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by afthonos 7y ago
> reading primary sources and focused secondary sources was actually often strongly discouraged by my professors as an inefficient use of time, something that would of course change doing post-grad work, but that isn't what we'
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I read somewhere "you are not dead until you're warm and dead". Data point in favor.
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In a perfectly functioning system, they give obviously guilty offenders a more lenient sentence in exchange for admitting guilt. laughs hysterically In the real world, of course, they are used to throw the book at people with no abili
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> Edit: especially in a jury-based system it seems like it doesn't matter whether you're guilty or not, but whether the jury believes your story. The US is not a jury-based system, but a plea-bargain-based system. Over over 94%
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Indeed. I posted because I think intuitively people read that a trait is 60% heritable and assume that it's always true, when it is only true in the specific environment in which it was measured.
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I think it's worth pointing out that "heritability" means something very unintuitive in the literature. It measure the fraction of the variability that can be attributed to genetic variation, as opposed to environmental fac
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Ironically, the one time I know of a government guaranteeing freedom of expression, down to the right to be provided with printing presses if needed was … the Soviet constitution. (Source: a memory of a comparative politics lecture in colle
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I’m not sure anyone is really engaging you here, so let me give it a go. Three years ago, I was you. I thought I wasn’t blind to the problems in the US, but that we fundamentally had a solid system that did its best. Insofar as racial injus
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The sad thing about the Parthenon (and the Acropolis in general) was that it had been well preserved until then, albeit with changes. It had successively been a church and a mosque. Unfortunately, the Acropolis was also the most defensibl
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To be clear, the Acropolis did not “decay”. It was blown up by the Venetians when they fired on the Parthenon, which at the time was used to store gunpowder.
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Nope. Article 9, Section 1 reads, in part: "No Bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
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Doesn’t change the fact that US corporations aren’t so bound.
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We don’t get to wash our hands of this. Particularly when we have neither brought them to justice nor recognized any transnational authority’s jurisdiction to do so.
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I'm so sorry you have to go through this. I hope you pull it through; there is no version of the future that is better with you gone. I know it's really hard, and I have little advice. Just wanted to tell you I'm rooting for
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It's exactly the spirit of the test; the missing element is that the circuit they're emulating can scale in qubits. So the question is, if you add one cubit, what happens? Can classical computers keep up? The tests were run on a r
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Thanks for the detailed response; I am not a physicist, so I didn’t catch the sleight of hand in the linear scaling claim. The timing of the “rebuttal” is almost certainly intentional, and possible because of the accidental pre-publication
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Company policy. This prevents headlines like "Google had employees secretly astroturf to give traction to their quantum supremacy claims" if someone decides to truly dig. I theoretically could pretend I don't work here, but I
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"Quantum Supremacy" is a technical term, not a colloquial one. It refers to showing that there exists a problem that a real, physical quantum computer can solve quickly that a classical computer cannot. Reading the IBM article,
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I want to agree with your thesis, but it's impossible to foresee every possible outcome. Leaky abstractions aside, bugs aside, misaligned incentives (the new "I was just following orders", as someone here immortally put it) a
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I believe the battle of Salamina is covered in the sequel.
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My experience is that I realized the value when I switched to a project that didn’t use it. Especially when I wanted to use other Google technologies like protos, or when I wanted to incrementally rebuild dependencies. Disclosure: I work
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by afthonos 7y ago
> We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease. That’s very optimistic. If nowhere else, polling has a huge herding problem, where outliers are dropped when they are too far off the consensus.
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Perhaps a less loaded way is to say GP uses it because a distribution they find value in finds value in it. It’s not “forcing”, but neither is it entirely their choice. It’s possible replacing systemd would be a net gain for them.
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I'm…not sure how you took "5-10% of the world population will probably need to die for humanity to try to fix this" as an endorsement of current policies. We do need change today. I'm making two statements: (1) I think
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Personally, I think it's possible to keep and scale our current lifestyle with changes like growing meat in vats instead of on animals, better power management, green energy, etc. But that's more faith than knowledge speaking. T
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Juries can nullify laws; not so judges. And even juries are often not told about this ability of theirs.
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Pornography and sex are different things, with different laws regulating them. Videos of children (i.e anyone under 18) having sex are illegal in the vast majority of countries, irrespective of the age of consent.
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However, the S is almost always the version I prefer; your so-called “B-Team” are the ones who polish the designs, and the results are clearly superior. As the saying goes, a trifle makes perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
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Headlines are rarely written by the author, but I agree with the sentiment.
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The headline is misleading about the article, which never seriously questions the brilliance of the jerks in question.

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