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by ahelwer 7y ago
Say you have a bank account with $100 in it. At 100% reserve requirements, the bank must have that $100 actually in its possession at all times. This is very safe, because you are guaranteed to be able to withdraw your money in the event of
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Covid already came to Beijing and has been contained very effectively.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Because of robust social housing policies, yes. Homeless people exist but are much more rare. A large number of homeless people is the mark of a weak, dysfunctional society.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
My older sister had end-stage renal failure (from IgA nephropathy [0]) and was on dialysis, so I donated my kidney to her. If you want to make an incredible difference in someone's life, I can't recommend it enough! There are cool
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I recommend you read Taleb. Much of his work focuses on the differences between domains following normal distribution vs power law, and the folly of mistaking one for the other.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Right, but what is the purpose of statistics like this? The purpose is for them to inform our understanding of what might happen in the future. As mentioned above, since market movements follow a power law rather than normal distribution, t
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Market movements follow a power law, not a normal distribution, so average is an utterly useless measure.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I am obliged to tell you to find a chart of the Nikkei 225 and zoom out
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Nah. That puts you in "trusting trust" territory. Any such function would be easy to hide.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
This point gets brought up every time someone brings up the prevalence of torture & rape in media. I submit that it just derails discussion and never goes anywhere interesting. There is a difference between regular action movie style vi
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I wrote up an in-depth introduction to a different nonlocal game (CHSH) here: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-07-chsh/ It's a bit more complicated to follow but absolutely worth the work.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Entanglement doesn't necessarily always produce opposites, even with spin. Measurements just become correlated in some way.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah, the expensive/hard part is generating & measuring only a single photon at a time. Of course if you fire a laser through an SPDC crystal a bunch of photon pairs will come out entangled, but that isn't terribly useful for
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Basic primer on spontaneous parametric down-conversion: it's an optical phenomenon where a photon of a given frequency (energy) is split into two entangled photons whose frequencies add up to the original photon. The resulting frequenc
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Are you new to this specific company or the software industry in general? This post reads like the latter. People come barging out of school with a pathological focus on "efficiency", which less-charitably stated is just lighting
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if you're working in ads you are working to surveil & modify the behavior of your fellow humans against their consent. Make your own judgement about whether you should be proud of that.
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The Natural Number Game(wwwf.imperial.ac.uk)
2 points by ahelwer 7y ago|1 comments
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah, I really don't want to pay more than around $120 for a decent GPU, which gives me a used gtx 1060 or 780ti. Both of those play new games at high settings on 1440p, what more could you want? Shelling out $700 for a GPU to get good
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by ahelwer 7y ago
How much extra housing would have to be built to reduce housing costs to the point that all people experiencing homelessness can afford them? Thinking you can build your way out of this housing crisis is the definition of insanity. So long
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I think you misunderstand what I mean by "distribution" - there is already enough housing for everybody (see article), it is just not distributed in an equitable way among people who need it. Nothing to do with shipping houses.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
You can't build yourself out of the housing crisis when the problem is one of distribution, not one of supply. The idea that housing should be treated as an investment is, itself , the problem. How can you want housing to be affordabl
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Here, let me help you: try to imagine a society in which you want to live, not a random bunch of ideas like "taxation is theft at gunpoint" without regard to where that would lead.
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by ahelwer 7y ago
This is a strange list. Hikes are not uniformly distributed among states. It almost feels sacriligeous to boil states like Washington or Utah or Colorado down into a single "best" hike (Yellow Aster Butte? When the Enchantments ex
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by ahelwer 7y ago
So would you say you're happy & satisfied to live in a society where people must work under threat of dying in the streets? Try to imagine a better world. People should work because they choose to, not at gunpoint. I don't fee
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Well, that's what you get when you appoint a CEO from McKinsey.
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Simulating physical reality with a quantum computer(ahelwer.ca)
2 points by ahelwer 7y ago|0 comments
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by ahelwer 7y ago
The manual backup & restore flow on Android is quite fragile - I filed two separate bugs during the process. It kinda seems like most people never get it working, which isn't surprising when you're dealing with two phone OSs i
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Many of these people experience serious mental health issues, including addiction. I've had mental health struggles myself (depression) as have many people here. If you are among them, ask yourself how well you think your recovery woul
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Yeah, housing first is absolutely the way to go. Sadly the very thing causing homelessness also makes housing-first much more difficult: astronomically-expensive real estate. Condos in Seattle cost more than $500/sqft, and investing to
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by ahelwer 7y ago
I have a folder cathartically-named "useless bullshit" into which around 50% of my emails are automatically routed and never read. Also any email with a DL in the BCC field is automatically routed to the trash.

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