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by ska 3y ago
> I think the only way to address this is to significantly reduce the "perceived authority" of any work that comes from using a LaTeX template, as well as authority that comes with the label "peer reviewed". Opening u
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by ska 3y ago
I'm clearly not articulating my point well. Obviously the idea is to "disrupt" the academic publication and review process, but this discussion seems to be focusing on the probably the easiest part - making and hosting the do
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by ska 3y ago
I didn't say that. It needs something. Handwaving about an emergent community isn't useful - moving from todays system to something else needs something concrete.
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by ska 3y ago
> where-as an ironic punchline goes I knew someone who grew up a reasonable walking distance from a major operational dam, but had no grid access. They did have a generator I think, but would have had to pay the full cost of running lin
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by ska 3y ago
You have the causality wrong. Prestige comes to journals by doing a good (or at least, better than peers) job of being a journal, which is providing a necessary function to the academic research process. If you want to improve on that syst
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by ska 3y ago
No it's exactly true. You can write up anything you want and put it on a site. The post I was replying to was suggesting an open access system (both read and write) for exchanging ideas. This exists. What it doesn't do is effec
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by ska 3y ago
No, although the mechanism for hosting the content aren’t that important. Preprint servers are very useful but haven’t replaced journals for good reasons.
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by ska 3y ago
> Just make it accessible. We already have that system, it's called the internet. Nothing stops you or I from putting our ideas online for all to read, comment on, update, etc. The role of the publishers, flawed as it is, has littl
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by ska 3y ago
> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough
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by ska 3y ago
I don’t think that implication was in the comment you replied to. “Well they just use google anyway” is too reductive.
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by ska 3y ago
The core tech patents have expired. They did have some interesting ones around hardware implementations, iirc. Overall the chilling effect was interesting - I found that many people doing academic work around compression didn't really
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by ska 3y ago
Unlikely. Gzip and the like will do well with getting rid of the inherent redundancy of ascii coding but it's a general algorithm and can't take advantage of known structure.
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by ska 3y ago
It's not lossy if you can always recover the correct data. Rather than use a general algorithm, your compressor would have to reason: I'd have to spend a bit to disambiguate x & y, but only x is a valid board state, so I won&#
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by ska 3y ago
> I think the biggest drag is actually rent prices This is a super common cycle. City gets economically depressed -> rents drop a lot -> lots of young people and artists, etc. move in -> great "scene" develops ->
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by ska 3y ago
I think this is the point really, not that mainstream, "general purpose" languages support FP well, but that FP ideas and aspects have been adapted into many of them.
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by ska 3y ago
I suspect part of the problem (and hence friction) is drawing an analogy to something that's actually a strength/net positive in Montréal as a city, but using it to claim a weakness/net negative in programming languages. Wide
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by ska 3y ago
> using a shared intermediate representation (something along the lines of an AST). This is more of a past idea (e.g. sexpr) than a new one, fwiw. Whether or not it's due for revisiting is unclear.
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by ska 3y ago
This is eliding most of the history of neural networks as a hot reasearch topics. Since the late 50's early 1960s they've had several resurgences in interest, e.g. 80s RNNs, 90s stuff around several centers. Hell people were do
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by ska 3y ago
I agree there is cool stuff going on in vision, absolutely. But I wasn’t taking about the field in general. I just don’t think it moves the needle significantly in this particular area. For example, structured data out of a single camera
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by ska 3y ago
Sure, there are applications where it is a real benefit. Typically (like your examples) where we can manipulate the environment to work around the limitations of the technology. This is a good thing! When the tech gets cheap, it’s easier t
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by ska 3y ago
> Vision. Computer vision keeps getting better. Depth sensors are widely available. Interpretation of 3D scenes kind of works. A decade ago, the state of the art was aligning an IC over the right spot and a board and putting it in place.
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by ska 3y ago
> As soon as it gets practical it stops being robotics. This idea co-evolved in "AI"
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by ska 3y ago
> Somebody will probably crack that problem in the next five years Nothing in your list has really changed in the last 5 years. What makes you think we are significantly closer now? NB: I'm not saying we aren't making strides
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by ska 3y ago
Really there are three problem in robotics: Perception, Funding, and Cables :)
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by ska 3y ago
It's definitely not a solved problem in general, especially in realtime. It's a lot easier to get started on something interesting and maybe even useful than it was even 10 years ago. A lot of the "ah we can just use X API
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by ska 3y ago
I suspect what you are missing here is that both sides just "get it", they disagree what "it" is. I don't find the anti-crypto folks to be particularly more or less screamy than the pro-crypto folks, for what it&#
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by ska 3y ago
Ok if you dislike technically "savings", call it "incentivized regular investment" - the point remains. As a policy issue countries are stuck a bit because they are reliant on the asset value of these houses to help sup
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by ska 3y ago
> Discrimination is what happens when you don't have good measurement for capability. This is obviously not the general case for discrimination, often it flies in the face of good measurements. Do you mean in this particular case,
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by ska 3y ago
Although it's not really that much of a factor these days, it effectively is equivalent to a subsidy. So is government backing of mortgages for that matter.
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by ska 3y ago
> and mostly our governments remain responsible if people haven't saved. That's the point of it being "forced saving". Look, I'm not saying the government steered everything or even that they thought it through v

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