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by DavidSJ 4y ago
But literally no one in this thread is saying otherwise. We’re just saying online friends are real and shouldn’t be demeaned with scare quotes, and also you’re probably missing out if your only interactions are local.
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
But nor does what you said really answer my question. Online friends are real, and often provide things that local friends can't. No one here is saying they're a substitute for local friends, but that doesn't mean these rel
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When I was a teenager, I had local friends and online friends, and my online friends were very real and I'm very thankful that I had them. Neither were a replacement for the other.
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It's a big world out there. Sometimes the best connections aren't found locally.
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Why the scare quotes around online friends? Online friends are very real friends.
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Is it unethical to hurt someone if you're doing it in a way that they definitely won't be able to remember later? Assuming humans remain mortal, all pain definitely won't be remembered sufficiently later.
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
Circumcisions are "most all" surgeries on infants (in the US), since they are sadly done routinely on something like a quarter of them (half of anatomic boys).
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Do you have a source for this?
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
This post is not really about robot vacuums and laundry racks, but about how simple ideas can elude human beings for long stretches of time, and then in retrospect look obvious.
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
Interestingly, two of these — one of the disambiguation pages, and one of the least-viewed non-disambiguation pages — were created by the same user, Carlossuarez46, and are both about a location in Iran. Furthermore, the user Ruigeroeland h
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
A strong foundation in linear algebra, multivariable calculus, probability, and statistics is going to be generally applicable almost no matter what problem you work on.
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If you want a beautiful abstract perspective on linear algebra to complement Strang's more down-to-earth, matrix- and linear equation-oriented lectures, pick up Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right .
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System 2 could be close behind System 2 by building on System 1 but it isn't clear how long that will take. This is happening since a few months ago: Wei et al (2022). Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Mo
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
What are one or two of the recent neuroscience findings that you feel point most strongly towards what you are saying?
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I played that game a lot. What was the maneuver?
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My son can’t touch type yet He might not be able to touch type, but now he can type touch.
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With over-parameterized neural networks, the problem essentially becomes convex and even linear [1], and in many contexts provably converges to a global minimum [2], [3]. The question then becomes: why does this generalize [4], given that t
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A lot of people can't subitize past four. Counting is another matter: it's a symbolic, deliberate, step-by-step activity. Arguably most neural networks don't do symbolic, step-by-step reasoning "natively", and maybe
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The right feeling helps you do the task.
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It has pros and cons, but I think civilization is a massive pro that outweighs all the cons.
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I think it's the opposite. We can move, but we have the intelligence to tame our environment so we don't have to.
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I second this recommendation.
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On this general topic, I recently learned that the words undulate and water have the same origin in Proto-Indo-European: wódr̥ (PIE) → udōr (Proto-Italic) → unda (Latin) → undulātus (Late Latin) → undulate (English) wódr̥ (PIE) → watōr
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Product managers communicate to programmers what they want, and programmers (sometimes) manage to figure it out and implement it. This is analogous.
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I'm able to get my first employee at around 2m30s. The trick is to blow balloons as fast as possible until you can afford helium, then alternate between blowing balloons and trading them for helium until you're producing balloons
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by DavidSJ 4y ago
Randomness is usually defined in terms of a probability distribution, which is just a measure where the total mass assigned to all elements adds up to 1.
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Mine was that the art itself had died.
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This happens to me all the time. Perhaps the most amusing instance went as follows (quoted verbatim, with identifying information omitted): This email is regarding: []. Class: MATH 7 ADVANCED Prd: 2 Teacher: [] ----------------------------
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by DavidSJ 5y ago
I'm not going to claim life expectancy is equivalent to quality of life (although I do think it correlates). But I was just responding to the comment which claimed life expectancy had only increased in advanced countries.
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Life expectancy has increased dramatically virtually everywhere in the world [1], and not just due to dramatic reductions in child mortality. Poverty, presumably one of the major causes of human suffering, has also declined dramatically wor

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