JoshCole

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by JoshCole 4y ago
> I'm not sure why you believe your statements on your opinions of what "ought" to be should bear weight on what is nationally legal. Do you not live in the US? I'm not sure why you would be confused about this. It se
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by JoshCole 4y ago
The book of Proverbs, a book on Wisdom, puts it this way: "The kisses of an enemy may be profuse, but faithful are the wounds of a friend." It tries to capture this paradoxical idea that harm can be to our benefit. Jesus had an in
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by JoshCole 4y ago
To try and help you understand by analogy, since you've shown you like them: I'm telling you that I find you to be comparing King Heart and Queen Heart to Two Spade and Three Clubs. I'm telling you that the analogy doesn&#x27
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by JoshCole 4y ago
He writes: "it's authoritarian hypocrisy that i can't use an unregulated gambling website which failed for eight years to follow the agreement that it made with the government". You didn't write this, but he quotes
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Appeal to grossness is fallacious. Describing a different situation and claiming it is the same while not having congruent properties is an abuse of abstraction. The substitution method for logically reasoning by analogy is only as strong
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Your intuitions are steering you wrong. Think about this from first principles in light of some of the corrections I'm going to provide: > which allow efficiently training an optimal player. Training an optimal player is not possibl
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by JoshCole 4y ago
It was an interesting comment and I agree with you that the rational market hypothesis has some issues. It is a real tragedy that rational as a word is as overloaded as it is. Even when I try to disambiguate I don’t feel you are noticing th
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Thanks. This answer helped me get more clarity.
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> The "rational market hypothesis" has nothing to do with the rationality of individual actors. It sucks that the rationality community started calling themselves that since now people get confused when you talk about the aspir
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Theft isn't people coming together for the purpose of aligning incentives so as to share information with each other while remaining rational. This has far more in common with Truth than it does with Theft. First and foremost, because
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I did read that, but it doesn't address my questions. Actually, it doesn't even begin to answer them. On one level - you don't even seem to have recognized what I was asking about. I wasn't asking about the justification
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> An alternative theory is that this market was providing information that the current regime is looking to suppress: actual popularity of candidates, policies, etc. I don't mean to suggest that this is the intent . I'm saying
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I know many people strongly believe in rational market theories. For these people this sort of betting site isn't just a betting site: it is the mechanism by which they engage in understanding politics and their primary means of politi
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Just to give some context: a single talent was worth about 6,000 denarii. A denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour. That single talent was a sum of money worth roughly twenty years of labor. In the parable the person doesn&#
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Catholics have far better news than that you get to heaven on the basis of personal productivity. Consider these questions: When and why was toil introduced? Did the prodigal son have riches when he returned to the father to justify himself
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Thinking inductively is prone to error. This doesn't change if you choose to use a Bayesian approach. If you don't want error, first principles thinking is much more accurate. Some people discover it and think they've discove
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by JoshCole 4y ago
This might be less painful. brew install openjdk brew install leiningen lein new project cd project lein run Ditto for the linked article.
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Patience will be necessary; a bad reading of your meaning will be a bit sticky because it allows others to pick up computation where others left off. In the short term it looks like misunderstanding. Over time it means a great deal more tho
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by JoshCole 4y ago
You are saying it sounds as if he his explicit denial is what he was saying? You're like a kid that hears another kid getting upset at a mispronunciation of their name. "My name is John," he whines. "Sounds like you ar
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Expressing the problem you are trying to solve as a DAG is idiomatic in Airflow, but expressing your problem in terms of queue processing is idiomatic in Celery. a b c d vs. a (bc) d They make different design decisions about what
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by JoshCole 4y ago
In counterfactual regret minimization and in reinforcement learning this shows up too. The solution there tends to discount early iterations with something like a weighted average. It makes convergence to the true values happen faster. A si
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by JoshCole 4y ago
It seems to me that if an ant is ripped apart limb from limb after being found to be a part of a different ant colony this is not the perfect feed for an argument that ant colonies ought to have pheromones which never evaporate. The actual
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Rhetoric is a dangerous sword - its sharpest edge is the pommel. You seem to think you've pointed out a logical inconsistency in Aaron's argument structure. What you actually did was propose that news does not exist; actually, tha
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Regarding that puzzle type... There is a rule that lets you transform between valid solutions, right? What happens when you use that rule to help impose additional constraints onto the problem such that you are solving for a particular so
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Disliking units of work that compose together via graph relationships on the internet is like living in a spiderweb yet hating strands of silk. You may struggle against this, but you will only wear yourself out. The web will continue to be
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Some of my favorites are: Best First Upper Confidence Bound Tree Search. Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization. Temporally Weighted Averaging - eg discount the first ten samples. Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling Unification
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by JoshCole 4y ago
A way to make it stop hurting to think about, replaced instead by transcendental beauty, is to abstract pheromones to outcome utility backward induction and the following of pheromones to a single worker being a monte carlo tree search roll
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I am taking about decision problems, you are taking about learning problems. These are different. Skip past the idea that you need to learn something. You’ve finished doing so. What happens once we learn an approximation of that landscape;
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by JoshCole 4y ago
You should check out the YouTube of the cat that was trained to use buttons to speak. It sometimes says things that are surprising which it wasn't trained to say directly - like complaining that its owners music is bad. I realize that

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