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by teorema 6y ago
The problem IMHO is the attempt to regulate speech on the topic (or any topic really). It just illustrates the problems with it. I'm a little concerned about the appeal to authority element to this all...
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by teorema 6y ago
It's not just the federal government — the problems with ransomware in healthcare are the same problem. Similar issues are emerging at the state level in places like universities, which used to roll out platforms all the time, individu
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by teorema 6y ago
I'm opposed to delaying doses in the absence of data, but it should be noted this theory of escape mutants has become controversial. In the area of antibiotic treatment it's a fairly standard idea but has been increasingly questio
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by teorema 6y ago
I always feel compelled to mention Briar because it doesn't get enough attention. https://briarproject.org/ Having said that, I think its ideal use cases at the current time are probably less of a general messaging sol
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by teorema 6y ago
FWIW, Firefox has become unpredictable in it's blocking of autoplay for me. It works for me almost all the time it seems, but every so often something will autoply anyway. I can't figure out the exceptions, and don't know why
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by teorema 6y ago
"Administrative tools" is the name of the game at most or many universities now.
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by teorema 6y ago
Fwiw, I've never really liked two spaces after a period and rereading that confirms it. To me it causes some mild confusion (if that's the right word — maybe too strong a word) with paragraph breaks. It's just too big a gap.
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by teorema 6y ago
"Macaroni" is a very old synonym for "pasta". It used to have a different broader meaning than the shape.
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by teorema 6y ago
Every so often my mouse or track pad bonks out. Less and less as time goes on, but happens. In those cases, I might want or need to use the web for some reason before I get a new one (to locate or purchase a new one if nothing else). I defi
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by teorema 6y ago
For whatever reason, the stance toward academic dishonesty has changed everywhere in higher education for reasons that aren't clear to me. The two other institutions I taught at used to have very strict policies about it and then at so
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by teorema 6y ago
Different, but a related topic that I've come to be fascinated by are athletic tools and techniques that are held as canon that turn out to have no scientific support. The author talks about reactions of physicians dismissing convincin
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by teorema 6y ago
Just in case it's helpful, Limburger is a type of [soft] washed rind cheese: https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/06/cheese-101-washed-rind.h... Most washed rind cheeses share fundamental characteristics that res
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by teorema 6y ago
Part of what the natural world imparts is a sense of wonder, things that you couldn't have dreamt up, nor anyone you know. As I've gotten older, I've developed this hazy awareness of some world that was lost to me — things th
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by teorema 6y ago
FWIW, N=94 seems ridiculously small to me. I realize there's ethical concerns in increasing exposure etc but in my experience, that's in the ballpark of sample sizes where unacknowledged heterogeneity can be manipulated to distort
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by teorema 6y ago
I posted this essay I wrote in the spring: https://write.as/ccgaoox9alf3hbv4.md I think the key is to not necessarily have state-run ISPs completely OR private-run ISPs completely. Something like the courier/delivery m
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by teorema 6y ago
Kind of a positive approach to addressing a form of bias, which is nice to see. Seems as if they're talking about the same thing as this from a different perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_aut
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by teorema 6y ago
I think you could generalize the idea of "individuals who extract income but who do not perform useful work" to "individuals whose extracted income exceeds the utility of the work they perform." Maybe to the converse as
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by teorema 6y ago
I might go even further and suggest that a strong research culture implies not everything will be productive. I swear somewhere here or elsewhere I read a story that one of the major quantum computing contributions that accelerated the fi
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by teorema 6y ago
I don't know that I'm looking to refute you per se but... A better example than face masks maybe is the recent controversy over Twitter's AI and Obama images ( https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/20/
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by teorema 6y ago
It's too bad you're being downvoted. I had a similar reaction, and I think you're on to something important. Many adversarial cases are good examples of this: a DL model being completely thrown off by something very incidenta
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by teorema 6y ago
Yeah I don't disagree re: scientific computing and Python (although I think from the beginning some of the advocacy for Python was coming from more "math-oriented" communities). I still think that when it started accelerating
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by teorema 6y ago
Not to sound dismissive but I remember when that was true of Python (vis-a-vis Perl and some other things). My recollection of discussions on forums when it was starting to gain mindshare were arguments largely about the aesthetics of the s
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by teorema 6y ago
This is partly an aside, but I often feel like homogeneity in plant (and animal, I suppose) consumption and production is a part of this that is rarely discussed. That is, I think there's a lot of unused potential in domestication of n
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by teorema 6y ago
I had a similar reaction re: professors. Sure, it takes the same amount of time to mark an essay. But it takes much less time to score exams and to administer them. Writing research papers takes much, much, much less time because of word pr
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by teorema 6y ago
God I feel like an idiot for questioning this, but is it really true not B implies not A in that situation? It seems like it depends on what you mean by "implies." E.g., you could have A -> B, and A -> C, and B != C. Then
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by teorema 6y ago
Beware the trap of distinguishing "objective" measures/data in a space that almost by definition concerns itself with subjective experience. I also would question any assumption that such data is less prone to racial issues -
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by teorema 6y ago
My experience with Julia is that for many (most?) things, you do get a free speedup basically. With other things though, it's about the same. What this means in practice is that if you expand your use cases enough, and integrate enough
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by teorema 6y ago
It's not just the research though, it's the credit. Here we are discussing a Nobel Prize awarded to what seems to be consensually agreed is a subset of deserving contributors, in part because of flaws in the review process? Discus
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by teorema 6y ago
What's disturbing to me — and this cuts both ways — is the subtle shifting of what's meant by "meritocracy". Here, on HN and on Scott's post, there's an implicit equating of "meritocracy" with "t
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by teorema 6y ago
One basic problem is that science (and related disciplines) is really a slow incremental process where no one knows what is going on, and many people make small contributions, but this doesn't sell well. So every little thing ends up b

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