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by sega_sai 4y ago
Also this: "When asked under oath about the attempted deletion of the message, Mr. Pichai had no explanation, testifying “I definitely don’t know” and “I don’t recall.” "
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by sega_sai 4y ago
There is a very good Lawfare podcast with the Bellingcat investigator on that https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-rid-and-toler-la... which goes into more details on this.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Yes, that matches well my experience with NSF (in astrophysics). Most goes to the University in overheads + grad student + (maybe) postdoc, and a little bit to cover your summer salary (which is an insane concept if you ask me).
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by sega_sai 4y ago
And then there is also this https://www.ft.com/content/5e6f15ce-9eda-4b04-883d-686617020... -- cheating on ethics exams by EY. It's all very funny that the whole system is built on assumption where the supposedly
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by sega_sai 4y ago
And while blocking sharing the substack links, they removed all the restrictions on Russian official government accounts https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644441340497784846 Good job Elon!
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I'm guessing these two salaries correspond to the same percentile of the income distribution.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Great video indeed. It's very illuminating how gpt works.
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From Moscow-City with Crypto: Receiving Cash from Russia Anonymously in London(transparency.org.ru)
20 points by sega_sai 4y ago|3 comments
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by sega_sai 4y ago
It's a weird news. For sure there must be plenty of people who for say 10M$ would find the vulnerability or reverse engineer the whole thing.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Nowhere in my contract or in anyone else's contract (as far as I know) it is written that I need to referee papers. People do it as a service to the community. And I don't necessarily ask to be payed for that, I was just answering
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Do you know that all the scientists referee for these journals for free ?
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by sega_sai 4y ago
* I absolutely agree that publicly funded research should not be behind paywalls, but right now with MNRAS it is not. Pretty much everyone puts paper on arxiv and people in the UK had to deposit papers into university repositories anyway wh
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by sega_sai 4y ago
This is bad news masquerading as good news. Now they force you to pay 2.3k GBP to publish an article. Previously it was free, unless you wanted it to make it immediately accessible on the website. People in astrophysics always did put arti
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Apple's hardware is pretty much the best (and I don't particularly care about the price for something I use as much as my laptop). In the same time I've been using Linux for 20 years and I am happy with it, so I don't wa
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 But in the same time I can admit that I didn't do the formal counting of comments, so saying "majority" may be technically incorrect. It was more o
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I notice an interesting pattern on HN. When the art/music is being discussed, there is a large fraction of people in the comments who are altogether against copyright. But when say github copilot is being discussed, the majority is ag
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by sega_sai 4y ago
At least one reason to do that is to allow optional module dependencies.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I guess defending your country is called "offensive purposes". Also last time I heard Starlink is restricted to Ukraine's territory. Why then SpaceX is deciding to curb its use for drone is beyond me.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Where is the new information here ? He tells a story without any shred of proof.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think there UAPs are either * Atmospheric effects * Debris from space launches, or other kind of debris in the atmosphere * Artefacts in optics/radars * Human illusions * Secret flying devices from various countries * Aliens I think
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I could recognise the Schroedinger's equation and one Maxwell's equation.
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Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by sega_sai 4y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 4y ago
We have a similar system for a Scottish Parliament elections (Additional Member System). But it is still FPTP for the Westminster elections.
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by sega_sai 4y ago
Am I the only one who feels lost in all those new security technologies and their various permutations, specifically understanding what's secure, how to back it up etc? We have TOTP, 2nd factor, password managers, security keys, hard
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by sega_sai 4y ago
It is all curious, but it seems that procedure that calculates the n-th digit using some other functions that require O(n) calculations (i.e. Bernoulli numbers) is not that exciting, as it's just a speedup comparing to a naive calcula
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by sega_sai 4y ago
No, that is not correct thing to use, as the semimajor axis will change as well. What is needed is the third Kepler law. The semimajor axis will be period^(2/3). And then speed will be period^(-1/3). Thus if period was changed her
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by sega_sai 4y ago
I think geofencing should only be allowed to establish/check connection to a very specific crime. I.e. in this specific case of capitol riot, it was a clear one. What I don't think should be allowed is a geofence & open-ended
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Yann LeCun: From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence(youtube.com)
3 points by sega_sai 4y ago|0 comments
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by sega_sai 4y ago
As a scientist I disagree. I would rather call just facts as facts, and the rest can still be called theories/models/understanding. I.e. only stuff that is directly observed can be a fact. For sure I think the evidence of human ca
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by sega_sai 4y ago
To be honest I think this is strawman argument. I think it is absolutely true that the government will mismanage some of that money. The question is whether that money used with not 100% efficiency is better than a billionaire who may spend

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