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by staunton 4y ago
It's "Overhyped"
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by staunton 4y ago
Looking at existing precedent, people who get caught in even the most blatant fraud (e.g. J. H. Schon) end up doing alright. One scapegoat will lose their position and credentials and go on to work in industry for about the same wage they w
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by staunton 4y ago
> If you think what I'm proposing is three lectures on philosophy of science than either you have zero idea how a PhD program works or you're arguing in bad faith. Talking about three lectures was meant as a question of what yo
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> This mechanism pushes academia more and more towards mediocre Cargo Cult Science Ultimately, a cargo cult is a scientifically sound application of empiricism that just happens to completely fail, whereupon it may be rejected. If scient
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by staunton 4y ago
All that your comment says is that you disagree and think I'm stupid. Care to offer any object level arguments? For example, do you think making each university student take three lectures of philosophy of science would be better than
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by staunton 4y ago
I think the joke is that people hate regex
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> a large philosophical paradigm shift might be needed too Why? The way to learn a lot of prior knowledge is focused study and good teaching. Philosophy has little to do with it. I agree that it would make sense having more specialized l
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> sooner than later Seems consistent enough with decades
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There isn't even such a thing as "the methodology of science". People disagree about it and it is constantly evolving. Who should write that curriculum? Sure, there's a lot of common ground that could be taught (and it i
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> special relativity explains gravitational lensing You mean general relativity
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No, you get pre-built binaries. Of course you can compile everything yourself if you want
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It's almost never possible to test for what matters. The most important actually measurable quantity in any test of someone's skill or knowledge ir their motivation and willingness to prepare for the test. The next-most important
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by staunton 4y ago
Math has been done in natural language since the very beginning. Whatever math writing is not in natural language serves a specific purpose, such as being more precise than usual. In time, a jangon develops naturally as people with a lot of
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> Handmade goods are another example of this The market ahare of handmade goods is going down. They are forming a parallel luxury sector with better quality in some items and equal or worse in others at significantly higher price. The an
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by staunton 4y ago
The cost of educating 1 child was never lower than when they were taught by their parents how to work the fields while doing said work. Education costs tell us very little about both quality and efficiency of education.
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by staunton 4y ago
Why would you use Matlab to "prototype algorithms"? Maybe we have different notions what that means but Matlab is certainly not aimed at that. It's aimed at engineers who want to evaluate their data or design/control emb
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"much of the planet", whatever "much" means exactly and whether or not the claim is true, should refer to the number of people affected. Essentially, how much do we care about people in poor countries dying of thirst, st
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The issue is not "what percentage of landmass is uninhabitable" but rather how many will no longer be able to afford food and water, be admitted to refugee camps and if the rich will be willing to share these things with the poor.
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by staunton 4y ago
Thing is, C++ really is special in that way. I would say C is at most 2 languages (maybe not even that, or most legacy code is already the "newer" of those), Python is at most 2.5 languages (subtract one because Python 2 is no lon
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I just don't believe people will do that. How do you to justify investment in "cleaning up" a huge legacy codebase that noone fully understands anymore, written in a patchwork of programing languages that almost noone really
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The issue is that it's very hard to "clean C++ up" because backwards compatibility must be upheld (there are obviously good reasons for that). C and C++ have terrible defaults that mostly cannot be changed anymore. You can tr
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Yes. I believe that doesn't affect my argument. Instead of the ~4 programing languages found within C++20 you would be adding one more to the codebase. Does that sound like a good idea? Maybe my comment was too harsh. It's great s
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There is nothing to replace here. You should only start a new project in C++ if you absolutely have to, and if you really have to, perhaps due to legacy code, then complicating your smoldering dumpsterfire of a build system even more with t
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by staunton 4y ago
I'm somewhat surprised at the level of cynicism here. "Data work" is basically science: trying to understand things empirically, building models, testing them, using them to achieve goals. That should explain it. Yes, most of
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Now they are. People (maybe 10 worldwide who care, I would guess) now discus disagreements of results (in some very low order decimal) due to software bugs in numeric integration code, most of which is not public... The situation seems hard
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Yes, it's all compiled to jumps... The point of the discussion is that things like continue and break are easier to read and reason about because they can't just jump anywhere .
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> don't rely on security through obscurity Which doesn't mean you shouldn't also use obscurity. NIST recommends it [1], and the industry widely uses it. In practice "don't rely on obscurity" usually means
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Professional prompt engineers: journalists, police interrogators, detectives and private investigators, most people working in sales, most people working in the judicial system, politicians, many people working in "HR", ... maybe
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The interesting question is: what roles will it be able to replace first when it gets yet much better at everything it does now?
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Because why should anyone do that? It's not like you can publish that critical review. Sometimes the original authors grow old and write a book.

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