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marsa commented on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard   theguardian.com/world/liv... · Posted by u/Gud
ijidak · 2 months ago
What do you read? I’m an economist reader too for weekly news.

Would love other sources, but it’s hard to find anything with similar depth and a similar lack of sensational-ization found in most news.

Edit: Oh, and global reach. The economist covers earth in almost equal detail for every region. Not quite equal of course, but darn close compared to most outlets.

marsa · 2 months ago
https://newlinesmag.com/ has been a favorite of mine lately if you wanna give that a try, it's got global coverage and there's always something interesting to read
marsa commented on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI   mistral.ai/news/magistral... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
alister · 3 months ago
As a quick test of logical reasoning and basic Wikipedia-level knowledge, I asked Mistral AI the following question:

A Brazilian citizen is flying from Sao Paulo to Paris, with a connection in Lisbon. Does he need to clear immigration in Lisbon or in Paris or in both cities or in neither city?

Mistral AI said that "immigration control will only be cleared in Paris," which I think is wrong.

After I pointed it to the Wikipedia article on this topic[1], it corrected itself to say that "immigration control will be cleared in Lisbon, the first point of entry into the Schengen Area."

I tried the same question with Meta AI (Llama 4) and it did much worse: It said that the traveler "wouldn't need to clear immigration in either Lisbon or Paris, given the flight connections are within the Schengen Area", which is completely incorrect.

I'd be interested to hear if other LLMs give a correct answer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#Air_travel

marsa · 3 months ago
doing some reason.. uhh intuitioning i imagine brazil and portugal might have some sort of a visa-free deal going on in which case llama 4 might actually be right here?
marsa commented on The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias (2014)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
themadturk · 2 years ago
Many locations in the former USSR and Eastern Bloc? North Korea?
marsa · a year ago
see the problem here is you somehow associate socialism -- i.e. socialist urbanism and architecture -- with dystopia
marsa commented on Poland's Most Famous Dish: Pierogi   culture.pl/en/article/pol... · Posted by u/danielam
marsa · 2 years ago
i still remember the first time i tried pierogi at a music festival in Poland after a few beers -- they were amazing

but years later that experience was overshadowed when i tried their traditional zurek soup -- now that was divine

marsa commented on Germany's terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/zolbrek
musha68k · 2 years ago
Are there any investigations into what changed? I remember DB had always been looked up to by Austrians but now OEBB seems to run a better service?
marsa · 2 years ago
anecdotal, but my experience a year ago when i travelled international was: 2/2 delays by OEBB that made me miss connections (and absolutely rude and inconsiderate customer service reps in Vienna HBF on top of that), 1/1 on time trains by DB ICE
marsa commented on Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman   nobelprize.org/prizes/med... · Posted by u/OskarS
swyx · 2 years ago
ouch. but also, surely that has to happen to the majority of papers, meaning the snap judgment call of effectively one person greatly colors the quality of the whole process. as a conference organizer this is something i worry about. is there a better process proposed out there - that respects the constraint that high value people have limited time to review things?
marsa · 2 years ago
sadly no, it is an unsolved problem of scholarly publishing imo. on the one hand you have the reputable journals following the traditional publishing process that take pride in their high rejection rates -- these require a large percentage of desk rejections to avoid flooding their reviewers with sub-par papers. thus they'll inevitably have some quality papers fall through the cracks + some flashy sub-par papers making the cut.

on the other hand you have the pay-to-publish journals that have a financial incentive to push as many papers through peer review -- these thrive on sub-par papers that are technically just barely 'good enough', but the upside is that the real good ones will also make it through. however, they inevitably face reviewer fatigue, and the most valuable ones will quit reviewing if they often send them low-quality papers. so basically once in a while they'll publish top notch research without being aware of it.

i'm not aware of any middle-ground solutions out there and it certainly feels like a tough problem to solve.

marsa commented on Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman   nobelprize.org/prizes/med... · Posted by u/OskarS
swyx · 2 years ago
non academic here - what is a "desk rejection"?
marsa · 2 years ago
a desk rejection is when the editor in chief (or managing editor, or whoever is the one first receiving the submitted paper) decides to reject the submission without sending it out for peer review

basically a judgment call by the person in charge of a journal that the paper is not interesting or impactful enough to warrant going through with the rest of the review/publishing process

marsa commented on White House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/perihelions
0xDEF · 2 years ago
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. Modern Serbia is a Russian puppet state. Belgrade does nothing without the Kremlin's permission. Even its previous "good cop" posturing was all about becoming a member of the EU to push Russia's interests.
marsa · 2 years ago
GP is getting downvoted because it's a shit take. ethnic tensions in Kosovo date back to before the break up of Yugoslavia -- like early 1980s at the latest. Serbia may feel that now is an opportune moment to stir shit up again, and Russia may be supportive, but to suggest that Kremlin is pulling all the strings here is plain wrong.

other commenters in this thread display much more nuanced and informed perspectives.

marsa commented on The DJ and the War Crimes   investigation.rollingston... · Posted by u/marsa
marsa · 2 years ago
This piece of investigative journalism has been posted on HN some 9 months ago. I'm reposting it now because a) it's a really thoroughly researched article, and b) it's presented in an interesting and engaging way (edit: on desktop at least; I haven't checked how it looks on mobile).

So, dear HN: trust me when I say it's worth spending some of your time on this one even if you're not interested in the subject matter itself

u/marsa

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