oytis

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by oytis 5d ago
If insights and human understanding are more important than specific results, I don't see why people should stop producing insights and human understanding. "Working on a proof" in today's sense of trying to come up with
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by oytis 5d ago
Yes, that's true, but it is still generally accepted that a completed project is a result of some collective effort where people of varying degree of seniority and ability contribute. There is also not a singular event of a project bei
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by oytis 5d ago
Is it not an option to make academia more like a normal job, where people focus on collectively achieved outcomes rather than credit, priority etc.?
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by oytis 5d ago
It has been best at chess for quite a while. Yet everyone knows who is Magnus Carlsen, even though at no point of his career he was stronger than the machine
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by oytis 5d ago
Looks like mathematicians (like people in many other professions) have to redefine what their work means and how to define success. Hard to agree that a tool that can find a proof is detrimental by itself, rather it voids some assumptions p
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by oytis 11d ago
We would warmly welcome him in Germany
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by oytis 13d ago
I imagine OpenAI network is a tad more complex than a box with a public IP.
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by oytis 13d ago
Is it DNS or BGP?
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by oytis 14d ago
If you are not working with Linux kernel you don't need it. Those who are, are likely already subscribed
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by oytis 15d ago
What's the point of bundling unemployment, low wages, and part-time employment (potentially with a high wage) together? They've come up with a big scary number, but it has been big and scary over the whole period of observation, s
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by oytis 17d ago
> It is not collective sacrifice. > If you remove it, the economy plummets with billions of starving people Sounds like quite a sacrifice to me.
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by oytis 17d ago
A lot can go wrong, but a long is going wrong already. I think putting effort in trying to do it as safely as possible is more productive than trying to convince nations to become poorer voluntary. Alternative energy is important too, but s
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by oytis 17d ago
You can use different metrics for progress, but it looks like world oil consumption has nearly doubled since 2000
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by oytis 17d ago
Any solution relying on collective sacrifice is unrealistic IMO. I believe in geoingineering because it's better compatible with how economy works. Either that or we discover a magic abundant non-polluting energy source, but I woldn&#x
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by oytis 20d ago
> is civil servants developing OSS commodities too much of a heresy I see two problems here for Germany. First, the salaries of civil servants are regulated, and might be not what most developers, even German ones, expect. In addition c
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by oytis 20d ago
Great to see open source projects funded, but the value of Flatpak for tech sovereignty evades me somewhat. It's a pretty niche and questionable piece of technology, and likely won't be there in 10 years. Some grants by STF, like
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by oytis 23d ago
My first reflex would be to ctiticise PG, but after reading the article, I don't think I agree here. First he doesn't say universities should prepare founders - his advice is to those universities that do want to do that. Second,
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by oytis 23d ago
I wish people actually making stuff had a veto right on things they make
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by oytis 23d ago
What kind of guarantres does Github offer?
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by oytis 24d ago
I don't think I would enjoy AI powered communism more than AI powered capitalism
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by oytis 24d ago
Gdpr doen't apply to work you do for your employer, on employer's equipment either AFAIK
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by oytis 1mo ago
But then you still have to buy birthday presents on top of that
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by oytis 1mo ago
African continent is probably the last place in the world where this is relevant, and they are on track to fix it.
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by oytis 1mo ago
Nobody buys new though, these are for companies and posh people
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by oytis 1mo ago
You are calling a Linux (sorry, GNU/Linux) killer small silly stuff?
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by oytis 1mo ago
Hm... I vaguely remember a different article debunking the Dunning-Kruger. Basically the conclusion was that the data from the experiment shows that people's estimations of their results are all over the place, with people scoring high
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by oytis 2mo ago
Are we not expecting any practical benefits from mathematical discoveries any more? Not even as a means to help other sciences?
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by oytis 2mo ago
One should differentiate between "working in academia" and "doing science" here. Science is fundamentally about the curiosity, the desire to know, not the process of getting there. If we can now know anything we want, we
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by oytis 2mo ago
Wouldn't it be great if we had a cure for cancer, working fusion energy or at least a proof for P vs NP even if no human had a joy of discovering it?
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by oytis 2mo ago
I think the author means if it happens regularly, and asking people to stop doesn't work or marks you as a dangerous dissident. Obviously, it is wrong to quit in response to one person doing something stupid

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