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by sega_sai 6y ago
This is an excellent read, and I find this quote "But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the a
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by sega_sai 6y ago
I have multiple disagreements with the article. 1) I think the versioning has value outside of reproducibility and outside cases when multiple people are doing development. As a scientist who started working before git/svn were avai
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by sega_sai 6y ago
In my opinion the problem with her messaging is that while she says that we should not fund the next collider, I think the argument should be, what's the best allocation of money in physics? And there are legitimate reasons to have the
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by sega_sai 6y ago
First here is the original letter to Nature about new colliders: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01054-6 I am certainly a supporter of new colliders, although there are other avenues of constraining particl
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by sega_sai 6y ago
It is nice that PG got another storage engine. I hope that will ease the implementation of the column based storage in official PG, as the row based storage is a major problem with very large datasets.
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by sega_sai 6y ago
It is all very nice, but if your function has two floating point parameters you have 1.6e19 tests to do...
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by sega_sai 6y ago
At the time of Schwarzschild, black holes were only a purely theoretical concept. We only started to get evidence that they exist in the 80s and later.
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by sega_sai 6y ago
But it affects a possibility of getting a job or renting an apartment. I'm afraid there is a trend of trying to use the credit rating for more and more...
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by sega_sai 6y ago
The only way in my opinion to really separate snake oil sellers from serious forecasters is to require that the companies or pundits register their predictions in some database, so one can then assess how often they are wrong.
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by sega_sai 6y ago
To be honest I just don't understand how what is shown could be legal -- Having a beta software on something that could easily kill, making the drivers/passengers other road users lab rats and beta-testers. I do admire what Musk d
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by sega_sai 6y ago
I wanted to implement a feature, like seing the most recent changes time, or fix a bug https://github.com/jgm/gitit/pull/388 and to implement those I had to learn haskell. That wasn't easy... If the sof
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by sega_sai 6y ago
As other people noticed, this isn't really a wiki, but attempt to emulate it on github. gitit is a proper git based markdown wiki that we have been using for ~ 8 years. Everything works quite well, except for the fact it is in Haskell.
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by sega_sai 6y ago
There is one point there that I thought was interesting, regarding asking questions, and not being afraid to look stupid and about many senior/distinguished people doing that. Being in science, I noticed that it gets easier when you ge
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by sega_sai 6y ago
I posted the article because it is thought provoking, although I disagree with it. The reason is for example statements like this "The real problem is that computers are not in the world, because they are not embodied." "And
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Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized(nature.com)
181 points by sega_sai 6y ago|386 comments
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by sega_sai 6y ago
As a scientist in the US (on H1B visa), I really worry about other scientists postdocs/professors that were planning to come to the States and won't be able to (and will be out of the job, as very often your previous postdoc ends
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by sega_sai 7y ago
Presumably one way to deal with this problem is to make the satellite surfaces like stealth planes, i.e. very flat reflective surfaces with sharp angles. In that case the reflections will still happen (and they will be brighter), but they w
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by sega_sai 7y ago
Even forgetting the illegality of the referendum and that it was done under occupation -- the results of the so-called referendum were completely falsified. See e.g. here https://kireev.livejournal.com/1095568.html (in russ