Gave me [2,1] which is not possible
It does seem like [n,n+1] is always unsolvable!
Readit Newsjxding commented on Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers mathstodon.xyz/@two_star/... · Posted by u/self
Link to full pdf of the Report issued by Stanford's "special committee:" https://boardoftrustees.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/site...
Some extracts:
"There were repeated instances of manipulation of research data and/or subpar scientific practices from different people and in labs run by Dr. Tessier-Lavigne at different institutions"
"At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-16, and March 2021—Dr.Tessier-Lavigne failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record."
"However, a second theme emerged among some of the interviewees that the same lab culture also tended to reward the “winners” (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the “losers” (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data)"
Considering that Stanford's special committee has every reason to protect Tessier-Lavigne and damage control, the findings are quite damning.
Good on Theo Baker for continuing to provide a more critical perspective compared to the cushy political speak of the report.
jxding commented on Show HN: A poem inside HTTP response headers ja.cob.land/http2-204-a-p... · Posted by u/jacobevelyn
This is an opportunity that The West is probably going to miss for ideological reasons. We should accept Russian engineers, scientists, doctors. Don't forget that during the Soviet era, they had to build walls to keep their intellectual capital from leaving. Take them!
@pwnallthethings on Twitter makes exactly this point and I find it quite convincing. Link below. If (and this seems increasingly likely) this war drags on, we should try to attract and welcome as many Russian mathematicians, scientists, and engineers as we can before Putin forbids them from travelling.
This is why I find the recent cancellation of many public Russian individuals concerning. We should be offering them citizenship (I exaggerate!), not shaming and dropping them. Rossophobia against normal Russian citizens is counterproductive.
Thread: https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/14979877099686051...
Dark magenta would probably have the same problem that floating features have, which is it distracts from the content (and would probably be hard to read compared to actual skin tones).
The situation was, people chose yellow as the default, and that excluded some people. So, if we cared about being polite and fixing it for those people, and if our options were to either change to some hideous magenta that couldn’t be misinterpreted as representing a real skin tone vs just offering more skin tones, I think we made the right choice.
The choice is not dark magenta or bright yellow or bust though. A large spectrum of colors exist, and if we really wanted to not offend anyone, we could have chosen blue or green or pink or orange or any other color that couldn't possibly be a skin color (untill we meet easily-offended aliens of course).
jxding commented on “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today” twitter.com/CaseyNewton/s... · Posted by u/minimaxir
I think there’ll be a lot of people applying for jobs there now. I know I want to
Me too! I haven't even heard of Basecamp before, but now it has made it's way onto my whitelist of "sane companies worth working for." I really hope they survive this debacle and keep making good products.
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jxding commented on Psilocybin 'promising' for depression bbc.co.uk/news/health-567... · Posted by u/aluket
Wouldn't the study design under exaggerate the effect of psilocybin, if anything?
To be a little pedantic, I'm not sure "under exaggerate" is a valid phrase. What you're looking for may be "under-report"?