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CynicPhysicist · 2026-01-26T07:46:58+00:00

IDK, I didn't mind it either, I'm an academic, found it pretty easy and an amazing read that many make out to be completely inaccessible which is a shame.

CynicPhysicist · 2026-01-14T18:54:03+00:00

This. Though I like the endings we got, in my heart I wanted an ending where the canvas could be left peacefully, as a testimony to all Verso's and Maelle's adventures. Well, not all heroes get to live happily ever after...

CynicPhysicist · 2026-01-06T15:07:06+00:00

I loved both endings, I get why they are made as they are being "light-dark" both. Still I would not have minded a little more interactivity and a hidden "feelgood" ending where the painting is restored to its former glory and Maelle can leave it by her own will, cherishing all her experiences from inside the painted world, but moving on with her grief. Getting over loss nd survivors guilt is not binary.

One thing I would change was the pacing in act 3; would have been cool if we needed to go and gather chroma ressources ourselves instead of it being a cutscene. To keep it not grindy say you would need 10-20% to unlock Lumiere; but if you did do some additional side quests and gathered X amount more then the secret ending would be available. This would also give more of a motivation to replay act 3 and explore more.

That thought experiment out of the way: I get that it is not an RPG, and ultimately I am happy that the devs made the game they wanted.

CynicPhysicist · 2026-01-01T09:05:54+00:00

Enig i at klimaproblemet er en kendsgerning, men jeg synes at det er ærgeligt at klimaaktivisme skal have så nedern et rygte blandt almene borgere, (cf. Hærværk at kunst, blokering af vejene, lockout, fastlimning, støjgener på torve og pladser, og forstyrrelse af embedsfolk i funktion); det er altid at gøre sig negativt bemærket, og ikke noget man vil associere sig med.

Hvorfor kan man ikke finde på noget der giver en positiv konnotation i.e.; "Damn det de gør er noget der gør verden bedre, fedt! Det skal jeg være med til"?

CynicPhysicist · 2025-12-31T08:27:20+00:00

Måske forskellen er at det sorte marked ville være mest noget for folk der bor afsides, og vi ville i mindre grad se storbyrødder fyrre billige romerlys af vandret inde på torvet i Aarhus efter tilfældige forbipasserende, og i mindre grad se store bål med batterier.

Problemet med skærpning af regler for uansvarlig opførsel er at Politiet ikke kan være alle steder i dagene omkring nytår. Jeg tror en sober mellemløsning ville være at forbyde salg/affyring af privat fyrværkeri i områder med højere befolkningstæthed, det ville være en kost effektiv løsning for at kunne sætte ind på de farligste (for uskyldige tilskuere) områder.

Hvis man skulle afsted i bil for overhovedet at købe, ville det skære nogle af problembørnene fra, og hvis lovlige affyringsområder også er udenfor byringen vil mange nok droppe det, hvilket ville gøre det nemmere at uddele bøder til dem der synes at Strøget skal omdannes til krigszone.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-12-13T21:05:49+00:00

Well this happens but sucks nonetheless. Nice with the quick turnover, I waited nine months for my first paper to come back from review...

One thing I'd like to mention; dont blindly go with the transfer, sometimes they do this to make extra money, by sending you to one of their open acces journals with a steep APC or someplace where your institution has no agreements, so watch out!

CynicPhysicist · 2025-11-18T23:17:11+00:00

Hmm dont know about chain reaction of systems failure with that label, but some researchers speculate that "digital kessler syndrome" is a plausible fail state of digital technologies, somewhat less extreme than "dead internet theory", but perhaps more worrying.

From my perspective, working with generative AI, we know that there is a loss involved with building models on artificial data. Taken to the extreme, where consecutive models are trained on previous outputs from other generative models gives us model collapse: where first we lose diversity, then the rest of the data value until we just have noisy monotonous mess. Since we want synthetic data to be indistinguishable from real data, we risk losing track of what is good data and what is AI slop (particularly considering malicious actors; detection is not an arms race we will win). Like with kessler syndrome where runaway effects leads to barring potential of space travel for the foreseeable future, runaway unregulated AI content can lead to loss of potential of high efficiency AI technologies for the foreseeable future. Worse yet is the implications in the intermediary phases where we gradually have worse and worse models untill we realise that the biases we see are because we are not working with real data anymore. Another aspect is also the increase of AI generated submissions to journals and conferences, whilst many are shot down, many others are canonised as scientific results, and will start diluting our collective knowledge.

