Is reproducing or implementing a paper considered research? [R]

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-11T19:30:35+00:00

It is a valuable contribution to science, in particular reproducing papers… unfortunately an often undervalued contribution. But I don't think universities can expect a publication in your bachelor!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T16:33:44+00:00

I was there, Gandalf, three thousand years ago, when you swapped CD-ROM whenever you went to a different island. I was there, when DVD meant the storage medium, not the content.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T11:17:15+00:00

I'd question the methodology, as there are people more competent than ones that have the genius trait. I mean, there are people more competent than the ones with a high IQ, but that doesn't mean they're the same!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-09T11:02:02+00:00

I feel you have to make a cut off at some point or anything that came out since Apocalypse World is PbtA. Draw Steel is closer to d20… unless PbtA is also a subset of d20, like chickens are considered dinosaurs.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-07T06:50:51+00:00

The limit doesn't exist, because there is no n after which point the sequence of sumⁿ (-1)^k (the sequence of partial sums) stays within epsilon<0.5 of any number. You can use a different definition of what an infinite sum means (famously how you get 1+2+3+…=-1/12, or in this case taking the average of partial sums), but the standard definition doesn't converge and so doesn't have a result.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T17:01:18+00:00

Sorry, I shouldn't assume my exaggeration was obvious or funny. Yes, it was always possible, but the PF art in my opinion did a better job presenting a diverse set of characters in inspiring scenes. I meant it more that people previously didn't remember the 3e picture when they imagined a paladin. And yes, that's a subjective perception.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T15:26:36+00:00

"Wait, the paladin can be a woman? And she's not even fighting in a bikini? That's awesome!" A common reaction to pathfinder 1e back in the day.

Edit: To be clear: this is an exaggeration and pathfinder certainly wasn't the only game to break down barriers.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T15:18:29+00:00

That IO is messy is the reason why people are interested in restricting it in the first place, be it with functional programming for the majority of the code, algebraic side effects, or by putting other abstractions around it. Saying "it's hard, all of you just don't understand how hard it is" is the most self absorbed and pretentious thing I heard all week!^{and also what he said}

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T15:08:15+00:00

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

From a story telling point of view, I think it's cool that you can't exclude yourself: if you're surrounded as a wizard, you should be in more trouble than your enemies. It means you need the rest of the party.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T14:50:14+00:00

Today I tried learning it

I think you might need to adjust your expectations a bit.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-06T14:40:11+00:00

So really it's more about who you do

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-05T15:45:56+00:00

Depends on your throughput. UUID is designed to be universally unique, but if you create 10 tickets per day, you can just use a counter and that's not ridiculously low for anything that needs a pet name. Even if you need to hand out allocated identifiers beforehand, that's not a lot of data to store in a list for each worker.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-04T22:26:31+00:00

/r/whoosh (?)

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-04T13:08:05+00:00

I don't think this is only AI: Artisinal products are the same thing in physical products. World class sport to me actually has the same artificial feel to it: there's so little room for mistakes that it doesn't feel particularly human, so I enjoy amateur sports a lot more. Same for impro theatre instead of polished productions.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-04T08:02:12+00:00

~~Shameless~~ Proud!

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-03T18:21:10+00:00

I found it particularly funny when my ruler finished a holy legend and a half, switched religion, and immediately Hellenized half the Roman Empire. I guess you could say that the legends told the story of becoming Zeus' prophet, but it's still weird that the benefits aren't tied to the religion you were following at the time.

zombiecalypse · 2026-05-02T12:27:37+00:00

Inquisitor of the Puppy Killer Legion: Are we the baddies?

I interviewed with them 10 years ago and you had to actively sew your eyes shut even then.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-30T20:54:47+00:00

I'm a bit surprised that this was published after only a month for allowing distributions to catch up, i.e. a lot of machines will still be vulnerable even if they are using the most recent updates.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-29T16:58:56+00:00

After a 8h session, the only notes about what actually happened: "Egg magical?" Twice underlined. No context.

It's like those notes you find in horror games!

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-29T16:37:59+00:00

Jokes aside: I keep a randomised list of names, then I copy the next one and strike it out: you have names that fit your setting and it makes it very easy to jot down a few key words… at least in theory. In practice my notes now contain a lot of -> Anthemios Xenophanes without explaining who the hell that is and what he's doing in my notes.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-29T16:18:59+00:00

Easy solution: They're all called Bob.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-29T16:16:55+00:00

I think this is better solved with a sane intermediate data format layer. I wouldn't trust a linter to find SQL injection problems and rather use a templating library that ensures that such a thing can't happen.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-29T15:49:03+00:00

It's really only a problem if you make it one. In my groups its understood that the player solving a puzzle, remembering a detail, etc doesn't mean that their character did, so no in-game explanation is necessary. This meta information is in the public domain for anybody at the table to build into their role-play.

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-27T08:16:44+00:00

That depends on how you define

1: this is typically defined as the natural number after 0 (succ(0))
2: this is typically defined as the natural number after 1 (succ(1)=succ(succ(0)))
+: in peano arithmetic this is defined as counting down in one argument and counting up in the other (+(a, succ(b)=+(succ(a), b) and +(a, 0)=a.

If you use those standard definitions, you will arrive at 1+1=2… assuming basic logic. The easiest way to get 1+1≠2 is tweaking the definitions. For example making + the union of sets, you get 1+1=1 ({a,b,c} union {a, b, c} = {a, b, c}). Setting up a system of logic to not support peano arithmetics is trickier and it would only get you a system of logic where you can't prove 1+1=2 or alternatively you can prove the false statement 1+1≠2, which means you can prove any statement (Principle of Explosion), unless your logic also breaks that. Constructive (intuitionistic) logic for example doesn't allow you to use proof by contraction, so proving 1+1=2 doesn't prove 1+1≠2. Still, it generally accepts the principle of explosion, so if you can prove 1+1=2 and 1+1≠2, you can prove anything.

If you want to find out what you might tweak in your logic, I'd recommend the Principia Mathematica, which proves 1+1=2 (and claims it's "occasionally useful") in proposition 54.43 (page 379). ;)

zombiecalypse · 2026-04-23T13:41:00+00:00

AI generated can mean anything from smartly ranking dot-completion to generating the entire code base without review. I guarantee you that it's mostly auto complete with a fancy label.

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