andrewla

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by andrewla 2y ago
> And remember ... don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right -- speak up! [1] [1] http://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct
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by andrewla 2y ago
I don't know if you are a parent or have first-hand experience here. But I am and do, and schools spend an inordinate amount of time doing this. Especially in elementary school, but throughout the public education system messages of ca
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by andrewla 2y ago
Interesting tangent to this is that Google has recently announced that they are shutting down their "Timeline" service in favor of having that information stored locally on the user device. I wonder if this is a "do no evil&q
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by andrewla 2y ago
If you can make it win-win for everyone involved, then sure, but there's no such thing as a free lunch. Individuals have agency; they are not slaves of any "root cause". The individual decision of a person to burgle may have
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by andrewla 2y ago
GP is probably referring to the practice of "Evidence Laundering" which has been deployed from time to time by law enforcement. Still dubious that this would be used that way just because telecoms would be aware of this potential
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by andrewla 2y ago
Poetry is a hard sell but musical performance is close to an athletic competition -- requires precision and style. Host city chooses five songs by living artists in a couple of genres, and for each song they decide whether the competition i
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by andrewla 2y ago
Careful here, Gamblor is a coyote spirit. It is as happy to jump you off a cliff as to have you choose the salad instead of the country fried steak. Of note on this subject is The Dice Man. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by andrewla 2y ago
I am one of those people that have trouble with this idea. Can you elaborate the ways that it is useful for some people? The best I can steelman is the general idea that human minds have a "religion-shaped hole" in our understandi
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by andrewla 2y ago
In TensorFlow the tf.matmul function or the @ operator perform matrix multiplication. Element-wise multiplication ends up being useful for a lot of paralellizable computation but should not be confused with matrix multiplication.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Whenever I look at something like this I'm always a bit astounded by the variety and styles of similar-purpose objects. I would love to see a deep dive on the evolution of these designs; it always seems like there is untold history lur
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by andrewla 2y ago
The problem is that I'm using dimensional in two different senses. A vector with N elements, for example, is a one-dimensional array of numbers operating on N dimensional spaces, and so on for matrices and tensors. If you're doing
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by andrewla 2y ago
Matrices are strictly two-dimensional arrays (together with some other properties, but for a computer scientist that's it). Tensors are the generalization to higher dimensional arrays.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Slight disagree here -- matrices are enough for transformations in 2, 3, 4, and 100 dimensions. Tensors are not arrays with more rows and columns; they are higher dimensional objects -- more indices, not greater range of indices.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yes, this is just like astrology, where controversial trailblazing astrologers upset the status quo by dramatic demonstrations in violation of the status quo! In a different thread we could have a nuanced discussion of both the theory and p
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by andrewla 2y ago
> Most people don't believe tarot cards are really some magical thing, it's just an interactive and creative way to get some random inspirational qoutes or text I think most people believe tarot cards are not a magical thing an
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by andrewla 2y ago
I'm impressed, as other commenters have noted, by the specific way that astrology fails, rather than just by the fact of it's failure. The inter-astrologer agreement being low strongly indicates that there's not even a system
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by andrewla 2y ago
> to conform to their sign That's key here though -- even experts disagree on what conformance to a sign means. So someone who makes life decisions like "I'm not going to go on a second date with this person; as an Aquariu
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by andrewla 2y ago
This study was a followup to one that just used signs [1], which yielded performance no better than chance. If the summer/winter correlation held, then that study would have shown positive results, which it did not. There's nothin
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by andrewla 2y ago
> Astrology works Citation needed. Even agreement between the astrologers was low, which is a strong argument that it doesn't work even if you believe in it. That is, the patterns "predicted" by astrology simply do not exi
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by andrewla 2y ago
I know this is slightly off-topic, but the study referenced for the first graph [1] seems absurdly badly designed. Subjects were divided into arbitrary age groups, but all subjects were given the same task, so why divide at all? Why not giv
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by andrewla 2y ago
I agree with this in theory, but I don't necessarily need the "real world"-ness. A lot of the stuff you learn initially, about systems of equations and how they relate to the matrix inverse, are very interesting because it&#x
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by andrewla 2y ago
As far as I know, this notation and terminology is still very standard. In some ways I like the idea of replacing traditional indexing with something more like the Einstein summation notation, and moving away from the arbitrary feeling that
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by andrewla 2y ago
As the author of the post they were replying to, I can say definitively that this is a refutation of what I was posting, and you are arguing with the wind. I made a claim about specific wording which was correctly pointed out to be incorrec
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by andrewla 2y ago
I mean, the 1970 act did spell out certain places where the EPA has authority in regulating greenhouse gases, including specifically CO2. But they did not authorize the way that the EPA was setting standards for gas-fired power plants. The
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by andrewla 2y ago
This endless jockeying to try to get the courts to allow the executive branch to have more power is ridiculous and dangerous. If Congress wants the EPA to regulate CO2 they should just pass that as a law. The reticence to act on this is ban
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by andrewla 2y ago
Just from experience, the system failures tend not to be of this mode. If heroism is routinely deployed, then yes, failures can be huge and even more heroism then needs to be applied. But normally, what failures look like is a degredation i
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by andrewla 2y ago
For your purposes scraping the user-visible site probably makes the most sense since in the end, their users' eyes are the target. I am typically doing one-off scraping and for that, an undocumented but clean JSON api makes things so m
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by andrewla 2y ago
One problem that the author notes is that so much rendering is done client side via javascript. The flip side to this is that very often you find that the data populating the site is in a very simple JSON format to facilitate easy rendering
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by andrewla 2y ago
The problem is that it sounds good to talk about "allocating resources" and "communication" and making the system more resiliant. But even identifying places where heroism is being applied is extremely difficult except f
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by andrewla 2y ago
You DO need heroes at large companies with top down product managers. But even small companies cannot afford to have heroism be the only reason that their systems work.

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