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by raphman 3d ago
I hope that this is temporally and spatially far away enough. In order to fully appreciate the joke, one should have read https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/ (I didn't beforehand).
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by raphman 3d ago
I don't think that "death" is the perfect word here - it typically describes a permanent state. FWIW, what you describe ("temporary state of complete loss of personal purpose") is called "Sinnkrise" in Ger
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by raphman 12d ago
It seems that at least three groups tried to replicate the study and failed (i.e., found no or little actual effect)¹. > In contrast, other research in economics and sociology has hypothesized and found a positive relationship between S
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by raphman 22d ago
Not much detail so far. > We have received cease and desist letters. Awaiting legal advice at the moment, but for now expect all nitter instances to remain down for the foreseeable future. [for all those who - like me - first check the c
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by raphman 23d ago
Why do you think that? Does your view include colleges worldwide or is your comment about a specific country?
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by raphman 1mo ago
Yes. But in my limited experience, the practically useful fresh takes come from people who have immersed themselves deeply into a problem, not from people who spend a weekend with ChatGPT.
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by raphman 1mo ago
> winning participants had simply made powerpoints Wow. A student of mine told me of more or less the opposite (but also negative) experience: they attended a hackathon where the winning team spent the whole weekend playing cards - and
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by raphman 1mo ago
There is already a lot of research on predicting [1] and monitoring [2] wildfires using traditional machine-learning approaches. How would an LLM be useful in predicting wildfires? A project that incorrectly claims to solve a problem "
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by raphman 2mo ago
I guess it depends. While doing my PhD at a top German research university, our chair advised multiple of these projects, too (e.g., BMW, Siemens, Audi). Yes - the downsides you mention are all true. But similar downsides apply to most PhD
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by raphman 2mo ago
a) No. b) It depends. I know the German system quite well and know people who did their PhD in industry, people who did their PhD in an externally funded research project, and people who pursued a more self-directed PhD while working as a r
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by raphman 2mo ago
The website gives a very nice and captivating intro to the device. But why do you spell MIDI in lowercase there? > plugs into your piano via midi
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by raphman 2mo ago
There are quite a few people who own a 3D printer but not a laser cutter. And not everyone can or wants to use an external service.
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by raphman 3mo ago
tl;dr: Use this if you don't like doing science or doing things well. It hallucinates references. Seems to be based on https://github.com/swaruplab/operon as evidenced by the authorization dialog and https:/
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by raphman 3mo ago
Ah thanks - I couldn't remember the original version. For reference: it's called Kernighan's Law, and can be found in the Second Edition of "The Elements of Programming Style", page 10 [1]. The original phrasing is:
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by raphman 3mo ago
> It's been really frustrating that neither Codex nor Opus can make targetted edits to Fable's code without screwing something subtle up. Reminds me of the old adage: don't try to be too smart when writing code. Otherwise,
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by raphman 3mo ago
Oh my gosh - that article sounds like the winning entry to a 'write like an LLM' contest. So over-the-top that I first thought it was satire. If the author indeed wrote that all by themselves, they have certainly read too many AI
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by raphman 3mo ago
I'm not sure whether the Guardian article mentioned this or another one I read: the road segment in question seems to be in the old town which makes it difficult to find an architectural solution.
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by raphman 3mo ago
As the article says: this is not a general speed limit but an experimental speed limit for an apparently very crowded area where many kids cycle to school. As someone whose 'normal biking speed' ist typically 30+ km/h on sui
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by raphman 3mo ago
Hmm, assuming that the AI bubble might pop a little bit after the upcoming IPOs, maybe it's better not to call yourself an AI company then?
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by raphman 3mo ago
> "Founded in 2013, Bending Spoons reported a net income of $27.5 million on revenue of $601 million for the three months ended March 31, compared to a net loss of $112.2 million on revenue of $259 million a year earlier. A large
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by raphman 3mo ago
Addendum: > "Cast iron and carbon steel have nearly identical thermal conductivity (~52 W/m·K), which surprises most people." is unsourced. And the precise "~52" is quite misleading - Wikipedia and online sourc
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by raphman 3mo ago
FWIW, the author writes: > " Ovalbumin coagulates irreversibly at 80°C (Weijers et al., 2003), permanently setting the foam structure." , and the paper by Weijers et al. says: > "A strong temperature dependence on the
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by raphman 3mo ago
A smart approach that does not solve the AI problem - actually flipped classrooms work worse now due to AI usage. My own experience with flipped classrooms (which seems to be shared by quite a few people who have tried it out): they only wo
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by raphman 4mo ago
Never heard of Flux.ai before. It seems to be a 3D circuit designer with 'AI'. Not sure what the issue between them and Adafruit is. However, people over on Reddit¹ claim that Flux.ai is a little bit scummy. They push users into
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by raphman 4mo ago
I think the parent commenter agrees with you: because there is tight quality assurance and - in many countries - a license needed to practice medicine, the interviewer can just trust the system instead of having to evaluate the competence
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by raphman 4mo ago
I absolutely agree. There were no other comments on this post when I wrote my comment. Thus, I wanted to encourage the author and provide some constructive feedback in case nobody else would reply.
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by raphman 4mo ago
Fair point. I was initially thinking about rainbow tables. Taking a hash and looking up associated passwords in a table feels like deriving to me - but I'm not a native speaker so I might have a wrong feeling here. (It is obvious tha
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by raphman 4mo ago
There are actually a few recent books on the topic (no clue about their quality but reviews look positive): Netmux (2019): Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual¹ James Leyte-Vidal (2024): Ethical Password Cracking: decode passwords using Jo
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by raphman 4mo ago
A few small things. You might call this nitpicking. And, as I wrote, I found the technical details generally accurate. > "Then there is also the fact that having a fully-fledged graphical desktop environment running in the backgrou
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by raphman 4mo ago
Thanks for sharing. This looks interesting. Impressive achievement. This book is currently not really relevant for me, so I just skimmed the samples on Amazon. I found the technical content to be reasonably accurate and interesting although

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