MichaelDickens

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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I also use Syncthing. It's still not as clean as self-contained apps like Google Docs—sometimes there is a bit of a delay with the syncing that creates a conflict and I have to resolve it manually. But it works well enough.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Based on the empirical evidence from OP, this seems correct. But there's a theoretical argument for why "good location" and "actually good" should be positively correlated: 1. Good locations are more expensive. 2. P
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> In total, there were 3.1 pounds of beef—a graphic visualization of the muscle lost in just one week by subjects of a bed-rest study the student had just completed. This is significantly out of line with other research I've seen. M
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I think you are significantly misrepresenting what the author said. He didn't say he has no idea what control variables are. What he said is: > The "controlling for" thing relies on a lot of subtle assumptions and can brea
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Nothing in the article explained what SPARK is. I appreciated GP's comment.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
If AI safety is moat-building for American companies, why doesn't JD Vance support it, since it would allegedly benefit American interests?
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I'm not up to date on the state of the art but I've implemented hash tables a few times and we would expand the hash table whenever it was 75% full, which means x is never greater than 4. Improving the runtime from O(x) to O((log
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Humans cannot feel x-rays in the dosages you'd experience in an x-ray room. A sufficiently powerful x-ray would feel hot the same way a bright light does.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Really it should be adjusted for global (or US) total market cap. Market cap tends to go up faster than inflation, so even if you adjust for inflation, it will still be skewed toward modern companies.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
It is an iterated game, though. It's socially beneficial for you to be seen behaving altruistically on national television. I think in most cases this is more valuable than whatever prize the TV show offers.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Suppose I wake up and discover that all congresspeople are insider trading. What do I do next?
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I think the words' metaphorical meanings don't help much unless you already know what they mean. If you heard the word "sharding" for the first time and all you knew was that it had something to do with computers, I thin
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
# for each lever, # calculate the expectation of reward. # This is the number of trials of the lever divided by the total reward # given by that lever. # choose the lever with the gr
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I'm not saying the story is true, but the intro is accurate to the story AFAICT. The university is allegedly threatening to expel him if he doesn't build them a website for free.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Presumably lawyers are not involved on the UW side, because if they were, they'd be freaking out at their client's blatantly illegal behavior and telling them to immediately unlock registration.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
In that case, even better: lay off all the subordinates, and replace the boss with a 20 line shell script.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
People who have serious health issues from drinking soda are usually drinking 1+ liters per day. A liter of whiskey per day would be extremely bad for you.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> “Value investing” is dead for most, picking a company that you believe will generate solid long-term revenue is no longer interesting. In that sense, value investing has always been dead—most people were never interested in that. That&
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I doubt it, if you ask ChatGPT whether GPT-4 is OpenAI's fourth LLM, it gives the correct answer. That's the sort of thing GPT-2 might have said.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
A large penis looks the same as a small penis, only larger. Hypertrophied muscles do not look like bigger versions of normal muscles; they have a significantly different shape. A muscular person with normal-to-high body fat also looks very
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> It merely says you can't just say "computer got it wrong" and expect the other side to prove otherwise. According to the standard legal practice of innocent-until-proven-guilty, you can, in fact, say that and expect the
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
You could just as easily say, why work on a side project when you could play Factorio instead with the same result? What makes a side project better than Factorio?
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Nothing stops them, some people do do that. Two examples that come to mind are Aella's research on fetishes[1] and Scott Alexander's research on birth order effects[2]. But you don't get academic credibility by publishing onl
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
> One annoyance I find is the Our terms have been altered. Pray I don't alter them further loophole, where you will still get emails after unsubbing. I recently ordered pants from The Gap. I am reasonably sure that I didn't sig
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
Robert Warren is most likely older than the doctor in question, so it would seem the science needs at least two generations of funerals in this case.
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by MichaelDickens 2y ago
I recently spent some time looking into ergodicity and my conclusion was that people who write about "ergodicity" in a non-academic setting generally have no clue what they're talking about and they're just using the ter
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by MichaelDickens 3y ago
C++ with well-optimized libraries should always outperform Python with well-optimized libraries, right? They should be ~identical in the highly optimized inner loops, but Python has more overhead. But naive hand-written C++ could easily per
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by MichaelDickens 3y ago
I live in the USA and I see duvets almost everywhere. But I presume GP uses blankets.
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by MichaelDickens 3y ago
Why is the nonsense paragraph still grammatical? I thought the tokens were beings elected more or less at random.
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by MichaelDickens 3y ago
Today, only a highly privileged slice of the population can make a living making art. Nearly everyone who enjoys making art can't make a living off of it, and even the vast majority of people trying to do it full time still can't

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