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you are absolutely correct, the author is putting the cart before the horse.

what you choose for the dimensions is arbitrary, they only chosen thusly to prove the point. I don't think I've ever seen an example of pareto that wasn't pseudo scientific drivel.…

it's fiction, that's why.

What percentage of the public think they can take a bear in a fight.

>In all cases they do not have permission to use the data for their own purposes Oh, they don't have permission? probably fine then.

Oh I've no doubt some people will figure out who it was, it's their fate we won't be privy to, but I'm certain it won't be pretty.

would be interesting to see what happens to them when they're found, shame we'll never know.

I don't think it's fair to say he has pushed food science forward. He piggy-backed on the work of real food scientists and revealed things to the public that have been common in pr…

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I had no idea Code Node was still going strong, I used to goto a lot of events there

I don't think I would dismiss all critique as the indignation of swine. Previously valid criticism came in the form of review, be it from peers or the establishment, and while ther…

I don't carry a smartphone, is this likely to be a red flag if I'm stopped?

People who graduate top universities can walk into any job they want. Top universities hiring professors can pick any they want. But also discovering a passion for academia can occ…

bravo

Simple words can create beautiful and precise prose, even that is lost today.

When I see what passes for modern writing, be it genre fiction, non-fic for the general audience, or even the literary, I'm not sure I want to appeal to, convince, or share knowled…

Qwentai

The examples I gave, primarily post GFC, except in the case of Greece the caveat is that although initially caused by the GFC the sovereign debt crisis marks it as distinct from th…

that it was so perversely gatekept is what made the early internet so enjoyable though. I find it all the more appealing with that barrier to entry because I miss the internet that…

Some of these things are unforgivable (not repeated here in order to avoid spoiling for others), much worse than Jackson's omission of Tom Bombadil. How depressing.

Counter-cyclic fiscal policy and QE does work, absolutely, but it's likely dependent on size of economy because in most cases austerity works better...but in most cases the economi…

>flabbergasted phatic mimicry.

>if you use PPP prices ... it was still on the uptrend until 2020 when switching off the economy squashed all growth and not just in Britain but other major continental economies t…

>They want to turn LLMs into a commodity, and watch the US AI labs crash and burn. You can say that, but they are at least better at democratizing AI than the American labs, and on…