SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 6y ago
In English, science (other colloquially, as in "the science of fashionology") means something specific -- a discipline whose core technique of knowledge discovery is the Scientific Method. That is, in English, math is not a scien
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Virginia intentionally ran I-64 through Richmond's oldest historic black district, Jackson Ward, splitting it in two and effectively destroying it.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I think he was not referring to you, but to your parent poster.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." That's the problem. Propaganda is more effective than education. If people were rational actors, you'd have a point. But they are no
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
My understanding [please correct me, I'm not a doctor] is that it's recently come to light that there is very, very little evidence, if any, that salt is bad for you (aside from people with certain heart conditions), yet the whole
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Or to put it differently, The US cheese industry has strong protection from the EU cheese industry's naming rules. I suppose. Anyway, this is like buying hamburger meat and discovering it's made out of ostrich. I think ther
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
In the US, most feta is incredibly made with cow's milk. So no, the US doesn't have strong protection there.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> I think she should have resubmitted it, but I think it says volumes about the problems of peer review that PCG is a widely known algorithm, widely discussed PCG is only "widely discussed" because its inventor has personally a
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I think you might be responding to someone else's posting? Not that I disagree with what you said.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
PCG has had no peer review of its author's claims at all, and some of those claims are dubious. PRNGs are serious things and require serious deliberation.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> I do not think religion plays a role at all. Greece is full of kitties too. I came here just to say that: Athens is absolutely loaded with cats, especially strays. I think this is regional cultural, not religious.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Italian methods for cheesemaking are nearly identical to US methods (including, in most cases, pasteurization). I can't think of any cheese preparation differences that would have the slightest effect on lactose. It is the case that
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It's completely legitimate to go vegan for animal rights reasons. But lactose intolerance does not, and cannot, cause headaches. It is a specific disorder affecting the lower intestine and causes diarrhea and gas pain. I am afraid t
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I do not buy the conclusions in this video. For a couple of reasons. First off, anecdote. I myself am severely lactose intolerant, which I inherited genetically. I have lived in Italy and know Italians pretty well, and in my experience l
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
In the US, to be a computer science professor you generally only need a PhD in CS, which you're getting as a PhD grad student. It helps to also have some good publications under your belt and a good thesis and a good advisor. But the
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It is a silly article, but there is an important distinction that I think you're missing. In a typical hierarchical organization there is a clear heterogeneity in job skills. The fry cook at McDonalds does not have, and will likely n
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> In the USA the three main banks are Chase, Wells, and Bank of America. FWIW, Citigroup is almost as big as Wells Fargo.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Vaccines are far from big money.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I'm going sharp as well (this started in my 40s). My understanding is that this is pretty common for people with perfect pitch. And it is frustrating!
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Slow beyond belief, sparse, and difficult for me to navigate changes. :-( A lot of work still needs to be done on this.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
>>> Shouldn't we accept that words change in meaning over time? > True, words like "cool" and "gay" gained new meaning via a process of modern association with their understood meanings, but BTQ abuse ri
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Take Cantonese (or heck, Teochew or Hakka). You really think this language is reasonably mutually intelligible with Mandarin? Or Shanghainese? I'm a (non-native, formerly fluent but now pretty poor) Cantonese speaker and I'd des
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Humans, and their ancestors, have had one-level bosses for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have had multilevel bosses for at least tens of thousands of years. In what universe are bosses "unnatural?"
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Send me mail (my hn username is my real name, google it) and let's chat.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/papers/evomusart19.pdf
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I tried to get in touch with Eno once. And I had a good shot at it. I knew someone who knew him personally and agreed to forward a message I had for him. It was regarding nontrivial software I had developed which incredibly and unexpected
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I own a Samson SM-10. That is a Hyunadai Elantra. This is not.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Still-functioning equipment in the Waldorf Astoria's audio room Um, okay. That's an Ashley MX-508, a very modern professional analog mixer currently selling for $1800 new. This is like looking at a Tesla Model S and saying &
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
It appears that this webpage hasn't been updated for over a year. Hoping this project hasn't been put in mothballs.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
These are orthogonal things. Simulated annealing is an algorithm. Genetic Programming is pursuit, which can (among other things) use simulated annealing to achieve its goal. Are you sure you're not confusing this with something else

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