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by croissants 1y ago
I took a course on Freud in college, and what struck me at the time was that the framework of psychoanalysis seemed basically cruel, in that the analyst was free to say that either acceptance or rejection of their claims was evidence for th
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by croissants 1y ago
The paper does more than that. It measures wet bulb temperatures at different stops with different combinations and varieties of trees and bus stops, provides decent evidence of variation among these combinations, and attempts to explain th
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by croissants 1y ago
+1 for Consumer Reports. They're not expensive either, something like $5 per month. If they keep you from buying a bad fridge, it pays for itself! Their recentish coverage of lead in foods is a bit embarrassing though, since they used
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by croissants 1y ago
I chalk that up as lame but kind of inevitable mild corruption that doesn't really go anywhere -- Hunter seems more like an embarrassing addict child that a caring parent has no choice but to put up with than somebody who can truly ped
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by croissants 1y ago
Yeah, The Economist regularly writes these articles that spend half the time praising the intense competition in certain sectors of the economy and half the time bemoaning the influence of state-owned enterprises (or other CCP instruments)
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by croissants 2y ago
At least in moderately urban parks in the USA, one complicating factor is that a lot of the dirt has dog poop scattered on top.
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by croissants 2y ago
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Blindsight . I don't think it's a spoiler to say that it is a book about the place of human intelligence in a universe with other options, both biological and artificial.
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by croissants 2y ago
I don't think there's a good discussion to be had about this article. The referenced paper is based on two data sources. One is a longitudinal study (great!) of "hundreds" of children in one region (not bad!) and only c
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by croissants 2y ago
Please elaborate?
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by croissants 2y ago
I'm not sure what word to apply to facing three familial tragedies, any one of which might seem like more than a life's fair share of misfortune, with that kind of perseverance. Inspiring is too glib, inhuman is too alienating. Wh
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by croissants 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is one of those domains where frictions (or lack thereof) matter. It is much faster, cheaper, and easier to send out a significant volume of material on the Internet than through the mail. In theory, somebody could send a
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by croissants 2y ago
(To appear at STOC 2025 [1], one of the top CS theory conferences, so it's passed peer review.) [1] https://acm-stoc.org/stoc2025/accepted-papers.html
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by croissants 2y ago
> they can be applied to many different situations, even business management and interpersonal relationships Disclaimer: most people do not think "Machiavellian" is a flattering descriptor
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by croissants 2y ago
> In 4 years of working cases I would estimate 1 in 6 jurors are above the 85-115 IQ range of average intelligence, and maybe half are at or below the 100 line. Maybe I'm missing the joke, but isn't IQ meant to follow a normal
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by croissants 2y ago
I think a modern USA 1 year old has about a 99.97% chance of making it to adulthood. That means that if a modern USA adult loses a young child, there's a decent chance they don't know anybody who has had that experience. The anc
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by croissants 2y ago
I was going to ask about this number, because it seems high enough to be statistically improbable, but back-of-the-envelope arithmetic says otherwise: there are about 10 cases of pancreatic cancer per 100,000 people per year [1], so let&#x2
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by croissants 2y ago
> If the PhD is losing its lustre, it’s because the Universities took the shine off Also, circulating particularly weird dissertations for the express purpose of angering people has gotten a lot more rewarding
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by croissants 2y ago
If you want the same kind of thing with no useful information, how about this report on the accuracy of a sign? https://soranews24.com/2024/06/27/is-this-7-eleven-sign-in-j...
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by croissants 2y ago
Sure, so it seems fair for him to offer advice on how to apply AI or start a company based on it, but doing AI research means generating new knowledge about AI itself, and I don't see any evidence of that.
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by croissants 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101066 IMO the confident Tweets about how to become a good researcher and hire good researchers look pretty weird next to the lack of any apparent research papers
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by croissants 2y ago
> totally independent How do you arrive at this conclusion? Individuals don't have to tell you where their money comes from. They might even be easier to influence/buy than the people inside the big news institutions.
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by croissants 2y ago
The book also has a sex scene featuring (spoiler, I guess) a 15-year-old girl. It's probably possible to write something like that in a way that isn't gross, but Stephenson definitely didn't pull it off. I like Stephenson, he
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by croissants 2y ago
Do you want the version without data collection/sharing to still be free?
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by croissants 2y ago
At least in computer science, postdocs have other benefits: 1) they can be well paid, like high five to very low six figures; 2) they can be an extra year or two to figure out your own research direction with some help but not much oversigh
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by croissants 2y ago
A possible line of reasoning is that drugs should be legal, but the property and violent crimes committed around them shouldn't be, in the same way that adults are legally permitted to drink alcohol, but they're not legally permit
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by croissants 2y ago
Pat and cynical oversimplifications are bad for discourse, because they suggest that a default angry response is correct and, coincidentally, frees you from having to think harder about anything. Don't give in!
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by croissants 2y ago
My fairly generic PhD advice, as somebody who did one, graduated a bit early, and is happy about the process and where it's taken me: * Choose your advisor with care. This is not very easy as an applicant looking at professors' we
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by croissants 2y ago
Do you have a link to this analysis? I'm curious what "condition on race" actually means.
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by croissants 2y ago
I think the chain goes: Homelessness increases --> any place where you can just hang out without paying attracts more homeless people --> there are too many homeless people hanging out for hanging out to remain good for business --&gt
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by croissants 2y ago
Having not been born during his presidency, whenever I think of Jimmy Carter, I think of his appearance in Travels in Georgia [1], a John McPhee essay that's mostly about following a couple of workers for the Georgia Natural Areas co

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