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by vladms 3y ago
I think it's not really possible to have a black and white analysis of Paul's character, because the timescale matters - which is better explained in the books. How could one choose between a jihad (bad on short term) and the gold
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by vladms 3y ago
I see scarcity more related to primary resources (ex: energy, raw materials, machines) and for normal life purposes. They obviously have some way to decide who does what (not everybody is captain), but the impact of not being captain on wha
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by vladms 3y ago
I doubt any profession for which the tools evolve as fast as programming can have "standards and rigor". Another root cause is that abilities of people (in any field) are hard to compare. Programming (and other) professions are in
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by vladms 3y ago
You mean "some humans know and could say so". And this reflection process is not captured in the data we fed to LLM-s (like let's say a lesson in which teacher asks "do you know X?", and students first answer "
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by vladms 3y ago
I think what could make the difference is the process of selection "what is important to me to compress". If you know something already you can skip writing it. If you heard an interesting idea you should write it in a way you wou
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by vladms 3y ago
To me this sounds like an opinion that would be common in the US, mostly because of where the trust and fears seem to be (private companies versus government). I think everybody (private companies, government, individuals) will try to influ
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by vladms 3y ago
Accessibility to the internet to everybody in the world destroyed the hacker haven that the Internet once was. But I don't think it's bad. Hackers/smart people "locked in the basement' or talking only with their fri
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by vladms 3y ago
In the opposite direction, I feel mildly annoyed when people expect a precise/clear answer to questions which can be answered mostly/better with probability distributions. Considering how you can test statistics in real life (ex:
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by vladms 3y ago
Not the author, but in my experience at big(ish) corps: it will gather lots of people that want a safe job, people that want to do only one thing, or people that want predictability. None of these are bad things, just that they are differen
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by vladms 3y ago
What about taking them with a grain of salt? Just because something is approximate that does not mean it is not useful. I never got this obsession with detailed rankings. Sure "above average" and "under average" makes se
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by vladms 3y ago
> The truth is that almost all papers published across almost all fields cannot be replicated, full stop. Isn't it ironic that we can't replicate your assessment?... I personally have no idea how much papers can be replicated o
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by vladms 3y ago
> most people have better things to do with their time than rewrite something that already works These people just went from "never programmed before" to "knowing how to program" - I doubt people that made an investme
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by vladms 3y ago
Politics works in cycles and maybe we are seeing the backlash of a lot of people starting believing in climate issues. Now that actions start being taken, people not caring about climate start pushing back because they need to change their
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by vladms 3y ago
Depends on the competition format a bit. You can also have rankings and while they are not ideal either, probably it will not be as bad as "send positive competence signal to one person (winner)". For example if you do a single el
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by vladms 3y ago
> Competition is a defining property of ‘sport’. This requires a reference though. For example: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sport does not exclude non-competition based physical activiti
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by vladms 3y ago
Very nice explanation of situation, but I think we could go even further. You agree that "Skater's greatness – whatever that means – is hard to define", but I would say that the problem is then the idea of competition for thi
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by vladms 3y ago
Very interesting paper! Still, lots of work to do, to quote "However, it was not possible to control other factors, such as the socio-economic environment of the participants.". In my view this could affect the study quite a lot (
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by vladms 3y ago
But if you did a lot of things you might know what does not work and why. Similar to science articles, nobody talks enough about "X technology does not work for Y domain", so a lot of people try to "reinvent the wheel" o
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by vladms 3y ago
My understanding: it is possible to license under a different license any additions or modifications they made. So the original code can remain MIT, but their changes (API integrations, etc) will be under a proprietary license (note: this w
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by vladms 3y ago
I think the gold standard is experimenting for physical systems. Then you can control for whatever you want. For medicine it would be double blind study (select participants, split them in 2 groups, then you know the groups are the same, gi
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by vladms 3y ago
> My take of the core issue is the changing of science from an ethics and reputation based institution into a neoliberal bean counting paper industry. Saying it was an "ethics ... based institution" is challenging for me - it i
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by vladms 3y ago
Information takes time to disseminate to people. I think the transition happened "as fast as it could" given that people tend to oppose change, have a hard time understand scientific results and science takes a long time anyhow. I
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by vladms 3y ago
What would be "well managed finances"? The objective is to improve the living, not how you manage the money. At all points in history most of people were trying to do "things at the expense of someone else" (colonialism,
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by vladms 3y ago
I have doubts about the idea "spend what you have". It is framing wrongly the problem. Money are not something "you have". Money are "a promise" to get something "in the future". Evaluating how much t
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by vladms 3y ago
I wonder if there is some connection between prevalence of actual cults (or any organization built on belief, like churches or totalitarian regimes) and opposition to teaching on how to be skeptical.
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by vladms 3y ago
Maybe we could take a step back and don't think in black and white. I do not "want something to be true", I give it a probability to be true between 0 and 1. But the thing is that moving from binary (true/false) to conti
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by vladms 3y ago
That's really a characteristic of being 20 (with the "this" being different things of different people). Good for everybody that manages to keep the feeling later as well, but it is definitely easier at 20...
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by vladms 3y ago
I think most of the things in life come with a lot of struggle, strange things, things that should be different and so on. Making a startup? Go and check how hard and crazy that is. Make a family? Similar convoluted process with ups and dow
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by vladms 3y ago
Not sure the openness of the review would solve so many problems of the system. For example would not touch like reproducibility and data and code availability. Then you will need moderation (or do you imagine that things will be civilized
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by vladms 3y ago
Based on this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca... between 2009 and 2021 there were indeed 2. I think that the point stands, it is very impressive and safe.

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