ashtonbaker

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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
Ever since I read this xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/505/ I've suspected something like this - once you abstract a simulation of the universe this far, if you can accept that a person inside this simulation would no
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
Yeah this whole argument just seems like a litmus test for some deep underlying preference - I'm always surprised that people prefer chess.com, and those people are always surprised that others prefer lichess.
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
AWS has its own serious liabilities - particularly the issue with a lack of billing caps, and the resulting surprise bills. It's discussed here pretty regularly. That may not be unique to AWS, but my point is it's hard to avoid se
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
Rabbits do actually love carrots.
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
They’re capped at 80 hours per week, more or less. Most residents go over, regularly. But a single report of a work hours violations is a pretty serious deal for a residency program, so that alone means things are better than they used to b
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
This is really cool! And well-timed - I have a project coming up this would be perfect for. The only thing I wonder is, if a user didn’t have biometrics on their device, how would they authenticate? Would I have to maintain a backup system
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
We did a round trip, Paris-Nice-Paris one summer. The trip to Nice was overnight on a sleeper car, and the way back we had first-class TGV tickets. I loved the sleeper car very much, but watching the French countryside fly by at 200mph was
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
we run airflow with ... considerably more dags than this. our main "lesson learned" is that airflow should not be used "at scale".
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
wapo article quotes this from the liveatc recording
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
this made me wonder - I know I can use global variables inside a function definition: a = 1 def foo(): x = a foo() so if this 'a' is a new variable, what happens when the name collides with a global variable
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
Yeah, I think we're not too far off in principle, you rightly guess that the key difference for me is how society has changed since that time. Now, you can make these kinds of claims about the corn dealer on television, on twitter, in
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by ashtonbaker 4y ago
A lot of potentially harmful political speech on social media seems to avoid actual incitement, though. If there is a kind of speech such that the intent is to cause harm, and the effect is to cause harm, but its form allows it to be catego
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
This is indeed fascinating, but is it unique to crypto? Seems like analyzing any electronic transfer like this would get you into a discussion of which bits are stored where on earth. If you're doing something which transfers value to
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
If you're using "selection bias" to refer to the fact that these two groups are selecting movies using different, biased methods, doesn't that imply that there's some way of sampling that would not be biased? But no
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
That's a clever way of looking at it. Did you come up with it yourself? If not, I wonder what you think it says about a person that they were exposed to this idea before they interviewed with you, versus after.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Not sure! I'm less familiar with it, but I'm not an expert in the field at all. mc-stan seems a bit more general-purpose.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
The stuff I’m talking about is, for example, a virus alert popup that downloads ransomware. There is nothing remotely comparable in the App Store, though I have no doubt there’s a vibrant and thriving scam economy on iOS. I’m just saying, t
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
> Would you feel the same way about handing your older relatives a Mac in 2022? I absolutely feel this way about my grandparents and their Mac Mini. They've fallen victim to a few scams involving software installation that would hav
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
If you want a tutorial/framework for MCMC analysis, check out the R package “pomp”: https://kingaa.github.io/pomp/docs.html
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Funny the article mentions macOS - I actually had an issue with this recently, when I upgraded to the new OS version, my desktop background was changed to the new default macOS image, and I actually had to re-download the one I was using be
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
There are a lot of 1-star reviews of the Yelp app which are actually reviews of restaurants.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I never knew this! Thanks for that.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I think the issue at this point is that they've promised - i.e. taken money for - "full self driving" features that are supposed to be delivered using the car's hardware as-is. So they have to either work with the camera
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
> Think of marsupial/mammal convergence. Is it really wrong to think of marsupial mice and mammalian mice as a somehow similar kind of thing? It seems to me that most of the similarity can be explained by their shared phylogenetic h
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Assume (accept without questioning) that it’s a property of the universe that any group of 2 horses are the same color. Now, say you have a group of 3 horses, A, B, and C. You can use your knowledge about groups of 2 horses here: A and B mu
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
> E.g., in Coq, induction over the natural numbers always starts at 0. When you think about doing induction starting at another number, you're transforming your goal to include something of the form n >= m -> P(n). The concept
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
You should read “n” as “some arbitrary n” in the quote you posted. It’s not an assumption for all n. edit: sorry, you’re right that the wording is a bit sloppy. The “n” in the first quote is “for all n” and the n in the second quote is “som
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
This is an interesting thought! A couple of other scattered thoughts I had about this: - Engine evaluation of a leaf of the tree will always be different and more sophisticated than human heuristics. So there's a problem where a human
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
It's a perennial topic of debate to define the borders of Up North. Growing up in Bay City, the border was generally agreed to be Clare - or Tawas if following the coast. It was a source of some amusement to learn that many Detroit res
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I'm also reminded of https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contempo...

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