garden_hermit

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by garden_hermit 9mo ago
I would expect a general rise in productivity across sectors, but with the largest concentrated in the tech sector given the focus on code generation. A proliferation of new apps, new features, and new functionalities at a quicker pace than
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by garden_hermit 9mo ago
This just returns us to the question — if it makes all these things so easy and fast, where are the AI-generated apps? Where is the productivity boost?
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by garden_hermit 9mo ago
> Given the repeatability crisis I keep reading about, maybe something should change? The replication crisis — assuming that it is actually a crisis — is not really solvable with peer review. If I'm reviewing a psychology paper pres
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by garden_hermit 1y ago
Have you ever went running with a dog? Dogs can go fast over a short distance but they overheat quickly. People just keep on running way past the time the dog has collapsed.
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by garden_hermit 1y ago
Generally speaking, foreign students subsidize public universities by paying full sticker price for tuition, whereas US students are either in state (paying less) or often receive scholarships and support. Foreign students are not stealing
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by garden_hermit 1y ago
This disaster was exactly predicted by a ton of people, with foresight! To treat this as an unexpected outcome belies the exact lack of seriousness that characterized this whole ordeal
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
The issue is that head of the HHS has led a years-long campaign against vaccines built atop shit-tier science and outright misinformation, and is part of a political movement that is growing increasingly anti-vaccine. There is a clear possi
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
The thing is that people like Thiel are actually quite smart. The problem is that people really overrate “smartness”. Smart people are often dumb as hell.
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
tbf, many materialists dislike the "degrees of consciousness" idea because a theory that posits "consciousness is on a spectrum" is one that starts to resemble panpsychism, which they consider magical woo.
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
Thats fine for a sofrware startup because it fundamentally doesn't matter. Who cares if your silly website fails after you experiment, no one gets seriously hurt. Shutting off the government means that things can be irreparably damaged
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
The indirect is a negotiated flat rate that covers costs that would be too numerous or difficult to account for in the direct costs. Like how would you as a researcher budget a fractionalized portion of access to a supercomputer cluster in
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
The interest is already what they are using. That is what all these scholarships and endowed chairs and so on are paid with.
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
The insane thing of all this is that the 1% being cut is almost entirely in investments: money for research that drives economic growth, money for the USAID that provides the US influence around the world, cuts to CDC staff that could help
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
Ah, you see, Right Wing government is when economy go up. If economy no go up, it no right wing government.
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
Institutions tend to define diversity broadly, including diversity in terms of race, nationality, gender, socioeconomic status, and so on. I don't talk much about race or gender in my own statements, instead focusing on first-generatio
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
I defend it on the grounds that it is basic human management. The scientific workforce is diverse, and this diversity introduces potential conflicts. Money spent on researchers who cannot effectively keep the peace among their students and
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
In almost every case I've seen, the statements are in fact worded in terms of specific contributions. The most general terminology I've seen is requesting the candidate to explain their role "advancing diversity, equity, and
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
I think that researchers from China, India, and so one should also have plans to effectively manage the diverse set of students and staff they are likely to work with while in the U.S.
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
You are interpreting this through a really uncharitable lens. That statement is not about ideology, the whole premise is stewardship of taxpayer funds. If a grad student is funded on the project but gets pushed out because of toxic culture,
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by garden_hermit 2y ago
I have written what you would likely call "DEI" statements for grants and job applications, and I have reviewed them as well. The absolutely worst statements are the people who believe that the statement is an ideological litmus t
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
That description really does a disservice to Cowan's work. A more general argument was that: - Prior to the industrial revolution, men's and women's work was distinct, but reciprocal—they both contributed towards the general
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
It shouldn't be democratic, but for a non-democratic institution, the Supreme Court in the U.S. has outsized power at a level not originally intended in the constitution.
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Wouldn't the evidence of inflation occurring in other countries suggest that COVID is its primary driver, rather than a specific monetary policy? (though it does seem that the scale of inflation in the U.S. is a little higher than else
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
The author raises some very good points about the dangers of science in the public sphere, particularly how scientific debates can be co-opted by pundits and cause social media outrage. However, I simply can't read the article without
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I'm not talking about buying a 2 ton truck or flying across the Atlantic, or owning a big house. I'm talking about people needing to get groceries. I would prefer that infrastructure in the U.S. were more dense, that less people w
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
I'm curious what kind of town you live in. I grew up in a rural area, in which google claims its a 50 minute bike ride to the nearest grocery store, along curvy & hilly country roads with absolutely no sidewalks, let alone bike lan
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
try this one out: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Integration-Parado...
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Studies mostly show that, in the long run, family-based immigration policies lead to more economic growth than the "best and brightest". Basically, forming immigrant communities is useful—they provide support to new entrants, and
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
Whats wrong with some people having many kids, if the average still remains low?
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by garden_hermit 5y ago
There is sort of a 2-faced nature here. Scienitsts themselves should be maintaining intense skepticism over even the most fundamental beleifs of their field. Here is the "science as a process" that is constantly changing. However,

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