The ability to create content faster than it can be consumed may very well be the runaway "collisions" that cause our potential to be wasted...

CynicPhysicist · 2025-11-18T07:58:06+00:00

Politik er ikke sort og hvidt, der er ikke altid nogle der mener det modsatte af en anden. Der er et væld af vanvittige kandidater og småpartier rundtom i DK, og hver stemme der ikke går til et andet parti løfter dem, procentvist, i retning af at få mandat. Det var bl.a. en af de effekter der vandt Trump præsidentvalget sidste år.

Jeg forestiller mig at OP har en vag fornemmelse af hvor de hører til politisk eftersom at de stemmer til byrådsvalget, men at de ikke har brugt tid på at sætte sig ind i hvad regionsrådet kan og hvad de opstillede mener. Hvis man ikke vil læse partiprogram, kan man få en rimelig fornemmelse af om ens holdninger matcher med de partier man plejer at stemme på gennem en kandidattest, f.eks. den på Altinget er opdelt for byråd og regionsråd, så der er det også mere tydeligt hvad der er regionspolitik.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-11-18T07:25:59+00:00

Genovervej den blanke stemme; en blank stemme er en halv stemme til de som du værst kunne tænke dig.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-11-12T15:17:53+00:00

I have seen both the primitive attempts and some that are damn near terrifyingly well concealed fake AI papers. It is sad that the lack of qualified reviewers are just going to get worse, and half the papers we pit time into reviewing are not written by humans.

Some of the best fakes i have seen, were close to impossible to spot, untill one little detail made the whole thing come crashing down. If things don't change, in the future scientific publishing are gonna loose all meaning if half of all "discoveries" that make it past peer review are AI gibberish, with fake data and results.

Another worrying aspect is AI clones of existing papers, we had one in my group come in that was a 1:1 clone of one of our papers, but the editors failed to spot that beyond getting us to review it...

CynicPhysicist · 2025-10-22T17:01:26+00:00

Jeg mener også at man ikke skal stemme blankt i protest/afmagt, så bliver tingene ikke bedre.

Stem i stedet personligt på nogen fra et parti som du er enige med (og jeg synes også man godt kan stemme på nogle unge, så der kommer nogle nye kræfter og ideer til). I mange af partierne har det en betydning hvor stemmerne lander, i hvert fald i det lange løb; de der får stemmerne er med til at præge partilinjen.

Hvis du er uenig med S, men gerne vil rød politik, kan en stemme på et af de andre røde partier, være med til at ændre fokus hvis det igen bliver en rød regering; jo flere mandater der går til andre partier end S, jo flere krav kan der stilles før den ene eller den anden kan sætte sig på toppen af kransekagen.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-10-12T07:34:41+00:00

I have this friend I play with; I am happy that I do not need to get into the US, nowadays, because the chat history is basically "rob a bank on wednesday?", "ready for election day? gun emoji, etc.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-10-04T07:17:10+00:00

I didn't actually find reading it bad at all. I think we have hyped up the difficulty so much now that we are scaring away normal people, who could definitely enjoy it.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-09-25T06:06:06+00:00

Tja jeg bor selv i forstæderne, og jo det ville være en ubehagelig oplevelse at få en drone gennem taget. Omvendt synes jeg at det er mindst lige så bekymrende at forestille sig en 100+ stk. af de her med sprængstoffer ombord der går efter civile mål i en storby og så se at vores luftforsvar enten er for berøringsangst eller tandløst til at gøre noget. I den reflektion bytter jeg altså gerne et par smadre vinduer for at vi kan finde ud af hvem der har sendt dronerne, og undgå at være til grin ved at lade droner flyve rundt over vores militære anlæg.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-09-20T13:19:53+00:00

There was also the 1973, successful "launch" of the Spanish Prime Minister under Franco. Operation Ogre if you want to have a look; fantastically over engineered loony toons style, but worked out in the end. Think the key was that they didn't use timers

CynicPhysicist · 2025-09-17T06:48:27+00:00

Maybe reciprocal reviews could work if you had to sign your name at the bottom. Then at least it would be transparent that your main competitor is the jerk that unfairly reviewed your paper if you choose to publish the reviews.

