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New comment by lapama in "ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing"

lapama — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:11:00 +0000

Today I wrote a budget description for a scientific proposal that an AI would not be able to match. The reason? My knowledge of the social context.

New comment by lapama in "California’s math misadventure is about to go national"

lapama — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:09:50 +0000

A curiosity-driven question: What was the role of the scribes?

New comment by lapama in "James Webb Telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion"

lapama — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:42:37 +0000

A form of interaction?

New comment by lapama in "James Webb Telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion"

lapama — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:28:33 +0000

They could be "alive". There is little margin to explain the binary aspect in Amy other way.

New comment by lapama in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

lapama — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 12:26:53 +0000

I am a scientist and over the last years I stopped using notebooks for notes... I lost something, you connect deeper with your thoughts by writing with hand. Now I occasionally use A3 papers when I see need, but still. I will take a notebook tomorrow!

New comment by lapama in "Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B"

lapama — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:37:29 +0000

What about that strage propulsion system announced by caltech a few years back? Sorry really I have no more knowledge.

New comment by lapama in "Where did our belief in abundance come from?"

lapama — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:33:11 +0000

Both comments indirectly highlight a point: we know little about the behavioural economics of scarcity.

New comment by lapama in "A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall"

lapama — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:59:17 +0000

What do you mean proto-pizza? The whole Mediterranean and MENA regions are full of similar stuff. Why to look at it from our westerner modern mindset?

Loss of fossil fuel assets would not impoverish general public

lapama — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433790

Points: 4

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New comment by lapama in "Study drugs make people worse at problem solving, not better"

lapama — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:48:33 +0000

I perceive their main point could be made with a single focus on the 3rd option you suggest. Other options might fall out of their aim?

New comment by lapama in "Study drugs make people worse at problem solving, not better"

lapama — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:48:28 +0000

Gingko biloba supplements are great, but you can feel how they activate your psychological weaknesses.

New comment by lapama in "Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact"

lapama — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:14:31 +0000

I can dig from here, thanks a lot!

New comment by lapama in "Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact"

lapama — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 18:11:02 +0000

Since I am an ignorant on quantum, please would you mind providing a reference?

New comment by lapama in "Brain Waves Synchronize When People Interact"

lapama — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 06:21:28 +0000

This is in the thin line between telepathy and network science, and provides an interesting basis to research further. Would there be a possible link to quantum entanglement?

New comment by lapama in "Vintage National Geographic Photos (1888-1999)"

lapama — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:04:37 +0000

Nice stuff, very valuable collection. I think one of the pics labelled as Grenada perhaps relates to inland waters instead, because the houses seem unprotected from the water.

New comment by lapama in "Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid"

lapama — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 22:06:52 +0000

Gain of risk

New comment by lapama in "A birder's quest to see 10k species"

lapama — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 21:58:28 +0000

Given the increasing difficulty of finding/seeing new species, at some point it will become 10 or 100 times more costly in time/money to see each new bird.

New comment by lapama in "A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed"

lapama — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:57:08 +0000

And the smallest that fly for 1h under command?

New comment by lapama in "A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed"

lapama — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:56:08 +0000

Next they will fly and cut your hear, in their most civil application.

Post Scriptum: I apologise if for some reason the above joke is found out of order.

New comment by lapama in "Germany falls into recession as inflation hits economy"

lapama — Sat, 27 May 2023 18:35:52 +0000

I felt it coming... as a migrant, a couple of weeks ago I felt people started to look at me differently.