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by amatic 8y ago
I'm not sure that is a real problem. You own some, then when you want to spend, you spend. The fact that it is deflationary means you might postpone your purchase, but ultimately, you will need to eat/travel/etc more than you
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by amatic 8y ago
> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others. "Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close!" Alec Baldwin in Glengarry
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by amatic 8y ago
Great thread, lots of good links!
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by amatic 8y ago
Huge sample studies with high stat significance can have very low effect sizes, though. If an effect is shown on a small sample, it means it is a really big effect, and will likely be reproduced in a bigger study.
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by amatic 9y ago
>> modelling might in fact be a necessary part of regulation. That seems false. PID is used all over, no models. Very simple, very effective.
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by amatic 9y ago
I'd love to see self-riding multileg robots, like an advanced version of Boston Dynamics alpha dog. You don't even need roads for them. With some kind of super-stability they could become more comfortable than vehicles. Perhaps we
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by amatic 9y ago
Can relate. I remember programing in basic, then c, then java.. and at one point thinking 'man, i wish i could send this function to this other function somehow'. Granted, didn't understand function pointers, but when much la
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by amatic 9y ago
>Well, by the same logic, we could argue that we don't understand cars Or, by similar logic, that we don't understand how the planets of the solar system interact. It seems that in the history of science, initial views of comp
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by amatic 10y ago
I don't see how they relate biological homeostasis to climate. If homeostatic systems are functioning, like in blood sugar or oxygen control, their values are kept in a very tight range near the setpoint. In contrast, temperature has v
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by amatic 10y ago
I think the society might shift toward more entrepreneurial lifestyle. More and more people will own automatons, robots, AIs that do stuff for them, and either use or sell the results of their labor. There will likely be a scale of 'in
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by amatic 10y ago
Same question. I would assume this is partially based on replicability, or doing the study over and getting the same results. Recently, there was an attempt to replicate major studies in psychology and only about 36% were replicated. I thin
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by amatic 10y ago
It discovered a statistical measure of features that happen to occur on cat images, on the pixels of those images. It might be something like brains do, it might not.
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by amatic 10y ago
Why would there be a simulation? Do you call all perceptions simulations?
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by amatic 10y ago
Technically, then, there are no fields either - claiming that fields are real because the field model matches experiments better, commits the same mistake of taking the map as real, as when we said that particles are really there. As in Kan
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by amatic 10y ago
That comment seems excessive. She may be very normal, creative and competitive girl. Even if she really wanted to be a porn star. In such free schools, gaining respect from students without the use of punishments is something the teacher ne
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by amatic 10y ago
That is very true. I wish there were more possibilities for experimental school programs in my country (either private or public). The problem is that many people have an idea about how ALL schools should work, and they try to push a change
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by amatic 10y ago
At low levels, I think it is probably a very simple computational process, something like taking a derivative of the position (estimating the direction and magnitude of velocity of the object in some perceptual space). If we understand pred
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by amatic 10y ago
Then that is probably not the way human or animal brains do object or pray or something catching. First, you would need very accurate estimates of current velocity and direction of the object, but human sensory systems are fairly imprecise.
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by amatic 10y ago
There are different ways of predicting. There is a series of research on catching fly-balls that claims there is no prediction in the sense of "estimate/predict end position, move to estimated position"; instead there is an o
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by amatic 10y ago
That is all true. Still, try pointing that out to truck drivers (for example) when they start getting laid off because the company can't handle the automated competition. Economy-wide, there will always be jobs for people to do, it is
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by amatic 11y ago
No questions, just a huge amount of respect and admiration. Best wishes for all of your projects.
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by amatic 11y ago
I had an SSD completely fail after only a month of use. It was a cheap-ish KingSpec C3000 128GB. It wasn't recognized in BIOS. Surprisingly, doing something called 'power cycling' made the disk work again. It still works afte
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by amatic 11y ago
I thought about a similar thing - principles should be more abstract then company goals or mission statements. In the event of crisis or conflicts, the principles can be called upon to guide the decisions.
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by amatic 11y ago
Yes, I suppose I agree. Given the lack of scientifically proven first principles in management, psychology or social sciences, perhaps going to 'truth' agreed upon in the group is the best we can do in order to use this reasoning
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by amatic 11y ago
> These are not first principles. These are premises used to establish the logic that follows. Aren't those the same thing? It seems the author is referring to core beliefs or premises that the business was found on, as well as rela
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by amatic 11y ago
Plastic analog neural networks. Here is a bit : www.billpct.org
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Ask HN: Anyone into analog neural networks?
3 points by amatic 11y ago|1 comments
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by amatic 11y ago
The author of the talk cites this study in support of his method of defocusing or 'print pushing' : http://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2126435 Small sample (N=28), but highly significant (p<0.0
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by amatic 11y ago
No need to apologize, what specifically is triggering the detector? As for myself, I'm spending a lot of time in front of a monitor, and I don't see a downside of trying out the technique.
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by amatic 11y ago
There is this guy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg42-Qn0 I've started practicing the blury print reading technique a week ago.

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