x3tm

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by x3tm 7y ago
> how do we identify these people who add nothing positive — or not enough positive — to our lives? The dude invokes bayes theorem (the theorem that is trending right now) to solve such a basic issue? His grandmother can give him better
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by x3tm 8y ago
> Machine learning 'causing science crisis' ML or more generally mathematics do not cause anything. People who misuse mathematics are to blame here. Some fields are simply using tools they don't understand and this predate
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by x3tm 8y ago
OK, my point is what could be done beyond generating images in some style? Can we generate interesting mock data given a database for instance (of course this is exactly what you did in a way, but I have in mind e.g. a database containing s
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by x3tm 8y ago
Cool page, and great job. > Turns out it can disentangle pretty much any set of data. All the example I have seen (including your links) are variants of face generation algorithms. Any ideas on how this could be useful beyond image gene
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by x3tm 8y ago
What's the alternative service you're going to use now?
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by x3tm 8y ago
I used skype extensively in its pre-Microsoft era as pretty much all the academics i know. It was synonymous of exciting discussions with collaborators. It had something special which set it apart from usual calls. A kind of special space f
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by x3tm 8y ago
Fair enough. Agree that the second quote doesn’t illustrate my point, contrary to the first one. Cheers!
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by x3tm 8y ago
The difference lies in the fact that absolute rigor to assess truths is not as fundamental in theoretical physics as it is in mathematics. Uncertainty is accepted. Physics puts a premium on empirical results and intuition over the more form
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by x3tm 8y ago
I don't think the "you can do anything" mindset works in real life. It helps self-help book authors sell their stuff, but it's not a good strategy to live by. (Incidentally, this reminds me of Key & Peele's &quo
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by x3tm 8y ago
> It's not that hard people. Stop believing everything you're told about how "hard" something is. There are still many problems in physics and mathematics which are considered "hard" (e.g., dark energy, Riem
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by x3tm 8y ago
> Feynman concluded: “for my money Fermat’s theorem is true”. > "the main job of theoretical physics is to prove yourself wrong as soon as possible." Great example of the main difference between mathematicians and theoretica
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by x3tm 8y ago
> but it's a zero-information statement until they describe what they know that I don't I don't think it's a zero-information statement at all. If S. Weinberg tells me that my physical arguments are wrong but he doesn
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by x3tm 8y ago
I was thinking specifically of the AI/ML folks. Many top researchers from universities, google, open ai, fair, etc. are super active online. I don't think they do it for career visibility.
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by x3tm 8y ago
I agree. I've come to the same realization recently when I started following the work of some CS researchers. I was (and still am) amazed to see how active they are on the internet (here, twitter, medium, youtube, github, blogs, etc.)
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by x3tm 8y ago
We have here someone who doesn't/never work/ed on HEP but on something so remote from it that I would find it hard to even call it physics sometimes. She goes on a sudden crusade against HEP and all its (prominent) practition
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by x3tm 8y ago
Please do. I was also impressed recently by her Ted talk and bookmarked some of her publications to read later.
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by x3tm 8y ago
I would've written: <iter> = ( f(i) for i in <gen>) where f() is some function of i.
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by x3tm 8y ago
It's a pity but you keep using words like immigrants and foreigners and mixing concepts and numbers. There's no point in continuing this exchange.
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by x3tm 8y ago
The vast majority of the refugees in Europe are in 2 countries: Germany and Sweden. Read my comment above. The rest of European countries, including France and central Europe, essentially reacted by voting for populists (borderline fascists
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by x3tm 8y ago
1. Refugees are not migrants. 2. A few thousands refugees almost broke Europe (excluding Germany and Sweden). Extreme right on the rise pretty much everywhere (including Germany and Sweden). And we're talking about the richest countrie
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by x3tm 8y ago
Russia is just re-emerging on the international scene. However, the crisis in Venezuela (VZ) didn't start last week or with Maduro. And Russia/China were still sleeping then. So, fine ... Russia may be doing something there now. I
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by x3tm 8y ago
I had to google to see what M. Gell-Mann had to do with this ... and it turns out he has nothing to do with it. Crichton just used his name to name an effect. Is there a better name for this though? from behavioral sciences or psychology?
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by x3tm 8y ago
Agreed, though " [...] showing the xenophobic parts of the world, that, yes, immigrants into one's country is a good thing!" We actually don't need a colombian experiment to know this. It's all over the history book
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by x3tm 8y ago
Describing this as 'radical' (in the actual title of the article!), 'impressive', etc. says more about the current worldview of western democracies on basic humanitarian solidarity than it says about Colombia.
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by x3tm 8y ago
And yet, they can't reach an agreement with each other. Edit: I meant this as a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek, comment re the Brexit negotiations. It was apparently wrong to do so (?). I even took precious time from the fallacy man (
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by x3tm 8y ago
Maybe the author of the article is simply growing older? This is the geeky equivalent of "modern music is crap, unlike the one of my youth".
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by x3tm 8y ago
For a fantastic and deep bird eye view my go-to ref is the Princeton companion to mathematics.
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by x3tm 8y ago
Well this is true only if your research is well aligned with fb's interests. Not the case in universitiew where academic freedom, albeit not perfect, still exists to a large extent.
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by x3tm 8y ago
Why is this downvoted?! What's here to disagree with?!
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by x3tm 8y ago
I know how academia works. Though being a theoretical particle physicist, I don't have to worry about the societal impact of my research and I can't be influenced by industry. You seem to be unhappy with your situation. And you al

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