysis tools.." I.E., they didn't do any actual research themselves, they just curated a list of "representative" papers which, when run through "meta-analysis tool
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by rhelz 3y ago
I hate to only complain if I don't have any ideas on how to fix it, but just think of the absurdity of the situation we currently have: thousand of employers are frustrated because they can't find any programmers, and thousands o
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The shelves wouldn't be stocked because stores and factories magically appeared; they would be stocked because the price was so high that nobody could afford to hoard bread or toilet paper.
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Surely, there are many different senses for the word "shortage", so, even if you are pragmatic, its a good idea to be pedantic as to which one you are using. When I claim a free market has no shortages, I'm using "shorta
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by rhelz 3y ago
> There is no such thing in the US as a truly free market. Just like there are no circles in the US which are exactly 1.234 meters in diameter. Yes, the concept of a "free market" is an ideal, like the concept of a circle is.
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No doubt you have carefully curated and assembled the stack you have because it gives you a competitive advantage. But everybody else is also trying to get a competitive advantage, so nobody is going to have exactly the same stack, used
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by rhelz 3y ago
> lots of assumptions Well, I'm not a mindreader, so perhaps you are right. Can you at least help me clear up the bad assumptions, and tell me, if resume's are not giving you the information you need, why are you using resumes
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by rhelz 3y ago
There was only a shortage because it wasn't a free market, i.e. nobody wanted to make the dick move of raising the price of bread or toilet paper, because it would cause hardship. If the prices had been allowed to rise, supply would ha
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by rhelz 3y ago
> If you can build me a tool ... I'd like to start a company with you and we can make a lot of money together. If you can't tell how good a programmer is by his resume, then....why the hell does everybody use resumes to try to
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by rhelz 3y ago
Sure there's plenty of ways to copy a book and not break the law...but as long as there is any way to break the law by selling copies of the book, then the law is broken, because that's exactly what opneai is doing.
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by rhelz 3y ago
That depends on how well my apps sell....

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