i-blis

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by i-blis 1mo ago
> Venturing outside your field is also part of what drives discovery itself, not a post-Nobel symptom This is precisely what I meant to say (and seemingly failed) and why I upvote you!
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by i-blis 1mo ago
The article lists an order some 10 of Nobel prize-winners later seen as "unsound" mostly in a field other than their main area of expertise. Making them 1 in 100. I won't be surprised that 1 in 100 senior scientist expresses
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by i-blis 1mo ago
I am convinced that a similar proportion of non-prize winner scientists across all fields of natural sciences share "scientifically unsound ideas" or "scientifically unsupported or discredited beliefs", or however else w
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by i-blis 1mo ago
It seems not to be the case. According to SEM (Staatssekretariat für Migration), a B1 oral level and A1 written level at least are required to be granted permanent residency and B1/A2 (oral/written) for naturalisation [1] in one o
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Alternative for Germany's academic reform plans(nature.com)
2 points by i-blis 3mo ago|0 comments
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by i-blis 7mo ago
Still one of the best, by far.
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by i-blis 7mo ago
Surely a factor. As is the deregulation. I've been living in Germany for a very long time and the real decline started some ten years ago. At the beginning mostly because of poor maintenance. My first years with the DB 100 card (allowi
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by i-blis 7mo ago
When I was young (70s-80s), we were all amazed by Deutsche Bahn's punctuality and quality of service (second only to the Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses). Now, French and Italian trains are a lot more reliable, which is rather strange.
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by i-blis 7mo ago
This is NOT a genuine gambling site but a take on DB to remind them of the issue and take it seriously.
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by i-blis 7mo ago
> knowledge is transferable I concur: Perl taught me to mentally parse and build (complex) regexes, a highly transferable skill. The Lisp course I was taught in the late 80s, certainly helped me grok Clojure and find it a pretty natural
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by i-blis 7mo ago
A similar kind of observation made a profound impression on me some 30 years ago. A team of primatologists filmed Macaques in northern Japan. A female had two consecutive baby loss, the second one at least being stillborn. She successively
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Bonobo able to imagine a scene, act it as if was real while knowing it's not(arstechnica.com)
2 points by i-blis 7mo ago|2 comments
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by i-blis 7mo ago
I was already horrified by what I heard in the Netflix documentary (some five years back, I guess). One frightening aspect was that some victims, despite having terribly suffered themselves, introduced him 10, 20 of their friends and acquai
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by i-blis 7mo ago
You might be right about a Leetcode effect and the difficulty to find new interesting positions. But OP wasn't stressing that at all but the desire to architect and manage. I might have put to much emphasis of the managing and too less
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by i-blis 7mo ago
I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and bei
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by i-blis 7mo ago
Very much to the point. "Bots to remind one to check one's reminder" summarizes it all. Note that the tendency to feel overwhelmed is rather widespread, particularly among those who need to believe that what they do is of gre
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OpenClaw: When AI Agents Get Full System Access. Security nightmare?(innfactory.ai)
64 points by i-blis 8mo ago|29 comments
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by i-blis 8mo ago
J is, within the APL family of languages, the one I have always found the most useful. I reach for it as I used to reach for my HP calculator in the past, to quickly compute or numerically model things. I always have it running in a termina
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Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete data scraped from WorldCat(arstechnica.com)
7 points by i-blis 8mo ago|1 comments
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by i-blis 8mo ago
> Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. I disagree. The backbone of democratic life are the rule of law and freedom of speech, which makes a big difference. The press has
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by i-blis 8mo ago
Related argument (as to SKILL.md not being a big thing) in the following blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644086
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What happens when fire ignites in space? 'A ball of flame'(phys.org)
2 points by i-blis 8mo ago|0 comments
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by i-blis 2y ago
The value of HN lies in its community, which you won't — most probably — be ever able to reproduce. After almost fifteen years of skimming once a day or two through the comments on the topics that interest me most, I am still amazed by
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by i-blis 2y ago
I refrained to install Bartender on a new machine (despite having a license) because of the scary permissions it want me to grant it. I found an open source alternative that fits my needs. Check if fits yours. https://github.com&
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Alibaba AI can identify coronavirus infections from CT scans with 96% accuracy(asia.nikkei.com)
1 points by i-blis 7y ago|0 comments
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by i-blis 7y ago
C-h v - display the full documentation of variable C-h k - display documentation of the function invoked by key
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by i-blis 8y ago
The cleanest explanation I read of information / state linearity properties of quantum operators. Thanks! (Working through Brian Hall's Quantum Theory for Mathematicians and Frederic Schuller's course at the moment, both high
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by i-blis 10y ago
Unfortunately, PV market price drops do not reach the EU market, due to the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on crystalline silicon modules and cells originating from China in place since 2013. These protective measures have caused the
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New artificial intelligence beats tactical experts in combat simulation(phys.org)
4 points by i-blis 10y ago|0 comments
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Why helicopter airliners haven't happened yet(bbc.com)
3 points by i-blis 10y ago|0 comments

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