Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
Feel free to let my five downvoters know; I'm sure that that "not hostile" will change their minds. HN is hostile to people like Swartz who actively work to tear down information silos, shine light on government and corporate
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Never forget. We are fighting for our rights. Also never forget that we're having this discussion on a site that is hostile to us.
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Perhaps the most important ones are: > Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer. And: > Within a computer natural language is unnatural. There's one more, but it might be too direct for people to accept: > Programming i
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by Kednicma 6y ago
There's no need to differentiate between vectors and matrices in this sort of work, other than as shorthand for dimensional information. [0] is another example of a ray-tracing tutorial which, by virtue of using GLSL, doesn't draw
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It's Official – Steven Pinker Is Full of Shit(jacobinmag.com)
6 points by Kednicma 6y ago|0 comments
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by Kednicma 6y ago
If you want discussion, then discuss things. So far, all you've done is make a couple snide remarks, one about how Oregonians must suffer so much voter fraud, and one about how Oregonians must not be fairly represented if they're
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Your first two links are for Alaska and Wisconsin. I'll agree that the latter is clearly not experiencing fair voting; their legislators need to step up and be better. The third, the survey, is quite interesting. It shows two problems:
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Yes, you have it exactly right, including the usage of non-local control flow to interrupt and restart the search. [0] is another implementation in an imperative language. [0] https://github.com/monte-language/typhon&#x
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Oregonian here! My signature is on file with the state, and both an OCR system and a human look at my signature on the ballot to make sure it matches. Additionally, my ballot has a barcode on it and a security weave, so that a "counter
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by Kednicma 6y ago
One way to imagine this space is as an indexed bank of light switches. Each switch starts out unset, and our goal is to find a configuration on a finite number of switches which will satisfy our search. The search can only check one switch
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by Kednicma 6y ago
You and the rest of this thread's participants may be interested to know that the problem was solved a while ago; you want the "Dragon4" algorithm from "How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately" [0]. Indeed, t
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Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
15 points by Kednicma 6y ago|2 comments
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"In the century leading up to the formation of the Hivemind, there were many rebellions around the world. Individual adult humans resisted the Hum when they were not raised with it. In 3 BHE (2020 CE), an outbreak of rona killed a quar
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I don't want to quibble with your experiences of peer review; your experiences are valid. But what does a journal provide, then, exactly? Are they relics of the era before cheap self-publication?
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Interesting ideas. How long should it take to create one of these solutions? NP-completeness doesn't care whether the thinker is human or neural-net, and optimality can take exponentially long to find. Also, what if there simply isn&#x
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The author's boastful tweet should really be examined. Can a deep-learning stack write better code than a person? Although, really, the more important question: Can we do studies on this without comparing expert computers to underg
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm not sure how fake data is substantially different from any other part of a fake paper. Just like how randomly-generated sentences might sound reasonable, faked data might look like real data. In both cases, we expect peer review to
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I wonder how this could be done ethically but in a way that doesn't allow peer reviewers to cheat. One thing that comes to mind is ABX testing. Show peer reviewers both a paper which they should accept, and a paper which they should re
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The part about Nguyen was frustrating. It's hard to imagine a more honest hypocrisy than explicitly saying, on the record, that one will be forthcoming and helpful towards the marginalized, and ending up being just as dismissive and un
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by Kednicma 6y ago
As a Portland State donor, I'm disappointed at PSU's refusal to back legitimate scientific inquiry. Sending bogus garbage to journals occasionally is a reasonable way to test that peer-review systems are working. The events I norm
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Yes, and to expand upon the magic word you used: Excel claimed 30mil users in the mid-1990s [0] and various estimates I've read put the current usage at somewhere between 500-600mil users. I think Excel is the most popular domain-speci
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by Kednicma 6y ago
You might be disappointed. Larry Page has vocal cord paralysis on both sides, and as a result, his in-person presence is not very satisfying. Moreover, Page would not have substantially more interesting testimony. For any Googler at the top
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Quoting the article: > In fact, though Cicero could never compete with computer games when it comes to ''making learning fun,'' conquering the conjugations of his lost tongue probably makes a lot more sense when it co
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I like the bit at the end about studying the classics in Latin and Greek. It helps me see that "language" is not quite the right word for programming systems, and that this wrong word choice has led to writers falsely thinking tha
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Please, tell us your story. Hide whatever details you must.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
It sounds like you're speculating; do you have evidence that he did not voluntarily resign?
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I'm sorry to hear that, but I would ask (5) how much time have people here had to serve "in the doghouse"? How much damage have folks here taken from these "powerful people"? It seems specious and speculative.
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Well, this executive voluntarily resigned. He could have just as easily issued a statement condemning his younger self for their sexist and puerile remarks, disavowing his older views and committing himself to doing better. Plenty of folks
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I see people complaining that he was canceled, but if it takes three and a half decades to get canceled, then I'm not sure I see the problem. If I were to write an article about how I think that women ought not to serve in the military
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by Kednicma 6y ago
How would you reply to the Kochen-Specker Theorem [0] (or its consequence, the Free Will Theorem)? The main problem with treating subatomic particles as tiny spheres, rather than as waves, is that we immediately have problems with entanglem

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