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> As far as I am concerned main stream journalism has sold its sold and it cannot die fast enough. To be replaced by what though? How will one get the right input that is needed to…

this constant urge to check your phone, I don't think it's much different from an OCD. OCDs constantly interrupt the normal flow of one's thought processes with obsessive, intrusiv…

if transactions were done in btc, each transaction would amass the typical fees - which are pretty high at the moment. converting btc to fiat to pay your visa card bill at the end …

Bitcoin was created with the use case currency in mind and it was used like that by the earlier adopters. I think this is what OP was pointing at with "Many have forgotten why we u…

Nice to see some active learning around here. To add a data point from a less successful story: In one of our research projects, we used AL to improve part-of-speech prediction, in…

We are dealing with 5+ papers that are fraudulent and another 5+ newer papers that are most likely fraudulent, too. That is, there have been 20, 25+ reviewers looking at those pape…

> driving a huge battery around will burn more fuel and driving around two engines. also, equally important, having to produce two engines gives hybrids an extra co2 footprint even…

The academic 'controversy' aside -which I think is BS, at least as it is presented in the article-, two things truly amaze me: 1) How beautiful of a city Wuppertal was in 1902. I h…

being in academia myself, this hits home so hard :/ the field picks some rockstars, which imv is to a good extent based on charisma, and then goes with that. one of 'our' rockstars…

Great article. A snippet from the conclusion that I found particularly interesting: "History of science all too often highlights "superstar" scientists who have illustrious careers…

Aren't other countries that have already ratified UP in violation of those agreements, too? I.e., how is this about Germany in particular and not about the European patent system i…

I am hesitant to take the lack of the ability to embed as a fact. My impression is that Everett had a theory in mind when he surveyed Piraha and that he sought to confirm his theor…

> how can you call it social "science" if you can't reproduce it? NB: this is not specific to the social sciences. psychology, cognitive sciences, medicine(!), and other fields hav…

think about steam whatever you want, but they've done some real fantastic work there with their linux support. the other day i installed forged alliance -from 2007, only supports w…

Meanwhile, the academic job market, certainly in my area, ie linguistics/computational linguistics, has collapsed, too. A colleague did a similar and equally nice analysis here: ht…

indeed, an increase would be good. however, it is worth noting that China and the US are in different situations. the US spends about 2.7%-2.8% of its GDP on R&D and China is catch…

this is nice, and a clear step forward. but more is needed to fix a semi-broken system. because publication bias is one thing, but there is also something like a _reception bias_. …

Just to be sure that the passage is not misinterpreted (not saying you do, OP): This was not said to excuse the Germans from the responsibility of facing their history. I can perso…

you can tweak the settings to higher maintenance and higher interest rates. but yes, even then, it becomes too easy after a while. would be nice if the settings allowed it to make …

civ 5 can be different with the right settings: when I played on deity, half of the time it has been a struggle until a few rounds before victory (conquest).

Isn't this the perfect application for ASR technology? Instead of fiddling around with buttons, or worse, a touchscreen, you could just say "Honda: heat up", "Honda: heat two down"…

i've been using DDG for a few years now. i generally like it a lot. however, i have decided to stop using them for image search. their filters are just not good enough. two example…

not sure this is all due to self-agency. China has also threatened them over Huawei. the UK is really between a rock and a hard place

the "best" in 'best places to work' is pretty vague. it's based on employee reviews and a lot goes in there. what is best for those who have left reviews? social atmosphere, pay, c…

here is a breakdown of the country of origin under the waterways theory: https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WO-AV462_OCEANS_9... I am not sure the new research is letting c…