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Socrates, Bad Guy(diagonalargument.com)
1 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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GLP-1 and Obesity(blogs.sciencemag.org)
2 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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by srl 6y ago
In firefox, trying to 'view source' yields the source for a 500 internal server error. Does that mean that firefox makes a different request when I click "view source"? As in, from the server logs, someone could in princ
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by srl 6y ago
The most frequent application is machine learning. If my piece of code is implementing some function that I want to minimize, then taking the derivative (w.r.t. some vector of parameters) tells me in which direction I need to change the par
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Nanotechnology allows chemical signals from spinach to send emails(axios.com)
2 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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Fund people, not projects I: The HHMI and the NIH Director's Pioneer Award(nintil.com)
1 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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by srl 6y ago
It is pretty well understood, but the answer is the opposite (following from special relativity). You can take an ordinary low frequency photon, and just observe it while moving arbitrarily close to the speed of light, and the frequency of
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Call It Sour Grapes(econlib.org)
2 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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Isolated Demands for Rigour in New Optimism (On the Great Stagnation)(applieddivinitystudies.com)
1 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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by srl 6y ago
> A couple of times I think I was coming down with something, I slept for more than 24 hours with only pee breaks. And I woke up feeling fresh as a cucumber, as they say. I don't really take sleeping that seriously in general, but I
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“We’re trying to grow chess”: An Interview with Magnus Carlsen(new.uschess.org)
1 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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Magnetism and Congress(ineffectivetheory.com)
3 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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by srl 6y ago
Hah! I didn't even bother to check, I'm so used to just going for the arxiv version when not on campus. (Usually has better formatting too.) Thanks for pointing that out.
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by srl 6y ago
Here's the arxiv link, for those who want to read the original article paywall-free: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04818 . To be clear, this isn't an unconditional speed limit. It appears to be something like &qu
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by srl 6y ago
It's perfectly fair to complain that these discussions are untestable, at the very least, but unfortunately they're inescapable. We need some heuristic for evaluating which anomalies/patterns are likely to be hints of "n
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by srl 6y ago
I pretty much agree. Anthropic reasoning is very strong in some circumstances. If we can directly observe some planet, and see that there's no life on it, then it's pretty easy to answer the question "why are we on this wor
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by srl 6y ago
I think there are two jumps in logic I made, one more defensible than the other. The first: > Loads of systems exhibit Turing universality, so a small change in alpha shouldn't break that property of our universe. (I consider this r
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by srl 6y ago
Yeah of course this is a typo. I've fixed. (But I appreciate the other commenters trying to interpret this in a way that makes sense.)
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The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments(ineffectivetheory.com)
41 points by srl 6y ago|84 comments
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I’m leaving academia(medium.com)
60 points by srl 6y ago|70 comments
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by srl 6y ago
Kavanaugh's separate dissent at 145.
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by srl 6y ago
> I know that in hard sciences, you cannot meaningfully contribute to the field without access to a lab and other such infrastructure Well, that's not quite true I guess, because in most areas of math, or theoretical physics, you ce
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by srl 6y ago
Wait... isn't it worse than that? If I buy enough hashpower to have a measurable effect on the price, shouldn't the price be driven down, by the increased supply? Thus an ASIC farm is worse than a raspberry pi, at least as far a
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by srl 6y ago
Not mentioned in the change summaries as far as I can tell, but this contains a (for me critical) fix to the intel graphics drivers (i915): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/1600 .
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U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF(sciencemag.org)
7 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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The Rage of Research(ldeming.posthaven.com)
3 points by srl 6y ago|0 comments
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by srl 6y ago
Ah, that's a good point, and retrospectively obvious. I missed that.
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by srl 6y ago
Well, in this case, it would only be the dead poor, right? We're talking about donating organs after death. Just as it's hard to justify not being willing to donate organs (because "you're dead, what do you care"),
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by srl 6y ago
This sentiment is understandable (and apparently popular), and I suppose GP deserved either a well-reasoned personal attack or a snarky reply... but I don't think it merits a snarky personal attack.
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by srl 6y ago
For those interested, the relevant rules seem to be here: https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html As far as I can tell, the implication is that there are now fewer than three people interested enough to participa

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