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by dguest 5d ago
Claude seems to follow robots.txt by default. Actually at my organization our theory is that this is why no one is finding our public results any more.
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by dguest 5d ago
The article is all about people in positions of power, not lower class people.
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by dguest 5d ago
In my experience it's dominantly teen-aged kids who are just figuring the world out, or in more unfortunate but very rare cases 30-somethings who never quite grew up. I was that shameless annoyance once too. It doesn't mean shame
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by dguest 5d ago
It's the same thing, and both are vulnerable to disingenuous applications of cultural relativism. You'll see similar arguments on this thread: "shame is just what you don't approve of", etc. Yes, it's just ab
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by dguest 5d ago
Football / Soccer had "flopping" [1], which anyone who watched it in the early 2000s would recognize: every foul was accompanied by a "victim" writhing on the field in agony, in excess of anything you'd see in
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by dguest 5d ago
> Evil genius is just a lack of shame. -- Cory Doctorow https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-04-11...
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by dguest 5d ago
It's exactly a sonic boom. You can release a party balloon and it will create pressure disturbances as it moves to the top of the room, which theoretically you could measure. It's just not very loud. Similarly, a charged particle
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by dguest 7d ago
I think a procedural generated space opera is a bit difficult to do. Space operas are closer to fantasy than hard science fiction: they are about extraordinary people and their extraordinary interactions, you aren't supposed to think h
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by dguest 7d ago
If that's true, either they both deserve credit or neither of them do. You don't just average 0 and 2 and decide that <n> = 1 person deserves credit.
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by dguest 7d ago
> [the Open AI rep] twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. Later on the author claims that
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by dguest 8d ago
Authorship is weird. Kind of a tangent, but in some fields authorship is actually more of a formal rank: once you're in the group you appear on every paper. A good fraction of the "authors" won't even know that a paper i
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by dguest 8d ago
The reality is also that most of your colleagues have no interest in stealing your work: they have their own work to do anyway, and having a colleague effervescing about whatever they are working on is kind of the norm in pure research. Jus
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by dguest 8d ago
I feel like it was for the next line: > But it is a much more exciting place than Ohio, and far more livable. Maybe just an excuse to make a joke about Ohio.
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by dguest 9d ago
IgNobel has evolved. Years ago their tag line was that they were for research "that cannot or should not be reproduced". Now it's to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". Over
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by dguest 9d ago
It's interesting how a lot of newer countries just put the right to water directly in the constitution. South Africa says some stuff about the government having an obligation toward "progressive realization" of the goal [1],
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by dguest 9d ago
Ig nobel prizes were just a few days ago: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2026 Edit: The splash free urinal was the winner for physics! I once joked that these do more for science than Nobel prizes. Now I d
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UN to move to Equal Earth Projection(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dguest 12d ago
As a pre-teen I had my first encounter with the law when they figured out that I was triggering the town traps to save the beavers. My parents had to haul me down to the station so the police chief could lecture me on vandalizing town prope
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by dguest 12d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
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by dguest 13d ago
Fixing the municipal waste system seems like the "add another system" school of engineering. As someone who works in poorly organized, poorly funded projects, I generally subscribe more to the "remove the problematic part of
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by dguest 14d ago
Unfortunately it wasn't just the public: it caused so much uproar within the experiment that two of the highest ranking members resigned their posts [1]. I was a bit dismayed at the reaction within the physics community. Experiments
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by dguest 14d ago
Beyond a "cool fact", this is the only reason that physics works, where I'm defining physics as the human study of physical laws, not the laws themselves. If we couldn't neglect higher moments systems from planetary moti
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by dguest 14d ago
These arguments tend to ignore that a reusable thing is often just a lot better at whatever it does. You can put a few liters of milk in a reusable bag without triple bagging it. You don't have to worry that it will split open and spil
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by dguest 15d ago
I think the GP was suggesting that their reluctance was more about someone taking their idea. I still think it might suggest a problem with academia, but the summary would be closer to "I don't want to live in a world where someon
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by dguest 18d ago
Are there examples of anyone discussing this and reaching other conclusions? We've come to the same conclusion in our organization and while it felt like it needed to be discussed and stated, I've never heard of anyone coming to a
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by dguest 20d ago
It's embedded in an explanation as to why computer science at the time seemed to have such a strong local character, despite all the homogenizing influences. He partly puts blames on the founders of the field who were "confusing&q
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by dguest 20d ago
Reminds me of the Edsger W. Dijkstra quote: Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines
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by dguest 20d ago
Kind of interesting to think about why an American libertarian think tank would be writing articles about Europe. Is it just to give Americans talking points against whatever europhile they might encounter, or does Cato actually care abou
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by dguest 20d ago
Stick your feet in a bucket of water. My colleague does it: it's magical.
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by dguest 20d ago
> the French government [1] have said that cooling a room .. more than 15 degrees ... can trigger “thermal shock.” ... This ailment is mysteriously absent from the United States... Leaving aside that this kind of insinuation makes the a

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