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by _dps 9y ago
I'm not sure if I'm missing sarcasm here; if I am I apologize. But... this is obviously not how the world works. In the records and CDs era revenue was proportional to disks shuffled around. It is absolutely not the case that a ty
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by _dps 9y ago
> IMO industry leaders have pressure to reinvest their profits in R&D and put it in their new products, regardless of whether they can get patent protection for them or not. This has obvious free-rider problems for things like new vi
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by _dps 9y ago
I agree that defining "political" is itself partly political. Having said that, and just as my 2 cents, I think the experiment was not run long enough to be conclusive. People always complain with changes. I think it's reason
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by _dps 9y ago
> But is it really worse for society to have single mothers on welfare than to have mothers trapped in toxic marriages for financial reasons? Surely this is an empirical question and not a theoretical one. Unfortunately it's hard to
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by _dps 9y ago
>> It's not the managers or capital owners that have been driving these productivity gains either > I'm under the impression most of the productivity gains since the early 1990s were due to large capital improvements, whi
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by _dps 9y ago
> Deconstruction changed the way we think about what we read, see, and hear, and taught us to question the assumptions inherent in the same. It gave us the spaghetti western, cyberpunk, and arguably punk rock itself (and it definitely in
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by _dps 9y ago
I am far from an expert in Deconstruction, but I am an expert in mathematics and have read a fair amount on the foundations of mathematics. I find your description technically correct, but highly misleading. The vast majority of mathematici
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by _dps 9y ago
I think it's a stretch to call denial of entry to one of the most exclusive institutions of the world as "not treating them as normal humans". Reading between the lines from the text here (which I admit is speculation), I thi
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm curious if the population generally thinks this is a reasonable situation. I can easily imagine a 25% difference in valuation of two properties in the same area with the same number of bedrooms, the same age, same space, and nomina
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by _dps 9y ago
I was at Caltech when LIGO was being built. Kip Thorne gave a great lecture in the engineering school about how they went about knowing what to try to engineer in the first place. I'm not an expert on LIGO, but based on the seminars I
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by _dps 9y ago
> "Data is data and data is good" This is a reasonable intuition, but is hard to square with the increased risk of publication bias for small studies (i.e. we should question whether the typical small study published is really
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by _dps 9y ago
Actually this is a topic very near to my interests. You mention it in farming (and that interests me, but the extent of my farming knowledge is growing a small garden of tomato plants) ... but I think it's a more general trend that tec
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm not a JS expert, but I do a lot of work with heavy numerical computing that occasionally has to run inside a responsive UI without threading (it's no fun). The solution is "simple", if annoying: 1) you find a small-e
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by _dps 9y ago
No one would have objected to a comment like: "One school of philosophy holds that thinking is inherently linguistic, so in that sense animals probably can't think." People are objecting to the unsubstantiated, doctrinaire, i
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by _dps 9y ago
> ... a number of philosophical errors in the comments (w.r.t. language, religion, qualia, zombies, etc). I feel like this is, intentionally or not, aimed at least 80% at my comments :) Would you mind giving me some quick pointers on wha
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by _dps 9y ago
Google gives me the following two definitions for "think": 1. have a particular opinion, belief, or idea about someone or something. 2. direct one's mind toward someone or something; use one's mind actively to form conne
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by _dps 9y ago
Unless you use an extremely narrow definition of "thinking" (yours is not commonly accepted among animal researchers, and is IMO too tautological to be useful), this is clearly disproven by decades of animal cognition research. An
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by _dps 9y ago
Yes, this is closely connected to the question of qualia, and the concept of a "philosophical zombie" [0]. On the one hand, naive human intuition seems to suggest that the "movie playing in your head" would not emerge fr
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by _dps 9y ago
"No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are found in some animal or other" This was a fun read in general, but I think it's particularly interesting to consider some
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Can we know what animals are thinking?(medium.economist.com)
166 points by _dps 9y ago|226 comments
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm almost entirely ignorant of DOTA 2, but the coverage suggests to me that it is winning mainly through what I would call "micro" excellence (firing at just the right range, careful maneuvering, and so on). It's clear
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by _dps 9y ago
This is a highly editorialized title that clearly doesn't follow the posting guidelines: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. > Please don't do things to make titles stand out ... (
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by _dps 9y ago
By exercising your freedom to negotiate and threatening to use your freedom to leave, you can attempt to cause changes in the corporation. Please don't attempt to tell me that I know my argument is bad.
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by _dps 9y ago
There is the freedom to negotiate, and the freedom to leave. Comparing it to Stalinism is silly, and surely disrespects the millions of people who genuinely suffered and died under Stalin.
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by _dps 9y ago
I'll add to this that you can add a very crude (separate) model for the document length and number of distinct words, and use that to flag outlier documents that might bump into the known weaknesses with respect to document length.
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by _dps 9y ago
If you have some more specifics (and maybe a few frames from example video) I could probably suggest a few simple approaches to try out. I do think a simple head-counter is probably not a bad approximation (assuming you don't need to k
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by _dps 9y ago
> It's not perfect, put it is pretty bloody good. Just to round out my thoughts here, I mainly agree! I lived in London for two years and I was always pleased with the NHS overall. My main point is that, based on my experience in th
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by _dps 9y ago
To be clear: I'm not suggesting the US system is good or that the NHS-style system is bad. But I do think there is a systematic diminuation of the badness of wait times among advocates of NHS-style systems. I, personally, find descri
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by _dps 9y ago
Yes, it certainly can be a big deal. You are assuming that there is a reliable way to evaluate "minor" and that the bureaucrats in charge will make that decision well in most cases (even though their incentive structure, parallel
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Running TensorFlow with GPU Support on AWS(mortada.net)
4 points by _dps 9y ago|1 comments

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