TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 5y ago
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... this article goes into some details about Stephen Wolfram's walking laptop setup.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
If this is true then why do 25% of car accidents happen in first 3 minutes of driving
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It doesn't necessarily have to scale linearly like that, but I assume 10 miles on the highway is safer than 100 miles on the highway.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
not a gotcha question, I'm actually curious: how does a human driver know where to be in the lane?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
except 99% doesn't necessarily mean "every time you drive"; it's obvious to me that if you drive for 100 miles you are more likely to get into an accident than 10 miles. It's probably closer to "in 99% of situa
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The Veritasium channel does this with all its videos; it lets Derek test which thumbnail/titles are effective and which aren't. He talks about it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsa9DqmId8 at about t
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
how odd, I don't find this true for me at all. For a while I turned off watch history (which means that the recommendations are only based on your subscriptions) and that was... not an objection improvement, it made it harder to find c
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I think GP meant A/B for your own thumbnails, so you'd be able to randomly show two different thumbnail/titles to viewers and then see stats for each one. They can come clarify if that's incorrect.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
some quick research says that he got a PhD in physics education research from the University of Sydney. You can read his PhD thesis, "Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education", right here: https://www.sydney
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Search needs to be under-sensitive to return results people want. Often a search isn't for precisely the semantic information in the query, but for information generally about that topic (not to mention how queries are often not actual
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This isn't because Google's language model is stupid, but because it's trying to give you what it thinks you meant rather than give you precisely what you put in the search bar.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This seems like an unecessarily cynical take. Do you think it's a good thing that people are forced to sell their bodies to survive? Obvious to me that regardless of whether or not onlyfans shuts down, we should have social safety nets
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I wish Google had some way to set parameters on this sort of thing, because I often find that the default "try to assume that the user meant the most common thing" is useful, but I also often find it bothersome. And if Google isn&
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Yes, I'd imagine the number of people searching for the year Neil Armstrong went to Mars because they for some reason are extremely deluded about history is much, much smaller than the number of people who type "mars" when th
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Or it assumes that you were asking the more sensible question of when he stepped foot on Mars.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I spent some time in chassidic communities in Israel a few years ago; that 13.2 median age figure is very believable.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>have cell phones My impression was that this isn't true? It's at least true of some Hasidim, maybe Satmar was different.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Except the lockdowns in china were, according to GP, true lockdowns. Thus, there are true lockdowns. The no true Scotsman fallacy isn't just any time you clarify yourself.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>To a J programmer, that's not just clear, it's obvious. Is the argument that J just has really weird syntax? It feels trivial to me to make a mess of syntax that makes learning a language obtuse, unless there's something
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I use the browser pretty frequently, I don't even have Spotify desktop on my work computer
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
It's really crazy how quickly things have gotten bigger. I remember not too long ago my mid-high power computer had 1Gb of RAM, nowadays that would be laughably small.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I imagine for something like 90%+ of users, a popup that says "Your maximum number of API calls has been reached, click this link and register your own API key to continue using..." is an instant nope
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I admit I'm not very informed about what IQ denotes, but wouldn't such a probability need to include the population of the world? Is that a parameter in the calculation of IQ?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Go to page 9 and see what was mandated for that: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/community_mit ... Interesting how COVID has killed more people than the "projected" (though how con
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's not what a no true Scotsman fallacy is, GP literally claimed that other countries did in fact take the necessary precautions and did better than us, which is would be a true Scotsman.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Just want to point out that of 7B people, about 122 of them are one in 57 million
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Ideally there should be a solution that's neither "stay there forever" nor "pull out and let the Taliban take complete control".
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This shouldn't be news, tons of apps do this; I suspect it's for something like Chromecasting, maybe it collects telemetry too?, either way not at all specific to TikTok.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Over my life? I don't know what sort of power they have over my life no.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I understand that, but I don't know, maybe I'm just too different from Huxley to feel it? Like, everyone in the Society is happy, and the few people who aren't happy are sent to live somewhere they can be happy.

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