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I see the difference between determinism and superdeterminism but it's unclear to me why, if you accept the former, why you might not accept the latter. I think it's worth thinking…

This meta-analysis isn't ground breaking. What has been known for awhile is that AA works very well for some, but not at all for others. This has always been the dilemma with AA in…

There's an entire literature on very closely related concepts and issues -- many of the same issues arguably -- in the psychological test and measurement literature. There it's dis…

Ageism cuts in both directions and it's one of the few forms of prejudice society still tolerates for some reason. Imagine this guy's post if you substitute "too old" with "black" …

My personal feeling about this, like a lot of things in the US at the moment is that the required approach requires cutting across current paradigms. More competition is required, …

I agree, but I also think a comprehensive set of standard benchmarks can be useful to get an overall sense of how language instantiations perform and how things change. It's fairly…

From their supplementary table this looks like a general cognitive ability effect, although they don't seem to have included the range of measures that are typically included in ge…

Tenured positions aren't all they're cracked up to be either.

Indirect funds on grants need to be eliminated in my opinion. The GOP is a disaster at the moment in my opinion but introducing bills to eliminate them is one of the things they've…

Surprised how long he was asymptomatic. That is concerning to me.

I came to say that the diamond princess is kind of an ideal case for getting a handle on things because it's a largish finite closedish population, kind of like why ecologists ofte…

Part of me wonders if the next step with this is some sort of DL model. I wonder if, trained on one set of melodies (defined in the intuitive sense) it would generate existing copy…

I cross country ski and have noticed those in the community in Scandinavia despairing and in shock over the lack of snow and its impact on events. I've dealt with lack of snow in o…