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Last November, DeepMind released the results of a generative AI model that created theoretical molecular structures for over 2 million undiscovered synthetic materials. Within days…

> We urgently need the expertise of social scientists to be able to make much-needed collective decisions about the future of generative AI that we want; we can’t leave it to busin…

Southern Indiana has lots of hills and forested areas, including the Hoosier National forest. The Great American Rail-Trail mostly goes through the upper third of the state, howeve…

Must vary widely, because I went in August and there was 0 line at all. A lot of places are on Spring Break in the US right now, so that may contribute to your experience.

I'm not sure millenials or Gen-Xers are any less materially obsessed, I think we just generally have less money to spend on the things Boomers did. It isn't like we aren't spending…

More like lol at assuming your rent doesn't cover the other expenses of owning a house. You think your landlord is just taking the loss? When you rent, you are paying, if not direc…

Landlords absolutely incorporate home repair costs into rent. I'm shocked at the number of people who assume that landlords just eat the cost of maintenance. Just because you aren'…

Its Brazilian Ju Jitsu, for those wondering.

> I’m not sure if this is just an attempt to down play their results or if it’s more academic jealousy because the funding goes to the “cool stuff” like AI/ML in the CS dept. and t…

God I hate this paper. Perhaps it was relevant at its time. But that was 18 years ago. The described dichotomy between the "two cultures" isn't nearly as pronounced, if it even exi…

> I am not an expert and am still reading thru the article, but why is it such a strong dichotomy? There isn't. This paper is nearly 2 decades old and isn't nearly as relevant as y…

> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient (based on data of the sample) > Null Statistical Hypothesis Testing (NHST), another one of the pillars of S…

Too many excellent excerpts in this article. > “It’s such a strange service — who wants to be in the cold? You need to hear about it from someone you trust,” said Michael Garrett, …

And? The arguments about marketing are completely non-sensical. People treat pharma companies marketing budgets being as large as they are as some indictment of the industry, but i…

You also see this kind of argument against housing a lot, which also ignores that housing is one of the few highly leveraged investments an individual can/will make, and that even …

Probably lots. Its a huge issue thats driving the reproducibility crisis in science and academia, so I imagine it would also be a problem for industry.

Well first of all, blockchain technology has become so overhyped that its bound to draw scoffs even if the business case were legitimate. "Blockchain" anything almost sounds like a…

I've never looked at Data Science in R, but Hadley Wickam's R for Data Science is great in my opinion. Really applicable, down to earth, and focuses much more on the meat of data s…

Why? There's no point. If the results come back indicating multiple authors, great. If the results come back indicating a single author, you could just make the argument that it is…

> I could spend unhealthy amounts of my time in those 100 Yen stores (or whatever they are called, I might be misremembering their names) Daiso

There are two types of people consuming these projections. I'll call them the sportsbook type and the newspaper reader. The sportsbook consumers want to know what the probabilities…

This is not correct, or at least it isn't any longer. The current predictions by 538 are the "lite" (polls only), the "classic" (polls + other data driven indicators) and the "delu…

You can't verify probabilities for any single given event, but you can look at the outcomes for all events for which predicted probabilities were given, and use that to estimate th…

Renault is partially owned by the French Government I believe

It might possible that most of the people in SF who own property have owned it for a long time. So for someone buying a house now, they would be paying a ton of money. If you bough…