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I'm not saying humanity is impossible to describe (on the contrary!). your physics example is too different to what happens in social sciences, it's not a good analogy. you can lar…

no, but we're talking about Europe on general. and the initial claim is surely false in countries like Spain, France, Poland and Belgium

I agree with what you say, but that doesn't make social sciences the same as astrology. their conclusions, even if qualitative, can be valid and useful.

The problem is that there are no two equal situations in social sciences, so you won't ever have the same set of initial conditions. I don't know why they call them sciences, but t…

I agree that a lot of people speak two languages. But man, I've lived in several countries in Europe for many years, and even the average university student doesn't really speak En…

> Your average European speaks at least three ok ok I get the point but let's not exaggerate

how do you falsify a hypothesis in social sciences?

saying that social science is astrology at best is quite extremist. serious people work in those fields

it surprises me how many people simply don't get the point. they say "they make more money this way, so it's ok". no big picture at all.

mmmh I don't think so. I've read several papers on cellular automata and I don't recognize the terms

That's an awfully simplistic way of seeing things. It always surprises me how disconnected from reality Americans are.

This is obviously not true. You don't have to do the math to realize: when you pay rent, every moth, an important part of your salary simply disappears, leaving nothing for the fut…

Even if not all LLMs are equal, almost all of them are based on the same base model: transformers. So the general idea is always the same: predict the next token. It becomes more o…

This is where one can notice that LLM are, after all, just stochastic parrots. If we don't have a reliable way to systematically test their outputs, I don't see many jobs being rep…

We call it breakthrough. And it's just math and code. We've had many of those.

The notion of being uniformly distributed has a very specific meaning in mathematics [1]. If you don't believe me, maybe you believe Tao [2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eq…

Irrational rotations of a torus are uniformly distributed and closely resemble the image from the blog. The images you linked, on the other hand, are random sequences with positive…

Peer review is important for checking the correctness of the results, among other things. It's not uncommon to find big errors; small mistakes are everywhere.

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That's a highly biased opinion. The Newtonian conception of physics is trivial for us, and we can say that most people could come up with the ideas by their own, but that's because…

Yes, exactly, what the guy above was saying is that they're just looking for excuses to keep people from using the Chinese thing.

Well, in the US you have millions of foreigners and blacks who live in utter poverty, and sustain the economy, just like the farmers in China.

That's how it works in most scientific fields. If you want more granularity, you check the order of the authors. Sometimes, they explaine in the paper who did what.

A more precise title would be better, so, yeah, it's harmful.

Switzerland has just 8 million people, which are divided into two big language groups. And most people speak (or at least understand) English. So, it's natural for the algorithm to…