Sniffnoy

6 ms·

31.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to imply here. Yes, he co-authored a report. What is supposed to be dangerous or suspicious about this? What does your statement about "reputational consequences" have to do with
32.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
Yes, I was surprised he never discussed the idea that such exponentials are typically made of stacked sigmoids. That said... if the exponential is made of stacked sigmoids, it's still an exponential on the whole! The fact that it&#x27
33.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
> He's taken a side. Yes, that's called "having an opinion". Typically people writing argumentative pieces are doing so because they have a belief about the matter. I'm not sure what exactly you expect here. &g
34.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
> FYI: The author has predicted that "AGI" will be here in 1-2 years and has staked his public reputation on it. He is personally invested in trendlines being lindy rather than sigmoid. I mean, that's called "having a
35.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
Oy, the title mangler mangled the title. Any chance the title could be fixed here? It's supposed to be "Extremely Low Frequencies".
36.
Low Frequencies(computer.rip)
8 points by Sniffnoy 5mo ago|1 comments
37.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
Facebook does, I'm not sure why it didn't in your case. It adds an "fbclid" parameter that is quite long. I just tried it to confirm. Edit: Perhaps it only mangles links for logged-in users? That raises the possibilit
38.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
I mean there are modified gravity candidates other than MOND. I think those are worth more consideration. MOND seems pretty well disproven at this point, yet somehow it's still what people focus on in terms of modified gravity! Wher
39.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
I mean, there are modified gravity candidates other than MOND. I think people should perhaps give more consideration to those and not focus on MOND as their idea of modified gravity. I feel like the evidence is pretty well against MOND at
40.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
You appear to have commented on the wrong post.
41.
by Sniffnoy 5mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
42.
by Sniffnoy 6mo ago
(2017)
43.
IrDA(computer.rip)
39 points by Sniffnoy 6mo ago|7 comments
44.
by Sniffnoy 6mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
45.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
Also, the form that appears in the article isn't really a joke . A big part of what makes the original funny isn't just the form of the "attack" but the content itself, in particular the contrast between the formality
46.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
> Right off the bat this guy is wrong. Nobody in their right mind would bet that the regime would collapse swiftly. That "nobody in their right mind" would bet this does not, in fact, contradict his assertion that somebody did!
47.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
In case people aren't aware, the inequality of these specific four means is a special case of the more general power mean inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean#Generalized_m...
48.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
Summary: He created 4 hard-to-key shots, and on each of them tried KeyLight, IBK, and Corridor Key. Overall on 3 of them he judged that Corridor Key had done the best job, on one of them he judged that IBK had done the best job. I think o
49.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
The FDA didn't approve thalidomide, though! That was Europe!
50.
by Sniffnoy 7mo ago
Ah, but who's "they"? Names of departments are determined by Congress, and Congress has not renamed the DoD. The executive branch does not normally determine the names of its own departments. If you imagine the American go
51.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
OK, so the actual disagreement here seems to be whether adding same-mass right-handed neutrinos counts as a significant modification to the Standard Model. I have generally seen adding any sort of right-handed neutrinos to be considered
52.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
Huh. Why do other sources seem to say that's only the case for bosons? Or am I conflating two distinct problems? Sorry, once again, not a physicist. But if that's correct then I'm confused what your objection is to what I s
53.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
So, I'm not actually a particle physicist. My understanding had been (based on something I'd read somewhere -- should try to find it again) that there is some problem caused by just declaring "neutrinos just have innate mass
54.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
I wouldn't say that we have no experimental data which contradicts them. Rather, we do have experimental data which contradicts them, but no experimental data that points us in the direction of a solution (and whenever we go looking f
55.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
Yes, nonuniformly elliptic PDEs. Schauder's theorem applies to uniformly elliptic PDEs.
56.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
In what way did Schauder's work turn out to be false? It simply doesn't apply to the situations discussed here.
57.
by Sniffnoy 8mo ago
They're not saying it's not worth talking about. They're saying it should have a date tag, as is customary for old articles on Hacker News.
58.
by Sniffnoy 9mo ago
Interesting! Do you have a link to the full comic by any chance?
59.
by Sniffnoy 9mo ago
I think that may have only been in the animated TV show?
60.
by Sniffnoy 9mo ago
The article itself falsifies this explanation; IE wasn't released until August 1995. The HTML draft specs published prior to this already specified that these tags didn't need closing; these simply weren't invalid HTML in th

More ›