Interesting call, our field like anything undertaken by mankind is worthless without community. Also community can't sustain if you got an anti human agenda.
In praise of code reviews. This article does a good job showing all the advantages if properly managed. Teams have to pay attention to latency but otherwise you get lots of benefits for not so much time spent.
Fascinating story about the little known Cantor big mistake. This also shows once more, that even though we like to put people on pedestals and look for a "lone genius" or a "hero", discoveries are always a process of several minds playing of each other.
Yes we do need to talk more about them. They are ugly... but they are awesome! (in a scary way)
I was so waiting for someone motivated enough to publish a review of that paper. I indeed threw it away as weak after reading it. Thanks for taking the time to write this up! This is good scientific inquiry... and it shows there were interesting findings in the paper that the authors decided to just ignore.
The biology of trees is just fascinating. And there's so much we still don't know about it.
Lots of insight and advice in here. Are you sure you're having enough sleep? Of high enough quality?
A nice way to try to grasp the scale of the solar system. We hardly realize the amount of empty space.
Indeed, innovation is far from being a linear process. It's actually messy, the breakthroughs already happened already and we describe it after the facts.
This is indeed one of the big issues of the computer science research community. It's also something of importance in fields relying on simulations... which is almost all scientific fields nowadays. Peer reviewing the paper is well practiced, but the software is another story entirely. It'd require some investment in research... but that's not where we're headed at all.
A paper showing that social media algorithms foster political polarization and societal division. Who knew?? Sarcasm aside, the real value of the paper is showing that by modifying those algorithms we could quickly have positive effects. Most of the participants didn't even notice they changed how they perceive others.
Excellent news! It is long overdue that such organisations switch to open access.
I had a few moment like this in my life. I definitely recommend it. I've never been more productive than isolated in a mountain with only books, notebooks and pens.
The title is a bit misleading in a way (and I almost didn't click through for a start). That said, it is an interesting essay dealing with the topics of intelligence, problem solving etc. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it, but that's still good food for thought.
I'm happy to see I'm actually very much aligned with one of the "Attention Is All You Need" co-authors. The current industry trend of "just scale the transformer architecture" is indeed stifling innovation and actual research. That said I find ironic that he talks about freedom to explore... well this is what public labs used to be about, but we decided to drastically reduce their funding and replace that with competition between startups. It's no surprise we have very myopic views on problems.
A very good essay which reminds us we can't really reason in terms of absolute right or wrong.
An important essay in my opinion. It reminds us quite well what the core drive of scientific research is about.
There are indeed fields where this matters a lot. It is far from being an easy problem to solve though.
Maybe it's just me but I find that fascinating.
We already had reproducibility issues in science. With such models which allow to produce hundreds of "novel" results in one paper, how can we properly keep up in checking all the produced data is correct? This is a real challenge.