Seems like a poor naming choice as Nano is already a common text editor
Readit NewsOmicronCeti commented on Nano Emacs – a set of config files to improve the look and feel of Emacs github.com/rougier/nano-e... · Posted by u/doesntmeananyth
OmicronCeti commented on Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars phys.org/news/2022-10-anc... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I was under the impression that abundant evidence of water on Mars had already been found, though I suppose this adds to the pile.
There's this from 2008:
https://www.space.com/5546-proof-water-ice-mars.html
It seems to show evidence for subsurface ice on Mars now, though I'm not sure if this is H2O ice or CO2 ice.
>There has long been debate in the scientific community about whether Mars had an ocean in its low-elevation northern hemisphere, Cardenas explained. Using topography data, the research team was able to show definitive evidence of a roughly 3.5-billion-year-old shoreline with substantial sedimentary accumulation, at least 900 meters thick, that covered hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
OmicronCeti commented on Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars phys.org/news/2022-10-anc... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Commented this and got flagged:
“We need boots on the ground to back the good science behind these findings.”
Why is wanting to send people to mars to confirm or leverage these findings so offensive?
Many, many single-purpose rovers can be sent in the place of a human mission with no risk to human life. There is no scientific justification for sending humans on a science mission, it's mostly just adventurism.
OmicronCeti commented on YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters github.com/yandex/YaLM-10... · Posted by u/f311a
Source for all the claims?
2) https://www.businessinsider.com/yandex-russia-former-news-di...
>The ex-head of news at Russia's largest internet company has advice for his former colleagues: quit.
>Lev Gershenzon worked at Yandex in various roles for four years, according to his LinkedIn profile. He took to Facebook early Tuesday morning to warn people still working at the company — which is one of the largest search engines in Russia — that it was contributing to the censorship of the country's invasion into Ukraine.
>"The fact that a significant part of the Russian population may believe that there is no war is the basis and driving force of this war," Gershenzon wrote, also tagging six of his former coworkers. "Today, Yandex is a key element in hiding information about war. Every day and hour of such "news" costs human lives. And you, my former colleagues, are also responsible for this."
2) https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/16/russia-yandex-news-vk/
>Yandex’s former head of news accused the company of being a ‘key element in hiding information’ from Russians about the war in Ukraine.
3) Result of Yandex's slower crawler and default display mode, although the effect is as described: https://twitter.com/maryilyushina/status/1510930537187319813...
OmicronCeti commented on YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters github.com/yandex/YaLM-10... · Posted by u/f311a
Bad comment. First, can you please name the founder? Because according to wiki Ilya Segalovich never lived in Israel and Arkady_Volozh lives in Tel Aviv (Not a settlement). Both Jewish, so why present it as some "must-be-hidden-cause" connection with Israel?
Also, nothing shady from Israel side in term of sanctions. They have a large Jewish community in both Russia and Ukraine and need to be on good term with both to have their gov helping in supporting (or evacuating) them. Not to mention Russia has heavy presence in Syria which borders Israel. A conflict with Russia without anything like a NATO back is out of the question.
>Elena Bunina, who is Jewish, is stepping down from her role as CEO of Yandex LLC, 'Russia's Google,' amid the war in Ukraine. Sources confirm she is in Israel and has no intention of returning to Russia
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2022-04-06/ty-...
Dead Comment
Obviously the alledged Ghost of Kyiv footage was an urban legend, but Ukraine did down multiple Russian fighter jets.
Incredible, really.
Also, note that the account of the poster consists of random characters and was created just and hour ago.
Who‘s information warfare is this?
Even more interesting, if you search that string of characters on DDG, the results are mostly Russian...
OmicronCeti commented on Sci-Hub statistics and database sci-hub.ru/database... · Posted by u/bluish29
so there is "prestige" in getting in a reputed journal and not the fact that the paper is peer reviewed by good scientists. the reputation of the journal matters. cool.
isnt there a need of change in the "social ideology" of such schools and this whole elitism would go away?
journal prestige does not correlate with review quality. Usually it does, but then there's always reviewer 3...
OmicronCeti commented on Sci-Hub statistics and database sci-hub.ru/database... · Posted by u/bluish29
Now i feel foolish for not acknowledging her, especially in elsevier papers.
Pretty sure journals wouldn't allow it, but who's going to read my dissertation anyway (:
OmicronCeti commented on Sci-Hub statistics and database sci-hub.ru/database... · Posted by u/bluish29
There's some truth to "publish or perish". Scientists are expected to publish in prestigious journals.
A typical PhD dissertation these days is 3 publications in high-quality journals. It is explicitly required at most schools.