trombonechamp

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by trombonechamp 5y ago
The purpose of the research was to publicly announce that that the research subjects (who did not consent to being studied) messed up. The research consisted of submitting patches specially crafted to make sure the (non-consenting) subject
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
This is really basic. Here is a harder task from 2015 in monkeys with only 96 implanted electrodes (Utah array): https://youtu.be/lVFWIv5lupo?t=1673 Here is a video from 2014 of someone controlling a quadcopter with their
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
I write musicals (i.e. musical theatre): https://maxshinnpotential.com/music/empty-box-of-people https://maxshinnpotential.com/music/if-only
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
Two examples of times I have used Greek letter variable names: (a) Often times the Greek letter is the standard way of referring to a concept, e.g. "beta" in a linear regression. For these situations, the Greek letter would be us
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
I've been learning a new language for the last few years and without Ankidroid, there's no way I would have made as much progress as I did. Being able to study while away from my computer was really a game changer for me. I buil
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
Better link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
Monkeys do the same thing: Many non-human animals show exploratory behaviors. It remains unclear whether any possess human-like curiosity. We previously proposed three criteria for applying the term curiosity to animal behavior: (1) the su
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
He is also known for doing ridiculous things to his body in the name of science...
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
There was a news article about this in Science two years ago, which a couple such efforts: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/02/crowdsourcing-goe...
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
Unfortunately you need to roll that yourself in joblib. But it is automatic in bionic ( https://github.com/square/bionic ), assuming your workflow can be structured in the way bionic likes.
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
Which methods are you referring to?
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
For a related example, type "11:00 EST to UTC" into Google and DuckDuckGo. Google says 15:00 because it interprets "EST" colloquially as "the current time on east coast US". DuckDuckGo says 16:00 because it i
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
The poll respondents did not indicate they would be willing to donate to the cause. They indicated they would be willing to donate to "fix it". There is a very big difference between paying to fix a problem and paying for a stra
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
> Not a psychiatrist, but I'm pretty skeptical of the approach of trying to sort things according to a few dimensions. ... I don't see why it should be likely to cleave reality at its joints. One thing to understand about this
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
I highly recommend claws-mail. It is lightweight, very stable, and easily scriptable with Python.
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by trombonechamp 6y ago
It's a bit tragic that he is remembered for something he himself wasn't very fond of. From his biography: "Do you know something? I hate the Life game. I've really realized that I hate the damned Life game. ... I&#x2
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Show HN: Paranoid Scientist – Verification for scientific software(github.com)
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
It turns out that people with autism do have difficulty detecting emotions. A classic task in the lab is the "reading the mind in the eyes" task ( http://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/mite/ ), whereby in
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
I'd love to know more about your opera.
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
I was pretty excited to see this paper but unfortunately it seems like they have a pretty big multiple comparisons problem. The spatial structure of their brain maps and the really strong correlations scream multiple comparisons. Glancing
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
Have you considered adding a map of all the museums to your site? I don't want to share my location and I don't necessarily want to look for museums in my present location, but I would love to see what is cataloged and look for m
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
It works: https://i.imgur.com/9Vtah2o.png
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
I did a similar analysis with a nearly-identical model but without the assumption of a constant stream of people coming from the left. In my analysis, the best model depends heavily on the assumptions: http://blog.maxshinnpotent
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
Some of these links go directly to the retracted paper, some go to the retraction notice (where available), and some go to reports of software bugs which impacted others' results but didn't cause any retractions. This list is of
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
I previously made a big list of papers that were retracted due to software bugs. It was intended to go in a manuscript but I had to cut it out because the conference limited the number of references for the camera-ready version. If anyone
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
You should be able to do this with \write18.
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
eLife doesn't do that anymore: https://submit.elifesciences.org/html/elife_author_instructi...
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
TeXmacs is a beautiful piece of software, much better (in my opinion) than TeX. I wrote both my bachelor's and master's thesis in TeXmacs, and used it for years for keeping a research notebook, for homework assignments during und
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
What is the benefit of using a SAT solver directly instead of an SMT solver, other than tweaking for a bit better performance in the SAT solver?
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by trombonechamp 7y ago
A serious problem is that in 99.9% of things that you study in the brain, there will be no sex difference. However, every researcher records sex information in the data they collect. So even if there isn't a scientific reason to thin

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