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> Science is self-correcting, but sometimes

As long as people mislead or make mistake unknowingly, it's fine to rely to self-correcting mechanism of science. The institutional rot is much deeper. It is not good to leave all this fraud to self-correcting mechanisms of science. We also have "trust" to worry about.

Or someone told them that folks in Egypt made a huge building out of stones. They started and gave up after a while. As good a story as any?

The popular version of the Dunning-Kruger effect says that stupid people overestimate their capabilities. This is true, but the effect is more general than that.

It says if your expertise level is different from the average, then you judge the "average competency" differently. So if you have above-average expertise. Folks who had above-average education tended to overestimate what average education looks like (and vice versa).

I notice it when I use LLM. Things that I know well, I can spit LLM slopiness. On other things, LLM output reads like 'expert'.

Something similar can be said about "values". They help you make hard decisions. You don't need values if only make easy decisions.

But values conflicts with each other. You can't value more than a few at the same time. E.g. If you make a decision which is good for your employee who is struggling (value employee), it may not be a good decision for your client who is already delayed (value client/speed). Etc..

Lol.. I am the same. My day job is Rust + car headunit development. My drugs of choice are tikz and openscad..

I use cheap android devices. My current one is a cheap Motorola and before samsung and Chinese vendors. I've never seen bugs like I have encountere since the last update (2 months ago).

Unless I reboot the device everyday, I can't make a call. The button is pressed but never proceeds to ring, doesn't even show an error message. The play service complains that I am logged out but shows my account info in the login panel!! Rebooting is the only way, android is like windows currently.

I am just scared to update anything these days. And not just android apps, Even rsync gave me a minor scare (fortunate my backup jobs are on debian stable).

Yup.. I only remeber three knots: 1. tie cows to a pole using a rope, tile show laces, third one is the most basic one which everyone knows. Sometimes, I learn a few occassinally watching youtube video and forget the next day.

meta: isn't there a long history of such retrospective analysis where when a country does well economically, it's due to something in their culture?

My own experience during my PhD was that a few, if any, PI cared about your growth as a scientist. All they cared about was progress on their project which sometimes are the same. Most of the time they are not.

Interesting though ..

https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4483&mobile=1 couldn't resist.

PS: Someone won't become a trillionaire with this attitude.

When I was in college, I posted a question on math.se about possibility of universal gates like NOR and NAND in multi-level logic. Someone found it interesting and posted it on the mathoverflow in more mathy language . To my surprise, Terry wrote an answer to that question. I still don't get it but I was flexing the whole month.

Terry also took time to respond to comments I posted on his blog and on his google wave posts (I am old). Most of them were incredibly stupid but he took time to respond. Imagine a field medalist responding to a wannabe kid living somewhere in India.

Some of his real analysis notes were published in India that were cheaply available. I learnt about open/close set and convergence/cauchy series from it. I never thought I'd enjoy reading pure mathematics. Another mathematician I found very readable Daniel Spielman (I think it was his notes on smooth analysis). I once picked a book by William Tutte from the library! Never seen a book that was harder to read.

I don't know what the point of my post is.

May not work with bluetooth keyboard (debian 13).

Once you get used to it, it's not so bad which is probably true for all functional UIs. I switch between gitlab and GitHub quite a lot and I can't say which one is objectively better. I do like that cross-linking is easier in GitHub but I prefer gitlab ci over GitHub actions. Too bad that gitlab ci runner has removed the command to run ci locally but third party foss solutions are there.

I was amused today when Morty was praising 7-eleven in s0901.

Never mind. I didn't read the article (paywalled) and someone in the comments below answered this exact point.

> and airfoils also benefit from micro-roughness for lowest friction.

I thought this was known to some extent that smooth surfaces are not always the best e.g. golf balls have dimples on them? No?

> Support : I'm telling you, nothing changed!!! The only difference between the old version and the new version is that the old version was in COBOL, and the new one is in C!!!

Thanks for the chuckles!

Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

On the same boat here.. I am trying to leave notion for a couple of reasons. And falling Rupee also not helping. But nothing is as easy to use.

I was a big todo.sh fan in college. Then wundrrlist and joplin. Still miss wunderlist. Tried Tiddlywiki too and liked it. You can make all of them work if it's just you. Sharing and collaboration is pain!

Then Notion. It is just perfect. Was very happy to pay for personal plan which is now removed. There is no official client for Linux (thanks Lotion). I was even using it to host my blog. Now downgraded to a free plan. Using wordpress for blogging.

Have tried obsidian and joplin as notion replacement but couldn't make it work. Notion mobile app is not very fast but better than any other options. I am so used to its databases, cross-linking, creating reminders.

Why not bring back the personal plan! It was really affordable.

This project started when I started my Ph.D.. I had a few interactions with the author when I added UI to some programs I wanted to showcase as TA.

Every time I needed a GUI, I reached out to this library. Very beginner friendly. Good memories.

There is also https://pkgs.org ..

Not OP. Indian here. I find [1] to be a perfect example.

[1] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/fir-against-reporter-...

Fair point but unlike code, design (webpage), audio, video are seen by consumers. If Sora (AI video) didn't fly, how'd AI web-design fly?

It is pretty good for internal apps and dashboards or small hobby pages and websites where being generic look and feel doesn't matter much.

I grew up in North India, close to Ramganga river (Jim Corbet park is on this river). We grew rice in addition to sugar cane.

The smell of paddy (and also of large quantity of cooked rice) is absolutely soothing for me and it brings back memory.

During my grandfather time, it was very common for a crab to grab your fingers when you are planting the paddy. My father would chase turtles and large frogs when he was a kid.

When I was a kid, the crabs and turtles were gone but frogs were pretty abundant. In last twenty years, there are hardly any frogs left. Earthworms are also under stress.

The Japanese style of planting paddy wasn't very common in India before green revolution. Then we had a some new varieties that took over almost all old varieties for a simple reason for yield. My grandmother used to complain about a lost variety a lot. Apparently it had such a strong aroma that whole village would know what rice you have cooked. Glad to see more efforts preserving old varieties [1].

[1] https://ruralindiaonline.org/article/let-them-eat-rice

In India, we have Rajni (Rajnikanth) jokes that keep increasing in number and are still pretty popular...

I remember reading 'The Vinci Code' in college which was very popular those days and getting a SMS from a friend almost the same day, "Rajnikanth gave Monalisa that smile!".

"At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way-- and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay."

This explain quite a lot actually!

> I got tired of nil checks in Go and became a squeaky wheel in incident retros, where I finally got the chance to rewrite parts of our system in Rust during a refactor.

At a new job, I am writing my first microservice in golang. Used to be a Rust/C++ (kernel) and Python/PHP/JS dev (fullstack). Rust is allowed by team is heavily invested in go already.. I don't think I'll be able to convince them to learn rust! Lol

I have been using an ergonomics keyboard for a while and find it impossible to go back to normal keyboard.

For the last two weeks, I was forced to work at a normal keyboard. After initial pain for one day, I got back to typing at normal speed. Without losing my comfort with the ergonomic one. I can now just context switch. It wasn't easy though.

Perhaps you will also become comfortable with both vim and helix after the initial struggle?

What the guarantee is that folks won't abuse this system in the same way they do the citation system? The recommendation letter system is often abused for the pettiest of reasons...