andlon.bsky.social
Researcher and PhD candidate @ RWTH Aachen University. I work in the intersection between math, physics and software. Simulating the macroscopic world 🌍🦀
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Yes, unfortunately scientists are so incentivized to present positive findings that the negative results get buried in the paper (if at all presented)
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Will keep that in mind, thanks!
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I've lived in Germany since 2017 but unfortunately haven't found the chance to visit Berlin (in part due to Covid). I've been there once as a child but we only stayed one night and went bowling 😅 hope to visit soon enough though
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That might very well be. I don't know much about Berlin, so I'll have to trust your judgment on that!
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Hmm. Not sure what to think here. It's unfortunate for Berlin not to be able to take advantage of that kind of investment in its startup scene, but of course you cannot metaphorically speaking run over local residents in the process, even if not deliberate. Shame they didn't find a better location?
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Makes sense, thanks!
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Tangent, but how come Zürich is such a tech hub for big international companies? Favorable taxation?
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With the way Trump is kowtowing to Putin it's frightening how dependent we are on American defense technology. It's only been a month and he's almost trying to just *give* Ukraine to Putin?
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It honestly scares me that the majority of planes protecting Northern Europe are shiny new F-35s. Who knows what kind of backdoors Trump could decide to exploit... Not to talk about more mundane things like denying maintenance or spare parts
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I don't think so, judging by the follow-up:
bsky.app/profile/mcub...
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Oh, for sure! That said, it requires a very well developed command of the English language to write well. It's a lot to ask to be able to write good prose on top of delivering high-level science... Not that one shouldn't strive towards it, of course!
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Perhaps commonly occurring problem is more apt? Or what would you say?
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Are they wrong? Seems plausible to me that these are indeed fundamental problems...
(Not a vision expert)
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The only silver lining is that not even Trumps followers would agree to invade Europe. I think.
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At least it's different politics
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Well, it looks like it's already been solved. NEXT!
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Hah, that's awesome 😄 well, without Molino-style element duplication, which we didn't incorporate at the time, it has some severe failure cases. But limitations exist to be lifted!
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Oh wow, that's amazing to hear. After presenting it online in the middle of the night local time during COVID lockdowns I wasn't sure anyone had even noticed it outside of citing it for related work. Thanks!
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Hey, thanks for the shoutout!
We've got some interesting follow-up ideas that we're working on which I think you'll appreciate. I was supposed to wrap up that project a long time ago but I've had some health issues get in the way of my work. So no ETA yet unfortunately
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That's frightening indeed, thanks for elaborating!
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I see. Yeah, that's very problematic.
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I mean, this administration is totally batshit crazy, but I skimmed over the EO and... It doesn't sound unreasonable? Or maybe I missed some important parts while skimming?
Fixing the American diet and having kids exercise would likely lead to a drastic decrease in overall disease burden
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I don't agree with anything you've said here, but I will respect your wishes and not reply to any of your future posts.
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I don't know why you get the impression that I'm defending the debate when I've noted that I think it's stupid at every opportunity.
Facts and truth matter. There's enough misinfo from anti-trans crusaders.
Not interested in pursuing this discussion further, however.
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That may well be their motivation, but it still isn't what this specific debate is about.
For what it's worth, I generally support transgender people to be able to live out their lives according to their gender identity. I just think misrepresenting the topic of this (silly) debate is unhelpful.
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Similarly, the spectrum model is strictly more general than the binary model, but it's also more complicated. If you don't need the additional complexity, you might choose the binary model for simplicity.
Science is models upon models. Pick the one you need. The debate is meaningless IMO.
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It's just a meaningless discussion IMO. In science, you generally apply different models depending on the task. For example, we still use Newton's laws even though they were supplanted by relativity, because they are simpler and are good enough when we can ignore relativistic effects.
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I agree that the whole debate is stupid, but what you're saying is not true. They are not discussing the existence of trans people, but rather whether sex, biologically speaking, is best modelled with a binary model or a spectrum model.
Actually discussing this in newdpapers is pointless though
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This is so realistic! In terms of what a scientist might cobble together in Inkscape anyway
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Looks about right. I don't understand the difference between complete combossion zador and complete combasion zapor though
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It's also clear that the American system is very poorly positioned to defend against this. The president has *far* too much power, and their two-party system means that whoever has a slight majority does not have to negotiate with minorities to push through their agenda
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Yeah her position is so easy to counter, too. What happens with people in the occupied territories? What of the torture, the rapes and mistreatment that are so well documented?
What would happen to their people if Ukraine gave up?
How does she have the ausacity to say resistance was not necessary
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I think the fact of the matter is that most people are not willing to give up even the slightest convenience unless forced upon them in some way.
Musk is bad, but Twitter was always toxic. It hasn't changed all *that* much for most people, so they stay. Path of least resistance
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Man, I've missed your linear algebra posts! Good to see you posting over here 🙌
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Literally nothing they do is in good faith. Ironically, even their "faith"...
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Fwiw, I can't remember ever having seen a typo in any of your posts!
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I'm convinced it's a french conspiracy to drive the rest of the world to insanity
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Yeah, I totally agree that the US has a huge competitive advantage here, and Europe should work towards coming more competitive by reducing bureaucracy. I am still not entirely convinced by your original premise though!
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I agree Europe has some real global strategy challenges, but this seems like a somewhat tangential thing. It's not that relevant to *you* as a person who wants to start a startup. Most companies are small to medium sized, not megacorps
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Not familiar with this, I'll have to read upon it. Thanks!
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As a Norwegian living in Germany, the bureaucracy is horrendous and I totally agree with that. But it's nowhere near as bad in Norway (ironically not in the EU though ...).
Not every company needs to do business with all of EU either, most companies work with local markets (at least early on)