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New comment by JoshGG in "No country for mediocre mathematicians"

JoshGG — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:40:21 +0000

Very true but you can go even further than that. Advancing knowledge is a community endeavor. Consider where the field of mathematics would be if everyone except Terrence Tao and a handful of other luminaries stopped doing math research. It would die.

New comment by JoshGG in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

JoshGG — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:02:54 +0000

I enjoyed this article about AFSI.

New comment by JoshGG in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

JoshGG — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:04:06 +0000

CTF = Capture The Flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurit...

New comment by JoshGG in "Where the goblins came from"

JoshGG — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:02:32 +0000

Which year did we use steel to replace human workers and automate decision-making?

New comment by JoshGG in "After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on"

JoshGG — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:15:55 +0000

The guardian is free to read. Why post an archive link ?

New comment by JoshGG in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

JoshGG — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:26:58 +0000

Says a lot about whether you can trust the WSJ.

New comment by JoshGG in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

JoshGG — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:13:02 +0000

This is pretty neat and I am experimenting with it now, but hasn't ChatGPT had capability to create graphs and interact with data for a while? "ChatGPT advanced data analysis" for example. I'm asking in good faith as maybe some of you have been using that and can compare the two and give an informed opinion.

I usually use a lot of other tools for data analysis or write code with Claude code or another LLM to do data analysis and visualization.

article about the ChatGPT charts and graphs https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-make-cha...

New comment by JoshGG in "FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts"

JoshGG — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:22:25 +0000

There was a period of time when Crack was also very popular.

New comment by JoshGG in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

JoshGG — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:07:14 +0000

POE. Purity Of Essence ?

New comment by JoshGG in "Zoo of array languages"

JoshGG — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:18:18 +0000

MATLAB is an array language.

New comment by JoshGG in "Ancient Patagonian hunter-gatherers took care of their injured and disabled"

JoshGG — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:39:13 +0000

It would be helpful to provide some citations and evidence around the claim “ most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep”. There is an increasing amount of evidence that this was not the case.

https://medium.com/sapere-aude-incipe/our-distorted-image-of...

New comment by JoshGG in "Health care costs are soaring. Blame insurers, drug companies and your employer"

JoshGG — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:23:25 +0000

Obesity and diet aren’t the primary drivers of expense in the American health care system. The market structure is.

New comment by JoshGG in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

JoshGG — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:54:40 +0000

Crazy! Imagine if human beings did not have to worry about losing access to healthcare for themselves and their children because their company went bankrupt or they got laid off. So Crazy!

New comment by JoshGG in "Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter"

JoshGG — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:18:21 +0000

“”” Flame retardants were widely adopted in the 1970s, when in-home smoking was more prevalent and electronics frequently overheated. New research, however, shows that flame retardants are not very effective at slowing or preventing fires. “””

https://www.sfenvironment.org/how-can-i-avoid-flame-retardan...

New comment by JoshGG in "Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter"

JoshGG — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:57 +0000

What amount of fire retardants would you like in your food? How about zero? I would like zero.

These have already been banned in CA from furniture because it creates household exposure. Why would it be ok in cooking utensils?

BTW the chemicals don’t actually prevent house fires it’s basically an industry scam to put them into products.

New comment by JoshGG in "Denmark will plant 1B trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest"

JoshGG — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:21:08 +0000

You left out the part where Haiti was destabilized and crushed by colonial debt. And I don’t think that lack of fish is what’s keeping the tourists away. But hey, weren’t we talking about Denmark ?

New comment by JoshGG in "Impact of early life adversity on reward processing in young adults (2014)"

JoshGG — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:20:48 +0000

The “welfare queen single moms” criticism is a shallow critique of government assistance programs overall and doesn’t move the analysis forward in an evidence backed manner. This is an old Republican USA talking point.

Also arguing that government support reduces the strength of family networks really needs some serious citation to back it up.

New comment by JoshGG in "Spot the Drowning Child (2015)"

JoshGG — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:56:50 +0000

A more likely danger is that a non swimmer is drowning and grabs onto another child and drags them underwater or tries to climb on top of them. This is a known danger and is a standard part of lifeguard training in the US. Drowning persons can be very dangerous to other people and to rescuers. So a drowning child can definitely endanger other kids.

New comment by JoshGG in "Cities need more trees"

JoshGG — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:58:12 +0000

This is the standard for many cities in the northeast. Power lines are underground.

New comment by JoshGG in "Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit"

JoshGG — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:04:04 +0000

This is gross. What’s the corporate motivation to not just call it what it is - a layoff?