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by aamar 9y ago
I'm seeing this claim everywhere recently. By any chance, did you see it fairly recently, maybe on a SlateStarCodex-related community? As indicated in your link, IQ tests and diplomas are treated the same way by Griggs: they are okay w
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by aamar 9y ago
The iPhone numbering/naming scheme seems pretty simple and organized to me. Minor upgrades to the iPhone 7 are the 7+ and maybe 7s; major upgrade will be the iPhone 8. On the other hand, the iPad 's numbering was eliminated on it
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by aamar 10y ago
Each side in this conflict has allies among members of the intelligence community, a billionaire or two, and powerful media outlets. Only one side in addition has control (imminently) of all three branches of the government and control over
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by aamar 10y ago
Some artists die having more to make, more to say. Bowie or Prince could have had a dozen more albums, and thousands more design ideas, photos, and poignant commentaries. Those moments of joy could have surfaced here and there over decades,
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by aamar 10y ago
Nebraska, not Iowa. Otherwise correct.
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by aamar 10y ago
If you're very close to the interviewer's eyeline, there's a risk that the interviewer shifting will block the subject. In his pre-Interrotron films (e.g. The Thin Blue Line), he put the camera fairly close to his head, so it
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by aamar 10y ago
Hadn't heard that! Pretty interesting, in light of Holmes's interest in Steve Jobs. Morris made a lot of distinctive Apple ads in the (edit:) early 00s ("Switch" campaign, some early iPod ads), several of which included
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by aamar 10y ago
"Security or administrative sanctions": presumably things like: lose your security clearance for X months or until you complete Y training/attestations. He's implying that HRC could face those sanctions still. In some se
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by aamar 10y ago
Have you seen this WIRED article? http://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-digitalink/ I worked on one of the fairly early E Ink use-cases in '96 for a really interesting summer job, as part of a DARPA-funded pro
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by aamar 11y ago
I think you're interpreting pg correctly. But isn't posting an essay "arguing online"? An essay is partly a matter of working out one's thoughts on some matter. But _posting_ an essay advances some point of view wit
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by aamar 11y ago
It seems likely that this will help some doctors in at least simple cases, but natural frequencies don't 'compose' well if you are doing multiple tests; you can't use them to compute posterior probabilities when combinin
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by aamar 11y ago
If you open it up with addresses/phone/email-addresses, beware that the main users may be commercial marketers (i.e. junk mail senders), not campaigns. Also note that many states license the data with a restriction that it only be
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by aamar 11y ago
Not mentioned: Kedlaya was Mochizuki's student and then later his teaching assistant back in '92-'94 (for a tough course[1]). Mochizuki hasn't had that many students; Kedlaya might be one of a few to have an advantage in
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by aamar 11y ago
Obama would sign a clean CFR bill, but he almost certainly wouldn't give up the Medicaid expansion or high top-rate taxes to do it. Lessig probably would strike a deal trading away something big; specifying it as his top priority signa
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by aamar 11y ago
Why not? His plan[1] isn't to overturn or defy Citizens United; he wants to modify and enhance public funding of elections so that it doesn't pay (in general) for Congress to spend time fundraising. Also, the plan doesn't hav
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by aamar 11y ago
How would that work? Groupon takes their cut when the the customers pay for the deal itself, days or weeks ahead of them showing up at the business.
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by aamar 11y ago
16m^2 =~ 172ft^2
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by aamar 11y ago
We don't have to worry about the philosophical questions of comprehension to find cases like this present challenges. These types of example (better articulated in mrec's link) are cases where we can imagine straightforward, plaus
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by aamar 11y ago
Classic example: The iron ball fell on the glass table, and it shattered. The glass ball fell on the iron table, and it shattered. Human readers will pick the correct antecedent for "it" in each case, so it's not
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by aamar 11y ago
I think it requires awareness about how deep the value of your product goes. E.g. I knew the creators of a very popular cable show (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) and despite surprising overnight mainstream success they were remarkably cle
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by aamar 11y ago
Language design requires tradeoffs: the power of a feature, vs. how much more complex it makes the language to read/learn/etc. Making something easy to use doesn't commit one to anti-intellectualism; it just shifts the field
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by aamar 11y ago
That one's blank for me too (Chrome 43, OS X 10.10). Any alternates?
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by aamar 11y ago
These are not fully settled questions, though the answer is probably no. Most researchers believe that brains are Turing machine equivalent, therefore can be simulated by any other equivalents. Even Gödel believed this, though he believed t
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by aamar 11y ago
Thanks for the opportunity. This is an interesting project, and the linked graphs are intriguing: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/# Questions: How are DALYs attributed to various risk factors? Assuming this is
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by aamar 11y ago
Speaking as a former film/tv editor, one frame here or there can definitely affect the pacing and feel of a scene. Yes, sometimes external constraints—broadcast formats, licensing issues—can force compromises, but it's still an ar
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by aamar 12y ago
But why would sentience or consciousness be necessary for (or even relevant to) a system's utility and/or hazard? Put differently, it seems like what's really relevant is its cognitive ability, model of the world, decision-ma
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by aamar 12y ago
Arrhenius probably did no empirical research in this field. He devised a generalized formula based on theoretical considerations and indirect measurements (of the moon's appearance). It would take ~60 years before a quorum of researche
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by aamar 12y ago
I think even most skeptics would agree that we have had for some time technology worthy of being called "AI". It's not "Artificial General Intelligence" for sure. And it is to date not materially strong enough to ha
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by aamar 12y ago
Well, yes, but that's still a straw man. It's not as if Hawking and Gates and so on saw an Atari-bot and on that basis came to worry about AGI. Current AI technologies shouldn't update our estimates much about AGI, unless the
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by aamar 12y ago
There's some good comments about some new AI tools; it's a shame that the article's premise is a straw man. The fears of machine superintelligence are based on the belief that true AI is just around a corner. After all, we’r

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