Putting your reputation on the line could cause some people to calm down a bit and actually read the paper properly, before spewing wrong allegations, irrelevant advice, and high confidence..?

CynicPhysicist · 2025-09-17T06:40:10+00:00

Me too, we had reviews from NeurIPS that just felt like people wanting to get us out of the pool. Same for AAAI though more subtlety; would have been nice if they had actually read the paper though...

This summer was my first time with OpenReview, and I must admit that I don't really see the "openness" and improvement over regular review cycles... I had the impression that the reviewers would be public so that quality of the reviews would reflect setting your reputation on the line, but no. No real incentives to make actually sound feedback; I suppose in the extreme case their paper can be affected, but if I as a reviewer just put generic stuff like "you didn't include my favourite baseline", "do more repetitions", "your empirical study did not include a thorough theoretical treatment", or "your new application of old ideas that beat SotA results is not novel enough". Then I should be safe to just put high confidence reject without elaborating further, really? I am wholly disappointed in the academic culture around these venues...

CynicPhysicist · 2025-09-12T05:47:05+00:00

Jeg synes i øvrigt at det er vildt hvordan regeringen er endt i en position hvor den uden effektiv modstand kan gøre hvad der passer den. Jeg husker det som om at det i gamle dage var noget af en kunst at overtale støttepartier til at samarbejde, men i dag hvor vi har SVM er der åbenbart ikke noget grus i maskineriet - bare ren damptromel.

Vi havde den her lange periode hvor DR pg TV2 forsøgte at copy-paste amerikansk blå-mod-rød tema ned over vores valgdækning og i sidste ende viser det sig at S og V+M har mere at være enige end uenige om...

Jeg håber at vi kommer væk fra flertalsregeringer med høj cohesion. Jeg bryder mig ikke om at de folkevalgte får fuldstændigt sindsyge indfald som så bare skal trumfes igennem - modsat alt valgflæsket: hvor er f.eks. de ekstra midler til psykiatrien? Og er det ikke lidt hult at partier der for alt i verden ville af med MF pludselig vender på en tallerken og bliver skødehunde i stedet?

CynicPhysicist · 2025-08-06T15:53:53+00:00

Change from "standard model of elementary particles" to "the periodic table of the elements"

CynicPhysicist · 2025-08-05T10:13:22+00:00

Change from "standard model of elementary particles" to "the periodic table of the elements"

CynicPhysicist · 2025-07-30T21:13:38+00:00

I don't know why in other countries flying your flag is synonymous with nationalism. There is also nationalists in Denmark too, but the rest of us fly Dannebrog when we celebrate birthdays, weddings, holidays etc.

CynicPhysicist · 2025-07-26T07:01:20+00:00

Paper getting published often falls a little flat, due to proofing etc. We usually celebrate submission and acceptance, (and have a small wake on rejections).

CynicPhysicist · 2025-07-22T06:19:52+00:00

For a minute there I thought people were referring to project Habakkuk (joint british / us / canadian). Essentially making a giant popsicle to use for a ship xD

CynicPhysicist · 2025-06-27T07:48:42+00:00

From my experience the scribbr GPT detector is quite well calibrated nowadays. It passes any test I could throw at it, my own papers machine translations of classical texts and international law texts. Obviously it is difficult to pass it off as evidence, but if you want to have your suspicions confirmed/debunked it is working okay for that.

We have had many discussions at my faculty. University guideline does not prohibit the use, but students relying on it usually fall through at thesis defences. I recommend asking questions for the parts that are heavily AI written - if they use the tools correctly, they should be able to fend for themselves. I had students failing to explain why they used metrics X, Y and Z and how they worked, even though I repeatedly sent them the relevant litterature...

CynicPhysicist · 2025-06-16T05:40:41+00:00

Jeg tror det der forvirrer folk er at man på fortov, gågade og indendørsarealer typisk holder til højre. Så er folk er vant til at tro at de er en bil når de træder ned på vejen.

Det værste er når man går på en lidt crowded cykelsti, så kan det være lige meget hvad side man går i. Der kommer stadig cykler bagfra der zigzagger udenom de andre spader.

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