Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.

Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.

I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain “everybody does it this way, I guess it works” are there in scientific research.

I know it is quite common to ask in gay dating apps. Many people in there have a full set of naked photos that they send out to others on request.

I’m not so sure about women.

Nothing she wrote seems like classism to me. The way you put it, a lawyer should avoid mentioning he’s a lawyer as that would display he was educated and thus insulting people who couldn’t.

She’s probably complaining with her friends and reflecting about what happens. In her work life she is a respected person who does important things which are recognised by her peers.

In her datings she has to go over people who can not come up with a better idea than to send a dick pic. This is a terrible thing, but some people may get desperate and accept some of these inepts. She’s reminding herself that she’s doesn’t really need to have these kinds of interactions.

Is there a classist message in there? I guess the main message is: I’m a smart person, I don’t need to put up with this. She does not insult those people as Poor’s or people who did not study. As far are we know people sending those pictures may be millionaires (and I wouldn’t be surprised).

I’ll just mention that in Italy the word for potato is also used to refer to pussy.

Very nice! I’ll keep using unison for now as I need something stable and reliable, but I’ll keep an eye on the project and may switch to it eventually.

I’m sure a big square inside the main square would have a higher surface area than this. Calculations over the top of my head tell me this, but then again, I didn’t publish an article on the subject.

Systematic review of lab equipment and techniques applied after the prohibition of bunsen burners

You can spend your entire life thinking about it and you Will never reach a definitive answer. Or, you can spend a day to set up an experiment and throw a party.

Not only genius mathematicians, we have good examples of genius biologist with Kary Mullis. Though to be fair I’d much rather live in the same city of Kary Mullis, I’d probably enjoy a beer with the guy every once in a while.

Thank you for the resource. I’m unsure as to why my comment above was removed as I received no notification about it and nobody gave me an explanation. I’ll start by saying that my field of research is quite different from social sciences and that I am absolutely not an expert regarding transgender people: I am not one and I only have few friends that are. I have not read the articles from the authors mentioned in this thread, I do not know whether their research is sound or not, @daannii above was saying their research is sound and I take it at face value; but the following stands even if that is not the case.

The review you linked does not appear to address these issues that are being discussed in here. They do find that gender transition tends to be positive and that in most cases people do not regret doing it.

4. Regrets following gender transition are extremely rare and have become even rarer as both surgical techniques and social support have improved. Pooling data from numerous studies demonstrates a regret rate ranging from .3 percent to 3.8 percent. Regrets are most likely to result from a lack of social support after transition or poor surgical outcomes using older techniques.

However this does not seem to address differences across demographics, such as could be transitioning when minor vs transitioning when adult. It would be interesting to know whether people who transition as child tend to have higher regret rates than adults.

We eliminated studies, for instance, that did not assess the outcomes of gender transition, that investigated minors instead of adults

In fact they specify in the methodology that they specifically did not address research involving minors and they excluded any paper that investigated minors.

Littmans research aims to discover which trans teens will continue being trans and which will flip back to their biological based gender.

This statement from above does make sense to me. I would not see one such research as damaging towards anyone. I don’t see how that is bias. In the review you provided is stated that some people, a vast minority, do regret transitioning. I don’t see how identifying those people before they do transition would be bad.

It’s not science. It’s bias, wearing a veneer of science

That could very much be, as I said I did not read the articles from the authors above. But the review you refer to does not disprove any of their findings. Moreover it is an article that I would never myself reference. I am from a different field of study and probably we do systematic reviews in a different way, but if I was one of the peer reviews I’d be asking a major revision. This is not a scientific publication: it is not reviewed by anyone for what I can tell. They do at the very least show the methodology on how they selected the papers, which is nice, but they do not explain at all how they analyzed and reviewed the papers. This would at most classify as a review article and not a systematic review in any authoritative journal. They have no quantitative analysis of the papers, besides number of papers with negative results and only give some qualitative analysis of the aggregate results without justifying how they got to such conclusions. I’m not saying the results are incorrect or that their research is wrong, but there is also no way to verify it is, since they do not provide that fundamental information which would be required in any peer review process. It is nevertheless a good read as a piece of diffusion, to inform people who are not actively working in the field.

Here’s what the science actually says

Given that, this statement feels a bit out of place.

I am unsure on what was your point. It is very possible that the authors of this survey are not doing a good survey or that they are manipulating results, but then you should point that out rather than another (bad) piece of research which does not address the main point of the conversation.

I like doctors who take decisions on my well being to have good research and experience in the topic to give me good advice. Even when the advice is: don’t take the medicine even though you’ll feel bad for a while. I don’t think it is patronising to try and understand kids and advice them for their well being. Changing sex is not one of those little mistakes I’d like my children to make. If they want to do that I definitely don’t want that to be a mistake, and I do want the therapist following them in the process to have evidence backed research to actually aid them in the process.

He did not make clear he doesn’t want AI slop in the kernel, but he always made clear he’ll rather kill you rather than pull your slop into the kernel. I believe he said he doesn’t care too much whether programmers will use AI to contribute to the kernel because he assumes that will undoubtedly happen. Code shall be pulled into the kernel evaluating the quality of the code itself rather than the coding process.

What even is the objective of doing this?

I read it three times perfecting his voice, then I read your comment.

It’s not 2006 anymore

Ed is the standard editor

Do you know European funds can not be used to hire Iranians because the US demanded so? I know it because I was hiring an Iranian person until I figured I could not.

Open source software does not cover most needs, and server capacity is mostly in the US. I doubt you can switch away in one month from us software, do you have open source software for safe information storage and retrieval of patient data in hospitals that complies with the regulations of all 27 states of the EU? While China can produce things, they do not have strong chip designers. If they were to produce good enough chips I guess they’d keep them for internal use for quite a while.

It is common in various countries that large part of the population does not vote.

What does this have to do with the point? I was pointing out that it is unrealistic to assume that the majority of the US population despises Trump, yet he won the elections in a dual party system. That is because if you despise one of the parties in such a system then the choice is very clear.

some of them voted for him because he isn’t a Democrat.

Then if I should take both this point and the one above as true, the conclusion should be: over half the Americans despise Trump, but a larger quantity despise Democrats more than Trump.

That is not the current situation.

The comment above did not say let’s focus the next 10 years to build a software stack that does not depend on US software. It said let’s immediately stop importing stuff from the US. That is not something you can in a moment substitute without massive disruption.

Computer parts are made in China and Taiwan mostly, sure. But: AMD is American, intel is American, Nvidia is American. Go build a computer without using parts coming from one of these companies.