aangjie

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by aangjie 10y ago
True, yet they can be and are in a lot of cases "perceived" as victimless or atleast neglible victimhood. (For ex: read iceberg slim and you get the sense that for him the women were either better off with him(less poor) or just l
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by aangjie 10y ago
Meh.. In this case, I think it's not worth it. The paper is around that specific use case of the phrase.
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by aangjie 10y ago
> If not eating sugar could slow (all) cancers, then not eating at all would clearly cover that case, and should have slowed the lung cancer. Umm.. This sounds to me to be very simplistic thinking. What about the effects of complete star
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by aangjie 11y ago
Erm.. I assumed when he said about capital vs marginal costs of solar it was because the capital is not too high(compared to coal and other power stations/generators). Wouldn't nuclear be the opposite. I can imagine proper waste d
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by aangjie 11y ago
I second the "The Red queen" reco.
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by aangjie 11y ago
Umm. I've been of the understanding that we never change the inference rules, Can you point to some branch of mathematics that involves a change of inference rules?
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by aangjie 11y ago
I don't know why your answer was downvoted. Your point is a sane approach to handling opposing/conflicting ideas. Though I didn't read the Original quote as accepting opposing/conflicting ideas.
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by aangjie 11y ago
Me too did.. but I was about to google TSX before the last two posts. So thanks for the explanation.
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by aangjie 11y ago
Internet is not a panacea, or all good solution. Sometimes restricted internet, (especially when it's restricted by someone, who has no stake/skin-in-the-game for your growth) can do more harm than no internet. You're not re
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by aangjie 11y ago
That's an interesting point you make. I've not digged into NT, but is there some fork of linux that provides the same. I can think of GNU Mach, being a case of taking that to the extreme end (i.e: micro services making together a
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by aangjie 11y ago
> Everyone talks about this, but how do I find this business model? Is there some methodical way to uncover needed software? I like traction's bulls-eye-framework approach here. > since this industry is absolutely flooded with so
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by aangjie 11y ago
> Is it not possible that there are natural forces and cycles at work, far larger than we can comprehend or control? True possible, but where does that theory lead us? http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answe
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by aangjie 11y ago
Now I am conflicted do I down vote or upvote? Hmm.. what a dilemma.
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by aangjie 11y ago
I think (not sure, as I don't closely follow the work) AGI people and MIRI work along the lines. (i.e: how to make sure a super AI doesn't go wrong, but comes with Objective functions beneficial to humans. https://intel
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2 points by aangjie 12y ago|0 comments
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by aangjie 12y ago
Technically a coin should be enough to put a screw in place. winks depending on the size of the screw of course. :-)
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by aangjie 12y ago
I think you're being too harsh on this one. We live in a extremely complex world, and he's writing about something that 's (IMO) a multi-dimensional space. Am not clear about seeing the inconsistency(in this case) , neverthel
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by aangjie 12y ago
It's probably true to the extent that buying small pleasures vs large pleasures works in this case. However there's another factor they mention, "Buy experiences not things". This was fulfilled for you simply by doing th
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by aangjie 12y ago
> it could be because they are foolishing running into a wall that they could easily go around if they stepped back for a second and considered what they had set out to do in the first place. Note to self: Remember this, whenever you fee
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by aangjie 12y ago
Indian here and can confirm some of the agencies do this and is not exactly considered ethically/morally wrong,(am mentioning because some reddit Americans seemed to call it cheating). In either case, I think this coaching for intervie
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1 points by aangjie 12y ago|2 comments
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by aangjie 12y ago
Second that. That's why ipython is extremely handy. Also function/block wise history.
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by aangjie 12y ago
That sounds like some increbily cool work. I'd imagine you can/already use some backend algorithms used by these people. http://emotiv.com/ . If you would be willing to mail me the company you work for.
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by aangjie 12y ago
Whenever, I see statements like that my sceptism of the basic hypothesis goes up.
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by aangjie 12y ago
Ah.. that's a better explanation. Thanks for that.
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by aangjie 12y ago
> But as I was good at research I got promoted to a position where I had to spend most of my time doing something else Peter principle??
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by aangjie 12y ago
My Bad. Though, the original comment "compare cancer with Pebble" didn't deserve a reply. Just trolling, you're comparing funding campaign building both, not the experiences of both.
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by aangjie 12y ago
I would say, contrast focuses only on the difference between the entities being contrasted, while compare can mean, you also focus on the similarities. Not sure, how you use the words, though.
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by aangjie 12y ago
> It's even harder because my old boss is now in charge of the relevant funding stream and she shouldn't be working with grants that further her former avenue of research. That's one very depressing thought. I understand h
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by aangjie 12y ago
There are some scientists who argue for it. See https://probmods.org/ . I personally am not sure, as I haven't gone through these. But I am inclined to think Bayes Models might be the most useful models we currently hav

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