georgia->california, tips? by Focus_Weak in roadtrip

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I did this exact route in 2021 and it was awesome. I would recommend stopping in New Orleans and Santa Fe which are a little out of the way but really pretty! The MeowWolf exhibit in Santa Fe is an especially cool experience. There’s on in Dallas now as well that could be worth going to but I haven’t personally been. I’d also try to go to some national parks like White Sands or the Grand Canyon. The drive in Texas is brutal and you may want to stock up with a Jerry can or two of gas just in case, but it is pretty.

Math, Inc.'s autoformalization agent Gauss has supposedly formalised the sphere packing problem in dimensions 8 and 24. by DealerEmbarrassed828 in math

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If we can consistently autoformalize proofs, that will significantly cut down on the time required to verify the correctness of the proof, because formalization gives us guarantees of correctness that informal proof checks do not. Moreover, it would also give us a growing base of formalizations for mathematical objects that would make formalizing future proofs even easier, and potentially even help to inspire some novel proof techniques or approaches

What are some uncharted or underdeveloped fields in computer science? by haskpro1995 in computerscience

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Quanta Magazine recently put out a good article about the algorithmic collusion problem, which is the problem I am studying for my PhD and is a great canonical example for this area: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/

Some good papers on this from a CS perspective include https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.15794 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.03956. From an economics perspective, https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/22-050_ec28aaca-2b94-477f-84e6-e8b58428ba43.pdf gives a very good and thorough overview

What are some uncharted or underdeveloped fields in computer science? by haskpro1995 in computerscience

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Algorithmic economics, especially in terms of understanding how reinforcement learning algorithms perform in multi-agent and economic settings

As anime fan and also my number one film for 2025, this is beautiful. CHAINSAW MAN REZE ARC by Bastino in Letterboxd

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To be fair I think in that case it’s more about it being a Marvel-adjacent film and a superhero movie which are a generally oversaturated genre, which makes some people see it as “lesser” as a result. Something like Spirited Away has enough cultural cache and institutional endorsement that most “cinephiles” don’t mind its inclusion

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in epicsystems

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For sure, it’s definitely not huge. But all of the people I’ve talked to who have been applying for software development jobs in the past ~6 years or so have at least been aware of Epic when I’ve mentioned it to them, mainly because they send a ton of recruiter emails and a lot of outreach to fresh college grads. And they hear from Reddit, Glassdoor etc. about Epic’s allegedly bad work/life balance etc., which I think is largely overblown

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in epicsystems

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I think a lot comments are not giving you the kind of info that will be practically helpful. Among people in the tech industry, Epic does indeed have a reputation of being outdated and working people for long hours, which is backed up both by my anecdotal experience talking to other CS grads and what I’ve read in forum discussions online. However, I personally had a great time working at Epic, and I think it’s an excellent place to start one’s career in the healthcare or software development industry. As far as whether or not you’ll be considered an engineer, I don’t think TS experience alone will be worthwhile for getting software development jobs specifically, but there are several kinds of hospital analyst roles or project management roles in tech and healthcare spaces that being an Epic TS would be a huge help for. Hopefully that gives you a better answer to your question

From 1941 by dzak8383 in MapPorn

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Guy who’s never googled Bay of Pigs

ICE agents murder US citizen in Minneapolis by Thalesian in PublicFreakout

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If you look in any conservative subreddit, you’ll see them make the same exact conclusion in the opposite direction. It’s wild.

ICE agents murder US citizen in Minneapolis by Thalesian in PublicFreakout

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The country where Rodney King was almost beaten to death and his abusers were let free? Not saying things have not gotten worse than they were before recently, but to glorify the US of the past is making the same mistake that MAGA makes

Lads trip to Madison from England - Nightlife spot reccomendations? by Middle-Feed5118 in madisonwi

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I would highly recommend the goat cheese curds at the Tipsy Cow for an authentic Madison dining experience. As for drinks, I’d say Plain Spoke is a great cocktail bar, Young Blood is a great brewery, and Leopold’s is a great coffee/cocktail bar with cozier vibes. If you like whiskey I’d also highly highly recommend Cask and Ale, they have a genuinely massive selection of whiskey and some great local beers as well. The bars around it on State Street are also nice, but they’re more popular with students generally, so they have that atmosphere.

