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by sega_sai 3y ago
The two quotes from experts there are particularly good: String theory is spectacular. Many string theorists are wonderful. But the track record for qualitatively correct statements about the universe is really garbage,” said Nima Arkan
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Old hype meets new hype
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Inoreader is probably as good as Google Reader. I have been using it for last 10 years or so. I know people used feedly (I personally didn't like it). But clearly none of those are as popular as Google reader. Presumably because many s
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by sega_sai 3y ago
It would be good to make Thunderbird a proper competitor to Gnome's Evolution when it comes to EWS.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
or the UK
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Learning Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot(sites.google.com)
1 points by sega_sai 3y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Yes. It is kinda amazing to observe (as a professional astrophysicist) how people manage to find small (mostly irrelevant) things to nitpick instead of discussing a really interesting discovery.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
It's a really interesting article. It does not really talk about Net zero much, but it talks more about reliability of grids that are fed by renewables and do not have classical generators.
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Battle for the American West(ft.com)
1 points by sega_sai 3y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 3y ago
At least with universities there is a semblance of a free market/competition/choice. I.e. you can compare universities etc. While with healthcare, nobody goes checking for yelp reviews of ambulance companies when they break their
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by sega_sai 3y ago
It's a bit of a strange article. It's kind a obvious that in the case where prices of different goods/services increase by different amounts, there is not a single metric that would reflect the price increase. Also it is clea
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I don't see justification for these two statements: "A doctorate just means much less, now, than it did. Most of today’s physicists would not measure up to the standards that the field held for itself when that photo was taken in
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Citadel Securities moves data and algorithm testing to Google Cloud(ft.com)
1 points by sega_sai 3y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 3y ago
What's up with physics names ? Axion, Graviton, Ampere, Electron. I guess it sounds cool and is not trademarked... What's next ? -- boson, hadron, parsec ?
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Boeing awards outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun a 45% pay rise(ft.com)
35 points by sega_sai 3y ago|14 comments
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I use LaTeX to write papers, so I am comfortable enough with it, but I tried beamer several times, and it just doesn't fit my personal flow of how I write presentations/lectures. I want to manually move things around, add figures.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I have been using Libreoffice/OpenOffice continuously pretty much for last 20 years (mostly Impress/presentation part for teaching/presentations). And the number of bugs, crashes, issues with video etc occasionally gets very
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I believe cat will be executed in the shell.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Even knowing that it was a dot added, I could not quite easily find this in the diff. Scary...
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Did anyone search github yet for similar head | tail tricks ? I doubt it was invented just for this.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
One have question on this is, if the backdoor would not been discovered due to performance issue (which was as I understood it purely an oversight/fixable deficiency in the code), what are the chances of discovering this backdoor later
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by sega_sai 3y ago
It is scary. Here they caught the culprit quickly, but if they've been careful, I think they would be able to stay under the radar and still infect a fair few systems. As a person who regularly runs pip install on my main desktop, I am
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by sega_sai 3y ago
If all the money becomes digital at some point, should we switch from inflation target to just automatically reducing every bank account balance by 0.005% per day (equivalent to 2% p.y.)
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by sega_sai 3y ago
That is not correct IMO. When a faculty is hired specifically in a given field the cost of the salary line is a few tens of million dollars.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I disagree (at least university level). Surely too much homework is bad, or doing homework without understanding the basics is counter-productive, but I do think that practice is the only way you truly learn.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
Ok Dias is an a**hole (especially for manipulating students), but Nature is at fault here. They chose to publish those papers, ignoring referee/data concerns.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
To be honest a lot of recommendations apply to other languages as well. I.e. start with tests only then change, add autoformatting etc. At least I had experience of applying a similar sequence of steps to a python package.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I think it is clear that it is broken now. But thinking what we want is worth discussing. Maybe they should have some diversity/etnicity dial with the default settings somewhere in the middle between no correction and overcorrection no
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by sega_sai 3y ago
I agree. For specific historical figures it should be consistent with reality. But for questions about broad categories, I am personally fine with some adjustments.
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by sega_sai 3y ago
That is certainly embarassing. But in the same time, I think it is a debate worth having. What corrections to the training dataset biases are acceptable. Is it acceptable to correct the answer to the query "Eminent scientist" fro

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