Andreas Longva

I know some of these words! 😅 I had hoped it would be physics-related but I can sort of follow along

What's your use case this time, if you don't mind me asking?

... Am I reading this right? Is he suggesting to shame people using wheelchairs if they show the tiniest hint of being able to use their legs?

«Aha! I saw you walking 14 steps. Why couldn't you walk 7000 more to get across the airport?»

Totally forgot that the first year I ran my physics-based animation seminar course, part of the grade was writing a blog post about a paper. Those posts still exist and are quite good !

physics.diwlevin.com?p=72

is part of what defines us as a species (at least on earth). I think it's meaningful to ask the question if we want to surrender this part of our collective selves.

"Hopefully our AI will find out one day" is a rather miserable ending to the saga of human inquisitiveness, in my opinion.

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IMO there is no meaningful difference if science is just a means to an end (e.g. to produce better products).

But science is also the expansion of human knowledge. Like art, it has intrinsic value beyond its marker value. Human curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge

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A thoughtful post questioning the rush to use AI to take humans out of science — but also other meaningful pursuits like art.

«It's not a train, it's a truck, and we'd better grab the steering wheel.»

This is a scientific dystopia :-(

Ich verstehe diesen Kleinschnitz-Kerl nicht. Warum will er unbedingt öffentlich zeigen, wie sehr ihm Wissen, Wissenschaftsverständnis und Empathie fehlen? Ich finde das richtig peinlich.

Ich stimme dir absolut zu, dass er tatsächlich viel besser ist als die meisten anderen Fragebögen!

Ich fand es nur überraschend, dass es dennoch so offensichtlich uneindeutige Fragen gibt …

Was ich meine, ist, dass 100 m und 1 km zwei komplett unterschiedliche Antworten ergeben können. Wie soll man es also beantworten, wenn man das Intervall von 100–1000 m auf einmal bewerten soll?

Jesus, that README is amazing! Very thoughtfully put together.

if you can walk 100m without too much problems, but have no chance at 1km?

Questionnaires are hard I guess!

(Feel free to ignore me, I just ended up looking at Funcap since it was mentioned in the thread you quoted)

Totally tangential, but considering all the work that went into Funcap55, I'm surprised to see questions like these:

10-Walking between approx. 100m and 1km on level ground (length of 1 to 10 football fields)

There's a 10x difference between the low and high end! How do you even answer that ...

One last physics assignment, this time by my student Ty Trusty, implementing vertex-block descent: github.com/tytrusty/pba...

Get's about 5 chickens per second on my workstation GPU.

A rather strange twisted-looking smooth shape generated as the volume of space swept out by a rotating and translating sculpture. The left shows an opaque rendering, the middle shows the same shape with surface points colored to indicate the time, and the right shows a semi-transparent view.

There's a new and very neat-looking SIGGRAPH Asia paper on constructing the swept volume based on the path of a moving (possibly deforming) object. Check it out!

https://jurwen.github.io/Swept-Volume-Page/

What's even a realistic alternative to .expect in many cases? You'd have to go so far out of your way to avoid that you'll likely be introducing new bugs through sheer complexity.

står i intellektuell spagat for å forsvare hva de gjør. De saboterer jo regelrett den sannhetssøkende forskningen. Det er så trist.

Men det trenger jeg jo ikke fortelle deg, det vet du selvfølgelig bedre enn de aller, aller fleste!

bevisst å innføre positive forventninger om PRT i befolkningen, bl.a. for å veie opp for eventuelle negative forventninger fra pasientforeningene.

Nå som alle vet hva PRT er kan man jo bare glemme alle tilnærminger til placebo-kontrollerte studier. Det er nesten imponerende hvordan hun

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Uff. Den artikkelen i Nettavisen er fullstendig blottet for kritisk. journalistikk. Det er så mange implisitte antagelser i Remes uttalelser som ikke blir gått etter i sømmene.

Jeg hørte episoden "Debrief etter Harald og sytepavene" i MindBody-podden her forleden. Der sier Reme at de forsøker ...

Takk for at du deler, dette illustrerer veldig godt noen av de praktiske konsekvensene som du var inne på i diskusjonen om PRT vi hadde for litt siden.

Utrolig trist at behandlingstilbudet til disse pasientene blir lagt ned!

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Fair enough, though you gotta have some serious cognitive dissonance if you're able to sit there and be fooled by the shiny rockets and robots while Musk is pushing a fascist agenda across several continents

I guess I think of "techno-positive" as technology benefitting all, not technological progress regardless of cost

Heck, it's not even positive for the robots, slaving about in people's households

A positive version of the future after gutting USAID and causing the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of children?

Positive for who? What is positive about humans on Mars when he's killing humans on Earth?

I don't understand how anyone can think Musk has a positive vision

Jeg er så lei av å se Aavitsland bortforklare ALT! Når kastet vi føre-var-prinsippet på havet når det kommer til folkehelse?

Does this help?

bsky.app/profile/andl...

Here you go, I used AI to extract the English text and went over it. It's possible it's not a perfect transcription but I didn't see any obvious errors.

Bluesky character limit makes it awkward, I've uploaded it to pastebin.com does that work for you?

Raw text:

pastebin.com/raw/Mrg7TbyB

You don't think desperate patients have tried just about anything to get better, including various forms of brain retraining programs? There's a very simple reason why people are still sick: it just doesn't work for most.

In any case, this discussion has strayed, and I'm gonna leave it here