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by _dain_ 4y ago
>it doesn't even really make sense for you to make flash cards. ideally they could be contextually created based on what you're viewing It does matter. You shouldn't train on a flashcard until you have learned the idea.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Gwern's classic monograph[1] addresses this: >The most difficult task, beyond that of just persisting until the benefits become clear, is deciding what’s valuable enough to add in. In a 3 year period, one can expect to spend “30–40
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by _dain_ 4y ago
On a related note, I cycle a lot, and I wondered if the health benefits of doing so were outweighed by all the particle pollution I had to be breathing in from motor traffic. But apparently the air quality is even worse inside cars compared
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Akinetopsia(en.wikipedia.org)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Ah, thank you for saying this. I'm in the middle of drafting a fairly complicated visualization for something I'm working on. I avoided red-green contrasts because that's the most common form of colourblindness, but I thought
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yes, it's like one of those irregular verbs. I am a public broadcaster, you are state-run media, he is a mouthpiece for enemy propaganda.
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kto, kovo
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by _dain_ 4y ago
they should both have it
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The relevant comparison to the city of Tokyo is London (5,598/km^2) and New York City (11,300/km^2).
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Fair. I picked England because transport in Scotland and Wales are devolved matters. A better comparison in Japan might be the island of Honshu, which is only slightly denser than England (447 vs 434). So I think my overall conclusion stand
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Whatever is holding back your trains, it's not lack of density. Here are the population densities of some places: Japan: 327/km^2 England: 434/km^2 US Acela Corridor (Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Baltimore-DC plus minor cities and
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by _dain_ 4y ago
You technically have to pay to use the NYC subway too. You're also technically not allowed to smoke crack on it.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Notionally private, but often the government is the biggest shareholder. Better than British railways (and energy suppliers). Private companies with a government as the biggest shareholder. Just not the British government ...
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Which is why they shut down vast miles of their networks in unprofitable rural areas... The Japanese countryside is ageing and depopulating. Any railway operator, public or private, has to face this reality. You can either shut them
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yeah, although IIRC some/many Japanese railways are still profitable even discounting the land development interests. Twitter trainman @380kmh has written about this but I can't find the thread right now. It's just the privat
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by _dain_ 4y ago
most japanese railways are privately owned and operated and maintained, and turn a healthy profit
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>1 - bikes are already great, really cheap, and actually good for you to cycle. We also have an obesity problem in most western countries. Maybe this is another case where things are different in other countries, but: you still have to
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>"Take the lane" is good advice but you must not be around other vehicles if you don't have cars making close passes. idk where you are but it's illegal for cars to make close (defined as <1.5 metres clearance)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
you've always been able to run C on bare metal without an OS
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>why is that user-unfriendly? Didn't it work? assuming you're not trolling, it's user-unfriendly because novices are used to changing settings in GUIs. changing settings in a bash script is a qualitative difference, and
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>world was still mostly ascii. America is the whole world? ASCII doesn't even have the £ sign for fucks sake, so it wasn't even adequate for Anglosphere countries, let alone two billion Chinese and Indians.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I don't know why they wouldn't be able to install it themselves, tbh. putting the ISO on the USB, telling the BIOS to boot from the USB, dealing with any random failures in grub or whatever, these are showstoppers for nontec
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Is there some reason you're avoiding them? yeah some of us aren't made of money
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>now even Ubuntu includes ads when invoking apt Not saying this is wrong but I haven't encountered any ads when I use Ubuntu on WSL2 through a terminal. Does it happen only in the "proper" desktop version? What do the ads
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by _dain_ 4y ago
thanks for the work you do! my comment was very harsh, but I would never have written such a long comment if I didn't fundamentally like what Nim is trying to do. it comes from disappointment, not dislike. fwiw I've put in maybe 1
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I wrote a comment about it a while go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34669902 basically Nim has several features which on their own seem great, but don't compose with each other properly. also it's been man
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Might give Nim another look. I stopped using it a while ago after getting frustrated with its iterators. Does the v2 improve them? I didn't see anything major about them in the release notes.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
i think the industrial revolution happening in the intervening period might have had a little something to do with that (and don't give me the "bengal was about to industrialize!!!" crap)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
What makes you so confident? Did you accurately predict in 2021 what the SOTA LLM capabilities would be in 2023?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
You can build a brain right now, just find someone pretty of the opposite sex and wait nine months.

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