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by aaachilless 9y ago
IMO this is sort of an ironic example because it's a case where the names actually convey meaning well. It's a case where I've specifically noted to myself "I'll always remember these definitions because the names a
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I actually agree with your original argument, and disagree with sdf's as you interpreted it. I just interpreted sdf's argument differently. I described how I came to that conclusion in response to the comment you mentioned. I thin
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by aaachilless 10y ago
> "symbolic token" (minority?) "Symbolic token" isn't at all interchangeable with "minority" in this context, so I'm not totally sure what you mean. Cheesiness is an affectation. If someone's
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I don't know if I agree or disagree with the comment you're responding to, but I'm pretty sure you almost entirely missed its point. Tyson was called a "pendant" not a "pedant." A "pendant" as in
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by aaachilless 10y ago
> "those who can, do research; those who can not, explain research." I've rewritten this comment maybe 10 times because I'm struggling to capture how completely myopic this idea is. But here's a quote from Feynma
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I don't think I buy your argument, but I'm absolutely not a mathematician, so I could have missed something. Why I don't buy it: It seems you didn't need to redefine the reals as programs to make this argument--the reals
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by aaachilless 10y ago
This is more than a bit crude in my opinion. For example, philosophy of mind "becomes" neuroscience in the sense that sometimes philosophical questions become scientifically tractable. But we certainly haven't managed to tran
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I agree that many books could be distilled into small fractions of their total length. I also agree that these books are sometimes repetitive and tiring. That said, I think it's often still sensible to write (and read) such books. I re
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I was thinking that if you were _dropped_ onto an island full of tigers you'd have no chance, but that you could figure out a way to survive if you had some time to figure out a plan. Maybe you could find a way to coexist with the tige
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I find both arguments equally plausible. I think there's plenty more plausible addendums too e.g. the idea that the baby human would mature incredibly fast. I'm not sure to what extent we're all throwing speculative darts her
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by aaachilless 10y ago
What if you're the first human on an island full of baby tigers? I think most AI alarmists would argue that this analogy is vastly more appropriate.
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by aaachilless 10y ago
As far as I can tell, this guy is motivated, entrepreneurial, proactive, professionally competent, etc. He thinks working at Google would be awesome and he's worked hard to give himself a shot at doing so. He might be completely wrong,
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by aaachilless 10y ago
Disclaimer: I have no experience implementing any kind of ML. How easy will it be to update your model if/when the downstream process changes? At a previous job we had a process that relied heavily on visual inspection from employees.
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by aaachilless 10y ago
To toe the line between censorship and curation is an incredibly difficult task and I think, as a civilization, it's a fundamental problem. The thought and care and effort that's going into this problem right now is deeply importa
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I think one of the reasons the time limit hasn't come up much in discussion is that it's hard to envision the data/information/knowledge that we might have in a week that we don't have today. I don't mean to im
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by aaachilless 10y ago
My opinion of Thoreau (or at least Walden) is very similar to yours but narrower. I think Thoreau, via Walden, is _intentionally_ nutty. Walden is a sort of sweeping commentary written with a bit of whimsy and a bit of melodrama because the
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I didn't interpret Walden as an exceedingly subtle "joke," but as a lamentation of the nature of cultural, intellectual, technological, governmental, etc. progress. The space between lamentation and comedy is small enough for
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by aaachilless 10y ago
About 6 months before starting my upper division applied maths coursework, I picked up a copy of Baby Rudin, slogged through chapter 1-2, decided it was an inefficient use of time, and contented myself to wait to learn from my future course
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I disagree. I think CPLX is disappointed not because he thinks YC is picking losers, but because, in his opinion, YC isn't accounting for certain ethical, moral, humanitarian, philanthropic, etc (I'm not sure what the correct word
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by aaachilless 10y ago
Idk, I think there's room for improvement [1]. [1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/29/xiaomi-ih-pressure-rice-...
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I agree with most of this and probably shouldn't have included that last bit because I see that it might indicate otherwise and shift focus from what I think is a more important point. I guess our disagreement is that I'm not read
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by aaachilless 10y ago
With regard to the comments after the aside: The former model has become a “fad” because of technological progress in e.g. logistics and predictive analytics. The wording “send some stuff to you every month you don’t get to pick the stuff b
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by aaachilless 10y ago
Another example where gift cards may add to the experience is white elephant gift exchanges [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange
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by aaachilless 10y ago
The whole point of the article is that visualizing time as space on a calendar is qualitatively different than adding todos to a list because it helps us remember that our time is finite. While the finiteness of our time is an obvious fact,
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by aaachilless 10y ago
It seems like many people would like some sort of user-submitted Q&A format. In my experience, the Q&A segments of podcast episodes tend to be maybe 1/4 as interesting as the rest of the episode. People being interviewed are mo
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by aaachilless 10y ago
The "no, really, this is a personal endorsement, I use the product all the time" podcast ads really put me off too, but I'm not sure there's a better alternative. One of the great things about podcasts, for me, is the im
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by aaachilless 10y ago
+1 about the 3 people chatting thing. The Energy Gang [1] is one of my all time favorite podcasts and it too follows this format. [1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-energy-gang
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by aaachilless 10y ago
I never would have thought that brick-and-mortar would be the way to go. Thanks for the insight! Also, I just gave Cabinet a peak, and it definitely looks interesting. Thanks again!
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by aaachilless 10y ago
How would one characterize the difference between publications like Lapham's Quarterly or Nautil.us and publications like the New York Times or the Washington Post? I've been trying to discover publications that are more like the
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by aaachilless 10y ago
Minimalism just means keeping close to some minimum. It can make sense in any context, the minimum just changes.

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