HilbertSpace

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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
> I think you misread and/or misinterpreted OP's point His "point" was not clear: What was more important in the article, that there was a Google+ community discussing some "problems" or the "problems" he listed of concern to that comm
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I wrote: > The main criteria for research work are "new, correct, and significant". Do well on all three of these and have NO PROBLEMS getting reviewed and published. So, I said that have to "do well". So your > You couldn't be mor
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
As I explained in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3421033 early in the article was that the 'community' had a "serious problem" which was getting published. So I outlined how to get published, and that should have been a welcome cont
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Because there is a pattern that would not apply to the relatively random users and needs a very persistent user, that is, a MOD. Because the downvotes happen QUICKLY, as if from a MOD. Because the downvotes don't come with replies. Becau
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
My original post was downvoted within minutes of when I posted it, and there was no reply. This is NOT nearly the first time. There is a pattern, and I'd be a fool not to conclude that one or more HN MODS are personally angry at me. "schi
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
This is NOT nearly the first time. There is a pattern, and the only reasonable explanation is that one or more HN MODs just do NOT like a lot of my posts and jump to downvote ASAP with anger. A guess that fits the facts of what they don't
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Problems getting published in CS was a big point early in your article, and that is what I responded to. For more on this point, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3421033 below.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
The article had, early on: "I can’t speak for other disciplines, but within computer science, I’ve always felt that these meta discussions were inadequate — in terms of volume, vigor, and format. They happened mostly at conferences were la
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
"Rant" is an insult. "Far cry" in what sense? The AAAI IAAI conference was about the best could expect from the AAAI. I published in JIS because it has a wider audience than, say, another Elsevier journal on 'theoretical computer scince' o
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
That lament was one of the leading topics in the Google+ community that was the the subject of the article. Yes, the article was mostly about the community and not the issues of the community. But the article did list some of the leading i
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I was attacked, downvoted, for my main comment, and then defended myself. This is NOT nearly the first time for such. Usually the result of the downvote is to send my comment to the end of the thread where it is effectively lost, which is
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
The attacks are from downvoting, not upvoting. Only a small fraction of HN users can downvote. With so much downvoting, it has to be the MODs who are doing it. It's so consistent that it's a personal attack on me.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
That's what PG's HN MODs do also, and then they attack, usually without any comments. It's PERSONAL. It's a SCANDAL. There is STILL not a single, meaningful comment in rebuttal to anything I wrote. Not a one. I outlined for CS profs how
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
PG: STOP these GD personal MOD attacks on me. STOP IT.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
"Credibility"? Look up the Radon-Nikodym theorem. I suggest Neveu, 'Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability'. "Rant" is an INSULT. The 'rant' was in the article complaining that they could not get their paper published.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
In short, HN has a chicken shit MOD that routinely attacks my posts but makes no comments. This is PERSONAL and is CRAP. And the situation and the attacks really SUCK, much more than anything I've written.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Okay chicken-sh*t, mod, downvoter, if you have a tummy ache, then upchuck so we can all see what you can't take. PG: I'm being personally attacked by your mods again. This is a HN scandal.
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Yup. But in this case I know all too well just what the heck I'm talking about, unfortunately. Hint: I live in Dutchess County, NY and for years worked in Westchester Country, NY. Besides, the NYT wrote just a puff piece. Now just why w
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
On close examination, you may find that their Research Division is mostly just a patent shop. Likely their 'services' work is mostly just 'help desk'. Likely much of what they are doing is what they did decades ago called 'facilities manage
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
> I just want you to be clear on the fact that you are deliberately choosing to leave science behind and have entered the realm of science fiction. Not really: I'm guessing. Or in more erudite terms, I'm conjecturing. You seem to be s
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
> "visible from our telescopes today." Our nearest other star is 4 light years away. 1000 light years away may still not cover many planets good for ET to colonize. But for us now to see evidence of a colony on a planet 1000 light yea
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Yup, we both might be correct! I had a 'qualification': "Usually the CEEB, SAT, and GRE", and with that we both can be right! For those tests, at the level of detail of the distribution of the scores, it can be tough to get solid data. But
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
That we don't know everything is scientifically rock solid! Your point is mostly that the stuff we don't know is bad science; I agree. Still, this thread is to try to answer the question, where is ET? Historically it would have been bette
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
Let's see: We've been okay with radio for less than 200 years so far. The earth was formed ballpark 4.5 billion years ago. The big bang was about 13.7 billion years ago. Assume that to get a civilization need a planet and, thus, elements
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
The question was, could a student without a Bachelor's just show up at a grad school, offering to take the Ph.D. qualifying exams and believing that they are well prepared, AND, without a Bachelor's degree, be permitted to do so? In partic
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I meant both tests but definitely the subject tests. Usually the CEEB, SAT, and GRE tests are designed to have Gaussian distribution with mean 500 and standard deviation 100. So, can get a table of the cumulative Gaussian distribution and
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
In the US, for Web 2.0 projects, mostly can boil down to just one question: Do you have traction that is significantly high, say, over 100,000 unique visitors a month, and growing rapidly?
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
A point in my guess is that an old civilization won't be trying to use radio to communicate with us and will be using something better than radio we don't know about. Next, for communications over 1000 light years with just radio, there ca
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
I didn't cover getting "enrolled", but usually that won't be much of a problem: Even the top graduate programs are hungry for good students. If you are ready for their qualifying exams when you show up, then SAY SO. And/or submit a stack
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by HilbertSpace 15y ago
> "But what would be better? How can we create a better system? And if there's such an obvious better answer, why doesn't someone do it?" Here's a simple answer: The better system exists, but people overlook it. As a student, first get

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