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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • While in general, I’d agree, look at the damage a single false paper on vaccination had. There were a lot of follow up studies showing that the paper is wrong, and yet we still have an antivax movement going on.

    Clearly, scientists need to be able to publish without fear of reprisal. But to have no recourse when damage is done by a person acting in bad faith is also a problem.

    Though I’d argue we have the same issue with the media, where they need to be able to operate freely, but are able to cause a lot of harm.

    Perhaps there could be some set of rules which absolve scientists of legal liability. And hopefully those rules are what would ordinarily be followed anyway, and this be no burden to your average researcher.



  • Taking 89.3% men from your source at face value, and selecting 12 people at random, that gives a 12.2% chance (1 in 8) that the company of that size would be all male.
    Add in network effects, risk tolerance for startups, and the hiring practices of larger companies, and that number likely gets even larger.

    What’s the p-value for a news story? Unless this is some trend from other companies run by Musk, there doesn’t seem to be anything newsworthy here.








  • If this is a real question, this talk explains the fundamental concepts of atomic operations in a couple of minutes.

    The talk itself is over an hour long, as the use of atomic operations has a large number of pitfalls. The joke in the meme leans on a specific type of memory ordering guarantee, known as “relaxed” in C++ parlance, which can be a lot faster, but which is much more likely to violate the default assumptions a programmer may make about order of operations and visibility across threads.