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by 317070 7y ago
I'm using my quarantine time to read Piketty's "Capital in the 21st century". I'm actually pretty sure I'm _not_ going back to work if it risks my health. And it is obvious that the rentiers of our economy want
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by 317070 7y ago
Well, that and happy Nowruz everybody!
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by 317070 7y ago
> Honestly, I'm used to all sorts of awfulness, but this one piles awfulness upon awfulness, and takes it to a level of pure evil. The lawyers filing this lawsuit on behalf of "Labrador" should remember what they've d
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by 317070 7y ago
Yes, I think Jax is indeed the nail for tensorflow. It's not there yet, but the part of the research community that did not go to pytorch is going to jax now. And jax is made by the autograd people.
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by 317070 7y ago
Double glazing would already go a long distance in London. I would not blame the trees when a lot of houses have windows with cracks you can see outside through. Let alone the single glazing everywhere.
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by 317070 7y ago
Right, this previous article clarified a lot. Thanks! https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/category/uncategoriz...
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by 317070 7y ago
OK, I tried to read this, but (as is probably on purpose with these legal things) I did not understand what is going on here. Who is arguing which argument? (What I understood is that UK government is arguing some UK law is void such that t
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by 317070 7y ago
Yes. I am like you, I love playing first games. My playbook is usually: 1) create chaos. Everybody plays the same game where they pick a boring strategy, which makes the best calculator at the table win. Instead of trying to maximize my poi
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by 317070 7y ago
Well, here you have one! Computer science notation is vastly superior to the common mathematical one. It's a different league of clarity. But my papers need to follow the consensus, as I'm already trying to get a hard idea across
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by 317070 7y ago
I agree, the blogpost is not written clearly. But there is something fundementally odd about how wavefunctions cause seemingly negative probabilities. And understanding that might lead to improvements in how we deal with probabilities and s
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by 317070 7y ago
We had 14 standards. With glorious government funding we make one standard to replace them all. We will have 15 standards. Forking a piece of software whose market moat is 100% network effects is not easy.
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by 317070 7y ago
But that does not make a whole lot of sense though. What does it mean to have negative probability? Can you sample from negative probability? Also on a more fundamental level. If you define probability coming from the idea of Dutch books (w
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by 317070 7y ago
That is an extremely interesting blogpost! Thank you for sharing! It's been a problem I have been struggeling with lately, as to how qm seems to have negative probabilities in some contexts. I will study this blogpost deeply. It does s
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by 317070 7y ago
Your argument is that those children in Greece deserved to die because children in Romania are dying too? I am not convinced by that argument. What is going on here is that debt in the current financial system is at conflict with current mo
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by 317070 7y ago
I think you do get this correct. It is the bank's responsibility to assign its loans properly. That's the risk they take and why they get to collect an interest. Maybe watch this video of David Graeber from start until 5:20, http
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by 317070 7y ago
The first chapter in "Debt: the first 5000 years" deals with the issue.
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by 317070 7y ago
The singularity. Make software which is capable of making even better software without human intervention.
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by 317070 7y ago
Apologies, I'm not American.
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by 317070 7y ago
Go to a Chinese shop, and buy a bag of white powder called "MSG" or mono sodium glutamate. MSG is to umami as sugar is to sweet, salt to salty, citric acid to sour.
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by 317070 7y ago
Well, the conclusion of this paper is that the odds of this virus coming to be naturally are very small. Which is a very scientific way of saying "we think this was man-made". But, that is what the paper is saying. Extraordinary c
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by 317070 7y ago
Swift for tensorflow is probably dead in the water though, now that Chris Lattner left Google this week: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200127005141/en/Goo...
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by 317070 7y ago
Or, people might not have published to ASA journals if their papers would not have been easily accessible from sci-hub.
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by 317070 7y ago
Yes, but the current budgets clearly are not.
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Yeah, some people even started giving it a name [0]: Schmidhuber's (local) optimum. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the idea is that as long as Schmidhuber says he did it before, we are probably in the same basin of attraction as we w
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by 317070 7y ago
It boils down to this: You take a bowling ball, and put it 1 meter stick away from you at zero velocity compared to you. Assume that at this distance, no forces are exchanged between you and the ball. You wait a billion billion gazillion ye
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by 317070 7y ago
Well, the other side won. So the other side will not need to donate. Albeit that it was close.
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by 317070 7y ago
In the case of Thames water, yes. Leaving London is the only option.
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ICE arrests 90 more students at fake university in Michigan(eu.freep.com)
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Smartphones are worse than nuclear weapons(theguardian.com)
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by 317070 7y ago
My brain is parsing how a Dutch input would sound different in Dutch? "in de put" vs "input" sounds the same, no? What is different?

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