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What is the topic of a comment?

Some hypotheses: 1. It’s not contained in the comment itself, it’s something about the comment, in the context of the conversational tree it’s in. 2. There’s not just one "topic"....

Are we misusing voting?

In What should we eat?, it seems easy to use votes as an indication our food preferences. That might muck with the "trust" signal. I think this could happen all over the place in a larger system. Thoughts?...
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crispr

how long until we get crispr for I want my baby to have blue eyes and blonde hair? I’ll bet it happens in 2024 or 2025

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supplements

what supplements do you guys take daily? how do you sort out the bs supplement marketing from real science about what’s good for you? I went down a rabbit hole evaluating lions mane supplements for my aunt that has parkinsons and I uncovered loads of bullshit information in the...

bugs

let’s use this thread to report bugs, for now

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Scikit Metric Learning

In the metric-learn package, all algorithms currently implemented learn so-called Mahalanobis distances. Looks like for metric learning, it’s Mahalanobis or bust.

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Stuff we Like

Let’s use this for stuff we think is great. Triumph! Celebration!

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move from slack to uptrust?

As soon as we can, can we start using uptrust instead of slack? eat our own dogfood? do we want to do this? I think that in order to get there, we would need: comments sorted by date inbox/notifications working other things?...
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shitpost

treat this post like a shitposty spam post that you don’t want to see on your feed

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