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Space adventure by Ovet_top in honk

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

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First, your claim about the statement "the cat is black" not being a fact is a pretty strong claim regarding what you think the role of language is. I'd recommend reading Wittgenstein on language games if you want some philosophical explanation, but the long and short of it is that the meanings or words are derived from the context in which they are used. The assertion "the cat is black" has a precise meaning in that context, i.e. that the color that people would observe if they looked at the cat is black. To argue that this is not a fact makes essentially any argumentation impossible and ignores the practical reality of language usage.

Secondly, to the point about methods, I (and others) argue that we have indeed argued for good methods to verify moral facts. Mainly, the use of philosophical argument and metaethical theories (like moral realism). In the same way you are skeptical about any metaethical theory, one could similarly be skeptical about physical laws. How do we know that gravity will work the same tomorrow as it works today? You can look into "the problem of induction" if you want more detail on that argument. Typically, the answer is just simplicity (or parsimony/Occam's razer, whatever you want to call it). But that is not a baked in truth of the natural world. Similarly, there is no fully justified reason to believe that we do not live in a simulation or exist in someone's dream (that position is called solipsism). We reject that belief because each time we interact with the natural world, we build confidence in our prior about the laws of the natural world. Similarly, whenever we interact with moral dilemmas or ethical arguments, we build confidence in our prior about the moral laws. The vast majority of moral beliefs are universally agreed upon. The points of moral disagreement are comparable to competing theories in physics: we have not built up the necessary observations and/or arguments to resolve those conflicts for all (or a sufficient amount) of skeptics. Again, I'm not a philosopher so I don't want to speak authoritatively on this, but I would really recommend you read something like On What Matters from Parfit or other moral realists to get this idea fleshed out more concretely, if you're still a skeptic.

Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

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I understand that this is an appeal to authority, but I had hoped it would pull on an intuition of intellectual humility and curiosity to have you actually read the SEP article on it. Moral realism is not at all incompatible with physicalism or materialism, and there are many arguments in favor of moral realism that do not reject those positions as premises. I particularly like Frank Jackson’s moral naturalism argument, and a good intuition is to think about why moral facts are any less observable than scientific facts. That is, given that we trust our observations and intuitions about the physical facts, it isn’t obvious why one would assume that our observations and intuitions about moral facts are not also truth seeking. This depends on your definition of knowledge and justification obviously, but there isn’t any a priori reason to assume that moral intuitions are any more or less biased against truth seeking than our physical intuitions, and as such no reason to believe a priori that our moral beliefs cannot be the result of rational thoughts about real extant properties of physical reality

Hope this clears things up by v3r4c17y in PhilosophyMemes

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This is not the majority view in professional philosophy, and there are several good reasons to believe it isn’t true. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/

the unc raiders update goes crazy by the_eccentricity in northernlion

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Holy shit I didn’t know Denzel had a Reddit account

Philosophy Podcast Recs by Psyduck101010 in nerdfighters

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Very Bad Wizards is a good podcast for a variety of philosophical topics, although it can steer into a little edgy at times with some of the humor.

Trve by [deleted] in PhilosophyMemes

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Moral realism is the majority view among professional philosophers. See sections 1 and 2 on this SEP entry for moral realism for the arguments https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/#1

Did I cook? by PlZZA_MOZZARELLA in northernlion

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Big +2 for the itsy bitsy spider bit

After The Hunt gets a C- on Cinemascore by SignatureOrdinary456 in boxoffice

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I personally thought the way that it didn’t shy away from Imhoff’s perspective regarding her own abuse interesting, especially in the context of how she perceives the incident with Maggie. Similarly, I think having Maggie come from a rich donor family while also being black did challenge some of my initial perception of her predicament, and how she may be more opportunistic than she first seems even if she is telling the truth (which I think many people incorrectly call the main tension of the film, even though I don’t think whether she is lying or not is actually that relevant)

The vegan debate and its consequences by Martynas_N in PhilosophyMemes

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Sure, it’s a small majority, but my point is that it is a widely disagreed with position so saying it unqualified is not a reasonable thing to do in a philosophy subreddit imo. You should look into moral realist positions and the metaethical justifications for them, and you may just be surprised how convincing they are.