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by shusaku 2y ago
When reading an article like this, I think westerners get guilt tripped. We must be wrong, just look at all the troubles we have. Maybe if we talked more things would be better. But maybe the real take way here is that people in Indian shou
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by shusaku 2y ago
> There are many complexities, but one popular technique is to put assets into trusts that allow the returns to accrue for heirs without taxation. Nike founder Phil Knight, for example, put his company’s stock in a series of trusts to be
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by shusaku 2y ago
I think this suggestion contains the implicit bias that “replication isn’t important or challenging”, hence you leave it to trainees. Actually, replication is incredibly challenging. Put PhD students on it, and they’ll be convinced the orig
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by shusaku 2y ago
> My conclusions were flat out wrong and there was nothing to salvage from the data. Wow that’s pretty crazy. I have to say many times in my career I’ve been writing a paper and realized “** there’s a bug”, and had to redo everything. B
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by shusaku 2y ago
As far as I could find reading about this case, the “evidence of innocence” is very flimsy. But it’s a reasonable moral stand by the family to want to stay the execution if they think there is even a slim chance of innocence.
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by shusaku 2y ago
There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories online trying to explain return to office policies, when the simplest explanation “managers like being in the same room as employees” has sufficient explanatory power.
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by shusaku 2y ago
If it bleeds, it leads. But if things go well nobody is interested.
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by shusaku 2y ago
As the article mentions, labor is now the dominate cost for solar. In poor countries where labor costs are cheap (panel costs still need to go down for this case), we’re going to lift an insane number of people out of poverty using cheap so
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by shusaku 2y ago
It’s been well known for over a decade that Reddit is incredibly easy to game. So while LLMs may seem useful, a well run political campaign can easily afford to astroturf the site while paying good money to their staff.
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by shusaku 2y ago
Some samples of the generated papers are in the SI of their paper. It’s be interesting if some of you ML guys dug into them. The fact that they built another AI system to review the papers seems really shaky, this is where human feedback wo
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by shusaku 2y ago
My impression from these past few days has been that the US will also cut the rate soon, so you’ve got convergence from both directions.
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by shusaku 2y ago
One thing to look for are local farms that have subscription services. Some give you a box of seasonal veggies each month, which will be very fresh.
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by shusaku 2y ago
The article has been updated to mention this theory > Commenter Ryan points out that you could also explain this data pattern as a result of sloppy post-processing, if votes were counted correctly, then reported to the nearest percentage
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by shusaku 2y ago
> For Mr. Heitin, it began in September, when he was unable to log into his 401(k) retirement account. When he tried again several days later, he got in, but the screen quickly changed and instructed him to call the 401(k) provider’s fra
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by shusaku 2y ago
> The year after the discovery, Fowler left university having published her discovery in three academic papers. Back in the days where two papers in nature wasn’t enough to to instantly get you a PhD I guess! Hopefully she was kept in th
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by shusaku 2y ago
It’s a little hard to tell from the article, but I think this is about books not research articles, and that the authors have some amount of revenue sharing.
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by shusaku 2y ago
I look forward to the latest models posing the Voight-Kampff test to me.
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by shusaku 2y ago
Donations are a way to buy influence. Just wait until they receive a generous donation from M. Soft.
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by shusaku 2y ago
This article really works to present the manmade view as dominate, which doesn’t seem to be the case at all. Seems like a fun site to read and imagine though.
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Exploring Quantum Mpemba Effects(physics.aps.org)
9 points by shusaku 2y ago|2 comments
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by shusaku 2y ago
> I’ve always thought that I was very competent. Now I at least realize that I have no fucking clue how anything works. Which makes me think: I have like 5 years of experience of real life. What kind of tricks under their belts do people
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by shusaku 2y ago
You should consider the commenting guidelines > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse
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by shusaku 3y ago
In the first post he absolves a certain guy, so I’d guess it’s just a matter of someone in the org thinking they were valuable, only for the next guy to come to a different conclusion.
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by shusaku 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912520
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by shusaku 3y ago
That’s my impression too, maybe the name just gets undergrads more excited.
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by shusaku 3y ago
I don’t understand how there would be sufficient evidence of this.
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by shusaku 3y ago
This is exactly why this legislation is stupid: if you don’t like the way Apple does things just buy an android.
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The structure of water: A historical perspective(pubs.aip.org)
2 points by shusaku 3y ago|0 comments
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by shusaku 3y ago
To be fair, it was pretty hard for me to imagine parents handing their young kids an iPad.
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by shusaku 3y ago
> The thing I still can’t figure out is, why did Jones publish this paper at all? He’d already landed the juicy Dean of Engineering job, months before submitting it to his own journal. This was my first reaction as well. We always hear a

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