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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I think part of what she's saying is that currently, fame is implicitly or explicitly the goal and standard by which scientists are evaluated, but that it shouldn't be. A lot of comments on this article so far are focused on blind
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Exactly the point of the author (who I know). Not just cliquish, though, but faddish and full of misattribution of credit. I agree that all of society is susceptible to this. I think the problem is that in the sciences, we pretend it doesn&
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Not really disagreeing with you, but your conclusion is almost necessarily true, which says something about Strategy 1. One thing on my mind lately is how often people convert from one strategy to another, and how that's patterned and
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Discussions like this always seem a little strange. Sure, they're important, but taken out of context they're counterproductive and even harmful. This is the problem: what is the alternative? The pet theory of a madman or sociopat
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Cool take on things, but not really fundamentally new as an explanation of evolution of cooperative traits. Models involving reputation and punishment have been around for awhile. Basically, once you introduce reputation and memory, togethe
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
You brought a smile to my face. I came here to post this same point. The piece is kind of making a basic fundamental mistake in measurement, assuming that all variability is meaningful variability. There are ways of making the argument they
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Without meaning to pick on T-Mobile, the stories I'm hearing here, including yours, lead me to believe that T-Mobile is liable for damages. As in, they didn't take reasonable precautions to safeguard your account, and you suffered
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I agree with you, although also agree with another poster that net neutrality is still important, mostly because of interoperability reasons. However, you're also bringing up an issue that seems really neglected in public discussion, w
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Here's what I've started to see as my problems: I'm very good at identifying needs, in the sense of "here's a fundamental problem, and here's some ways of addressing that problem." However, I'm not ve
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I do research in the behavioral sciences. I've published a little on analysis of neural activity, although it's not my area of specialty, but I do specialize in analyses that are cognate to DL models and are often covered in textb
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I don't agree with the idea that the value of bitcoin was always to evade taxes and launder money. Maybe that's a primary motive for many, but I don't think that constitutes the value of bitcoin in toto. I have no skin in the
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
It's difficult to really say for certain what's going on. The adjustments I'm sure are very crude compared to what case assignment decisions are actually based on, for example, so I'm sure they're adjustments wouldn
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Thanks. This is helpful. I guess part of what I'm wondering is how much Kotlin interfaces compare to Scala traits in the sense explained here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scala/Traits Or, in another example
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I have nothing against Kotlin. It seems to be coming out of nowhere to surpass more "tested" languages for lack of a better way of putting it, but as I'm reading about it I can truly see the appeal. The one thing I'm hav
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I lived not too far from where Red Delicious was originally bred, and I can say from personal experience the original Red Delicious is not the Red Delicious that is typically sold in the grocery store. Of course, I've never had the ori
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I'm confused about this. I'm hurried at the moment, but this seems to a bill that orders tech companies to provide a solution to encryption without having a backdoor? Isn't this like legislating a violation of mathematics or
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
So... my first reaction to your comment was "why don't they just turn this into an actual auction, with no price limits? This seems like such a good solution that I feel like I must be missing something." However, thinking ab
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
Capitalism IMHO isn't the problem, the problem is misregulation--either too much regulation, not enough, or regulation in the wrong places. Capitalism works great as long as certain assumptions are met--things like adequate competition
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I think the dynamics are different in each case, but my guess is in most cases, the widowing event is one that is predictable, especially through chronic illness. Chronic illness in a spouse or family member is a major stressor. Not only do
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
This is one of the great unrecognized problems with the economy at the moment. I'm not so sure about engineering, but it's created all sorts of monopolies in health care that have nothing really to do with actual safety risks or a
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
This is the tip of the iceberg with John Deere. They're squeezing sales franchises hard too, punishing sellers for doing business with anyone but Deere. Deere is basically trying to get complete control over the chain from sales to use
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I die a little bit inside when I see stuff like this, I mean, what sort of cowards are afraid of free speech? Geez. As long as everyone is consenting, it's all fair. In fact, my guess is this crap does more harm than good by pathologiz
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I would disagree about professional licensure, and think the same arguments apply there as in other areas, although maybe in different ways. In fact, I think the problem in licensed professions is even worse, because assumptions are never q
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
"Mr. Trump, in a telephone interview moments after the bill was pulled, blamed Democrats and predicted that they would seek a deal within a year after, he asserted, “Obamacare explodes” because of higher premiums." Of course, the
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
I think Kate is sort of underappreciated. I keep going back to it on Linux after using other editors. It seems to be available for Windows and OSX, but I haven't tried it on those platforms. Does anyone have any experience with that? I
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by dhfhduk 9y ago
FWIW, there are services in the US that allow you to do this. I've done it with Wells Fargo, for instance. It might not be as standardized as in some other places, though, and I agree with your general frustration over the state of ban
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by dhfhduk 10y ago
To me, Go and Rust are about equally appealing. Rust is more complex to me because it's a lower-level language; Go looks like a higher-level cousin. I learned from Rust that I dislike curly braces. The language itself seems great conce
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by dhfhduk 10y ago
I'm not sure about their implementation of pi in particular. To me it seems elegant, and as someone who has needed arbitrary precision arithmetic, I can see the appeal for how they are handling pi, and appreciate this attention to deta
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by dhfhduk 10y ago
Rules don't matter. Ethics do. The former exist in the service of the latter. One problem we have with contemporary US culture is condoning a sort of twisted narcissistic, psychopathic assertion that because competently breaking the ru
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by dhfhduk 10y ago
The theory you mention about additive noise, is clever but doesn't strike me as robust at all. It's been awhile since I looked at that literature, but when I did it seemed really unrealistic, that at some level it reduced to assum

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