morbia

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by morbia 2y ago
The Higgs results were reproduced because there are two independent detectors at CERN (Atlas and CMS). Both collaborations are run almost entirely independently, and the press are only called in to announce a scientific discovery if both fi
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by morbia 2y ago
There are many things wrong with the TV license system, but I think saying it is 'mandatory' is a little misleading. As the Wikipedia article states, you need a TV license if you want to watch or record live broadcasted material (
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by morbia 3y ago
You see I totally agree with you, but I am not sure if grindr is solely to blame for this. It is a fair generalisation to say that men struggle far more with emotions and open communication. This is clearly demonstrable by looking at the ma
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by morbia 3y ago
If by ahistorical you mean we do not conform to Greek and Roman era of homosexual activity, you have to keep in mind there were societal pressures at the time as well. I don't think you can take those eras as a gold standard of laisse
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by morbia 3y ago
Exactly, I got into quite a heated discussion with a company that offered me a job with "unlimited PTO". They wanted me to sign in the contract with a clause along the lines of "you have unlimited PTO within reason". The
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by morbia 3y ago
I don't know the lead time from when they apply, but the time it takes to go from CVs hitting my inbox to first interview is about a week. I'm not sure that is really a valid excuse though. I understand if you're making a lot
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by morbia 3y ago
I'm a hiring manager for UK based FTSE 100 company, hiring software engineers and data scientists. I wanted to give a perspective from 'the other side'. I've been involved in hiring for a few companies since 2018 ish, an
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by morbia 3y ago
I can't help but feel there is a selection bias here. We could pretend that Netflix's recommendation algorithm is totally random with some reinforcement factor (e.g. positive reactions to LGBTQ content leads to more of the same) a
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by morbia 3y ago
> You may be too deep in the community to appreciate, but younger teens have had family supervision for millennia and for good reason. Their brains are not fully formed yet. Of course, I'm not claiming otherwise. Hell, I'm not
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by morbia 3y ago
> His terms aren't universal or acceptable because it's my family not his. He's projecting his personal experience onto my kids, which I've clearly discussed prior is not the same generationally or ever personally. I
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by morbia 3y ago
Just to be clear, I am not a parent and I would not be so presumptuous to criticise someone's parenting skills when I have not gone through it. I wholeheartedly agree with you that the internet of 2023 is nothing like 2013 (or 2003 whe
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by morbia 3y ago
Gay guy here. I have always said that these sort of laws designed to protect children will do precisely the opposite. An LGBTQ child is effectively forcibly outed by this law, potentially before they've come to terms with their sexuali
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by morbia 4y ago
This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of frui
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by morbia 4y ago
There is a philosophical discussion to be had about whether 19 physical parameters is "a lot", and another discussion about fine tuning. However, I was primarily referring to the artifical parameters that arise from doing real cal
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by morbia 4y ago
The standard model is far from a 'theory of everything'. To name but a few problems: * gravity * massive neutrinos * dark matter * dark energy It is also a highly parameterised model tuned to fit the data. The biggest concern is w
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by morbia 4y ago
I think you're sort of misinterpretting what I'm asking for, and I suspect our views actually align pretty well. I was not implying that we need more camp queens to represent gay men, I was referring more to presenting LGBTQ+ peop
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by morbia 4y ago
Another gay man here. To me it seems like we have this paradoxical situation where the media want to simultaneously present inclusivity and diversity, but don't dare present any of the real diversity for fear of stereotyping. The end r
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by morbia 4y ago
A computer scientist would see all that as technical debt that needs to be resolved to streamline due process. PPE graduates see it as a grandiose theatre which adds gravitas to the process. I think my point still stands, the whole system c
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by morbia 4y ago
Some anecdotal evidence ahead. I've been interviewing graduates in the UK for many years now from a very broad range of universities, all focused on CS or stem degrees. In my experience, I've yet to interview an oxbridge graduate
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by morbia 4y ago
> As another gay man, I used to be radically skeptical of monogamy. Like in my 20s I was spouting the line that it's a heterosexual construct falsely imposed on us for moralistic reasons. But both personal experience, and a widened
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by morbia 4y ago
> Similarly, a very large % of gay men who are partnered romantically, are in open relationships. And by large % I mean around half. At least with American gay women, open relationships are a very minor thing, similar to the rates with h
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by morbia 4y ago
> I have someone on my team who took 12 weeks PTO last year, yet still created outsized value for the company. Hypothetically, what if this individual was taking 12 weeks PTO and were underperforming? Would your business encourage them t
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by morbia 4y ago
High performance computing will drive demand for faster hardware, for example in machine learning. It is extremely computationally intensive and expensive to train large NLP models. The big companies in this game have a lot of money to inve
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by morbia 4y ago
The GIL gets even more complicated than that because it can also be released during CPU bound tasks that don't interact with python objects (e.g. Array operations in numpy)
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by morbia 4y ago
> The silver bullet, as it were, is open communication about your needs, wants, and fears. Sometimes, that leads to ethical non-monogamy -- when that is actually what you want, and when you can manage the genuine fears that come with tha
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by morbia 4y ago
Ok so to answer your first question, you have to isolate the divergent piece of the terms. So we typically write it as an expansion in epsilson, where you have 1/e as e -> 0 (there are higher order terms, but let's keep it simp
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by morbia 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm gay and polyamorous so I have quite a biased view on these things. I actually think that really deep down monogamy doesn't work for a fair chunk of the population. The model of having your one life partner to satis
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by morbia 4y ago
There are many components to such a calculation that can be split up amongst different research groups. I won't go into detail on all of those but essentially it boils down into two main categories of components to the calculation:- *
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by morbia 4y ago
Yeah as someone who spent 4 years of his life calculating a second order term (Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order), I have often wondered the same thing! In my original post I grossly simplified how challenging it is to calculate terms in pertur
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by morbia 4y ago
Actually there's a bit more to it than that. Coupling constants change as a function of their energy, they're called 'running coupling constants'. As a result of this phenomenon, there are domains where alpha_s is small

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