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> how do we identify these people who add nothing positive — or not enough positive — to our lives? The dude invokes bayes theorem (the theorem that is trending right now) to solve…

> Machine learning 'causing science crisis' ML or more generally mathematics do not cause anything. People who misuse mathematics are to blame here. Some fields are simply using to…

OK, my point is what could be done beyond generating images in some style? Can we generate interesting mock data given a database for instance (of course this is exactly what you d…

Cool page, and great job. > Turns out it can disentangle pretty much any set of data. All the example I have seen (including your links) are variants of face generation algorithms.…

What's the alternative service you're going to use now?

I used skype extensively in its pre-Microsoft era as pretty much all the academics i know. It was synonymous of exciting discussions with collaborators. It had something special wh…

Fair enough. Agree that the second quote doesn’t illustrate my point, contrary to the first one. Cheers!

The difference lies in the fact that absolute rigor to assess truths is not as fundamental in theoretical physics as it is in mathematics. Uncertainty is accepted. Physics puts a p…

I don't think the "you can do anything" mindset works in real life. It helps self-help book authors sell their stuff, but it's not a good strategy to live by. (Incidentally, this r…

> It's not that hard people. Stop believing everything you're told about how "hard" something is. There are still many problems in physics and mathematics which are considered "har…

> Feynman concluded: “for my money Fermat’s theorem is true”. > "the main job of theoretical physics is to prove yourself wrong as soon as possible." Great example of the main diff…

> but it's a zero-information statement until they describe what they know that I don't I don't think it's a zero-information statement at all. If S. Weinberg tells me that my phys…

I was thinking specifically of the AI/ML folks. Many top researchers from universities, google, open ai, fair, etc. are super active online. I don't think they do it for career vis…

I agree. I've come to the same realization recently when I started following the work of some CS researchers. I was (and still am) amazed to see how active they are on the internet…

We have here someone who doesn't/never work/ed on HEP but on something so remote from it that I would find it hard to even call it physics sometimes. She goes on a sudden crusade a…

Please do. I was also impressed recently by her Ted talk and bookmarked some of her publications to read later.

I would've written: = ( f(i) for i in ) where f() is some function of i.

It's a pity but you keep using words like immigrants and foreigners and mixing concepts and numbers. There's no point in continuing this exchange.

The vast majority of the refugees in Europe are in 2 countries: Germany and Sweden. Read my comment above. The rest of European countries, including France and central Europe, esse…

1. Refugees are not migrants. 2. A few thousands refugees almost broke Europe (excluding Germany and Sweden). Extreme right on the rise pretty much everywhere (including Germany an…

Russia is just re-emerging on the international scene. However, the crisis in Venezuela (VZ) didn't start last week or with Maduro. And Russia/China were still sleeping then. So, f…

I had to google to see what M. Gell-Mann had to do with this ... and it turns out he has nothing to do with it. Crichton just used his name to name an effect. Is there a better nam…

Agreed, though " [...] showing the xenophobic parts of the world, that, yes, immigrants into one's country is a good thing!" We actually don't need a colombian experiment to know t…

>I wish the US would do a fast track for Venezuelan migrants, or at least i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses. It would be great if the US simply left latin Am…

Describing this as 'radical' (in the actual title of the article!), 'impressive', etc. says more about the current worldview of western democracies on basic humanitarian solidarity…