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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Why is 'conspiratorial' posed as a prime facie _bad thing_ to posit?
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
I cottoned onto the film a couple years ago after Ready Player One’s Ernest Cline recommended it on a Weaponized podcast. I like that the exterior facility shots were filmed at Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. In the film context I r
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Vaswani, A., et al. (2017) Attention Is All You Need. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Long Beach, 4-9 December 2017, 6000-6010. Generally understood to be an output of Googlers.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Thoughts on Bell Labs' alum Karl Nell? Having intimated (avoiding formally stating) that some of the things he was read-into came as part of his time there.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
I like the "written by human" banner at the bottom - that's a first for me and will be glad to see others adpot similar. >Written by human All opinions are my own and not those of a large language model. Everything I write
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
That’s probably it, thank you!
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
For some reason, unlike most other commenters, yours doesn’t present the downvote button. I thought this might be a privilege of very high karma like other downvote-missing commenters i see sparsely lower down, but your karma is lower than
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
I hope you manage to get some rest after the tiring tribulations people pose on forums.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
It is not my intention to induce fatigue in anyone, though I am impressed that a reply comment in a forum is capable of doing so.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Would it? Or would it be treated as an errant experiment by either the journal or the experimentalists themselves, foregoing publishing until they had a result that was better aligned with established norms? Rightly or wrongly, I expect th
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
If it had failed, would we be hearing about it in Science before the researchers continued testing it until it passed? (i.e. is this a blindspot in our collective epistemology?)
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Y’know, I went and looked at the current Wikipedia page for the Cavendish experiment. There’s apparently more nuance than my simple outline offers, particularly as G wasn’t treated as an isolated quantity till decades after his experiment.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
Several years back when I first learned about the Cavendish experiment, I was indeed surprised that he was able to measure anything related to gravity without using a planetary-scale mass as one of experimental masses.
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by ricksunny 5mo ago
By ascertaining an approxiamte value of G , perhaps? After that, you know M_earth, and already knowing Earth’s geometry, one arrives at average density rho.
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
I'm all ears: 1. Feel free to share why unmasking Banksy was in the public interest 2. Whether you feel all other public interest priorities had been served by investigative reporting prior to commissioning his unmasking.
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
The only thing I wonder is what practices deployment engineers will lobby management for under well-aligned incentive structures
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
Well I think we’ve all seen the clickbait-y headlines declaring that X phenomenon has been ‘DEBUNKED’,and those headlines are definitely engineered to spread (and benefit from performance metrics feedback). To go further, Eric Weinstein vec
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
I wonder if vibe coding dev-ops will follow the path blazed by virtual machine managers vs bare metal servers. If the bare metal server crashes, you had to go out and, like a rancher’s calf, nurse it back to health. If the VM crashes, you t
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
Treating quality investigative reporting like the scarce resource that it is, as one of the most well-known can you shed any light on why Reuters would delegate resources to commission investigative reporters to unmask Banksy (in a world wh
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
>As a scientist (computational physicist, Is there one that you prefer for, i dunno, physics ?
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
Sure, disinformation narratives get seeded all the time to inoculate the population from any narrative that a vested interest determines is counter-agenda by rendering the narrative into an anti-meme. • this person who suspects a research-r
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
I would imagine that’s SOP at this point.
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by ricksunny 6mo ago
Can you share a link to her saying that?
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
>Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments. Use flameview: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713858 Life-changing for
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Same recruitment pool (like same "hiring pool" / market segment). Therefore, competing.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
I wonder how many of Gulf War II's 17-19-year-olds they'll get to re-enlist.
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
With all the posts lately about Karpathy's autoresearch, it remains unclear to me whether this name is intended to convey that this LLM-codebase should be useful for research across all domains - like molecular biology, aircraft contro
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
I'm being a bit glib anyway; call it gallows humor to help me process currents events. Even worldwide, long-lasting nuclear winter must passes & settle eventually, and such sunlight-enabled microfiche files could be useful to subs
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by ricksunny 7mo ago
Oh do you mean a water source replenished by the hydrologic cycle, powered by (checks notes) the __? While we're on that, for how long will water sources remain in liquid phase?

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