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Maybe we live in a different world today but my sense is scientific innovation happens in a very different way from the genius model.
Sometime long ago I came across an article arguing that we've replaced the concept of a saint with a genius, as the worldview shifted from religion to science. It was very compelling.
Increasingly I feel like there's only collective recognition. If you're too far ahead of the curve or behind it's all the same. Being at the curve just means you're recognizing everything at the same time as everyone else.
https://briankoberlein.com/blog/gripping-hand/
I wish he would delve into things more but it seems reasonable to me to first establish where the defense theory first came from.
But you're correct that the mutability issue is sort of a tricky one.
There's this from IPFS about mutability:
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/file-systems/#mutable-file-sys...
I think the real problem is the centralized vs federated vs distributed nature of it. IPFS is a good example of how that could have looked; not sure if it could be moved into that space somehow (I'm sure it could in theory, but in practice?)
Aside from parsing errors it just seems to lend itself to ambiguity.
https://www.auto123.com/en/news/best-selling-electric-cars-w...
https://www.torquenews.com/1083/these-evs-declined-sales-ame...
Tesla clearly deserves a lot of credit but I think the EV space is a lot more fluid than some Tesla proponents would have you believe.
As EV adoption increases into more markets, buyers are going to be more price conscious, and plenty of makers (most of the big companies?) already have a foot in this space. Add missteps with safety or reliability in the long term (see: defrauding the Dutch government and the public about safety) and I think things might change quickly. Tesla isn't going anywhere but the idea that Tesla is the future EV market seems dishonest, naive, or both.
I don't mean to advocate for Mastodon or anything else in particular, but these things sometimes have a way of being niche until they're not.
I also think part of the parent's argument was that in encountering obstacles like this, groups of nonprofit institutions such as art museums could leverage their position to promote decentralized systems, rather than simply throw up their hands and go with a sensationalized move.
Then again we are here discussing it. But then again if they banded together to post on some decentralized platform we'd probably be talking too.
It's unbelievably slow for me, a perfect example of bad JavaScript. Product menus appear at the worst possible moment, inexplicably spreading across the page after I've looked for them and given up. It's impossible to bulk edit lists you've bookmarked. I could go on and on.
It's like someone took this beautiful inventory database and layered this textbook example of bad but typical modern web design on top.
I've always been leery of holidays that celebrate, even if superficially, single individuals. If anything, this shows the danger of doing so. I'd prefer formally recognized holidays be something attached to an idea or value, or something that arises from grassroots origins over a long period of time. So, for example, Thanksgiving or Juneteenth, but not MLK day, Presidents' Day, or Columbus day.
FWIW, I like the idea of eliminating Columbus Day (or another day) and replacing it with an election day holiday. Seems more functionally appropriate, and to place value on something actually critical.
Also, the ribbon bar on desktop MS Office is inconsistent, with some things accessible via tabs/ribbons, and some not. in a ribbon UI, everything should be accessible through the same interface.
I do have as a general rule that anything univited into the house I can do with as I want as a boundary issue. So sometimes things end up getting exterminated. But spiders don't really damage anything so I don't harm them.
Jumping spiders I actually like for some reason and am kinda happy to see them.
Still think it's worth keeping track of artificial sweeteners as they're not all the same in their effects
Still think it's worth keeping track of artificial sweeteners as they're not all the same in their effects.
It's worth maybe pointing out that this study was based on sucralose, just because it seems this sweetener is worth tracking separately in general. I don't really consume things with artificial sweeteners but sucralose is starting to become a concern of mine (eg for my daughter).
I think compression/algorithmic complexity frameworks are relevant in that they imply in complex systems deterministic-like prediction with very narrow posteriors will require larger and larger computational resources. Ie the concentration of the predictive posterior depends on the computational resources available.
However, the law of truly large numbers, as you frame it, is something you experience firsthand working in high level severity hospital settings in large metro areas. There's a large enough hospital catchment area that you start to see, on a fairly regular basis, the medical outcomes of all the bizarre and unbelievable things that happen rarely to any given person. It gets to a point it's difficult to know how to explain because the details of each case would be potentially identifying given how strange they are. And yet something happens all the time. Maybe not that one thing, but something of similar impact. It gives you a distorted sense of risk.
"So, even though a university administrator made it clear the university could not take any action against me — on the grounds that there was no known cause for taking such action — Anderson’s Dean Antonio Bernardo took matters into his own hands. He apparently reasoned that a well-timed publicity stunt might distract attention away from the school’s reputation as an inhospitable place for persons of color — to say nothing of its plummeting rankings in U.S. News and World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Without any deliberation I was aware of, Bernardo suspended and banned me from campus. Then, like a well-choreographed dance, the Anderson administration started attacking my character on social media. As I documented in my legal claim, on June 3, one day after I received the first email, the Anderson School’s Twitter account sent out a message: “Respect and equality for all are core principles at UCLA Anderson. It is deeply disturbing to learn of this email, which we are investigating. We apologize to the students who received it and to all those who have been as upset and offended by it as we are ourselves.” This implied I didn’t believe in equality for all — when that was exactly what I believed and continues to believe. "
That is, if you're doing an investigation of something against internal advice, the appropriate response on twitter is nothing or something very nonspecific, like "we have no comment".
The reason for this is exactly what this lawyer is claiming.
My prediction is this gets settled out of court.
I've been trying to read into the causes and dont feel like I've come to understand it any better. I'm tempted to see it as part of the broader supply chain crisis but I get the impression its a little different.
Then again I'm not sure I understand why the broader supply chain disruption is as pervasive as it is at this point in time.
Im also pretty sure there's something related to microbiome. I've had periods of needing to gain weight as well as lose, and they were bookmarked by infection.
There's a lot of interest in overfitting with ML but it tends to focus on supervised methods; I think there's a need for more focus on unsupervised methods in general, with regard to overfitting in particular but also just in general.