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Re:‘Unbelievable’ Spinning Particles Probe Nature’s Most Mysterious Force on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:19AM (#34678569)

What a terrible headline

Ask HN: What are some good mailing lists to sign up to?

Posted by spoork on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I like learning stuff through discussion and a lot interesting projects or groups still use mailing lists as a main medium of exchange. What are some that you are reading and/or participating in? Any topics are welcome, although tech or science related ones are probably of most interest here.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find interesting research papers to read as a ho... on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:15AM (#34558198)

Points 3) and 4) are good if you are looking for generally interesting stuff, but don't help much when searching for specific topics as I described. 2) and 5) would probably be an interesting project but way too much effort for just searching something to read myself. 1) is probably good advice but doesn't solve the problem of initially finding something to read.

Ask HN: How do you find interesting research papers to read as a hobby?

Posted by spoork on Saturday January 28, 2023 @09:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As a sort of new years resolution, I want to read more about current frontiers in science. But how do people find good papers to read? For textbooks I always found this easy, as there are a handful of good ones at best for somewhat niche topics and you can easily find them, often along with reviews that help to decide which one is the right choice. For papers and journals I find this...

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Re:Detect ChatGPT Generated Content on Saturday January 28, 2023 @07:33AM (#34557064)

The problem with such things is that you would need 100% accuracy in most cases for it to be useful. For example many schools and universities fear that students use ChatGPT for homework. If such a plagiarism checker has false positive results in just a small percentage of cases, the consequences for honest students would be too severe to actually act on the results of the check. But perfect accuracy can never be reached for text classification, so those tool will never be that useful despite being interesting to AI people.

Re:Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stres... on Saturday January 28, 2023 @06:54AM (#34556864)

While this seems to be a good idea judging by the lots of positive comments here, I personally don't get the appeal of using an app to do breathing exercises or meditate. It is such a simple thing to focus on yourself with eyes shut, do some counting in your head without any need for an external device that tells me what to do. For me, the beauty in such exercises is that I can do them anywhere, without any equipment. Having yet another app for this just doesn't feel right, even though it might be somewhat useful to learn new techniques.