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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trogdor was popular way before Reddit

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be

https://www.mathworks.com/products/compiler.html

MATLAB can ruin all sorts of coding experiences, programming included

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Examples? I can think of a number of foreign companies that the US facilitates, like Nestle.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh, I switched. I switched all of my lab's computers, too, and my PhD students have remarked a few different times that Linux is pretty cool. It might snowball.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You're normal in that respect:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.1962

In fact, the idea that autistic individuals are immune to propaganda is, itself, media propaganda. The study that those articles report on was a single study that found that autistic individuals show less of a framing effect on their own preferences. It's much more easily explained by autistic individuals having strong, internal preferences for their own likes/dislikes than it is by autistic individuals being immune to propaganda.

Speaking from experience here, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don't trust those above you in a business setting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This makes sense, thanks

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Why would China turn against Putin for them using their nukes? I don't keep up much on their relations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Journal quality can buffer this by getting better reviewers (MDPI shouldn't be seen as having peer review at all, but peer review at the best journals--because professors want to say on their merit raise annual evals that they are doing the most service to the field by reviewing at the best journals--is usually good enough at weeding out bad papers), but it gets offset by the institutional prestige of authors when peer-review isn't double-blind. I've seen some garbage published in top journals by folks that are the caliber of Harvard professors (thinking of one in particular) because reviewers use institutional prestige as a heuristic.

When I'm teaching new grad students, I tell them exactly what you said, with the exception that they can use field-recognized journal quality (not shitty metrics like impact factor) as a relative heuristic until they can evaluate methods for themselves.

 
 

Panpsychism is the idea that everything is conscious to some degree (which, to be clear, isn't what I think). In the past, the common response to the idea was, "So, rocks are conscious?" This argument was meant to illustrate the absurdity of panpsychism.

Now, we have made rocks represent pins and switches, enabling us to use them as computers. We made them complex enough that we developed neural networks and created large language models--the most complex of which have nodes that represent space, time, and the abstraction of truth, according to some papers. So many people are convinced these things are conscious, which has many suggesting that everything may be conscious to some degree.

In other words, the possibility of rocks being conscious is now commonly used to argue in favor of panpsychism, when previously it was used to argue against it.

 
 

I watched it recently for the first time, and I really don't get why it's so loved. IMDB rates it as the second-best movie of all time, but it seems far worse than that to me. I like most old movies and see their hype, but The Godfather didn't do it for me. What am I missing?

 
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