Matumio

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by Matumio 11y ago
> I wish GitHub had a proper UI for deprecating/abandoning projects As we see from OP, it's really hard to admit that you don't have time for your own project. Ideally, inactive maintainers will let go and give push right
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by Matumio 11y ago
This makes me wonder if the supervised/unsupervised distinction is useful at all. Maybe you could say instead that all learning algorithms simply need some way to measure similarity between the training examples, and it doesn't ma
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by Matumio 11y ago
If you can read German, here is a really great article from an UBI supporter arguing against minimum wage: https://www.grundeinkommen.de/05/07/2013/warum-ein-allgemein...
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by Matumio 11y ago
It's possible to notice banding with 8bpc if you look at a color gradient, especially if it wasn't dithered. But if you add proper dithering (over all 3 channels) and you're looking at a natural image (yeah, not a 256-color w
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by Matumio 11y ago
> So if we want to maximize the expected utility we get out of the top spot, we should put the item with maximum expected popularity there. Really? If users only ever look at the top 10 items, you'll never find out that item #33 w
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by Matumio 11y ago
Those are great, thanks! All bookmarked.
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by Matumio 11y ago
This is quite an interesting paper, thanks. But the idea that cash is useful only if the person is enterprising was not a result of this study, but an opinion that motivated its setup. As they write in the conclusions, it was "our conc
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by Matumio 11y ago
Do you happen to have any pointers to such research? If anything rigorous (comparable to GiveDirectly's randomized controlled trials) has been done in the US about the effect of just handing out cash, I would really be interested.
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by Matumio 11y ago
That's actually one of the arguments for UBI (unconditional basic income) - it would reduce the problem that welfare can't reach many of the people who are supposed to benefit from it but too proud to ask for help. (UBI would also
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by Matumio 11y ago
Python's JSON parser will obviously create Python objects as its output. There is a limit of how much you can gain with clever C string parsing when you still have to create a PyObject* for every item that you parsed. Because of this,
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by Matumio 11y ago
Maybe not. This one seems to have some kind of control loop for steering, probably based on contact forces. The control loop surely is designed to catch you and keep you upright before the contact force gets too low, no matter how hard you
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by Matumio 11y ago
If there is just a tiny bit of truth in the stories about the Hartz IV system from Germany, it's actually the means tested welfare system and its case workers (who don't have much time per case) that strip people of their dignity.
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by Matumio 11y ago
> I've never seen a study which looked at extra cash injections for long-term unemployed. This was done in London. Here you go: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money... > giving modera
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by Matumio 11y ago
You can teach people how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, but some of them have no boots, so it's not entirely fair.
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by Matumio 11y ago
Evidence actually shows that direct cash transfers to the poor can be quite effective and lasting. Have a look at the research done by givedirectly, or this one: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-mo
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by Matumio 11y ago
Obviously the extreme lack of money, also known as "poverty", can be solved with money. Assuming that you don't throw the money at "something" but at "somebody", this "somebody" will by definitio
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by Matumio 11y ago
I don't see why you would use Cython when you are writing C/C++ anyway. All the trivial data types and wrappers are easily handled by SWIG. Just don't try to wrap any non-trivial types with SWIG, instead declare them as `PyOb
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by Matumio 11y ago
Wikipedia wasn't written by "victims of theft". I don't see how I exploit them by reading their articles - more likely the opposite is true, and the authors actually hoped that many people would read their article and th
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by Matumio 11y ago
Quote: "The more you care about the outcome, the harder it feels to achieve." This was great to read, thanks for posting it. It focuses more on anxiety. I agree it's more juicy but I think the original article talks about a s
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by Matumio 11y ago
This is skewed towards people who are unemployed in the current system . It's a bit far-fetched to conclude that this is also what the average person would do. It's more plausible (to me) to assume those people are doing this
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by Matumio 11y ago
It should really be unconditional basic income (as it's called sometimes). The main risk I see is that conditions creep in, e.g. if it gets tested only on people who are currently on welfare. I think a low UBI can still have a small
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by Matumio 11y ago
The thing with a tax for basic income (as opposed to other taxes) is that the money doesn't go to the government, it goes directly to the people. The government cannot decide how this money is spent, so it's not a "fat govern
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by Matumio 11y ago
Not everyone can do that. Some people also have to actually plant the corn for your food, fix the plumbing, etc. Imagine them all creating their own opportunities instead. Thanks to industrialization and automation it surely would be possib
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by Matumio 11y ago
And you will stop doing what you like, at retirement age, if there is no pay for it?
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by Matumio 11y ago
Those are great, however I think "arbitrary code execution" in MonkeyBrainOS is not a flaw but working as intended. Better think twice before patching it, it may be part of this feature called empathy .
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by Matumio 11y ago
This makes my head hurt. Surely Wittgenstein had permission to use Occam's razor? I mean, if it's possible that you actually meant quus_5 then it's equally possible that you meant quus_3 or quus_114 , but since you didn&
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by Matumio 11y ago
Yes, and I believe it is very strange to assume that those other agents have unmodifiable strategies when you are discussing strategies with them :-)
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by Matumio 11y ago
Granted, assuming you trust your own judgement about other people's values. Still, something doesn't feel right to me. It sounds too much like a "cognitive dissonance" type of justification for acting against one's
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by Matumio 11y ago
This argument is only correct under the assumption that you are the only person on earth making this decision. It is like arguing that you shouldn't go voting because the chance that your vote changes the result is, for all practical m
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by Matumio 11y ago
Under ideal circumstances, the invisible hand finds the best solution for people's needs weighted by their wealth. The needs of a poor person do not count at all, which is why we are considering donations. We have many rules already in

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