Sorry, fumble fingering on my part...
Goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=science.org for me.
There sure are a lot of comments here, despite the link not working, so presumably nobody read it. Maybe regarding any submission with certain keywords as an opportunity to spout your pre-existing opinions isn't really…
Public opinion is not a binary. It could certainly move further against Trump, and just as significantly, it could move in the direction of free trade, whose opponents include plenty of people other than Trump. What's…
If a bear is rampaging around your campsite do you think you have to "take a stand"? This isn't some sort of status game. Well, maybe it is for Trump, but not for anyone who's not an idiot. Unfortunately, Carney is an…
Yeah. I'm not sure how one would handle that. (Can't remember if Whitehead & Russell had any inherent operator precedence.) So may be most useful if you don't have inherent precedence, as might be the case if you're not…
It's better visually. No dot, ., :, :., ::, ::., :::, etc. have increasing visual weight, which shows which are the more top-level operators without having to match up parentheses.
The notation for avoiding parentheses is interesting, and I've thought that it might be useful in programming languages. To illustrate, suppose you have a non-associative operator $. Rather than write a$(b$c), you can…
The river water picks up silt as it flows to the sea. The silt has to go somewhere. That's why the delta exists, and grows, absent other effects. The river wandering is part of this. Since the silt can only be deposited…
New Orleans is on a river delta, and without human effects on land, and without sea level rise, wouldn't one expect this delta to expand due to silt deposition? And would this silt deposition actually occur at a rate…
Those interested in this might find my paper on "Representing numeric data in 32 bits while preserving 64-bit precision" to be of interest. Can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02914 (note the code available as…
The very first of the "false or unproven" claims they list is "animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein". And at this level of imprecision, that claim is true! Animal protein has a good balance of amino…
These are good points, but are mostly pragmatic, resulting from the rest of the system not being designed around a tree representation. Of course, that can be decisive in practice... A more fundamental issue (which I…
Well, I think most common transformations work reasonably well. One usually doesn't want to do things completely contrary to the AST, such as convert "while a<b" to "whilea = b". And it's certainly possible to create…
Many years ago, I created an editor operating on syntax trees that I think is more "hard-core" than this - that is, only tree-oriented operations are done. There is no parsing of text, since entering plain text, rather…
I don't know what political machinations go on in the International Energy Agency, but one has to wonder why they thought it was useful to define a term "renewable" in this way, considering that such a term is of no use…
Nuclear power is "generally accepted" as non-renewable amongst people opposed to nuclear power. Since uranium fuel is not going to run out on any reasonable time scale (and thorium will last even longer), it is…
"If you want every CPU to support every instruction..," That does indeed seem nice. As long as there's an easy way to enquire about whether an instruction is slow or not, it means that all the software runs, and the…
A recorder is a flute, more specifically, a fipple flute. But there are other fipple flutes, such as tin whistles. (One distinguishing feature of a recorder is the use of the thumb hole to control octaves.) So calling a…
"Power-off data retention is increased from 1 month to 3 months." I don't think these are meant for ordinary users. One extended vacation and your data is toast...
The court's ruling has actual legal effect. The inquiry's conclusion is, well, just somebody's opinion. One might also note that the invocation was never approved by parliament (it was terminated before the deadline for…
A court has ruled that it did not: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/a-judge-ruled-trudeau...
A basic problem with evaluations like these is that the test is designed to discriminate between humans who would make good lawyers and humans who would not make good lawyers. The test is not necessarily any good at…
One hears stories of people with dementia having a day or two of mental clarity just before they die. Could this explain that? Perhaps their bodily processes are failing so much that normal glucose production is…
"there is no guarantee that your preprint is accurate with the final, published version, so most people will still trust the paywalled version more than your PDF" I think this is backwards. The definitive version that…
Sorry, fumble fingering on my part...
Goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=science.org for me.
There sure are a lot of comments here, despite the link not working, so presumably nobody read it. Maybe regarding any submission with certain keywords as an opportunity to spout your pre-existing opinions isn't really…
Public opinion is not a binary. It could certainly move further against Trump, and just as significantly, it could move in the direction of free trade, whose opponents include plenty of people other than Trump. What's…
If a bear is rampaging around your campsite do you think you have to "take a stand"? This isn't some sort of status game. Well, maybe it is for Trump, but not for anyone who's not an idiot. Unfortunately, Carney is an…
Yeah. I'm not sure how one would handle that. (Can't remember if Whitehead & Russell had any inherent operator precedence.) So may be most useful if you don't have inherent precedence, as might be the case if you're not…
It's better visually. No dot, ., :, :., ::, ::., :::, etc. have increasing visual weight, which shows which are the more top-level operators without having to match up parentheses.
The notation for avoiding parentheses is interesting, and I've thought that it might be useful in programming languages. To illustrate, suppose you have a non-associative operator $. Rather than write a$(b$c), you can…
The river water picks up silt as it flows to the sea. The silt has to go somewhere. That's why the delta exists, and grows, absent other effects. The river wandering is part of this. Since the silt can only be deposited…
New Orleans is on a river delta, and without human effects on land, and without sea level rise, wouldn't one expect this delta to expand due to silt deposition? And would this silt deposition actually occur at a rate…
Those interested in this might find my paper on "Representing numeric data in 32 bits while preserving 64-bit precision" to be of interest. Can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02914 (note the code available as…
The very first of the "false or unproven" claims they list is "animal protein is healthier than plant-based protein". And at this level of imprecision, that claim is true! Animal protein has a good balance of amino…
These are good points, but are mostly pragmatic, resulting from the rest of the system not being designed around a tree representation. Of course, that can be decisive in practice... A more fundamental issue (which I…
Well, I think most common transformations work reasonably well. One usually doesn't want to do things completely contrary to the AST, such as convert "while a<b" to "whilea = b". And it's certainly possible to create…
Many years ago, I created an editor operating on syntax trees that I think is more "hard-core" than this - that is, only tree-oriented operations are done. There is no parsing of text, since entering plain text, rather…
I don't know what political machinations go on in the International Energy Agency, but one has to wonder why they thought it was useful to define a term "renewable" in this way, considering that such a term is of no use…
Nuclear power is "generally accepted" as non-renewable amongst people opposed to nuclear power. Since uranium fuel is not going to run out on any reasonable time scale (and thorium will last even longer), it is…
"If you want every CPU to support every instruction..," That does indeed seem nice. As long as there's an easy way to enquire about whether an instruction is slow or not, it means that all the software runs, and the…
A recorder is a flute, more specifically, a fipple flute. But there are other fipple flutes, such as tin whistles. (One distinguishing feature of a recorder is the use of the thumb hole to control octaves.) So calling a…
"Power-off data retention is increased from 1 month to 3 months." I don't think these are meant for ordinary users. One extended vacation and your data is toast...
The court's ruling has actual legal effect. The inquiry's conclusion is, well, just somebody's opinion. One might also note that the invocation was never approved by parliament (it was terminated before the deadline for…
A court has ruled that it did not: https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/a-judge-ruled-trudeau...
A basic problem with evaluations like these is that the test is designed to discriminate between humans who would make good lawyers and humans who would not make good lawyers. The test is not necessarily any good at…
One hears stories of people with dementia having a day or two of mental clarity just before they die. Could this explain that? Perhaps their bodily processes are failing so much that normal glucose production is…
"there is no guarantee that your preprint is accurate with the final, published version, so most people will still trust the paywalled version more than your PDF" I think this is backwards. The definitive version that…