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by Tomminn 8y ago
Here's a link to his short paper, which is probably the reason this was posted. http://sci-hub.tw/10.1109/JRPROC.1962.288062
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A point I can't help repeat: the US already has greater public healthcare spending than almost all countries that have universal public healthcare [1]. To fix the damn system: Step 1. Decide on an amount you want to spend on public h
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Attacking a railroad has been trivially easy for decades and yet so few people do it. It's shocking how non-destructive 99.999% of humans are.
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I suspect it'd depend entirely on whether facebook costs everybody $1000/year, or just them . If facebook costed everybody $1000/year, I would definitely stop using it, because the network would be immediately broken sin
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It is more productive to hate a task and do it in a rage than to love it.
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Yeah, I was 100% cribbing off Taleb's broad point, which I'm familiar with. Do you know if he's suggested this particular idea, or something similar?
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I find this difficult to watch. The only thing that would make this less difficult for me to watch is if he had his personal fortune invested in his hedge fund also, and so was similarly wiped out. In which case I'd like to hear it. Ot
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When you try to do something ambitious, generally you spend the vast majority of the time as a stumbling amateur who is totally confused about the right thing to do. If you don't accept this is what you are, then the day that reality s
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Improving yourself is only painful if you lack humility. If you have an honest and realistic idea of how ordinary you currently are, and honest and realistic idea of what you can actually achieve in 5 years, then the gradual self-improvemen
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The strongest correlations seem related to the wealth of the country. One reading of this finding is that more effort is directed toward gender performance in rich countries. This could be due to a number of factors. I wouldn't discoun
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I had no idea how good ddg had gotten these days. Being from NZ, I thought I'd give it a good challenge. I entered !maori love, thinking it was impossible it would have a bang pattern for that, and it automatically brought me here htt
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I'm a kiwi. The ship is on our 50c coins, but has always seemed almost mythical to me. This would be pretty damn cool.
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See update, I realized my facepalm at roughly the same time as you:)
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Huh, I never realized this was this simple. Fleshing out the general case the post mentions. Suppose p=x^n-1 is prime. Note that: x^n - 1 = (x^n + x^(n-1) +... + x^2 + x) -( x^(n-1) +... + x^2 + x +1) =>x^n-1 =
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by Tomminn 8y ago
I actually missed it till I read the comments section. I'm not sure it's as obvious as you think. It's like the man-in-gorilla-suit-during-basketball effect. If you're not looking for satire, you don't see it.
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He's saying that just because the movements of particles are not predictable doesn't mean you all of a sudden get to claim "free will"-- the ability to somehow impose an arbitrary desire in the chain of causality between
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My mate made a tabletop card game based on the dramas of Olympic gods(kickstarter.com)
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I think the way the trick is done is he essentially has a healed piercing all the way through his arm. So he only had to go through the pain once and can now do the trick whenever he likes so long as he keeps the piercing open.
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This one is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAs11gkqKE . Ricky Gevais: "Sorry sorry David seriously, this isn't a trick. You're just sticking a needle through your fucking arm. What are you doing? That
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by Tomminn 8y ago
@diego_moita I never actually said reason was the only tool in your kit. Rhetoric is broader than that.
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If you can't persuade his base, then I guess you're not the person whose job it is to persuade his base. Be patient. One will come.
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From Wikipedia: "The InfoWars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making it more visited than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek." This bothers me. Say what you like about his co
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by Tomminn 8y ago
Anyone else notice that after hours trading puts em a few mill shy of a trillion?
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I think this can't be right. Machine learning is a bunch of small variations to a central algorithm. There must be one specific problem that it solves, otherwise it would be thousands of radically different algorithms. The second half
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Ask HN: What precise problem does machine learning solve?
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People die from pain-induced shock [1] all the time. I think the essential mechanism is that pain changes your heart rate and blood pressure. Small doses increase both, but large doses decrease both. A large enough dose can make your heart
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Ignoring the quality of the article and cited study, I did massively cut down my meditation routine for exactly this reason. Essentially, through meditation I learnt how to release "knots in my brain". This was exceedingly pleasan
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At the university I'm at, every time the library dropped its subscription to a particular journal there used to be a strong backlash from academics at the university. Since sci-hub, the library has been able to drop a bunch of journals
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The way to think about this is an article in Nature is like winning a tiny Nobel prize, with no prize money. You can make whatever other sensible publication outlet you like, but it's hard to create something that has the prestige of w
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I assumed the HN crowd was familiar with the fact that "90% of everything is crap" is someone else's idea. This was probably not a good assumption to make.

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