davidktr

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by davidktr 3y ago
full paper here: // deleted. Looks like my choice of an anonymous file hoster was inappropriate.
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by davidktr 3y ago
Funny, just two hours ago I saw my first Starlink satellite train running across the sky. It felt spooky and futuristic at the same time.
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by davidktr 3y ago
No half-baked products? Have you ever tried using the translation feature in the book app? That is the most infuriating, dumb piece of software I have seen in a long time.
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by davidktr 3y ago
I went jogging in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) and stepped on a huge rat. Poor dude was just having breakfast in one of the garbage heaps on the sidewalk. Never experienced that in Europe before.
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by davidktr 3y ago
Have you tried it in the forest behind Apple?
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by davidktr 3y ago
So could we get members of Congress to write positive RT reviews?
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by davidktr 3y ago
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing.
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by davidktr 3y ago
WallStreetMillenial on Youtube just had a nice explanation why comparing risk for self driving cars and human drivers is not that simple. At least for Tesla, the answer is "hell no". https://youtu.be/wCJ7fNoEUsY?t=
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by davidktr 3y ago
To add another source, the Atlantic had a piece on birthrates in South Korea last March: https://archive.li/Fm93M Quoting from the article: > There are a lot of reasons people decide not to have a baby. Young Koreans cit
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by davidktr 3y ago
ctrl+f "real estate" "Another economic factor in the falling birthrate is the rising price of real estate and a resulting increase in unmarried or late-marrying people. The tradition in Korea is for men to prepare a family ho
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by davidktr 3y ago
> anyone can learn to fix them at home with very few tools Everytime I read comments like this I feel dumb. I'm fixing my own bikes, but it takes a lot of time and quite a few tools. Just learning how to properly adjust the deraille
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by davidktr 3y ago
Parking where you want can be a problem. You won't have issues if you use a parking garage or park in the outskirts and then use public transportation.
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by davidktr 3y ago
If I understand your hypothesis correctly, the obvious counterexample is German. Germany had a very weak central authority for most of its history, a steady influx of non-native speakers, and still maintained its complexity.
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by davidktr 3y ago
In Finland, ethnicity is fairly homogenous, and so is culture and language. The only exceptions are the Sami people (10,000 in Finland) and Finns of historically Swedish ethnicity. So in that sense, the white people of Finland are very homo
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by davidktr 3y ago
But do "we" really ignore the tacit knowledge? I think you are wrong that "scientific literature" pretends those things. The issue of "context of discovery" vs "context of justification" is a hundred
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by davidktr 3y ago
The Firefox addon Sponsorblock blocks almost 100% of those ads. Together with uBlock Origin, I have an almost ad-free Youtube experience.
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by davidktr 3y ago
I understood that reference. To add some content: Dirk Müller is a German doom prophet who some day, eventually, will have predicted it all along.
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by davidktr 3y ago
If you have an hour to spare, I found this video by an experienced pilot extremely helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5AGHEUxLME
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by davidktr 3y ago
Deep down the brain is 100% discrete: Neurons are either firing or not. To me, the brain's biggest mistery is how it goes from this to doing all the analogue stuff, and ends up with our capacity to deal with symbols.
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by davidktr 3y ago
Imagine two scientists, Bob and Alice. Bob has spent the last 5 years examining a theory thoroughly. Now he can explain down to the last detail why the theory does not hold water, and why generations of researchers have been wrong about the
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by davidktr 3y ago
You just described the majority of scientific papers. A "working set of instructions" is not really feasible in most cases. You can't include every piece of hard- and software required to replicate your own setup.
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by davidktr 3y ago
As others said, markwhen is awesome, but I'm not sure I'd use it as a standalone tool. I would definitely pay for a VSCode and Obsidian plugin to easily integrate it in existing workflows. Is there any way to accept pledges for su
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by davidktr 3y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer, I really appreciate the insight. I work in research myself, so I'm familiar with the general constraints. I was certainly unaware of the size of the data coming from the detectors. If speed is the argume
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by davidktr 3y ago
But do you really need these features, already available in Matlab/Python/R/Julia/Lisp/? Or did the the C++ folks simply refuse to learn other languages? From what I have seen in R and Python, the main reason for sp
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by davidktr 3y ago
Is that so? The most dignified, people with the most money, are also causing the most desctruction. I find it odd to say people are fighting climate change if they actively contribute to climate's destruction. Doing it for a short time
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by davidktr 3y ago
No, complete plays is simply their measure of user satisfaction. If I like a song, I usually listen to it until the end. If I do not like a song, I usually skip it after a few seconds. How would you measure user satisfaction?
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by davidktr 3y ago
(not OP) Verifiability/falsifiability are big words, mostly it is not clear what that means in a specific case. Crucially, that is not what journals/editors/reviewers do. They check if they find the contribution convincing, n
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by davidktr 3y ago
And for this you cannot use Python's multiprocessing because ... ? Sure, moving data between processes is slow because of pickling [0]. However, I'm using parallel processing for the things you suggested, and for these it works gr
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by davidktr 3y ago
Of course there are big problems with how we do science. Much of it is garbage. Imagine most software was written by junior engineers, without any code review or input from seniors. That is today's science. Most scientific legwork is d
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by davidktr 3y ago
Good luck defining what "full documentation" means.

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