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by LolWolf 5y ago
Harry Potter and the Snooping Browser in Collusion with the NYT is my favorite book of the series Kidding aside, it's a little difficult to swallow some of this stuff when it's coming from websites like this. Sure, I understand
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by LolWolf 5y ago
This is a lovely comment! I just came by to say thanks for it :)
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by LolWolf 5y ago
To be extremely fair to hn: almost all such studies about human behavior, especially those relying on polling, are garbage. Often, the statistical methods are inappropriate at best, or downright deceiving at worst; there is nominal, if any,
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by LolWolf 5y ago
To be fair, communicating with (and even training) AI has always been an Eldritch incantation at some level…
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Lizardman's Constant Is 4%(slatestarcodex.com)
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by LolWolf 5y ago
There's another cute (if unofficial) name for this that is slightly more specific than just "selection bias" which is (likely) what your professor was talking about: it's called the "lizardman constant" The nam
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Selection games(pfeilstorch.substack.com)
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by LolWolf 5y ago
I have several friends on Find My; it's just much easier when someone is driving or biking than texting them/knowing if they got home safely. Plus, who cares if my good friend knows where I am at any time? If I didn't want th
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Thirded. Use it to host my blog; free tier is good, but I really like them and have really phenomenal limits, etc, so just pay (even though my blog is not updated nearly as much as I'd like)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Agreed! It’s awesome :)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Well, turns out you’re completely right and I fucked up my reduction (quite badly it seems)! Alas, it also turns out I can’t edit nor delete the post, so, hopefully people get this far down the thread and read this :)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yes! Sorry, I mixed up two sentences in my head there. I meant to say that you can color 2ⁿ⁻¹ green and 2ⁿ⁻¹ red (or, alternatively, you can color all 2ⁿ vertices with one of green or red) such that no two vertices of the same color share a
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Oh, I think both of these statements are quite precise (in the sense that reading them and turning them into math is rather immediate). Otoh, you are right and we are saying different things: I’m giving an equivalent formulation with a two-
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Sorry, if it wasn't clear it should have √n neighbours of the same color ! (The number of actual neighbors of each vertex is fixed, as you said, to n :) In the latter case, you round up!
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by LolWolf 6y ago
I think these are just made up by Scott, but that is a phenomenal-sounding book! I am quite curious and will check it out :)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
This is a bit of a random comment @dang, but it's always a bit of a shame when a long explanation gets posted and the comment that it is responding to dies or is downvoted for some reason or another. I've seen this happen a few ti
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> One thing that always makes me laugh though is the terminology in math. Things like "hypercube" just get a chuckle out of me. Oh just wait until you get to physics ! :) > I didn't know what the sensitivity conjecture
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by LolWolf 6y ago
The sensitivity conjecture is actually pretty simple to understand, intuitively. (Its reduction to applications, and its proof, of course, are both a little bit more of the "magical" parts so-to-speak.) The 'canonical' w
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Honestly, the one thing that got me into graphics (from physics and math) was just the incredible amount of: "you can literally do anything so long as you make it pretty in the end." I took that as a life philosophy and it'
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by LolWolf 6y ago
There are better presentations of geometry than the Elements :) (Plus, the original constructions, without algebra, are rather tricky and don't generalize well!) If we're interested in the mathematical method and its power, a good
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Oh, these are (mostly?) manual (often done by students working with SCPD, if I recall correctly). Any student can sign up and record for a class after some basic training, which I think can also include CC'ing some parts of it. It is d
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by LolWolf 6y ago
"Hobbyists beat professionals of [x] in [x]" No they don't. ----- Look, I know we can go down the rabbit hole about what constitutes a good epistemology, how these notions are correct only some of the time, or how the metrics
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by LolWolf 6y ago
It’s still common practice to place the pre-print online, either before or during article submission. Journals and conferences usually ask the reviewers to not explicitly look up the paper online. (Honor code. Usually works, sometimes doesn
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yeah, the important part about this is "with more than incidental use of University resources," which, for software, is almost nonexistent. (Even internet usage doesn't count as more than "incidental," which I know
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yeah, it's essentially a paraxial approximation. You can find derivations (through a few steps) by essentially doing the following reductions: Maxwell's -> Fourier optics (scalar wave phenomena) -> Eikonal equation (rays, bu
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by LolWolf 6y ago
This is great! Thanks for the reference. There are some interesting methods to solve these kinds of "recursion" equations, especially when the integral operator, M in this paper, has the given properties (e.g., spectral radius &lt
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Absolutely! There's a kind of beautiful freedom about it, too. A number of people (myself included) seek to align work and passion all in one, which is fine, except it's certainly not the only (or, indeed, even close to "be
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by LolWolf 6y ago
I would describe FAANG (in my and many friends' experiences) as "adult daycare." Not in a bad way, mind you, but very much "get your homework done and go have your free time after." (This excludes higher management
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by LolWolf 6y ago
My main problem with Garmin, and the one that gets me really hard when camping, is the fact that Connect requires internet in order to be able to see even basic statistics. I absolutely love my Garmin Vivomove Style, but because of the smal
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Perhaps the best way I began to understand entropy is when reading about tail inequalities and divergences. In particular, we can view the entropy as a sort of “distance to a uniform distribution.” (Specifically an additive factor away from

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