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I was one of the people who built the "plugin based ranking model" at Semantic Scholar as an intern several years ago; it's a rare treat to get a blog post about what happens after…

Yeah, I think the post author may be confused. I've migrated several high traffic gRPC services (basically TensorFlow Serving) from AWS NLBs to ALBs for the improved load balancing…

Basque is not an ethnic identity? Wikipedia would seem to contradict that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basques https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism

I am annoyed by the article's use of Bill Gates to exemplify the "fortuitous circumstances that figure into every success story". Bill Gates and Microsoft is not "every success sto…

The "tech bro" angle is just clickbait. I am pretty sure that Foxconn, Tesla's Gigafactory, and a datacenter are not what is usually meant by "tech bro". Second, if cities believe …

It is true that an algorithm can be converted to a formula, and a formula to an algorithm, but it is unlikely a given useful algorithm could be generated mechanically from a (human…

There exist counterexamples in the broader world. Historically in the Sinosphere it was commonish that two people might share a command of written Classical Chinese but not really …

"human convention of written language" is a bit much. Stroke order is almost as important as what the actual strokes are in the definition of a Chinese character, for example. Of c…

Discussion groups in small private spaces are a somewhat related but clearly and justifiably different issue from huge kinda-sorta-maybe-public fora like YouTube. Trying to conflat…

Yudkowsky flirts with tautology in the title - "well-kept garden" has keep right there explicitly and "garden" implies a caretaker. So almost by definition a well-kept garden won't…

Speaking of established case law, we have from the very first page of Heller [1]: > The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service …

I wouldn't be surprised if priests or monks had quite long work hours; imagine the RSI one might get from copying out whole books by hand. You could reframe as underemployment a lo…

This is sort of true, but the graph of citations is basically a DAG - very unlike the graph of hyperlinks on the web. From what I've seen it's not obvious that PageRank on a DAG te…

You've shown that many midwesterners are anti-progressive, but that is not the same thing as anti-intellectual. Furthermore, the optics of where they stand relative to young profes…

Semantic Scholar is completely non-monetized (and will stay that way as far as I can tell) because Paul Allen pays the bills and has a public interest goal. Full disclosure: I work…

You can't just try and smudge the line between speech integral to criminal conduct and defamation and other speech. The way we avoid sliding down the slope is by requiring an immed…

I am a little confused by your formulation of relevance, or at least the "to what" implicit in it. If we are speaking of relevance to predicting the future or steering societal opi…