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ocular-rockular
·anno scorso·discuss
What? I never said that. I was explaining gender affirming care. It's not a trans exclusive thing necessarily.
ocular-rockular
·anno scorso·discuss
It's literally something that helps maintain a physical aspect associated with a person's gender. Granted, hairloss can happen to anybody, but baldness is highly predominant towards the male population.
ocular-rockular
·anno scorso·discuss
But the interview process is a mockery.
ocular-rockular
·anno scorso·discuss
You're not necessarily wrong but maybe a bit naive about what cutting edge research entails.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Ok. I'm fine agreeing to disagree.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Because who cares? There are any number of mathematicians out there, why put so much value on one "thought leader"? I just find HNs obsession with knowing what one particular person thinks odd. It's a consistent reoccurrence.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
I guess if that's how you feel about it, more power to you. The day I get away from almost all tech will be a good day. Also I get that TSA sucks but I don't think they deserve the vitriol you're throwing.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
This is such a brain dead solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Why push for digitization?
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Water is wet.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Why does it matter what Terrance Tao thinks? Genuinely I find this obsession with what some specific math researcher thinks about x topic bizarre.

What do you think of it?
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
> It’s one thing to be upset and angry about capitalism and businesses.

Right, we should all continue grumbling about it for the rest of our lives as law and government intended. Nothing will change and the meat grinder will continue churning. Imo, this line of thinking of "they're angry and upset in a way that upsets me!" is easily exploitable towards complete inaction.

Also I'm so sorry but having sympathy for effective oligarchs? Come on. Wishing their death might be a bridge too far but at best these people deserve ambivalence, not pity.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
It's never an easy thing to do or one that should come to fruition, but yes, I would contribute to the effort for my country if it was so.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Its broken with alias but what's this about the podman-socket? Do you know where I can take a look at that?
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
You would be surprised how many people have no idea what "machine learning" means (not even technical definition but just as in the field). I'm working on a PhD in an adjacent field and basically have to tell people I work in AI for them to have any semblance of what I do.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
My only problems with Podman is the lack of up to date repos across systems, the fact that the latest raw binaries are managed by a maintainer out of the goodness of their heart, and that the VS Code extension ecosystem for managing pods is not integratable with the existing Docker stuff (and the replacement extensions are woefully underdeveloped).

Otherwise it honestly is great and preferable over Docker.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
As a hobbyist photographer, I am deeply touched by this. Thank you for sharing this.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Or you could just use a burner account and avoid this.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
Exactly my point, hence why at least from the learning side it works well towards making something that is actually correct. What I was aiming at is that too often people teaching this stuff get lost in the weeds without any clear motivation for what is actually being taught.
ocular-rockular
·2 anni fa·discuss
As an introduction to the topic it functions very well though. It doesn't matter whether it's valid or not. In fact, I would say that diving immediately into the validity of some bullshit independence assumptions and other nonsense is where you lose most students (it definitely lost me).

I think flawed examples lead to a great way of scaffolding towards the "true" nontrivial answer in a teaching setting at least... I am still exceptionally bitter at how I was taught and forced to learn stochastics and it was very much through a purely theoretical, proof driven, abstract lens with very crappy examples that were more of an afterthought... because of course the theory is all you need to make sense of it!