MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
There are two fallacies being discussed here: 1) The fallacy that averaging two wrong answers will somehow magically give you the correct answer. 2) The fallacy that the opposite of a wrong answer must be correct. People who point out that
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
> Realistic ones are boring. You must live in a different reality. The one I live in has fractal complexity and pretty much anywhere I look is filled with interesting ({cute..beautiful},{mildly surprising..WTF?!},{ah, that's an exa
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Hotter _incandescent_ bulbs (e.g. tungsten wire, halogen, etc.) produce more light than cooler ones, but the heat is still wasted. That's why such bulbs are going away. With non-blackbody bulbs (e.g. florescent, LED, etc.) the light i
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
So you just did a Mote and Bailey. The initial claim was that "anyone rejecting both extremes is automatically wrong"; I pointed out that this was a weaponized defense being used by both sides to hide their BS, and instead of res
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
Yes. Because it is pitch black and therefore you can not determine it's color (plus, the fact that you haven't been eaten by one yet does not justify the conclusion that you won't be). It's also a play on Gardener&#x27
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
The phrase/concept "both side ism" is a very clever bait and switch that, so far as I can tell, was designed to marginalize/discredit people who are trying to actually engage with the issues (instead of just toxically em
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
LLMs include mechanisms (notably, attention) that allow longer-distance correlations than you could get with a similarly-sized Markov chain. If you squint hard enough though, they are Markov chains with this "one weird trick" tha
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by MarkusQ 11mo ago
That's part of a quotation, as clearly stated in the article.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
We'll never figure it out until somebody figures it out, and then we'll move onto the next thing we'll probably never figure out. Or, to put it another way, everything is an obscure mystery, until it isn't.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Ah, but do you know your own?
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You are rebutting a point I didn't make, unless by "available technology" you mean things like food, electricity, medicine, etc. You are also making huge unjustified assumptions about who I am and why I believe the things I
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Inequality has increased, but not in the way most people assume. Almost everyone is materially better off than their prior-generation equivalents. It's just that some people (typically, those closest to the source of the improvement)
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Simply on semantic grounds, this is an unreasonable conclusion. "I will not do X unless I am given an unfair advantage" is not at all the same as "I will not do X if the system is unfairly biased against me".
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Another aspect that often gets overlooked is the sense of place, letting the physical world remember relationships for you. Put your finger on an interesting passage, flip back to where you saw something related...about this many pages, le
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
For a gentile introduction, Colin Adams's "The Knot Book" is very accessible (and builds up the notion of polynomial invariants step by step).
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
After all the headline making research that doesn't hold up to scrutiny, it's good to see _something_ with robust, broad spread replication.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
It depends on context. When someone raises a potential objection and then says "but whatever" they are being dismissive towards their own objection. This is also called "letting it go" or "moving on".
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
They told me I couldn't run ad blocker/anti-virus software on my computer while watching their videos. So I stopped watching their videos. (Technically, the videos aren't theirs, but belong to the creators. Many of them pr
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
If you don't like random/inexplicable changes in your income, you probably shouldn't have youtube involved.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
It could be the causality runs the other direction; I know that my youtube viewing is way down since they decided that they could decide what software I may/may not run on my computer.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
The onerous requirements have nothing to do with protecting the samples in their sealed containers; the issue is overblown fear of contaminants on the _outside_ of the containers reaching Earth, It's comparatively easy to seal a cont
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
You are totally missing the part about rocks from Mars reaching Earth all the time. If it were an issue, it is already too late. Plus, we have already brought back samples from other bodies with out bothering with such precautions. Also,
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
"Predates" doesn't mean it's still correct or even reasonable. There are all sorts of words and phrases that made perfect sense before we gained familiarity with a new technology (e.g. "horseless carriage") th
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
It was arguably correct when we had such a small quantity of data that it made sense to _count_ it rather than _measure_ it. But those days are long gone. If no one had ever seen more than a dozen grains of sand, it would makes sense to co
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
<rant> "Code" and "data" are mass nouns, and have been for decades. You don't say "pass the salts", and you shouldn't say "the codes are" or "the data are" either. <&#x2F
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
> People are bastards in real life. People are angels anonymously. This is exactly the opposite of my experience.
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
In depth science lectures would definitely be a step in the right direction. I think those are gone though: "Our evening events cover everything from cult film screenings and live performances to gripping panel discussions and exclusi
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
That work has been pretty thoroughly debunked. What's getting transferred is stress hormones, and you can "duplicate" the results by using animals that have been stressed (but have never seen the maze) as the donors. They d
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
Where the adults get to act like kids and drink. They don't add substance to the exhibits, they don't attempt to educate, they just attempt to tap an adjacent market for the same dumbed down slop. (Don't get me wrong, I'
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by MarkusQ 1y ago
I believe you may correct; the final point is still absent (since the link chart predates the data in the story) and would (I think) continue the downward trend, but by how much is not clear.

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