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by GuiA 6y ago
Been going through Conway's (and Conway related) books since his unfortunate passing. His biography by Siobhan Roberts was a great starting point to ease into it (lots of direct quotes from Conway, which makes it a very easy read that
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by GuiA 6y ago
Rederived from... what? A comfy armchair? The blog post chose to use vector math as its starting point but I’m not seeing any data that validates the approach in anyway, or anything that justifies it besides the assumption that “ You can ta
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by GuiA 6y ago
Which is all very silly since OKcupid will incorporate dealbreaker questions like “how important is your partner’s religion to you” with ones like “do you like horror movies”, and thus you may end up matching at 90%+ with someone whom you w
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by GuiA 6y ago
You have a commend button, it's the little up arrow to the left of the comment.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Streets were crowded in SF's mission tonight too, with many people 1) not wearing masks (or wearing the mask on their chin (!?!)) 2) being in close knit groups. Fingers crossed I guess, but given that 1) the virus is still around AND 2
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by GuiA 6y ago
> How long did mechanical looms need to show they wouldn't become sentient? Ah, thank you. That's handy phrasing.
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by GuiA 6y ago
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
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by GuiA 6y ago
The human brain loves finding patterns, meaning, and explanations ( "the platonic rises to the top" , per Taleb), so you'll be able to do something like this for pretty much any configuration of objects (all numbers are inter
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by GuiA 6y ago
We have billions of examples of babies growing up to learn to spell and tie their shoes, therefore it's very reasonable to assume that that's a skill most babies will get to. There are 0 examples of a man made construct reaching &
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by GuiA 6y ago
Life is like a piece of music. The "point" of listening to it lies in the listening - not the getting to the end of the track. If you build and optimize your life around "getting to the end" - whatever that has meant for
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by GuiA 6y ago
I took a grad level course on data mining/machine learning back in the early 2010s, before the current gold rush, and while there was some level of theory and programming, the professor spent a lot of his time discussing these finer po
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by GuiA 6y ago
You have similar mites living on your face too. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/21/7250878...
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by GuiA 6y ago
There are pretty compelling reasons to believe that life/physics are strongly tied to computation. See eg the slime molds experiments for some of the more visually impressive cases of that. The question of how to turn these loose inkli
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by GuiA 6y ago
What resonates with you as a reader is a pure function of what you’ve read in the past though. There’s an argument for trying to stick with movies/books/articles/etc you find difficult precisely to keep the mental torpor desc
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by GuiA 6y ago
This insight is somewhat echoed in the post itself: "At the end of the day, doing VC right is actually much more about portfolio construction and modeling than picking." (with a link to https://medium.com/ulu-ven
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by GuiA 6y ago
From an epistemological point of view, the word "cat" is as untranslatable as the word "sobremesa". That's the absurd part that gets people in arguments on the internet. In practice, we get by mostly fine (partly be
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s an absurd argument. Either everything is translatable because language allows for any arbitrarily complex construct that lets you circumlocute your way around, or nothing is translatable because everything is steeped in a unique cultur
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by GuiA 6y ago
There has been no better example of this mindset recently than the development of the StopCovid app. It makes no sense on a number of levels, but there are so many government officials pushing it in the name of “la souveraineté de l’État su
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by GuiA 6y ago
"Poaching" is terminology used by recruiters/executives precisely to control the narrative, and justify the kind of employee-hostile decisions that OP is referring to. It makes sense to reconsider the use of that word given t
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by GuiA 6y ago
Kinect offered good full body skeletal tracking. Saying that it could “only recognize dancing” is objectively wrong. And even if that was the issue, look at eg Magic Leap, which had excellent finger tracking. What compelling things were bui
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by GuiA 6y ago
Beat Saber is a great example - it asks you to do something tiring, but it’s super fun and you have immediate feedback so the effort is worth it. Games can ask players to do almost anything as long as they’re having fun in return - but that
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by GuiA 6y ago
That’s actually a very neat line of thinking! If you could model it in terms of gait (slow and heavy vs light and limber) rather than specific gestures, it could make for a compelling system.
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by GuiA 6y ago
The examples you mention work well because there is a real world affordance (the wheel, the act of throwing) that the gesture maps to. I agree that rotating a wheel gesturally makes more sense as an interaction in VR than the same action do
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by GuiA 6y ago
Step 1: Make an amazing game with gestures Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! Joke aside, such game mechanics, albeit with cursor gesturing rather than hand gesturing, have been tried many times before. See Arx Fatalis, Black & White, etc. Jon
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by GuiA 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23383162
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by GuiA 6y ago
[2012] needed in title. That slide deck is certainly a historical artefact worth preserving. And yeah, Facebook does roll off the tongue better than Thefacebook.com.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Oh wow, what is even the point of this blog post? It boils down to: - we released a thing - yes we spent time courting the guy who made a version of the thing that ours looks suspiciously like, turns out he’s really good - well yes our thin
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by GuiA 6y ago
It's interesting to compare and contrast e.g. a F1 racer driver vs a pit stop mechanic in this model (or an airplane pilot/mechanic/aeronautic engineer).
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by GuiA 6y ago
Yeah, when you do typesetting you quickly learn that ~10 words per line is a sweet spot for readability.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Totally agree with you, with the one caveat that Youtube is not operated with long term accessibility in mind. Videos routinely are removed by their creator, or get taken down for silly reasons. And one day Youtube will disappear as well. A

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