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by odyssey7 3d ago
Clearly wasn’t a “planet” — failed catastrophically at clearing its neighborhood. The Royal Astronomical Society should be ashamed for publishing something so un-scientific. /s
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by odyssey7 3d ago
An interesting consequence is that cybersecurity researchers and hackers are now AI researchers. The prominent game right now is about the classes of attacks that AI can recognize both to exploit and to remedy. Implicitly, that creates a ne
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by odyssey7 4d ago
I feel somewhat skeptical of the methods as they were superficially described in this article. Will need to read more later. However, I also have been aware of the demise of sturgeon and I really hope we will get to see their populations re
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by odyssey7 5d ago
I hypothesize that with more people on a daily basis encountering information and claims that require those skills, there will be a time in the future when those skills are much more enhanced.
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by odyssey7 6d ago
Insightful. The title being more to distinguish than to describe.
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by odyssey7 6d ago
> learning the slightly clunky but universally-known written language is generally the way to go A certain Amazon Web Services comes to mind…
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by odyssey7 6d ago
I’m sympathetic to this viewpoint, but most music students in the classroom will be playing instruments or singing rather than working in DAWs. The instruments, music, and notation all evolved together in a shared tradition that make them w
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by odyssey7 6d ago
> It's not science until it passes peer review. We all know that science is about experiments and evidence whereas peer review is a social process. Confusing science with peer review is very unscientific. Galileo’s work did not pass
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by odyssey7 10d ago
The pace of things is moving along so rapidly right now, I’m not sure that waiting for peer reviews is always a wise move. Doubly so if there’s a paywall; why limit your article’s impact by placing it where practitioners’ agents might not b
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by odyssey7 10d ago
+1 on recommending Schoenberg. Harmonielehre is a philosophical work as much as it is a music theory treatise.
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by odyssey7 10d ago
If we figure out low-energy fusion for economical lab-origin gold, imagine what businesses would close if that were to happen. The transmutations are possible, it’s just that the energy currently required is worth more than the gold would b
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by odyssey7 10d ago
All too true. Something along these lines, people who would like to improve their musical abilities sometimes procrastinate by doing music theory instead. It's safe and it's introspective. And it's authoritative---a legitimat
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by odyssey7 10d ago
Yes, I agree, the rabbit hole is real. It has taken many people away from their initial intention of making music. If you're a musician first and foremost, music theory can be a trap. Although, Alice in Wonderland also shows us the i
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by odyssey7 10d ago
Fair enough. Models tend to be imperfect, and music theory is definitely no exception to that rule, and we attempt to model music because we care about the underlying phenomenon (music). As someone who enjoys listening to music, creating mu
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by odyssey7 10d ago
If I couldn't guarantee memory safety, I wouldn't. We're talking about an optional feature for JavaScript engines. Security is where the rubber hits the road. It's whether customers' identities get stolen. It's
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by odyssey7 11d ago
If including JIT in a system renders its developer incapable of guaranteeing memory safety, then perhaps that developer’s approach to JIT is not yet mature enough to ethically distribute to non-technical consumers who are not positioned to
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by odyssey7 11d ago
How many Heartbleeds[1] must software users and our national security interests endure before the industry treats memory safety as a best practice for systems with exposure to the Internet? The V8 vulnerability being exploited today, CVE-20
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by odyssey7 11d ago
When Chromium and V8 are written in a memory-safe language then I might believe this. Yes, if your JavaScript engine is written in C++, it’s going to be very hard to avoid very gross bugs. We have better options now. The ability of adversar
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by odyssey7 11d ago
It’s really a shame that my engineering school requires me to use Google Chrome because their Honorlock browser extension[1] requires Google Chrome. You would think that an engineering school would be wiser than to require their students us
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by odyssey7 13d ago
It “throws” an error when “it tries” “to talk” to the “server.” We’ve been speaking as if the computers were conscious for a long time already.
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by odyssey7 14d ago
Comet Hale-Bopp is definitely a case of this for me. Although I remember a few interesting things about the process of seeing it, I have no idea of what it looked like to me. I can remember the neighbors standing slightly in our yard and th
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by odyssey7 14d ago
Depends on how you deploy. If changing it in prod requires a PR merge and a release approval, I’d consider that pretty hardcoded.
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by odyssey7 15d ago
Be mindful of placing words into the mouths of others. A desire that certain people refrain from harassment is not a claim that a conspiracy exists. A lack of originality and self-awareness is not in itself a sign that someone is conspiring
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by odyssey7 15d ago
I do accept the IAU’s explanation. It’s their definition, it’s none of my business, and I’m not accountable for using it myself. Even if the person correcting you isn’t acting like an overexcited 13-year-old jumping up to correct someone ab
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by odyssey7 15d ago
To the contrary, I was expressing that the irritators perpetually on standby might have nothing at all to do with the IAU. Are you a member of the IAU? The rest of that post clarifies that this is a problem caused by certain “armchair sci
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by odyssey7 15d ago
I have not pointed any fingers at the IAU for harassing people. But do be mindful of placing words into the mouths of others.
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by odyssey7 15d ago
Fun fact: The 2006 IAU definition was explicitly scoped in a limited way so that it does not apply to anything beyond the Solar System. Planets outside the Solar System are not held to the same level of scrutiny. Over 6000 planets have been
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by odyssey7 15d ago
I’m the person who has been explaining that the meaning of words comes from how they are used, not from how committees define them. The committees might influence people but ultimately words’ meanings come from how they are used. If you req
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by odyssey7 15d ago
Species means different things in different contexts. Have you heard of species counterpoint? Nobody is saying biologists can’t use that word the way they see fit. It would however be ridiculous for them to ask me to stop referring to speci
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by odyssey7 15d ago
If you read Plato, you will see that defining words that already exist in some universal way is pretty much impossible. This is a humanities question, not a scientific one. It was a fool’s errand or an act of deception to try to coerce “pla

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