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The trouble is the simulation tools are either proprietary and thus have only a small mind share among software developers, or academic, and either way, PLC programmers have not go…

> My fraternity was more tame and we used to have guys gazing each other in the main room during parties. Joining a fraternity makes you jointly and severally liable for anything y…

Which is why I am sitting right now in a meeting and the presenter is logged in from Bangalore and I don't even want to know what `TZ=Asia/Kolkata date` will tell me.

I'm often shuffled into teams where I am the only American and everyone else is Indian, working in India, and I take a small measure of pride in switching to the formal register th…

It didn't hurt that you can't play Fruit Merge on a TI 84

The strange thing is he picked a fight with a store of humanities papers rather than scientific ones.

Seems to me these LLMs have a critical mass of Python training data and Rust training data, so there's no advantage for Python there. So as the article points out, an iterative pro…

The Pyramids have a recently noticed Tamil inscription from Indian tourists visiting 2000 years ago. And the Neo-Babylonian Empire had the first tourism minister taking care of a p…

The firmware for a diesel engine goes into a diesel engine. The company can be required to get a PE's signify for putting the firmware in. After that, if it's copied elsewhere, tha…

This is why we need Professional Engineer licenses for software. There are times when a product design needs to be reviewed and approved by someone who cares more about his license…

Well, the Tongan boys provide the only empirical data on how unsupervised children behave on a desert island. Everything else written about the idea is speculation, from The Coral …

Maybe it's time to do a Eurovision style thing for the quality badge. Everyone uploads to Arxiv. Every who's in the field votes on the worthiest papers (not allowed to vote for any…

Who could have guessed that growing up in a Polynesian culture is a better preparation for such a thing than going to an English boarding school..

Whatever it takes to keep you from leaving your post.

The value you get from the health care system isn't just from the services they provide when/if you need them. It's from the system existing and being ready to help you. We're not …

My childhood was dominated by the smell of licorice in some places because chocolate was too expensive.

And then they enroll their patients in the Drug of the Month Club.

Young people moving out, and those who stay are not inclined to bear children.

It's true, but it's cold comfort. the amount of reading I can do in a single sitting has declined a lot.

It's things like having a grating monotone, and having to pause before speaking and willing yourself to adopting the right tone for your state of mind and the effect you want to ha…

Discord servers are half of a good counterexample, since people try to avoid the extreme end of network effects and want their chat partners pre-screened. But... it's all on Discor…

Until now, once you got a grant, you could count on it. Now? One of your grad students says something a little too on the nose on Bsky, and your lab gets shut down.

This ends science in the United States. You can't really enroll graduate students for a 5 year PHD project if their funding can be pulled at a moment's notice like this.

There are many contexts where doing an experiment with proper controls is literally a crime against humanity. Which means, yes, that there are many studies where the control isn't …

If you have access to statistics for the general population, you can forego the control group, I would think. But that requires doing the study in a country with a well run health …