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by sn41 3y ago
Even if you do private research, you still need your work to get peer-reviewed. The pressure comes because we need to make the results sound more dramatic, rather than "meh. some effect is visible, but nothing to lose sleep over"
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by sn41 3y ago
Reminds me of Ron Burgundy!
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by sn41 3y ago
Well, that's one way to hedge.
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by sn41 3y ago
That's not the entire story. People deify Buffet also because he has a comparatively clean image. The grandparent comment is just mentioning the clean image has its dark spots. (For example, the quote and the implied amorality were new
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by sn41 3y ago
Historically, that about sums up the opium trade run by the British as well. Work Indians to death by indentured slavery, forcing them to give up food crops to grow opium. Sell in China. Costs nothing to make. Sell it for vast sums. It was
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by sn41 3y ago
... and mind you, there were no fast food restaurants either. So it took a really long time.
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by sn41 3y ago
It's "The Wind Rises" - from Paul Valery's famous closing stanza of "Le cimetiere marin" (The Cemetery by the Sea) "Le vent se lève !… Il faut tenter de vivre !" "The wind rises... we must try to
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by sn41 3y ago
I see joint accounts as snooping into each other's affairs. People should be able to have a large degree of independence. Maybe this study says otherwise. I still think that it is prudent to keep separate accounts, even if we are &quot
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by sn41 3y ago
During the cold war, Austria was the on border between the Soviet bloc and the West. Historically, the Austro-Hungarian empire had a lot of territories in Central Europe, which has strong ties to Russia as well. I am guessing that some of t
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by sn41 3y ago
I have no doubt that AR will be the future (VR? I don't know: I'd like to retain a sense of my surroundings when I'm working). However, I think most of the population will adapt. Smartphones for the 60+ age group was a paradi
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by sn41 3y ago
Oh! I'm sad to hear this... I hope you get well.
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by sn41 3y ago
Interesting... This is similar to the concerns that Vince Weldon, the Boeing engineer had over the 787 Dreamliner hull made of composites: that flaws could not be found by a visual scan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
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by sn41 3y ago
Suggested title: "Is all you need considered harmful"
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by sn41 3y ago
Yeah, I agree to that. It is a bit avant garde, so people signing up must know that it is more miss than hit, so buyer beware.
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by sn41 3y ago
In such a truly free world, you might have to check every piece of chicken for salmonella contamination. You might have to stop your truck at every turn to see if people are racing from the opposite direction. You might not be very sure tha
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by sn41 3y ago
That doesn't absolve them of negligence. A crew hardly signs up to be killed.
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by sn41 3y ago
Well the entire command should be: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn On a serious note: Is this similar in functionality to "expect" ? Edit: corrected that expect is not a gnu project, thanks f
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by sn41 3y ago
Rumor has it that it could deliver hot pizza even to the USSR, which is probably why the Soviets donated titanium for the ovens.
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by sn41 3y ago
I played Planescape back around 2015 or so, for the first time. I felt an uncanny similarity to the movie "Memento" by Christopher Nolan, which, coincidentally, was filmed around the same time, developing on themes from the earlie
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by sn41 3y ago
Orthodoxy by Chesterton and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis is on my reading list (as a non-believer). It's hard to overlook Chesterton's racist views which he displays unconsciously in his Father Brown stories, against India
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by sn41 3y ago
Don't forget that Nixon established the EPA. So he wasn't entirely anti-regulation. (or maybe there were political pressures, I don't know the details.)
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by sn41 3y ago
I saw the PBS documentary yesterday. If I am not mistaken, one of the accidents mentioned involved a Chevy Silverado [1]. If so, then the lobbyists are full of it. On the whole, I don't understand why the objection is there: are bars a
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by sn41 3y ago
I agree. They have a breathless tone to them that's quite annoying to me (I work in data compression as an academic, and I found this article uninspiring.) By the way, there was an old Soviet magazine called "Kvant" (Russian
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by sn41 3y ago
I think it is because it is slightly to the west of Washington D. C., and there is no country to the north of Canada. If, say, Chicago is the capital of the US, I think a lot of Canada will end up being closer to Chicago than Ottawa.
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by sn41 3y ago
There are some allusions here I think. The opening line of part 2, "All Standard ML is divided into two parts." is a very strange English sentence to write. It actually sounds like the very famous opening line of Julius Caesar&#x2
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by sn41 3y ago
Thank you. So this is based on the training data, I assume.
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by sn41 3y ago
complete newbie here: what is the intuition behind the conclusion that "cat" is highly related to "black" as opposed to, say, "mat"?
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by sn41 3y ago
Godel's theorem applies to all systems strong enough to do arithmetic. When we talk about "powerful" systems, it will inevitably have to do arithmetic. One of the unprovable statements of any such formal system will be that
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by sn41 3y ago
I'm from South India, and at some point, lived in the midwest for about 10 years. I used to snigger at the big pickups and cars. Until one day, I was driving through a snowstorm. (It was not my first, but this was a beast.) Unlike my u
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by sn41 3y ago
The book The Cauchy-Schwartz masterclass was crucial in the first paper I published, introducing the concept of Schur convexity. I am indebted to that great book.

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