Ted Herman @tedherman@social.cleverlibre.org
Computer Scientist, mineral collector, gardener, bike enthusiast; un peu de français; nederlands maar erg roestig.
Joined Nov 2022
@gruber My eyesight isn't what it once was. That is why it is increasingly difficult to visit the daringfireball site. Being foremost a Linux user since the early 1990s, at first I thought it was just using the wrong platform. But now I view it on a Macbook Pro, and the difficulty persists.
tautology of the day: the enshittification of platform decay
Doodle is execrable.
Ted Herman
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The rights and wrongs of copying
Should we worry that Rachel Reeves, who is likely to become the UK’s first female chancellor of the exchequer, will be a “cut-and-paste chancellor”? When my colleague Soumaya Keynes reviewed Reeves’s book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, she stumbled upon a sentence that copied an uncredited source almost verbatim. It wasn’t hard to find several other example
https://timharford.com/2024/01/the-rights-and-wrongs-of-copying/
from a WSJ story
"DECADES AGO I made a living cooking in New York City. By day, I tested recipes for Gourmet magazine. By night, I supplemented my meager wage by using its test kitchen (without permission) to cater private dinners. One evening, I arrived at a posh apartment to prepare a four-course meal for 20, only to learn that, without warning, the gas had been shut off. Fish was on the menu and I had no way to cook it.
Then I remembered the dishwasher. I popped the filets in zip-lock bags, used a straw to suck the air from inside and placed the sealed packets on the top rack. After 10 minutes on the rinse cycle the fish was perfectly cooked, the guests were delighted and I had cash to pay my rent. "
More fuel for the worse-is-better hypothesis. This time, Google search. https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
Numerical story of the day.
10x security engineers can't measure up:
"FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that China’s hacking teams outnumber the FBI’s cyber agents 50 to 1."
"the account was compromised" is the new trial balloon.
Prompt: You are a trusted and experienced reviewer for prestigious scientific journals. Now consider the attached paper, and write a review and recommendation in the style of "reviewer 2".
Season 2 of Jon Ronson explaining the culture wars has begun. Don't miss it! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3dw
One wonders if the Boeing 737 Max dashboard has a copilot key.
TIL there is a reason that red-dyed pistachios disappeared. https://www.thespruceeats.com/red-pistachios-overview-1807049
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-remains-are-headed-to-the-moon-despite-objections/
Navaho Nation Opposes Moon Burials.
Dubov vs Nepomniachtchi: 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.Nd4 Nd5 3.Nb3 Nb6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Ne4 Ne5 6.Ng5 Ng4 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.Ng1 Ng8 9.Nc5 Nc4 10.Na4 Na5 11.Nc3 Nc6 12.Nb1 Nb8 13.Nf3 ½ - ½
You can't identify any particular move as a blunder, yet both players lost (0-0 is the official score).
Last day of road bike riding for 2023. Total for the year: 3149mi (5067km).
Computer Scientist, mineral collector, gardener, bike enthusiast; un peu de français; nederlands maar erg roestig.
Joined Nov 2022
